East Londonderry (Assembly constituency)

East Londonderry
County Constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly
East Londonderry shown within Northern Ireland
Districts	Coleraine, Derry, Limavady
Current constituency
Created	1996
Assembly Members	Gregory Campbell John Dallat Adrian McQuillan Cathal Ó hOisín George Robinson Claire Sugden

East Londonderry, also referred to as East Derry, is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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 prior to 1996, the constituency was largely part of the Londonderry constituency with a small part around Portrush coming from North Antrim constituency. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the East Londonderry UK Parliament constituency.

For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see East Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency).

Members

Northern Ireland Forum (1996)

In the 1996 election to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum, 5 Forum members were elected from East Londonderry. They were as follows:

Election	Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)
1996		David Brewster (UUP)		John White (UUP)		Robert Bolton (DUP)		Robert Stewart (DUP)		Arthur Doherty (SDLP)

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.

Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–present)

Election	MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)
1998		Gregory Campbell (DUP)		David McClarty (UUP/ Independent Unionist)		Pauline Armitage (UUP)		John Dallat (SDLP)		Arthur Doherty (SDLP)		Boyd Douglas (Independent Unionist)
September 2002 co-option										Michael Coyle (SDLP)
2003						George Robinson (DUP)				Francis Brolly (Sinn Féin)		Norman Hillis (UUP)
2007												Adrian McQuillan (DUP)
January 2010 co-option										Billy Leonard (Sinn Féin)
2011										Cathal Ó hOisín (Sinn Féin)
May 2014 co-option				Claire Sugden (Independent Unionist)

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

2011

2011 Assembly Election:East Londonderry
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	DUP	Gregory Campbell	18.2	6,319
	Sinn Féin	Cathal Ó hOisín	13.5	4,681	4,682.54	4,682.54	4,683.76	4,712.20	4,962.20
	DUP	George Robinson	11.1	3,855	4,167.62	4,235.08	4,695.62	4,764.02	4,784.88	4,823.10
	Independent Unionist	David McClarty	8.6	3,003	3,119.16	3,275.50	3,511.62	4,112.86	4,154.08	4,405.08
	SDLP	John Dallat	8.5	2,967	2,978.44	2,994.54	3,003.20	3,515.08	5,207.08
	Sinn Féin	Bernadette Archibald	7.6	2,639	2,640.96	2,643.98	2,646.98	2,673.98	2,771.20
	DUP	Adrian McQuillan	7.6	2,633	3,298.72	3,368.36	3,609.84	3,701.78	3,718.44	3,781.66
	SDLP	Thomas Conway	6.4	2,222	2,228.16	2,231.38	2,243.98	2,362.58
	Alliance	Barney Fitzpatrick	5.5	1,905	1,932.28	2,005.70	2,040.46
	TUV	Boyd Douglas	4.5	1,568	1,647.42	1,703.18
	UUP	Lesley Macaulay	4.2	1,472	1,530.30
	UUP	David Harding	4.2	1,458	1,531.92	2,580.42	3,131.10	3,399.84	3,427.38	3,460.60
Electorate: 65,226   Valid: 34,722   Spoilt: 581   Quota: 4,961   Turnout: 35,303 (54.12%)

Note: David McClarty appeared on the ballot paper with no description, however had previously made clear that he was fighting the election as an Independent Unionist.

2007

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	DUP	Gregory Campbell	6,845	Elected	1
	Sinn Féin	Francis Brolly	4,476	Elected	6
	DUP	George Robinson	3,991	Elected	4
	UUP	David McClarty	2,875	Elected	9
	DUP	Adrian McQuillan	2,650	Elected	9
	SDLP	John Dallat	2,538	Elected	8
	Sinn Féin	Billy Leonard	2,321	Not elected	8
	UUP	Norman Hillis	2,054	Not elected	9
	SDLP	Orla Beattie	1,797	Not elected	7
	Alliance	Bernard Fitzpatrick	1,401	Not elected	5
	UUP	Edwin Stevenson	1,338	Not elected	4
	UK Unionist	Leslie Cubitt	649	Not elected	3
	Green (NI)	Phillippe Moison	521	Not elected	3
	Republican Sinn Féin	Michael McGonigle	393	Not elected	2
	Independent	Victor Christie	73	Not elected	2

2003

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2003
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	DUP	Gregory Campbell	4,789	Elected	3
	UUP	David McClarty	4,069	Elected	4
	Sinn Féin	Francis Brolly	4,019	Elected	7
	DUP	George Robinson	3,466	Elected	10
	SDLP	John Dallat	3,190	Elected	12
	DUP	Maurice Bradley	2,836	Not elected
	SDLP	Michael Coyle	2,394	Not elected
	UUP	Norman Hillis	2,292	Elected	11
	Sinn Féin	Cliona O'Kane	2,102	Not elected
	United Unionist Coalition	Boyd Douglas	1,903	Not elected
	UUP	Edwin Stevenson	1,408	Not elected
	UK Unionist	Pauline Armitage	906	Not elected
	Alliance	Yvonne Boyle	762	Not elected
	Socialist Environmental	Marion Baur	137	Not elected

1998

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	DUP	Gregory Campbell	6,099	Elected
	UUP	David McClarty	5,108	Elected
	SDLP	John Dallat	4,760	Elected
	SDLP	Arthur Doherty	4,606	Elected
	Independent Unionist	Boyd Douglas	3,811	Elected
	UUP	Pauline Armitage	3,315	Elected	9
	DUP	George Robinson	3,208	Not elected
	Sinn Féin	Malachy O'Kane	2,521	Not elected
	Alliance	Barbara Dempsey	2,395	Not elected
	UUP	Roger McPherson	1,531	Not elected
	Sinn Féin	John McIlhenny	1,339	Not elected
	PUP	Dave Gilmour	582	Not elected
	Ulster Democratic	David Nelson	171	Not elected
	Natural Law	Maura McCann	46	Not elected

1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.

Party		Candidate(s)	Votes	Percentage
	UUP	David Brewster John White Pauline Armitage Antony Alcock Elizabeth Black	11,386	30.9
	DUP	Robert Bolton Robert Stewart Victor Wilson	8,768	23.8
	SDLP	Arthur Doherty John Dallat Patricia Farren Gerald McLaughlin Michael Coyle	7,451	20.3
	Sinn Féin	Malachy O'Kane Thomas Donaghey Kevin Kelly John McCloskey Kathleen Kelly	3,413	9.3
	Alliance	Yvonne Boyle Bill Mathews Paddy McGowan	2,107	5.7
	UK Unionist	Kingsley Nutt Angela Nutt	1,040	2.8
	Ulster Democratic	Allister Crawford Robert Mitchell	728	2.0
	PUP	William Smith William Mitchell	652	1.8
	NI Women's Coalition	Avril Watson Mary Mulholland Pauline Nellis	375	1.0
	Labour coalition	Fionnuala Harbinson Alan McKee Peter Scott John Quigley	241	0.6
	Conservative	Hubert Mullan John McKeown	208	0.6
	Green (NI)	David Surplus Adeline Curry	189	0.5
	Ulster Independence	Bartholomew Hamilton Hugh Kerr John Walker	100	0.3
	Workers' Party	Marian Donnelly James McLaughlin	75	0.2
	Democratic Left	Odran Dunphy Colm Campbell	45	0.1
	Natural Law	Brian McEnery Lee Silvera	14	0.0
	Independent Chambers	Jonathan Chambers Maureen Holmes Neill Chambers	5	0.0