South Down (Assembly constituency)

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South Down is an electoral constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly. It lies in the southern portion of County Down.

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973. It usually shares the same boundaries as the South 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 had been elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom, 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.

Some of the most high-profile MLAs for the constituency have included Caitríona Ruane, Margaret Ritchie, and John McCallister.

For further details on the history and boundaries of the constituency, see South Down (UK Parliament constituency).

Members

Election MLA
(party) 		MLA
(party) 		MLA
(party) 		MLA
(party) 		MLA
(party) 		MLA
(party) 		MLA
(party)
1973 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=4| Patrick O'Donoghue
(SDLP) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=6| Eddie McGrady
(SDLP) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=16| Frank Feely
(SDLP) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Brian Faulkner
(UUP/UPNI) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=11| Herbert Heslip
(UUP) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Ronald Broadhurst
(UUP) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Cecil Harvey
(Vanguard)
1975 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Peter Brush
(UUP)
1982 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Raymond McCullough
(UUP) 		William Brown
(UUP) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Jim Wells
(DUP) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2| George Graham
(DUP)
1985
by-election 		Jeffrey Donaldson
(UUP)
1996 style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=12| Mick Murphy
(Sinn Féin) 		Margaret Ritchie
(SDLP) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=10| Hugh Carr
(SDLP) 		Dermot Nesbitt
(UUP) 		5 seats
1996–1998
1998 Eamon O'Neill
(SDLP) 		P. J. Bradley
(SDLP) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=8| Jim Wells
(DUP/Independent Unionist) 		6 seats
1998–2017
2003 Caitríona Ruane
(Sinn Féin) 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=10| Willie Clarke
(Sinn Féin) 		Margaret Ritchie
(SDLP)
2007 John McCallister
(UUP/Independent)
2011 Karen McKevitt
(SDLP)
April 2012
co-option 		Chris Hazzard
(Sinn Féin) 		Seán Rogers
(SDLP)
2016 Colin McGrath
(SDLP) 		Sinéad Bradley
(SDLP) 		Harold McKee
(UUP)
2017 Sinéad Ennis
(Sinn Féin) 		5 seats
2017–present 		5 seats
2017–present
June 2017
co-option 		Emma Rogan
(Sinn Féin)
May 2018
defection 		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
2022 Cathy Mason
(Sinn Féin) 		rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Patrick Brown
(Alliance) 		rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Diane Forsythe
(DUP)
April 2024
co-option 		Andrew McMurray
(Alliance)

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

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2017

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2016

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2011

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2007

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2003

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1998

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1996 forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.[1]

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Eddie McGrady
Hugh Carr
Margaret Ritchie
Marietta Farrell
John Doris 		20,220 43.2
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Dermot Nesbitt
Frederick Wharton
Gerry Douglas
Albert Colmer
William Martin 		10,379 22.2
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Mick Murphy
Frank McDowell
Martin Gough
Deidre Clark 		6,142 13.1
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William Alexander
John Finlay
William Burns 		5,060 10.8
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Julian Crozier
Michael Healy 		1,685 3.6
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Malachi Curran
Patrick O'Connor
Edna Furey
James Masson
Michael Kearney 		927 2.0
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George Graham
James McDonald 		497 1.1
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Bronagh Lawson
Claire Hannah
Lynn Carvill
Ursula Leahy 		464 1.0
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Norma Coulter
Denis Paisley 		404 0.9
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Maggie Burch
Eugene O'Shea
Christopher Busby 		251 0.6
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Paul Megarity
Michael Henderson 		197 0.4
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Marie O'Hagan
Eddie O'Hagan 		162 0.4
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Samuel Pollock
Stanley Watson
James McElrath 		130 0.3
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William Leneghan
Sean O'Baoill 		117 0.2
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Veronica McEneaney
Jim Ryan 		65 0.1
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Desmond Garrett
William McCarthy 		30 0.1
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George Chambers
Doreen Larmour 		18 0.0

1985 by-election

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1982

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1975 Constitutional Convention

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1973

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References

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