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Holywood (District Electoral Area)
Holywood was one of the four district electoral areas in North Down, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected five members to North Down Borough Council and formed part of the North Down 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 suprema .... It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing North Down Area D which had existed since 1973, and contained the wards of Craigavad, Cultra, Holywood Demesne, Holywood Priory and Loughview. It was abolished for the 2014 local elections and replaced by the Holywood and Clandeboye DEA. Councillors 2011 Election 2005: 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP 2011: 2 x Alliance, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP 2005-2011 Change: DUP gain from UUP 2005 E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Down Borough Council
North Down Borough Council was a Local Council in County Down in Northern Ireland. It merged with Ards Borough Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become North Down and Ards District Council. Its main town was Bangor, 12 miles east of Belfast with a population of approximately 68,000. The Council was headquartered in Bangor. Its secondary centre was the former Urban District of Holywood, 8 km northeast of Belfast with a population of approximately 10,000. Most of the remainder of a total population was in suburban villages along the southern shore of Belfast Lough. The area of the former Borough is heavily suburbanised, railway links with Belfast are good and the area has been the domain of Belfast commuters since the mid-19th century. The former Borough is often held to be the wealthiest area in Northern Ireland, although there are pockets of deprivation in a string of overspill public housing estates along the Bangor Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Alderdice
David King Alderdice OBE MA (Oxon) FRCPI is a former Lord Mayor of Belfast and senior member of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. Early life and personal Born into a Presbyterian manse, Alderdice was educated at Ballymena Academy. His middle name, ”King” is after his great, great, grand uncle, John King, a 19th-century Australian explorer and the sole survivor of the Burke and Wills expedition. He graduated in Medicine from Queen's University Belfast in 1989 and worked as a junior doctor in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. He moved to Oxford where he read PPE (1992–94) at Harris Manchester College Oxford. He was an Elder in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland until 2019 when he resigned citing the narrowing of spiritual outlook in PCI and its intolerance of minorities as the reasons for leaving. He is currently a communicant member of First Church Belfast which is the city’s oldest surviving place of worship. His brother is John Alderdice, Baron Alderdi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Dudgeon
Jeffrey Edward Anthony Dudgeon MBE is a Northern Irish politician, historian and gay political activist. He previously sat as an Ulster Unionist Party councillor for the Balmoral area of Belfast City Council from 2014 to 2019. He is best known for bringing the case ''Dudgeon v United Kingdom'' to the European Court of Human Rights; this successfully challenged Northern Ireland's laws criminalising consensual sexual acts between men in private. During the 2014–19 council term he was one of three openly gay politicians elected to the City Council, along with Mary Ellen Campbell of Sinn Féin and Julie-Anne Corr of the Progressive Unionist Party; at the 2019 local government election all three lost their seats. He has also published a study of Roger Casement's ''Black Diaries'', which accepted them as genuine. At the 1979 general election he stood as a "Labour Integrationist" candidate for Belfast South. Personal life He is originally from east Belfast, and attended Campbell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rose (UK Politician)
David Rose is a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Rose first came to prominence as a member of the Progressive Unionist Party (PUP). He stood unsuccessfully for the party for North Down Borough Council in the Holywood area at the 2001 local elections, then also failed to be elected for the North Down constituency at the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election. Despite this, he was elected as the party's deputy leader, serving under David Ervine. In 2010, Rose resigned from the PUP, shortly after its leader, Dawn Purvis, had resigned, and following the murder of Bobby Moffett by the Ulster Volunteer Force, a paramilitary group with links with the party. , '' |
John Barry (Green Party Politician)
John Joseph Barry (born 6 December 1966) is an Irish academic, green political economist and former Green Party politician. He was a councillor on Ards and North Down Borough Council from May 2014 to March 2018. He is a former co-chair of the party, having held the position from 2003 until standing down in April 2009. Personal life Barry studied at University College Dublin. He moved to work as a lecturer at Keele University while undertaking postgraduate study at the University of Glasgow. In 2000, he moved to work at Queen's University Belfast. Barry was Acting Director of the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research at Queen's University Belfast and is currently Reader in Politics in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy and Assistant Director of the Institute for a Sustainable World. From January 2007 to June 2007, Barry was the "Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Science" at Carleton College in Northfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 North Down Borough Council Election
Elections to North Down Borough Council were held on 17 May 1989 on the same day as the other Local government in Northern Ireland, Northern Irish local government 1989 Northern Ireland local elections, elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 24 Councillors#UnitedKingdom, councillors. Prior to the election three Ulster Unionist politicians, including George Green (politician), George Green, had defected to the Conservative Party in Northern Ireland. The election saw the Conservative presence in North Down doubling, with the Conservatives emerging as the single largest party on the council. Election results Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. 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="" , Northern Ireland Conservatives, !colspan= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Ireland Conservatives
The Northern Ireland Conservatives is a section of the United Kingdom's Conservative Party that operates in Northern Ireland. The party won 0.03% of the vote in the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election and 0.7% of the vote in the 2019 United Kingdom General election in Northern Ireland. In 2009, the party entered an electoral alliance with the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), whereby the two parties fielded joint candidates for elections to the House of Commons and the European Parliament under the banner of "Ulster Conservatives and Unionists – New Force". Literature and the website for the 2009 European Parliament election used "Conservatives and Unionists" as the short name. The alliance ended after the 2010 UK general election. History Before 1922 The Conservative Party was first represented in Ireland in the form of the Irish Conservative Party, which operated across the island. The Irish Conservatives became part of the Irish Unionist Alliance (IUA) in 1891. By this st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 North Down Borough Council Election
Elections to North Down Borough Council were held on 19 May 1993 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 25 councillors. Election results Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. 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", Abbey , 15.5 , 1 , 15.5 , 1 , 9.3 , 1 , 20.6 , 1 , bgcolor="#FFF2CE", 29.8 , bgcolor="#FFF2CE", 2 , 9.3 , 0 , 6 , - , align="left", Ballyholme and Groomsport , 19.0 , 2 , 18.0 , 1 , 9.8 , 1 , 14.1 , 1 , 0.0 , 0 , bgcolor="#0077FF", 39.1 , bgcolor="#0077FF", 2 , 7 , - , align="left", Bangor West , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 North Down Borough Council Election
Elections to North Down Borough Council were held on 21 May 1997 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 25 councillors. Election results Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. 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", Abbey , bgcolor="40BFF5", 20.6 , bgcolor="40BFF5", 1 , 16.5 , 1 , 16.5 , 1 , 12.0 , 1 , 15.2 , 1 , 8.7 , 1 , 10.5 , 0 , 6 , - , align="left", Ballyholme and Groomsport , 21.2 , 2 , 20.8 , 1 , 7.8 , 1 , 6.5 , 0 , 8.8 , 1 , 0.0 , 0 , bgcolor="#0077FF", 34.9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent (politician)
An independent or non-partisan politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party, and therefore choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it, or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In running for public office, independents sometimes choose to form a party or alliance with other independents, and may formally register their party or alliance. Even where the word "independent" is used, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 North Down Borough Council Election
Elections to North Down Borough Council were held on 7 June 2001 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 25 councillors. Election results Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. 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", Abbey , bgcolor="40BFF5", 30.0 , bgcolor="40BFF5", 2 , 17.1 , 1 , 22.4 , 2 , 13.1 , 1 , 0.0 , 1 , 17.4 , 0 , 6 , - , align="left", Ballyholme and Groomsport , 23.6 , 2 , 12.4 , 1 , 11.3 , 1 , 8.2 , 0 , 6.4 , 1 , bgcolor="#DDDDDD", 38.1 , bgcolor="#DDDDDD", 2 , 7 , - , align="left", Bangor West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Parsley
Ian James Parsley (born 3 May 1977) is a businessman and former, part-time politician from Northern Ireland. He was the Alliance Party candidate at the 2009 European elections, and served as Deputy Mayor of North Down. He attracted considerable criticism and caused much controversy by endorsing the Conservatives and Unionistslink-up in 2009, but subsequently rejoined the Alliance Party in 2011. He is an outspoken opponent of Brexit. Background Although of Northern Irish heritage on his mother's side, Parsley was born in Yorkshire and educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Newcastle University, graduating in Modern Languages. Parsley currently works in public relations, as a media commentator on languages, welfare reform and football, and is a Director of Northern Ireland Screen. He was also Chair of the European Movement in Northern Ireland. Other activities Parsley was a writer in and about Ulster Scots and, despite having run against her at the 2010 UK general ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
