North Antrim County constituency
North Antrim shown within Northern Ireland
Created:	1885, 1950
MP:	Ian Paisley
Party:	Democratic Unionist
Type:	House of Commons
Districts:	Ballymena, Ballymoney, Moyle
EP constituency:	Northern Ireland

North Antrim is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. A County constituency is a constituency in the United Kingdom that covers a predominantly rural area. ... Image File history File links NorthAntrimConstituency. ... Northern Ireland (Irish: ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... Ian Richard Kyle Paisley MP MLA (born 6 April 1926) is the First Minister of Northern Ireland. ... This is a list of political parties in the United Kingdom. ... “DUP” redirects here. ... In the United Kingdom each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly. ... Type Lower House Speaker of the House of Commons Leader of the House of Commons Michael Martin, (Non-affiliated) since October 23, 2000 Harriet Harman, QC, (Labour) since June 28, 2007 Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Theresa May, PC, (Conservative) since December 6, 2005 Members 646 Political groups... Northern Ireland is divided into 26 districts for local government purposes. ... Ballymena Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. ... Ballymoney Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. ... Moyle District Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in the north-east corner of Northern Ireland. ... Established 1952, as the Common Assembly President Hans-Gert Pöttering (EPP) Since 16 January 2007 Vice-Presidents 14 Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou (EPP) Alejo Vidal-Quadras (EPP) Gérard Onesta (Greens – EFA) Edward McMillan-Scott (ED) Mario Mauro (EPP) Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez (PES) Luigi Cocilovo (ALDE) Mechtild... Northern Ireland is a constituency of the European Parliament. ... 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. ...

Boundaries

Giant's Causeway.

North Antrim has always been a county constituency comprising the northern part of County Antrim in the north-east of Northern Ireland. It has the sea to the north and east and the border with County Londonderry to the west. Download high resolution version (1024x768, 141 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1024x768, 141 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... For other uses, see Giants Causeway (disambiguation). ... A County constituency is a constituency in the United Kingdom that covers a predominantly rural area. ... Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Antrim Area: 2,844 km² Population (est. ... Northern Ireland (Irish: ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Derry Area: 2,074 km² Population (est. ...

From 1885, this constituency was one of four county divisions carved out of the former constituency of Antrim. It comprised the baronies of Cary, Dunluce Lower, Dunluce Upper and Kilconway and returned one Member of Parliament from 1885 until 1922, when it was merged into a new Antrim constituency. A former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland. ... Cary may refer to: // Cary family Alice Cary Annie Louise Cary Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount Falkland Caitlin Cary Diana Serra Cary Diane Cary Elizabeth Cary Elizabeth Cabot Cary Frank T. Cary Glover H. Cary Henry Cary Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland Howard Cary (1908-1991), founder of Applied Physics Corporation... Dunluce may refer to: A place Dunluce Castle in Ireland The neighbourhood of Dunluce in Edmonton, Canada A Person Randal McDonnell, Viscount Dunluce Alexander McDonnell, 9th Earl of Antrim See also Earl of Antrim Category: ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...

North Antrim was re-created in 1950 when the old Antrim two MP constituency was abolished as part of the final move to single member seats. The seat has had relatively few changes over the years and currently contains exactly the districts of Ballymena, Ballymoney and Moyle. Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Antrim was a county constituency in Ireland, which was used to elect members of various legislative bodies. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Ulster County: District: Ballymena Borough Council UK Parliament: North Antrim European Parliament: Northern Ireland Dialling Code: 028, +44 28 Post Town: Ballymena Postal District(s): BT42-44 Population (2001) 28,717 Ballymena (from the Irish: An Baile Meánach meaning middle townland) is a... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 55. ... Moyle District Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in the north-east corner of Northern Ireland. ...

The constituency is largely rural. Amongst the features within its boundaries are Rathlin Island and Giant's Causeway. Rathlin Islands location Bird sanctuary on Rathlin Island False-colour NASA Landsat image showing Rathlin, the Antrim coast, and Kintyre Rathlin Island (Irish: Reachlainn) is an island off the coast of County Antrim in Northern Ireland, and is the northernmost point of the region. ... For other uses, see Giants Causeway (disambiguation). ...

Proposed Boundary changes

Rathlin Island.

At the time of writing the Boundary Commission has proposed alterations for the boundaries of constituencies in Northern Ireland. North Antrim currently has the largest electorate of any constituency in Northern Ireland and it is proposed to transfer the Glens, including Rathlin Island, in Moyle to East Antrim and rename that seat Antrim Coast & Glens. However this proposal has raised many questions, with some already arguing that the Glens have no natural ties to Jordanstown. 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. Photograph of bird sanctuary on Rathlin Island, taken by User:Gordoni. ... Photograph of bird sanctuary on Rathlin Island, taken by User:Gordoni. ... Rathlin Islands location Bird sanctuary on Rathlin Island False-colour NASA Landsat image showing Rathlin, the Antrim coast, and Kintyre Rathlin Island (Irish: Reachlainn) is an island off the coast of County Antrim in Northern Ireland, and is the northernmost point of the region. ... In the United Kingdom, the four Boundary Commissions are responsible for determining the boundaries of House of Commons constituencies. ... East Antrim is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ... Jordanstown is an area of housing in Northern Ireland, between the areas of Whiteabbey and Monkstown. ...

History

North Antrim is an overwhelmingly unionist seat. It first existed from 1885 to 1922. From 1886 to 1974 the Conservative and Unionist members of the United Kingdom House of Commons formed a single Parliamentary party. In the context of Irish politics, Unionists are people in Northern Ireland, who wish to see the continuation of the Act of Union 1800, as amended by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, under which Northern Ireland, created in that latter Act, remains part of the United Kingdom of Great...

Unusually for Ireland, the Liberal Party retained significant strength in this constituency after the split over Home Rule in 1886. The Irish Parliamentary Party never contested the seat. Devolution or Home rule is the pooling of powers from central government to government at regional or local level. ... The Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) (commonly called the Irish Party) was formed in 1882 by Charles Stewart Parnell, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons at Westminster within the...

In 1906 the constituency was won by a Russellite Unionist, at least somewhat linked to the Liberal Party. Although the Unionists regained the seat when the sitting MP retired, the constituency was one of very few Unionist/Liberal marginals in Ireland at both 1910 elections. The Russellite group, were the followers of Thomas Wallace Russell an Irish political leader of the early twentieth century. ...

A victory for the Unionist candidate in 1918 by 9,621 votes to Sinn Féin's 2,673 votes demonstrated the strength of the unionist support in the area. In the Irish context, Unionists form a group of largely (though not exclusively) Protestant people in Ireland, of all social classes, who wish to see the continuation of the 1801 Act of Union, as amended by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, under which the Northern Ireland provincial state created...

In 1922, the constituency reverted to being part of the two member Antrim seat (as it had been before 1885). North Antrim was re-created in 1950 as a larger seat than it had been in its first incarnation. County Antrim, excluding the parts in the Belfast constituencies, was split into two divisions instead of four as previously. The 1950 North Antrim was comparable to the North and Mid Antrim divisions which had existed from 1885 to 1922. Antrim was a county constituency in Ireland, which was used to elect members of various legislative bodies. ... Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Antrim Area: 2,844 km² Population (est. ... This article is about the city in Northern Ireland. ... Mid Antrim was a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885-1922. ...

Since 1950 the Westminster elections have been relatively uncompetitive. In 1951, it was one of the last four seats to be uncontested in a UK general election. More recently, one man has repeatedly won by a landslide. The Reverend Ian Richard Kyle Paisley was first elected as a Protestant Unionist Party candidate in the 1970 general election. The following year that party changed to the Democratic Unionist Party and Paisley has held the seat ever since. This is the longest continuous period for which the current holding party has held any Northern Irish seat. In elections at all levels, the DUP have frequently had their highest share of the vote in North Antrim and have rarely been seriously challenged. Ian Richard Kyle Paisley MP MLA (born 6 April 1926) is the First Minister of Northern Ireland. ... The Protestant Unionist Party (PUP) were a political party operating in Northern Ireland from 1966 to 1971. ... The United Kingdom general election of 1970 was held on June 18, 1970, and resulted in a surprise loss of power for Labour under Harold Wilson, who was replaced as Prime Minister by the Conservative leader, Edward Heath. ... “DUP” redirects here. ...

Surprisingly perhaps, to outsiders, there has been strong evidence of a number of Catholic voters in the constituency voting for Ian Paisley despite his views, presumably because of his strong reputation for his constituency work. 30% of residents were Catholic at the 2001 UK Census. Some allowances must be made for residents aged under 18 but, in comparison, the proportion of nationalist voters in recent elections has been 23% (2001 local government), 26.6% (2001 general election), 27.6% (2003 assembly election), 26.8% (2005 local government) and 27.9% (2005 general election).

There is much speculation that Ian Paisley will step down at the next UK general election. It is widely expected that, if he does, the new DUP candidate will be his son, Ian Paisley, Jr.

According to straw polls, the constituency was alone in Northern Ireland in voting against the Belfast Agreement. The Belfast Agreement (also known as the Good Friday Agreement and, more rarely, as the Stormont Agreement) was a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process. ...

Members of Parliament

• Constituency created (1885)
• 1885 — 1887: Edward Macnaghten, Conservative until 1886 then Ulster Unionist (appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and created a Law life peer as Lord Macnaghten)
• 1887 — 1892: Sir Charles Edward Lewis Bt, Ulster Unionist
• 1892 — 1895: Charles Cunningham Connor, Ulster Unionist
• 1895 — 1899: Colonel Hugh McCalmont, Ulster Unionist (resigned)
• 1899 — 1906: William Moore, Ulster Unionist
• 1906 — 1910: Robert Graham Glendinning, Independent Unionist (a Russellite Unionist)
• 1910 — 1922: Peter Kerr Kerr-Smiley, Ulster Unionist
• Constituency abolished (1922)

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North Antrim has had comparatively few MPs in its lifetime compared to other parliamentary constituencies. Sir Hugh O'Neill had sat for one of the predecessor seats of Mid Antrim between 1915 and 1922 and Antrim between 1922 until 1950, making this one of the few seats where four individuals between them represented the seat continuously over a period of ninety years. Mid Antrim was a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885-1922. ... Year 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• Constituency created (1950)
• 1950 — 1953: Sir Hugh O'Neill, Ulster Unionist
• 1953 — 1959: Phelim Robert Hugh O'Neill, Ulster Unionist
• 1959 — 1970: Henry Maitland Clark, Ulster Unionist
• 1970 — present: Ian Paisley, Protestant Unionist until 1971, then Democratic Unionist

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Elections

Elections in the 2000s

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Elections in the 1990s

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Elections in the 1980s

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Elections in the 1970s

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Elections in the 1960s

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Elections in the 1950s

In the 1950 and 1951 UK general elections, Sir Hugh O'Neill was elected unopposed. In the North Antrim by-election, 1953, Phelim Robert Hugh O'Neill (his son) was elected unopposed.

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Elections in the 1910s

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Elections in the 1900s

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Elections in the 1890s

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Elections in the 1880s

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Sources

• Guardian Unlimited Politics (Election results from 1992 to the present)
• http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ (Election results from 1951 to the present)
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page (Complete list of MPs)
• F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950 - 1970

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See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland