Down District Council was a Local Council in County Down in Northern Ireland. It merged with Newry and Mourne District Council in April 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Newry,Mourne and Down District Council.
Peter James Weir,Baron Weir of Ballyholme,is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician who served as Minister for Education in the Northern Ireland Executive from 2016 to 2017 and from 2020 to 2021. Weir was the first non-Sinn Féin legislator to head the Department of Education since the department came into existence on 2 December 1999.
Paul Berry is a Northern Irish Independent Unionist politician,serving as an Armagh City,Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Councillor for the Cusher DEA since 2014.
The 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election was held on Wednesday,7 March 2007. It was the third election to take place since the devolved assembly was established in 1998. The election saw endorsement of the St Andrews Agreement and the two largest parties,the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin,along with the Alliance Party,increase their support,with falls in support for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).
Richard James Shannon is a Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician. He has sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom since 2010 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Strangford and is the DUP's Health Spokesperson. He had previously sat in the Northern Ireland Assembly from 1998 to 2010 as the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland (MLA) for Strangford.
Alderman George Ennis is a former Northern Irish Unionist politician who was a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Strangford from 2003 to 2007.
David McNarry is a former Northern Irish unionist politician and Ulster Loyalist representative who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Strangford from 2003 to 2016.
Willie Clarke is an Irish Sinn Féin politician,serving as a Newry,Mourne and Down Councillor for The Mournes DEA since 2014. He was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for South Down from 2003 to 2012.
Michelle McIlveen MLA is a Northern Irish unionist politician,serving as General Secretary of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) since 2008. she is the party's Spokesperson for Environment,Climate and Fisheries. She served as Minister for Education from June 2021 to October 2022,and a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Strangford since 2007.
Simon Hamilton is a Northern Irish businessman,consultant and former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician. Hamilton served as the Economy Minister in the Northern Ireland Executive from 2016,until its collapse in January 2017. He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Strangford from 2007 to 2019.
Pat McNamee is an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Newry and Armagh from 1998 to 2003.
Frank Feely is a former Irish Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician and teacher in Northern Ireland.
Jonathan Fergus Bell is a former Northern Irish unionist politician.
Cecil Harvey was a Northern Irish unionist politician and Church elder.
Newry,Mourne and Down District Council is a local authority in Northern Ireland that was established on 1 April 2015. It replaces Down District Council and Newry and Mourne District Council and covers most of the southeast of Northern Ireland. The first elections to the authority were on 22 May 2014. At the 2019 Northern Ireland local elections,Sinn Féin became the largest party with 16 seats. This success was continued at the 2023 Northern Ireland local elections,winning 20 seats.
The first election to Newry,Mourne and Down District Council,part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 22 May 2014,returned 41 members to the newly formed council via Single Transferable Vote. Sinn Féin and the Social Democratic and Labour Party won the most seats,with 14 each,with Sinn Féin taking a plurality of first-preference votes.
Henry Reilly is a Northern Irish unionist politician,serving as a Newry,Mourne and Down Councillor for The Mournes DEA since 2014. Reilly currently sits as a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) member on the council,having joined the party in 2022.
Harold McKee is a Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) politician and farmer from Northern Ireland,who was a Newry Mourne and Down Councillor for The Mournes DEA from 2014 to 2016,and then again from 2019 until 2023.
The 2019 election to the Newry,Mourne and Down District Council,part of the Northern Ireland local elections that were held on 2 May 2019 returned 41 members to the council via Single Transferable Vote.
Rowallane is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Newry,Mourne and Down,Northern Ireland. The district elects five members to Newry,Mourne and Down District Council and contains the wards of Ballynahinch,Crossgar and Killyleagh,Derryboy,Kilmore and Saintfield. Rowallane forms part of the Strangford constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament and part of the South Down constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
