North Down (UK Parliament Constituency) - Members of Parliament

Members of Parliament

The Member of Parliament since the 2001 general election is Sylvia Hermon, initially of the Ulster Unionist Party; she defeated Robert McCartney of the UK Unionist Party who had represented the seat since a by-election in 1995. She was the only UUP MP elected in 2005. She became an independent in March 2010, objecting to the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists electoral alliance.

Election Member Party
1885 Thomas Waring Conservative
1886 Irish Unionist
1898 John Blakiston-Houston Irish Unionist
1900 Thomas Lorimer Corbett Irish Unionist
1910 William Mitchell-Thomson Irish Unionist
1918 Thomas Watters Brown Irish Unionist
Feb 1922 Henry Hughes Wilson Irish Unionist
Jul 1922 John Morrow Simms Irish Unionist
1922 constituency abolished
1950 constituency recreated
1950 Walter Smiles Ulster Unionist
1953 Patricia Ford Ulster Unionist
1955 George Currie Ulster Unionist
1970 James Kilfedder Ulster Unionist
1977 Independent Unionist
1980 Ulster Popular Unionist
1995 Robert McCartney UK Unionist
2001 Sylvia Hermon Ulster Unionist
2010 Independent

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