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Wednesday 26 November 2003
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List of Candidates to the Northern Ireland Assembly Election
Wednesday 26 November 2003
The full list of candidates to stand in the Northern Ireland Assembly election on Wednesday 26 November 2003 was released by the Electoral Office in Northern Ireland on 5 November 2003.
256 candidates have been nominated to contest the 108 seats across the 18 constituencies in Northern Ireland. Six Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) will be returned from each constituency. The total number of electorate is 1,097,551.
The names of the candidates are listed alphabetically.
EAST ANTRIM
John Hugh Anderson - Independent (Ind)
Roy Beggs - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
George Dawson - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Stewart Dickson - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Andrew Robert Frew - Green Party (Green)
Alan Greer - Conservative (Con)
David Hilditch - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Carolyn Howarth - Progressive Unionist Party (PUP)
Roger Hutchinson - Independent Unionist (Ind U)
Robert Lindsay Mason - Independent (Ind)
Roy McCune - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Jack McKee - Independent (Ind)
Oliver McMullan - Sinn Féin (SF)
Anne Monaghan - Northern Ireland Women's Coalition (NIWC)
Sean Neeson - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Daniel O'Connor - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Ken Robinson - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Tom Robinson - United Kingdom Unionist Party (UKUP)
Sammy Wilson - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
NORTH ANTRIM
Robert Coulter - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
James Currie - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Jayne Dunlop - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Sean Farren - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Gardiner Kane - Independent Unionist (Ind U)
Billy McCaughey - Progressive Unionist Party (PUP)
Philip McGuigan - Sinn Féin (SF)
Declan O'Loan - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Ian Paisley - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Ian Paisley (Junior) - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Nathaniel Small - United Kingdom Unionist Party (UKUP)
Mervyn Storey - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
SOUTH ANTRIM
Norman Boyd - Northern Ireland Unionist Party (NIUP)
Thomas Burns - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
David Burnside - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Wilson Clyde - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Adrian Cochrane Watson - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Joan Cosgrove - Northern Ireland Women's Coalition (NIWC)
Jason Docherty - Conservative (Con)
David Ford - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Paul Girvan - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Donovan McClelland - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Martin Meehan - Sinn Féin (SF)
John Smyth - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Kenneth Wilkinson - Progressive Unionist Party (PUP)
Jim Wilson - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
BELFAST EAST
Joseph Bell - Workers Party (WP)
Thomas Black - Socialist Party (SP)
Michael Copeland - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Terence Dick - Conservative (Con)
Sir Reg Empey - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
David Ervine - Progressive Unionist Party (PUP)
Naomi Long - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
John McBlain - Independent (Ind)
Robin Newton - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Joseph O'Donnell - Sinn Féin (SF)
Peter Robinson - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Jim Rodgers - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Harry Toan - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Leo Van Es - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
George Weiss - Vote for Yourself Party (VFYP)
BELFAST NORTH
Fraser Agnew - United Unionist Coalition (UUC)
Eliz Byrne McCullough - Northern Ireland Women's Coalition (NIWC)
Fred Cobain - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Pat Convery - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Marcella Delaney - Workers' Party (WP)
Nigel Dodds - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Peter Emerson - Green Party (Green)
John Leo Gallagher - Vote for Yourself Party (VFYP)
Majorie Hawkins - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
William Hutchinson - Progressive Unionist Party (PUP)
Gerry Kelly - Sinn Féin (SF)
Alban Maginness - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Nelson McCausland - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Raymond McCord - Independent Unionist (Ind U)
Frank McCoubrey - Independent Unionist (Ind U)
Cathy Stanton - Sinn Féin (SF)
BELFAST SOUTH
James Barbour - Socialist Party (SP)
Esmond Birnie - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Tom Ekin - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Carmel Hanna - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
John Hiddleston - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Roger Lomas - Conservative (Con)
Patrick Lynn - Workers' Party (WP)
Alex Maskey - Sinn Féin (SF)
Alasdair McDonnell - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Michael McGimpsey - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Monica McWilliams - Northern Ireland Women's Coalition (NIWC)
Thomas Morrow - Progressive Unionist Party (PUP)
Ruth Patterson - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Geraldine Rice - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Mark Robinson - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Lindsay Michelle Steven - Vote for Yourself Party (VFYP)
John Wright - Green Party (Green)
BELFAST WEST
Gerry Adams - Sinn Féin (SF)
Alex Attwood - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Kathryn Ayers - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Bairbre de Brun - Sinn Féin (SF)
Diane Dodds - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Michael Ferguson - Sinn Féin (SF)
Joe Hendron - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
David Thomas Kerr - Ulster Third Way (UTW)
John Lowry - Workers' Party (WP)
John Leslie MacVicar - Independent Unionist (Ind U)
Fra McCann - Sinn Féin (SF)
Chris McGimpsey - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Sue Ramsey - Sinn Féin (SF)
Hugh Smyth - Progressive Unionist Party (PUP)
NORTH DOWN
John Barry - Green Party (Green)
Eileen Bell - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Christopher Carter - Independent (Ind)
Alan Chambers - Independent (Ind)
Leslie Cree - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Alex Easton - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Stephen Farry - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Alan Sydney Field - Independent (Ind)
Maria George - Sinn Féin (SF)
Liam Logan - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Jane Morrice - Northern Ireland Women's Coalition (NIWC)
Robert McCartney - United Kingdom Unionist Party (UKUP)
Alan McFarland - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Diana Peacocke - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Julian Robertson - Conservative (Con)
David Rose - Progressive Unionist Party (PUP)
Tom Sheridan - United Kingdom Unionist Party (UKUP)
Peter Weir - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Brian Wilson - Independent (Ind)
SOUTH DOWN
Raymond Blaney - Green Party (Green)
PJ Bradley - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Willie Clark - Sinn Féin (SF)
Malachi Curran - Independent Labour (Ind Lab)
Jim Donaldson - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Marian Fitzpatrick - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Eamonn McConvey - Sinn Féin (SF)
Trudy Miller - Northern Ireland Women's Coalition (NIWC)
Dermot Nesbitt - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Desmond O'Hagan - Workers' Party (WP)
Eamonn O'Neill - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Neil Powell - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Margaret Ritchie - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Catriona Ruane - Sinn Féin (SF)
Jim Wells - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Nelson Wharton - United Kingdom Unionist Party (UKUP)
FERMANAGH AND SOUTH TYRONE
Frank Britton - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Linda Cleland - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Tom Elliot - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Arlene Foster - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Tommy Gallagher - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Michelle Gildernew - Sinn Féin (SF)
Bert Johnston - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Gerry McHugh - Sinn Féin (SF)
Eithne McNulty - Northern Ireland Women's Coalition (NIWC)
Maurice Morrow - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Robert Mulligan - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Tom O'Reilly - Sinn Féin (SF)
FOYLE
Mary Bradley - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Alan Martyn Castle - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Annie Courtney - Independent Nationalist (Ind Nat)
Gerard Diver - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Mark Durkan - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Mary Hamilton - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
William Hay - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Danny McBrearty - Independent (Ind)
Eamonn McCann - Socialist Environmental Alliance (SEA)
Raymond McCartney - Sinn Féin (SF)
Mitchel McLaughlin - Sinn Féin (SF)
Mary Nelis - Sinn Féin (SF)
Pat Ramsey - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
LAGAN VALLEY
Norah Beare - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Billy Bell - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Paul Butler - Sinn Féin (SF)
Seamus Close - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Ivan Davis - Independent Unionist (Ind U)
Jeffrey Donaldson - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Andrew Hunter - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Joanne Johnston - Conservative (Con)
Jim Kirkpatrick - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Patricia Lewsley - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Frances McCarthy - Workers' Party (WP)
Andrew Park - Progressive Unionist Party (PUP)
Edwin Poots - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
EAST LONDONDERRY
Pauline Armitage - United Kingdom Unionist Party (UKUP)
Marion Baur - Socialist Environmental Alliance (SEA)
Yvonne Boyle - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Maurice Bradley - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Francis Brolly - Sinn Féin (SF)
Gregory Campbell - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Michael Coyle - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
John Dallat - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Boyd Douglas - United Unionist Coalition (UUC)
Norman Hillis - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
David McClarty - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Cliona O'Kane - Sinn Féin (SF)
George Robinson - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Edwin Stevenson - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
MID ULSTER
Billy Armstrong - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Francis Donnelly - Workers' Party (WP)
Geraldine Dougan - Sinn Féin (SF)
Cora Groogan - Sinn Féin (SF)
Denis Haughey - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
James Holmes - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
William McCrea - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Patsy McGlone - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Martin McGuinness - Sinn Féin (SF)
Alan Millar - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Francis Molloy - Sinn Féin (SF)
Trevor Wilson - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
NEWRY AND ARMAGH
Paul Berry - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Dominic Bradley - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Freda Donnelly - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
John Fee - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
William Frazer - Independent Unionist (Ind U)
Davy Hyland - Sinn Féin (SF)
Danny Kennedy - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Jim Lennon - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Conor Murphy - Sinn Féin (SF)
Pat O'Rawe - Sinn Féin (SF)
Peter Whitcroft - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
STRANGFORD
Joe Boyle - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
George Ennis - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Dermot Kennedy - Sinn Féin (SF)
Lord Kilclooney - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Bob Little - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Danny McCarthy - Independent Nationalist (Ind Nat)
Kieran McCarthy - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
David McNarry - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Colin Neill - Progressive Unionist Party (PUP)
Philip Orr - Green Party (Green)
Iris Robinson - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Jim Shannon - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Cedric Wilson - Northern Ireland Unionist Party (NIUP)
WEST TYRONE
Steven Alexander - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Thomas Buchanan - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Joe Byrne - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Kieran Deeny - Independent (Ind)
Pat Doherty - Sinn Féin (SF)
Derek Hussey - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Barry McElduff - Sinn Féin (SF)
Brian McMahon - Sinn Féin (SF)
Eugene McMenamin - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Derek Reaney - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
Roy Reid - Progressive Unionist Party (PUP)
Bert Wilson - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
UPPER BANN
Sidney Anderson - Independent (Ind)
Kieran Corr - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Thomas French - Workers' Party (WP)
Samuel Gardiner - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
David Jones - Independent (Ind)
Dolores Kelly - Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
Francis McQuaid - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI)
Stephen Moutray - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
John O'Dowd - Sinn Féin (SF)
Dara O'Hagan - Sinn Féin (SF)
George Savage - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
David Simpson - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
David Trimble - Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
Denis Watson - Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
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