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South Down (Assembly constituency)

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Created
  
1973

Founded
  
1973

EP constituency
  
Northern Ireland

South Down (Assembly constituency)

Seats
  
6 (1996–2016) 5 (2017–)

MLAs
  
Sinead Bradley (SDLP)      Sinead Ennis (SF)      Chris Hazzard (SF)      Colin McGrath (SDLP)      Jim Wells (DUP)

Districts
  
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council

South Down (Irish: An Dún Theas, Ulster Scots: Sooth Doon) is an electoral constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Contents

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973. It usually shares boundaries with 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 MLA's for the constituency include 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

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.

1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.

References

South Down (Assembly constituency) Wikipedia