North Down (,
Ulster Scots: ''North Doon'') is a constituency in the
Northern Ireland Assembly
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The seat was first used for a
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
-only election for the
Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973
The Northern Ireland Assembly was a legislative assembly set up by the Government of the United Kingdom on 3 May 1973 to restore devolved government to Northern Ireland with the power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive made up of unionists an ...
. It usually shares boundaries with the
North Down 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
The Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue was a body set up in 1996 as part of a process of negotiations that eventually led to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
The forum was elected, with five members being elected for each Westmin ...
had been elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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 ...
, 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
North Down (UK Parliament constituency)
North Down is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Stephen Farry of the Alliance Party. Farry was elected to the position in the 2019 general election, replacing the incumbent Sylvia Hermon ...
.
Members
Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.
Elections
Northern Ireland Assembly
2022
2017
2016
2011
2007
2003
1998
1996 forum
Successful candidates are shown in bold.
1982 Assembly election
1975 Constitutional Convention
1973 Assembly election
References
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Constituencies of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Politics of County Down
1973 establishments in Northern Ireland
Constituencies established in 1973