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Glengormley Urban (District Electoral Area)
Glengormley Urban is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. The district elects seven members to Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council and contains the wards of Ballyhenry, Burnthill, Carnmoney, Collinbridge, Glebe, Glengormley and Hightown. Glengormley Urban forms part of the Belfast North constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament and part of the South Antrim constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative supremac .... It was created for the 2014 local elections, largely replacing the Antrim Line DEA which had existed since 1985. Councillors 2023 Election 2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x Sinn FĂ©in, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP 2023: 3 x Sinn FĂ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antrim And Newtownabbey Borough Council
Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council is a local authority that was established on 1 April 2015. It replaces Antrim Borough Council and Newtownabbey Borough Council. A statutory transition committee was established in 2013 to prepare for the merger. The first elections to the authority were on 22 May 2014 with 73 candidates standing for 40 seats. The authority acted in shadow form until the formal creation of the Antrim and Newtownabbey district on 1 April 2015. Transition committee The statutory transition committee was established in 2013 with a membership of eight councillors each from Antrim Borough Council and Newtownabbey Borough Council. The purpose of the committee was to ensure that the new council would be ready to operate from 1 April 2015; to plan for the period up to and after the election of the shadow council; to arrange the first meeting of the shadow council; and to appoint a chief executive. Borough status A new local government district was created on 1 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Antrim (Assembly Constituency)
South Antrim (, Ulster Scots: ''Sooth Anthrim'') is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the South Antrim UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 as the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes and from 1996 to 1997 when members of the Northern Ireland Forum had been elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected in 1992 under the 1983–95 constituency boundaries, was still in session. Members were then elected from the constituency to the 1975 Constitutional Convention, the 1982 Assembly, the 1996 Forum and then to the current Assembly from 1998. For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see South Antrim (UK Parliament co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Brett (politician)
Phillip Brett (born 1991 or 1992) is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician, serving as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Belfast North since 2022. Political career Brett was first elected to Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council in 2014, representing Glengormley Urban. He was re-elected in 2019. At the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election The 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election was held on 5 May 2022. It elected 90 members to the Northern Ireland Assembly. It was the seventh assembly election since the establishment of the assembly in 1998. The election was held three months ..., Brett was elected to represent Belfast North as one of two DUP MLAs. References Living people Democratic Unionist Party MLAs Northern Ireland MLAs 2022–2027 Politicians from Belfast Year of birth uncertain Members of Antrim Borough Council Democratic Unionist Party councillors Year of birth missing (living people) {{Northern-Ireland-MLA-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Antrim And Newtownabbey Borough Council Election
Elections to Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 2 May 2019, returned 40 members to the council using Single Transferable Vote. The Democratic Unionist Party were the largest party in both first-preference votes and seats. Election results Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The overall turnout was 49.07% with a total of 48,526 valid votes cast. A total of 537 ballots were rejected. Districts summary , - class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left", Ward ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2, TotalCllrs , - class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="", !colspan=2 bgcolor="white", , - , align="left", Airport , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 23.3 , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 1 , 20.7 , 1 , 17.3 , 1 , 22.7 , 1 , 16.0 , 1 , 0.0 , 0 , 5 , - , align="left" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic And Labour Party
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) ( ga, Páirtà Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is a social-democratic and Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. The SDLP currently has eight members in the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLAs) and two Members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The SDLP party platform advocates Irish reunification and further devolution of powers while Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom. During the Troubles, the SDLP was the most popular Irish nationalist party in Northern Ireland, but since the Provisional IRA ceasefire in 1994, it has lost ground to the republican party Sinn Féin, which in 2001 became the more popular of the two parties for the first time. Established during the Troubles, a significant difference between the two parties was the SDLP's rejection of violence, in contrast to Sinn Féin's then-support for (and organisational ties to) the Provisional IRA and physica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Antrim And Newtownabbey Borough Council Election
The 2023 election to Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council was held on 18 May 2023, alongside other local elections in Northern Ireland, two weeks after the local elections in England. The Northern Ireland elections were delayed by 2 weeks to avoid overlapping with the coronation of King Charles III. They returned 40 members to the council via Single Transferable Vote. Election results , - , colspan="2" style="background-color:#f2f2f2;text-align:center;margin-bottom:-1px;border:1px solid #aaa;padding:.2em .4em" , , style="text-align:right;" , 40 , , , , , , style="text-align:right;" , 53,465 , Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. Districts summary , - class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left", District Electoral Area (DEA) ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2, Totalcllrs , - class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antrim Line (District Electoral Area)
Antrim Line was one of the district electoral areas in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014, one of five DEAs until 1993 and one of four DEAs until 2014. The district elected five members to Newtownabbey Borough Council until 1993 and seven members until 2014, and formed part of the South Antrim constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament and part of the Belfast North constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative supremac .... It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing Newtownabbey Area D which had existed since 1973, and originally contained the wards of Ballyhenry, Collinbridge, Glebe, Glengormley and Hightown. For the 1993 local elections, it gained another ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Antrim And Newtownabbey Borough Council Election
The first election to Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 22 May 2014, returned 40 members to the newly formed council via Single Transferable Vote. The Democratic Unionist Party won a plurality of votes and seats. Election results Districts summary , - class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left", Ward ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2, TotalCllrs , - class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="", !colspan=2 bgcolor="", !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="white", , - , align="left", Airport , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 24.8 , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 1 , 24.6 , 2 , 8.8 , 0 , 17.7 , 1 , 19.6 , 1 , 0.0 , 0 , 4.5 , 0 , 5 , - , align="left", Antrim , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 30.9 , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 2 , 22.9 , 2 , 13.5 , 1 , 10.2 , 1 , 10.6 , 0 , 9.4 , 0 , 2.5 , 0 , 6 , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Antrim (UK Parliament Constituency)
South Antrim ( ga, Aontroim Theas) is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Paul Girvan of the Democratic Unionist Party. Boundaries From 1885, this constituency was one of four county divisions of the former Antrim constituency. It comprised the baronies of Massereene Upper, Massereene Lower, that part of the barony Antrim Upper in the parish of Antrim, that part of the barony of Toome Upper not in the constituency of Mid Antrim, that part of the barony of Belfast Upper not in the constituency of East Antrim, and so much of the Parliamentary Borough of Belfast as was in the County of Antrim. It returned one Member of Parliament. In 1922, it was merged into a new Antrim constituency. The seat was re-created in 1950 when the old Antrim two MP constituency was abolished as part of the final move to single member seats. The seat was reduced in size for the 1974 general election, with the town of Carrickfergus and the areas b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belfast North (UK Parliament Constituency) , a baseball club from Northern Ireland
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Belfast North may refer to: *Belfast North (Assembly constituency), a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly *Belfast North (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency), a borough constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1929 * Belfast North (UK Parliament constituency), a constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons See also *Belfast, capital and largest city of Northern Ireland *Belfast Northstars The Belfast Northstars is one of two clubs from Northern Ireland competing in the Baseball in Ireland, Baseball Ireland adult league. An amateur club, the Northstars play their home games at Hydebank Playing Fields in Newtownbreda, Belfast. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Unionist Party
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is a unionist, loyalist, and national conservative political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1971 during the Troubles by Ian Paisley, who led the party for the next 37 years. Currently led by Jeffrey Donaldson, it is the second largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, and is the fifth-largest party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The party has been described as right-wing and socially conservative, being anti-abortion and opposing same-sex marriage. The DUP sees itself as defending Britishness and Ulster Protestant culture against Irish nationalism and Irish republicanism; the party is Eurosceptic and supported Brexit. It supports Northern Ireland remaining in the United Kingdom and opposes the unification of Ireland. The DUP evolved from the Protestant Unionist Party and has historically strong links to the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, the church Paisley founded. During the Troubles, the DUP oppos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belfast North (Assembly Constituency)
Belfast North is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. It was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election in 1973, which elected the then Northern Ireland Assembly. It usually shares boundaries with the Belfast North UK Parliament constituency. However, the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1973 to 1974, 1983 to 1986 and 2010 to 2011 (because the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes) and from 1996 to 1997, when members of the Northern Ireland Forum had been elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected in 1992 under the 1983–95 constituency boundaries, was still in session. Members were then elected from the constituency to the 1975 Constitutional Convention, the 1982 Assembly, the 1996 Forum and then to the current Assembly from 1998. For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Belfast North ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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