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Limavady is a market town in County Londonderry,Northern Ireland,with Binevenagh as a backdrop. Lying 17 miles (27 km) east of Derry and 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Coleraine,Limavady had a population of 11,279 people at the 2021 Census. In the 40 years between 1971 and 2011,Limavady's population nearly doubled. Limavady is within Causeway Coast and Glens Borough.
Coleraine is a town and civil parish near the mouth of the River Bann in County Londonderry,Northern Ireland. It is 55 miles (89 km) northwest of Belfast and 30 miles (48 km) east of Derry,both of which are linked by major roads and railway connections. It is part of Causeway Coast and Glens district.
Ballymoney was a local government district with borough status in Northern Ireland. It was headquartered in Ballymoney. Other towns in the borough included Dervock,Dunloy,Cloughmills and Rasharkin. The borough had a population of 31,224 according to the 2011 census.
Coleraine Borough Council was a local council mainly in County Londonderry and partly in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. It merged with Ballymoney Borough Council,Limavady Borough Council and Moyle District Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Causeway Coast and Glens District Council
Limavady Borough Council was a local government body in Northern Ireland. In May 2015 it merged with Coleraine Borough Council,Ballymoney Borough Council and Moyle District Council under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Causeway Coast and Glens District Council.
The 2004 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election was triggered by the decision of a group of UUP members to challenge incumbent leader David Trimble over the party's direction following the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly elections at the party's annual general meeting on 27 March 2004. The UUP has held a leadership election every March since at least the Ulster Unionist Council constitution was altered in 1973,however it is rarely contested. This is one of the few occasions when it has been contested.
Independent Unionist has been a label sometimes used by candidates in elections in the United Kingdom,indicating a support for British unionism.
David McClarty was an Independent Unionist politician from Northern Ireland,who served as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry from 1998 to his death in 2014.
John Dallat was an Irish politician in the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) who represented East Londonderry in the Northern Ireland Assembly from 1998 to 2016,and then from 2017 until his death in 2020.
Adrian McQuillan,is a former Northern Irish unionist politician who was a Causeway Coast and Glens Councillor for the Bann DEA from 2019 to 2023.
Albert Boyd Douglas,known as Boyd Douglas is a Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) politician who was a Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Councillor for the Benbradagh DEA from 2014 to 2019. Douglas previously served as an Independent Unionist Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry from 1998 to 2003.
Pauline Armitage is a former politician in Northern Ireland,who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry from 1998 to 2003.
The Northern Ireland Conservatives is a section of the United Kingdom's Conservative Party that operates in Northern Ireland. The Conservative are the only major British party to field candidates within Northern Ireland and typically contests only a fraction of seats in elections. The party won 0.03% of the vote in the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election and 0.7% of the vote in the 2019 United Kingdom General election in Northern Ireland.
The Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. In common with all other Northern Irish unionist parties,the TUV's political programme has as its sine qua non the preservation of Northern Ireland's place within the United Kingdom. A founding precept of the party is that "nothing which is morally wrong can be politically right".
Causeway Coast and Glens is a local government district covering most of the northern part of Northern Ireland. It was created on 1 April 2015 by merging the Borough of Ballymoney,the Borough of Coleraine,the Borough of Limavady and the District of Moyle. The local authority is Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council.
The first election to Causeway Coast and Glens District Council,part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 22 May 2014,returned 40 members to the newly formed council via Single Transferable Vote. The Democratic Unionist Party won a plurality of first-preference votes and seats.
Gerry Mullan is a former Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician from Limavady,County Londonderry,Northern Ireland. He was an Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry from 2016 until 2017,when he was deselected by the SDLP in favour of John Dallat,who returned to politics following a short retirement.
Alan Robinson is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician,serving as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for East Londonderry since 2022. Robinson was a Causeway Coast and Glens Councillor for the Limavady DEA from 2014 to 2022.
Coleraine is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Causeway Coast and Glens,Northern Ireland. The district elects six members to Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council and contains the wards of Churchland,Mountsandel,Quarry,university,Waterside and Windy Hall. Causeway forms part of the East Londonderry constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
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