Created 1996 Founded 1996 | EP constituency Northern Ireland | |
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Seats 6 (1996–2016)
5 (2017–) MLAs Kellie Armstrong (APNI)
Simon Hamilton (DUP)
Michelle McIlveen (DUP)
Mike Nesbitt (UUP)
Peter Weir (DUP) Districts Ards and North Down Borough Council | ||
Strangford (Irish: Loch Cuan, Ulster Scots: Strangfurd) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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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 before 1996, the constituency was largely part of the North Down constituency with smaller sections being added from Belfast East constituency and Belfast South constituency. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the Strangford UK Parliament constituency.
For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Strangford (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.