Who represents South Antrim?
The current MP (William McCrea) a member of the DUP, won the Westminster seat from David Burnside of the UUP in 2005, having also held it briefly from the September 2000 by-election until 2001. Assembly representation is shared between the five main parties. In 1998, in addition to David Ford, South Antrim returned Jim Wilson (UUP), Wilson Clyde (DUP), Norman Boyd (UKUP, later NIUP), Donovan McClelland (SDLP) and Duncan Shipley Dalton (UUP). In 2003, Duncan Dalton stepped down and was replaced by David Burnside, Paul Girvan (DUP) captured Norman Boyd’s seat and Thomas Burns beat Donovan McClelland for the SDLP seat. In 2003, David Ford’s seat was directly targeted by Sinn Féin, who fielded a leading North Belfast member, Martin Meehan. Although Martin Meehan started ahead of David, by the final stage of the count, David was ahead by the narrow margin of 181 votes. He had picked up over 1500 votes from other candidates of all parties during the count. At the most recent election, on 7 M
