Connie Egan is a

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politician who is an Alliance Party

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(MLA). She was elected as an MLA in 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 ...

for North Down.

Political career

Early career (2019-2022)

Egan was elected as an Alliance Party Councillor for Bangor West DEA in

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in the 2019 local elections. She topped the poll with 20.16% of the vote and gained a seat at the expense of the DUP. She was the youngest woman elected ever to the council. Previously, she was employed as Constituency and Research Officer to Chair of the Assembly Education Committee, Alliance MLA

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Member of the Legislative Assembly (2022-)

Connie Egan ran alongside Andrew Muir, who had been co-opted into the Assembly in December 2019 to replace Stephen Farry, as an Alliance candidate for the 2022 Assembly election in North Down. She polled 5,224 FPVs as Alliance increased their vote in the constituency by 10.3%. She was elected on the 9th stage, taking a seat from the

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. This, combined with the loss of

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in Belfast South, left the Greens with no representation in the Assembly.

Personal life

She is a member of Amnesty International and is a Governor of Trinity Nursery School Bangor. In her spare time, she plays for Holywood Ladies FC.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Egan, Connie Living people Alliance Party of Northern Ireland MLAs Northern Ireland MLAs 2022–2027 Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century women politicians from Northern Ireland Female members of the Northern Ireland Assembly Women councillors in Northern Ireland Alliance Party of Northern Ireland councillors