East Antrim (Assembly constituency)

East Antrim
County Constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly
East Antrim shown within Northern Ireland
Districts	Larne, Carrickfergus, Moyle, Newtownabbey
Current constituency
Created	1996
Assembly Members	Roy Beggs Jr Stewart Dickson David Hilditch Oliver McMullan Alastair Ross Gordon Lyons

East Antrim is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996. Since 1998, it has elected members to the current Assembly.

For Assembly elections prior to 1996, the constituency was largely part of the North Antrim and South Antrim constituencies. From 1997 to 2010 it shared boundaries with the East Antrim UK Parliament constituency, this link was broken by the 2010 Westminster General Election but will be restored at the 2011 Assembly elections.

For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see East Antrim (UK Parliament constituency).

Members

Northern Ireland Forum (1996)

In the 1996 election to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum, 5 Forum members were elected from East Antrim. They were as follows:

Election	Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)
1996		May Steele (UUP)		Thomas Robinson (UUP)		Jack McKee (DUP)		May Beattie (DUP)		Seán Neeson (Alliance Party)

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.

Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–present)

Election	MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)
1998		Roy Beggs Jr (UUP)		Ken Robinson (UUP)		Seán Neeson (Alliance Party)		David Hilditch (DUP)		Roger Hutchinson (UK Unionist)		Danny O'Connor (SDLP)
2003										Sammy Wilson (DUP)		George Dawson (DUP)
2007
May 2007 co-option												Alastair Ross (DUP)
2011				Oliver McMullan (Sinn Féin)		Stewart Dickson (Alliance Party)
August 2015 co-option										Gordon Lyons (DUP)

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

2016 Assembly election
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1
	DUP	Gordon Lyons
	SDLP	Margaret Anne McKilop
	TUV	Ruth Wilson
2011 Assembly election: East Antrim – 6 Seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	DUP	Sammy Wilson	24.8%	7,181
	DUP	David Hilditch	11.3%	3,288	4,219
	DUP	Alastair Ross	5.5%	1,608	2,566	2,642	2,646	2,938	4,267
	Alliance	Stewart Dickson	10.0%	2,889	2,977	3,162	3,410	3,480	3,520	3,527	3,534	4,777
	UUP	Roy Beggs Jr	10.4%	3,012	3,349	3,450	3,469	3,839	4,037	4,080	4,125	4,194
	Sinn Féin	Oliver McMullan	8.2%	2,369	2,379	2,417	2,917	2,925	2,931	2,931	2,931	3,250	3,389
	UUP	Rodney McCune	6.4%	1,851	1,958	2,030	2,038	2,343	2,418	2,447	2,463	2,603	2,890
	Alliance	Gerardine Mulvenna	5.6%	1,620	1,689	1,869	2,314	2,356	2,389	2,392	2,394
	DUP	Gordon Lyons	4.6%	1,321	1,601	1,716	1,733	1,973
	TUV	Ruth Wilson	4.6%	1,346	1,509	1,651	1,654
	SDLP	Justin McCamphill	4.6%	1,333	1,345	1,433
	Green (NI)	Daniel Donnelly	2.3%	664	685
	BNP	Steven Moore	1.0%	511	546
Electorate: 61,617   Valid: tba   Spoilt: tba (0.00%)   Quota: 4,147   Turnout: 29,430 (47.76%)

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	DUP	Sammy Wilson	6,755	Elected	1
	DUP	George Dawson	4,167	Elected	2
	Alliance	Seán Neeson	3,114	Elected	10
	UUP	Roy Beggs Jr	3,076	Elected	12
	DUP	David Hilditch	2,732	Elected	3
	UUP	Ken Robinson	1,881	Elected	13
	SDLP	Danny O'Connor	1,769	Not elected	13
	Alliance	Stewart Dickson	1,624	Not elected	9
	UUP	Mark Dunn	1,617	Not elected	10
	Sinn Féin	Oliver McMullan	1,168	Not elected	9
	UK Unionist	Thomas Robinson	731	Not elected	7
	Green (NI)	Mark Bailey	612	Not elected	6
	Independent	John Anderson	398	Not elected	4
	Conservative	Tim Lewis	395	Not elected	5

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2003
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	UUP	Roy Beggs Jr	5,175	Elected	1
	DUP	Sammy Wilson	4,544	Elected	1
	DUP	George Dawson	3,163	Elected	15
	DUP	David Hilditch	2,856	Elected	15
	SDLP	Danny O'Connor	2,428	Not elected
	Alliance	Seán Neeson	2,180	Elected	15
	UUP	Ken Robinson	2,062	Elected	15
	UUP	Roy McCune	1,646	Not elected
	Independent	Jack McKee	1,449	Not elected
	Alliance	Stewart Dickson	1,192	Not elected
	Independent	Roger Hutchinson	1,011	Not elected
	Sinn Féin	Oliver McMullan	768	Not elected
	UK Unionist	Thomas Robinson	564	Not elected
	PUP	Carolyn Howarth	534	Not elected
	Independent	Lindsay Mason	364	Not elected
	Independent	John Anderson	348	Not elected
	NI Women's Coalition	Anne Monaghan	307	Not elected
	Conservative	Alan Greer	196	Not elected
	Green (NI)	Andrew Frew	165	Not elected

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	UUP	Roy Beggs Jr	5,764	Elected
	Alliance	Seán Neeson	5,247	Elected
	DUP	David Hilditch	4,876	Elected
	DUP	Jack McKee	3,013	Not elected
	UK Unionist	Roger Hutchinson	2,866	Elected
	UUP	May Steele	2,399	Not elected
	UUP	Ken Robinson	2,384	Elected
	SDLP	Danny O'Connor	2,106	Elected
	Alliance	Stewart Dickson	1,921	Not elected
	Independent Unionist	James Brown	1,571	Not elected
	PUP	William Greer	1,432	Not elected
	Sinn Féin	Chrissie McAuley	746	Not elected
	Ulster Democratic	Tommy Kirkham	596	Not elected
	Independent	Lindsay Mason	424	Not elected
	Conservative	Terence Dick	233	Not elected
	Natural Law	James McKissock	32	Not elected

1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.

Party		Candidate(s)	Votes	Percentage
	UUP	May Steele Thomas Robinson James Brown Eric Ferguson David Fleck	10,036	30.1
	DUP	Jack McKee May Beattie Noel McAllister	9,557	28.7
	Alliance	Seán Neeson Stewart Dickson Amelia Kelly Bill McKimmon Janet Crampsey	3,957	11.9
	PUP	William Donaldson William Hamilton William Green George Ferguson William Adamson	2,254	6.8
	SDLP	Danny O'Connor Mary White	2,213	6.6
	UK Unionist	Mark Dingwall Arthur Cowden	2,041	6.1
	Ulster Democratic	Tommy Kirkham Joe English	1,141	3.4
	Sinn Féin	Mary Davey Martin Meehan Una Gillespie	619	1.9
	NI Women's Coalition	Angela Hegarty Jaqueline Weir Carmel Gallagher	323	1.0
	Conservative	Sam Crowe Donald Tomb	271	0.8
	Green (NI)	Sharon Morrow Jenny McMillan Paddy Agnew	224	0.7
	Labour coalition	William McClinton Joseph Watson	218	0.6
	Independent DUP	Neville Steel Allen Boyland	107	0.3
	Democratic Partnership	Maureen Sykes Rachel McKeown	102	0.3
	Ulster Independence	Cecil Kane Victor King	86	0.3
	Independent McMullan	William Cunning James Simmons	81	0.2
	Workers' Party	Austin Kelly Brendan Heaney	69	0.2
	Democratic Left	Kevin Smyth Eamon Lynch	33	0.1
	Natural Law	John Collins Andrea Gribben	14	0.0
	Independent Chambers	Georgina Strain Hudson Strain	5	0.0