John Junkin | |
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Member of Magherafelt District Council | |
In office 15 May 1985 –5 May 2005 | |
Preceded by | District created |
Succeeded by | John Crawford |
Constituency | Moyola |
In office 20 May 1981 –15 May 1985 | |
Preceded by | Thomas Kelso |
Succeeded by | District abolished |
Constituency | Magherafelt Area B |
Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for Mid Ulster | |
In office 30 May 1996 –25 April 1998 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1949 County Tyrone,Northern Ireland |
Political party | Independent Unionist (2005) |
Other political affiliations | UUP (until 2005) |
John Junkin (born 1949) is a former Northern Irish unionist politician.
Long active in the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP),Junkin was elected to Magherafelt District Council at the 1981 Northern Ireland local elections, [1] and held a seat in Moyola in 1985,1989 and 1993. [2] [3] By the start of the 1990s,he was a Vice-President of the UUP,serving alongside Ken Maginnis,Martin Smyth and Hazel Bradford. [4]
Junkin was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996,representing Mid Ulster, [5] and held his council seat in 1997, [3] but lost out in the 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election,to fellow party member Billy Armstrong. [6]
Although Junkin was re-elected to Magherafelt Council in 2001,he then resigned from the UUP and stood as an independent in 2005. [3] He lost his seat,defeated by new UUP candidate Jackie Crawford. [7] He subsequently left politics,but hit the local news in 2007 after a boat which he had fitted out for the use of an autistic child was destroyed by arson. [8]
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