East Antrim is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ... The House of Commons is a component of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also includes the Sovereign and the House of Lords. ... The Northern Ireland Assembly is a 108-member legislative body for Northern Ireland that sits at Stormont with powers devolved to it from the Westminster parliament. ...

Boundaries

The seat was created in boundary changes in 1983, as part of an expansion of Northern Ireland's constituencies from 12 to 17, and was predominantly made up from parts of North Antrim and South Antrim. Since further revisions in 1995 (when it lost part of the district of Newtownabbey to the North Belfast constituency) it now covers the entirity of the districts of Larne and Carrickfergus, as well as party of Newtownabbey. 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... North Antrim is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ... South Antrim is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Newtownabbey Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. ... North Belfast is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ... Larne (Latharna in Irish which means the lands of Lathar who was an Irish prince) is a town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. ... Carrickfergus (Carraig Fhearghais in Irish) is a town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. ... Newtownabbey Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. ...

Proposed Boundary changes

At the time of writing the Boundary Commission has published provisional recommendations for modifying the boundaries of constituencies in Northern Ireland. Two significant changes have been proposed for East Antrim. In the south of the constituency it is proposed to transfer a further part of Newtownabbey to the North Belfast constituency whilst in the north the seat would gain the Glens in Moyle district from North Antrim. East Antrim would be renamed Antrim Coast & Glens. However this latter part of the proposal has raised many questions, with some already arguing that the Glens have no natural ties to Jordanstown (and in 1995 the previous Boundary Commission cited this very reason when rejecting such a proposal). Furthermore some commentators feel that such a long coastal seat is too sprawling and lacking in natural ties. The changes will be subject to a series of consultations and it remains to be seen whether these proposals will be upheld. If not then it is likely that some other changes will be performed. In the United Kingdom, the four Boundary Commissions are responsible for determining the boundaries of House of Commons constituencies. ... Newtownabbey Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. ... North Belfast is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ... Moyle District Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in the north-east corner of Northern Ireland. ... North Antrim is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Westminster elections

Member of Parliament

The Member of Parliament since the 1983 general election is Roy Beggs of the Ulster Unionist Party. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... The UK general election, 1983 was held on June 9, 1983 and gave the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher the second most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945. ... John Robert Beggs, commonly known as Roy Beggs (February 20, 1936) is a Northern Ireland politician who is a teacher by profession and was deputy principal of Larne High School In 1973 he entered politics as a councillor for Larne Borough Council and served several terms as Mayor of Larne. ... The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP) is a political party in Northern Ireland representing the unionist community, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972. ...

Election results

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Assembly and Forum elections

The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2003 election are: The second elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, which at the time of the elections had been suspended for just over a year, were held on 26 November 2003. ...

• Roy Beggs Jnr. Ulster Unionist Party
• George Dawson Democratic Unionist Party
• David Hilditch Democratic Unionist Party
• Sean Neeson Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• Ken Robinson Ulster Unionist Party
• Sammy Wilson Democratic Unionist Party

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• Roy Beggs Jnr. Ulster Unionist Party
• David Hilditch Democratic Unionist Party
• Roger Hutchinson UK Unionist Party
• Sean Neeson Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• Danny O'Connor Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Ken Robinson Ulster Unionist Party

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• Roger Hutchinson resigned from the UK Unionist Party and, together with other UKUP Assembly Members, formed the Northern Ireland Unionist Party on January 5, 1999
• Roger Hutchinson lost the Northern Ireland Unionist Party whip and sat as an independent unionist from November 30, 1999.
• Roger Hutchinson joined the Democratic Unionist Party on November 16, 2000.
• Roger Hutchinson left the Democratic Unionist Party and contested the 2003 election as an independent unionist.

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• May Beattie Democratic Unionist Party
• Jack McKee Democratic Unionist Party
• Sean Neeson Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
• Mary Steele Ulster Unionist Party
• Thomas Robinson Ulster Unionist Party

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Politics and History of the constituency

For the history of the equivalent constituencies prior to 1950 please see Antrim (constituency) and from 1950 until 1983, please see North Antrim (constituency) and South Antrim (constituency). Events January January 5 - US Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for examination of organized crime in the USA January 6 - The United Kingdom recognizes the Peoples Republic of China. ... Events January January 5 - US Senator Estes Kefauver introduces a resolution calling for examination of organized crime in the USA January 6 - The United Kingdom recognizes the Peoples Republic of China. ... 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... North Antrim is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ... South Antrim is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ...

The constituency is overwhelming unionist, with the combined votes for nationalist parties rarely exceeding 10%. However there have been above average votes for parties outside the traditional unionist block, such as the Alliance and the Conservatives. In the local government elections for the equivalent area many votes often go to independent candidates or groups such as the Newtownabbey Ratepayers Association. The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, or APNI, is a political party operating in Northern Ireland. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right in the United Kingdom. ...

The main interest in elections has been the contest between the Ulster Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party. In 1983 the UUP were only 367 votes ahead of the DUP. As part of a pact to oppose the Anglo Irish Agreement the DUP did not contest the seat until 1992 but they still failed to come close, though in the 1996 elections to the Northern Ireland Forum they were only slightly behind the UUP. But in the 2001 general election they achieved an astonishing result when they came with 128 votes of winning the Westminster seat, despite not having targeted it. In the 2003 Assembly election they followed this up by gaining two additional MLAs and outpolling the UUP for the first time. The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP) is a political party in Northern Ireland representing the unionist community, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972. ... The Democratic Unionist Party is a hardline Unionist party in Northern Ireland led by Ian Paisley. ... The UK general election, 1983 was held on June 9, 1983 and gave the Conservatives and Margaret Thatcher the second most decisive election victory since that of Labour in 1945. ... The Anglo-Irish Agreement was an agreement between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland which aimed to bring an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. ... The UK general election, 1992 was held on April 9, 1992, and was the fourth victory in a row for the Conservatives. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed the quiet landslide by the media. ... The second elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, which at the time of the elections had been suspended for just over a year, were held on 26 November 2003. ...

There is much hope amongst the DUP that they can win the Westminster seat at the next UK general election. Factors that could prove decisive include the 4483 voters who in 2001 voted for the Alliance, the 807 who voted for the Conservatives or the 1092 who voted for an independent pro Good Friday Agreement unionist. The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, or APNI, is a political party operating in Northern Ireland. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right in the United Kingdom. ... The Belfast Agreement (also known as the Good Friday Agreement and, more rarely, as the Stormont Agreement) was signed in Belfast on April 10, 1998 by the British and Irish Governments and endorsed by most Northern Ireland political parties. ...