Karen McKevitt is an Irish Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician who served as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for South Down from 2011 to 2016. She stood in the Newry and Armagh constituency in the

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, getting 3,923 first preference votes, but failed to win a seat. McKevitt entered politics in 2005 when she was elected to

Newry and Mourne Newry and Mourne District Council ( ga, Comhairle an Iúir agus Mhúrn) was a local council in Northern Ireland. It merged with Down District Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Newry, Mourne a ...

council, topping the poll in the Crotlieve electoral area. McKevitt was elected to the Crotlieve DEA on Newry, Mourne and Down District Council at the 2019 local government election. She was selected to run for the SDLP 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 ...

in her former constituency of South Down alongside Colin McGrath, but was not elected.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McKevitt, Karen 1971 births Living people Female members of the Northern Ireland Assembly Social Democratic and Labour Party MLAs Northern Ireland MLAs 2011–2016 Members of Newry and Mourne District Council Women councillors in Northern Ireland