South Antrim (Assembly constituency)

South Antrim
South Antrim
Northern Ireland Assembly; Parliamentary constituency
	South Antrim shown within Northern Ireland
Current constituency
Created	1973
Seats	6 (1996–2016); 5 (2017–)
MLAs	Steve Aiken (UUP); John Blair (APNI); Pam Cameron (DUP); Trevor Clarke (DUP); Declan Kearney (SF);
Districts	Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council ; Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council
Boundaries

54°37′48″N 6°08′02″W / 54.630°N 6.134°W / 54.630; -6.134

South Antrim (Irish: Aontroim Theas, Ulster Scots: Sooth Anthrim) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the South Antrim UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 as the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes and from 1996 to 1997 when members of the Northern Ireland Forum had been elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected in 1992 under the 1983–95 constituency boundaries, was still in session.

Members were then elected from the constituency to the 1975 Constitutional Convention, the 1982 Assembly, the 1996 Forum and then to the current Assembly from 1998.

For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see South Antrim (UK Parliament constituency).

Members[edit]

Election						MLA (party)		MLA (party)			MLA (party)
1973	Derrick Crothers (Alliance)	Anne Dickson (Ind U/UPNI)	Austin Ardill (UUP)	Vincent McCloskey (SDLP)	William Beattie (DUP)		Nat Minford (UUP)		Peter McLachlan (UUP)	Kennedy Lindsay (Vanguard)	8 seats 1973–1982
1975	Charles Kinahan (Alliance)	Anne Dickson (Ind U/UPNI)	Austin Ardill (UUP)	Vincent McCloskey (SDLP)			Stewart Dunlop (DUP)		George Morrison (Vanguard)	Kennedy Lindsay (Vanguard)	8 seats 1973–1982
1982	Gordon Mawhinney (Alliance)	Fraser Agnew (UUP)	Clifford Forsythe (UUP)	James McDonald (SDLP)			Ivan Davis (DUP)		Billy Bell (UUP)	James Molyneaux (UUP)		Roy Thompson (DUP)	Seamus Close (Alliance)
1996	Trevor Kirkland (DUP)	John Hunter (UUP)	Peter King (UUP)	Donovan McClelland (SDLP)	Wilson Clyde (DUP)	5 seats 1996–1998
1998	David Ford (Alliance)	Jim Wilson (UUP)	Duncan Shipley-Dalton (UUP)	Donovan McClelland (SDLP)			Norman Boyd (UKUP)	6 seats 1998–2017
2003		Jim Wilson (UUP)	David Burnside (UUP)	Thomas Burns (SDLP)			Paul Girvan (DUP)
2007		Mitchel McLaughlin (Sinn Féin)	David Burnside (UUP)		William McCrea (DUP)		Trevor Clarke (DUP)
June 2009 co-option			Danny Kinahan (UUP)		William McCrea (DUP)
July 2010 co-option					Paul Girvan (DUP)
2011				Pam Cameron (DUP)
June 2015 co-option			Adrian Cochrane-Watson (UUP)
2016		Declan Kearney (Sinn Féin)	Steve Aiken (UUP)
2017						5 seats 2017-present
June 2017 co-option					Trevor Clarke (DUP)
July 2018 co-option	John Blair (Alliance)
2022	John Blair (Alliance)

Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.

Elections[edit]

Northern Ireland Assembly[edit]

2022[edit]

2022 Assembly election: South Antrim – 5 seats^[1]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	Sinn Féin	Declan Kearney	20.08%	9,185
	Alliance	John Blair	15.99%	7,315	7,651
	Ulster Unionist	Steve Aiken	11.71%	5,354	5,361	5,490	7,668
	DUP	Pam Cameron	15.08%	6,899	6,902	6,999	7,133	9,322
	DUP	Trevor Clarke	10.81%	4,943	4,944	5,005	5,258	7,025
	SDLP	Roisin Lynch	6.86%	3,139	4,121	4,931	5,050	5,146
	TUV	Mel Lucas	9.56%	4,371	4,373	4,489	4,661
	Ulster Unionist	Paul Michael	6.17%	2,821	2,826	2,963
	Aontú	Róisín Bennett	1.44%	657	783
	Green (NI)	Lesley Veronica	1.18%	539	586
	People Before Profit	Jerry Maguire	0.55%	251	299
	Independent	Andrew Moran	0.57%	262	267
Electorate: 76,950 Valid: 45,736 (59.44%) Spoilt: 459 Quota: 7,623 Turnout: 46,195 (60.03%)

2017[edit]

2017 Assembly election: South Antrim – 5 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Sinn Féin	Declan Kearney	16.27%	6,891	6,895	6,925	7,065
	Ulster Unionist	Steve Aiken	14.85%	6,287	6,326	6,368	6,494	8,808
	Alliance	David Ford	12.46%	5,278	5,313	5,494	5,990	6,222	6,768	9,862
	DUP	Paul Girvan	12.17%	5,152	5,164	5,165	5,223	5,576	5,800	5,873	5,970
	DUP	Pam Cameron	10.87%	4,604	4,613	4,624	4,644	4,979	5,357	5,459	5,679
	DUP	Trevor Clarke	10.68%	4,522	4,540	4,545	4,559	4,995	5,358	5,445	5,527
	SDLP	Roisin Lynch	9.50%	4,024	4,035	4,069	4,229	4,360	4,596
	Ulster Unionist	Adrian Cochrane-Watson	5.92%	2,505	2,525	2,531	2,583
	TUV	Richard Cairns	3.20%	1,353	1,369	1,378	1,409
	People Before Profit	Ivanka Antova	1.25%	530	535	658
	Independent	David McMaster	1.19%	503	517	563
	Green (NI)	Eleanor Bailey	1.18%	501	504
	NI Conservatives	Mark Logan	0.46%	194
Electorate: 68,475 Valid: 42,344 (61.84%) Spoilt: 382 Quota: 7,058 Turnout: 42,726 (62.40%)

2016[edit]

2016 Assembly election: South Antrim – 6 seats^[3]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	DUP	Paul Girvan	14.27%	5,014	5,036
	DUP	Pam Cameron	13.06%	4,589	4,606	4,704	5,003	5,067
	Sinn Féin	Declan Kearney	13.18%	4,632	4,654	4,737	4,737	4,739	6,207
	Alliance	David Ford	8.88%	3,119	3,249	3,639	3,671	3,764	5,056
	Ulster Unionist	Steve Aiken	9.34%	3,280	3,342	3,439	3,757	4,403	4,452	4,512
	DUP	Trevor Clarke	10.20%	3,585	3,598	3,668	3,978	4,212	4,286	4,338
	Ulster Unionist	Paul Michael	7.30%	2,565	2,617	2,699	2,848	3,914	4,031	4,127
	SDLP	Roisin Lynch	9.58%	3,366	3,400	3,515	3,526	3,547
	Ulster Unionist	Adrian Cochrane-Watson	5.54%	1,947	1,964	2,001	2,200
	TUV	Richard Cairns	3.75%	1,318	1,330	1,505
	Green (NI)	Helen Farley	1.68%	589	689
	UKIP	Robert Hill	1.63%	574	599
	Independent	David McMaster	1.37%	483
	NI Conservatives	Mark Young	0.20%	72
Electorate: 69,680 Valid: 35,133 (50.42%) Spoilt: 411 Quota: 5,020 Turnout: 35,544 (51.01%)

2011[edit]

2011 Assembly election: South Antrim – 6 seats^[4]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	DUP	Paul Girvan	15.06%	4,844
	Sinn Féin	Mitchel McLaughlin	14.49%	4,662
	DUP	Trevor Clarke	14.32%	4,607
	Alliance	David Ford	14.13%	4,554	4,660
	Ulster Unionist	Danny Kinahan	10.71%	3,445	3,826	5,585
	DUP	Pam Lewis	8.91%	2,866	3,329	3,797	4,668
	SDLP	Thomas Burns	10.59%	3,406	3,436	3,482	3,591
	Ulster Unionist	Adrian Cochrane-Watson	7.10%	2,285	2,568
	TUV	Mel Lucas	3.39%	1,091
	BNP	Stephen Parkes	1.26%	404
Electorate: 65,231 Valid: 32,164 (49.31%) Spoilt: 497 Quota: 4,595 Turnout: 32,661 (50.07%)

2007[edit]

2007 Assembly election: South Antrim – 6 seats^[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Sinn Féin	Mitchel McLaughlin	16.54%	6,313
	DUP	William McCrea	15.78%	6,023
	Alliance	David Ford	13.12%	5,007	5,036.55	5,048.07	5,322.04	5,495.04
	Ulster Unionist	David Burnside	11.81%	4,507	4,508.2	4,539.07	4,587.4	5,108.97	5,134.41	6,926.41
	DUP	Trevor Clarke	11.27%	4,302	4,302.75	4,497.42	4,527.02	4,762.07	4,768.31	5,087.71	5,543.71
	SDLP	Thomas Burns	7.13%	2,721	3,080.7	3,081.33	3,188.08	3,206.56	4,965.51	5,133.94	5,395.94
	DUP	Mel Lucas	7.44%	2,840	2,840.3	3,117.68	3,143.22	3,351.18	3,360.93	3,805.79	4,228.79
	Ulster Unionist	Danny Kinahan	6.26%	2,391	2,392.95	2,400.15	2,451.24	3,107.04	3,130.48
	SDLP	Noreen McClelland	4.00%	1,526	1,897.7	1,898.06	2,012.36	2,025.66
	Ulster Unionist	Stephen Nicholl	2.43%	927	928.2	933.42	969.72
	UK Unionist	Robert McCartney	2.34%	893	893.3	902.48	932.02
	Green (NI)	Pete Whitcroft	1.33%	507	559.65	561
	NI Conservatives	Stephen O'Brien	0.34%	129	132	132.36
	Workers' Party	Marcella Delaney	0.23%	89	101	101.09
Electorate: 65,654 Valid: 38,175 (58.15%) Spoilt: 306 Quota: 5,454 Turnout: 38,481 (58.61%)

2003[edit]

2003 Assembly election: South Antrim – 6 seats^[6]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Ulster Unionist	David Burnside	18.88%	7,066
	DUP	Wilson Clyde	13.71%	5,131	5,255.56	5,259.8	5,302	5,533
	DUP	Paul Girvan	12.88%	4,820	4,900.4	4,914.12	4,976.32	5,176	6,414
	Ulster Unionist	Jim Wilson	8.38%	3,135	3,519.96	3,555.44	3,667.8	3,772.48	3,878.32	4,146.32	4,214.32	5,606.32
	SDLP	Thomas Burns	7.30%	2,732	2,748.56	2,751.56	2,816.56	2,855.48	2,864.2	2,875.2	2,876.2	2,961.36	2,992.36	4,979.24
	Alliance	David Ford	9.07%	3,393	3,456.6	3,504.04	3,754.64	3,821.48	3,872.36	3,954.36	3,969.36	4,488.84	4,696.84	4,966.2
	Sinn Féin	Martin Meehan	11.48%	4,295	4,296.2	4,298.2	4,311.2	4,312.2	4,313.2	4,314.2	4,314.2	4,317.92	4,318.92	4,785.64
	SDLP	Donovan McClelland	7.14%	2,671	2,677.24	2,678.24	2,723.72	2,726.96	2,732.2	2,738.2	2,739.2	2,783.4	2,802.4
	Ulster Unionist	Adrian Cochrane-Watson	2.55%	953	1,853.72	1,889.68	1,964.8	2,119.48	2,263.16	2,612.16	2,696.16
	DUP	John Smyth	4.01%	1,501	1,530.52	1,532.52	1,600.48	1,635.84
	NI Unionist	Norman Boyd	2.07%	774	826.56	838.52	881
	NI Women's Coalition	Joan Cosgrove	1.24%	465	474.36	484.36
	PUP	Kenneth Wilkinson	0.83%	311	323.24	327.48
	NI Conservatives	Jason Docherty	0.46%	174	179.52
Electorate: 63,640 Valid: 37,421 (58.80%) Spoilt: 437 Quota: 5,346 Turnout: 37,858 (59.49%)

1998[edit]

1998 Assembly election: South Antrim – 6 seats^[7]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Ulster Unionist	Jim Wilson	15.21%	6,691
	DUP	Wilson Clyde	13.72%	6,034	6,035	6,060	6,234	6,244.38	8,522.38
	UK Unionist	Norman Boyd	9.91%	4,360	4,364	4,404	4,521	4,534.68	4,822.88	6,380.88
	SDLP	Donovan McClelland	9.80%	4,309	4,327	4,480	4,530	4,532.88	4,538	4,540	6,384
	Ulster Unionist	Duncan Shipley-Dalton	9.43%	4,147	4,150	4,264	4,571	4,700.36	4,836.38	5,012.38	5,016.38	6,965.38
	Alliance	David Ford	8.59%	3,778	3,810	4,233	4,456	4,483.6	4,497.96	4,506.96	4,566.96	5,074.32	5,655.32
	SDLP	Thomas Burns	7.90%	3,474	3,500	3,651	3,701	3,702.8	3,709.04	3,714.04	4,747.04	4,857.16	4,948.16
	Ulster Unionist	John Hunter	5.31%	2,337	2,349	2,399	2,832	3,034.92	3,190.26	3,507.26	3,509.26
	Sinn Féin	Martin Meehan	7.33%	3,226	3,239	3,273	3,275	3,275.12	3,278.12	3,278.12
	DUP	Stuart Deignan	6.40%	2,816	2,819	2,836	2,971	2,977.3
	PUP	Kenneth Wilkinson	3.51%	1,546	1,559	1,637
	NI Women's Coalition	Joan Cosgrove	2.52%	1,108	1,136
	Labour Party NI	Oliver Frawley	0.31%	137
	Natural Law	George Stidolph	0.06%	28
Electorate: 69,426 Valid: 43,991 (63.36%) Spoilt: 608 Quota: 6,285 Turnout: 44,599 (64.24%)

1996 forum[edit]

Successful candidates are shown in bold.^[8]

	Candidate(s)	Votes	Percentage
Ulster Unionist	Peter King John Hunter Ivan Hunter Peter Walker Mervyn Rea	12,001	30.2
DUP	Wilson Clyde Trevor Kirkland	9,549	24.0
SDLP	Donovan McClelland Bobby Burns Tommy McTeague Bobby Loughran Oran Keenan	6,025	15.1
Alliance	David Ford Jim Rooney Lynn Frazer	3,332	8.4
Sinn Féin	Henry Cushinan Pauline Davey-Kennedy Laurence McKeown	2,149	5.4
UK Unionist	Billy Boyd Stephen Nicholl	2,111	5.3
PUP	Kenneth Wilkinson Mark Thompson	1,697	4.3
Ulster Democratic	William Blair David Burgess	1,000	2.5
NI Women's Coalition	Joan Cosgrove Rosaleen Pelen Sandra Walsh Anne McKenna	435	1.1
Independent Templeton	Arthur Templeton Fraser Agnew	250	0.7
NI Conservatives	Agnes Shirley Roger Lomas David Bustard	246	0.6
Labour coalition	Eleanor Bailey Peter Ruddell Glen Simpson	236	0.6
Green (NI)	Alan Warren John Spottiswoode	197	0.5
Democratic Left	Paul Gupta Paddy McGlinley	119	0.3
Democratic Partnership	Rodney Greene Paul Mullan	105	0.3
Workers' Party	Eamon Gillen Bobby Owens	104	0.3
Ulster Independence	Francis Ellison Samuel Parke	89	0.2
Independent McMullan	John McDowell William Dunbar	33	0.1
Natural Law	Margaret Adams Mark Griffiths	16	0.0
Independent Chambers	William Larmour Greta Bunting	3	0.0

1982[edit]

1982 Assembly election: South Antrim – 10 seats^[9]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
	Ulster Unionist	Jim Molyneaux	30.07%	19,978
	DUP	William Beattie	11.27%	7,489
	Ulster Unionist	Fraser Agnew	4.97%	3,302	6,201
	DUP	Ivan Davis	8.12%	5,394	6,170
	Ulster Unionist	Clifford Forsythe	2.43%	1,612	4,243	4,283	4,306	4,319	4,325	4,327	4,376	4,408	4,559	4,563	4,563	4,642	4,654	5,437	5,500	5,501	6,249
	DUP	Roy Thompson	3.98%	2,646	3,035	3,164	3,165	3,171	3,172	3,175	3,192	3,194	3,254	3,256	3,257	3,793	3,803	3,845	3,868	3,872	3,999	6,419
	SDLP	James McDonald	3.12%	2,071	2,073	2,073	2,073	2,073	2,074	2,091	2,091	2,115	2,115	2,157	2,652	2,653	2,853	2,853	2,873	4,397	4,400	4,402	4,402	4,402	7,460
	Alliance	Seamus Close	4.39%	2,916	2,968	2,975	2,976	2,977	2,979	2,990	2,992	3,034	3,044	3,090	3,139	3,140	3,417	3,422	4,164	4,240	4,274	4,284	4,286	4,289	4,750	5,806
	Ulster Unionist	Billy Bell	1.47%	979	2,906	3,039	3,116	3,166	3,198	3,200	3,284	3,331	3,413	3,413	3,417	3,495	3,506	4,049	4,128	4,129	4,898	5,269	5,541	5,678	5,683	5,683
	Alliance	Gordon Mawhinney	4.00%	2,660	2,774	2,777	2,778	2,779	2,779	2,785	2,793	2,890	2,916	2,951	2,970	2,976	3,084	3,102	4,426	4,462	4,586	4,613	4,617	4,646	4,751	5,100
	Ulster Unionist	Frank Millar Jr	0.79%	526	3,407	3,428	3,435	3,449	3,459	3,460	3,507	3,524	3,606	3,609	3,611	3,675	3,682	3,947	3,995	3,997	4,332	4,510	4,589	4,647	4,649	4,652
	SDLP	John Clenaghan	4.22%	2,802	2,806	2,808	2,808	2,809	2,809	2,830	2,830	2,850	2,851	2,887	3,083	3,083	3,297	3,299	3,318	4,174	4,178	4,189	4,190	4,191
	DUP	Trevor Kirkland	1.90%	1,265	1,364	2,142	2,143	2,157	2,165	2,165	2,220	2,242	2,325	2,327	2,328	3,044	3,051	3,120	3,141	3,141	3,468
	Ind. Unionist	George Herron	2.70%	1,797	2,237	2,284	2,287	2,291	2,301	2,302	2,345	2,382	2,543	2,545	2,545	2,622	2,632	2,850	2,891	2,891
	SDLP	Patrick Ritchie	3.13%	2,081	2,083	2,083	2,083	2,083	2,084	2,097	2,097	2,111	2,115	2,136	2,438	2,441	2,633	2,633	2,672
	Alliance	Joan Tomlin	3.17%	2,107	2,214	2,216	2,218	2,217	2,217	2,217	2,221	2,290	2,326	2,336	2,352	2,366	2,523	2,546
	Ulster Unionist	Ivan Hunter	1.40%	930	1,827	1,844	1,852	1,859	1,870	1,871	1,957	1,974	2,021	2,024	2,024	2,058	2,061
	Workers' Party	Kevin Smyth	1.34%	891	902	903	903	903	904	933	935	984	993	1,626	1,705	1,707
	DUP	Samuel Neill	1.88%	1,250	1,377	1,558	1,558	1,562	1,569	1,569	1,597	1,609	1,672	1,673	1,674
	Independent Nationalist	William McDonnell	1.78%	1,180	1,182	1,182	1,182	1,182	1,182	1,189	1,189	1,203	1,206	1,236
	Workers' Party	Austin Kelly	1.17%	775	779	780	780	781	781	822	822	890	906
	Ind. Unionist	James Smith	1.03%	686	828	836	836	836	838	841	856	879
	Newtownabbey Labour	Bob Kidd	0.84%	560	600	604	605	605	605	651	658
	UUUP	Kennedy Lindsay	0.24%	160	360	364	365	366	473	473
	Communist	Andrew Gibb	0.37%	247	250	250	250	250	251
	UUUP	Samuel Larmour	0.21%	139	196	204	205	208
Electorate: 131,734 Valid: 66,443 (50.44%) Spoilt: 2,076 Quota: 6,041 Turnout: 68,519 (52.01%)

1975 Constitutional Convention[edit]

1975 Constitutional Convention: South Antrim – 8 seats^[10]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	DUP	William Beattie	17.20%	11,834
	Ulster Unionist	Austin Ardill	15.83%	10,895
	SDLP	Vincent McCloskey	9.82%	6,756	6,756	6,757	9,058
	Alliance	Charles Kinahan	7.69%	5,294	5,312	5,334	5,444	6,148	6,201	6,227	9,210
	Unionist Party NI	Anne Dickson	8.32%	5,723	5,911	6,251	6,278	6,325	6,534	6,677	7,021	7,943
	DUP	Stewart Dunlop	3.58%	2,461	4,178	5,243	5,269	5,271	5,582	7,361	7,414	7,451	7,463	8,612
	Vanguard	Kennedy Lindsay	6.58%	4,529	5,091	5,575	5,601	5,604	5,915	6,661	6,685	6,706	6,709	7,966
	Vanguard	George Morrison	4.28%	2,943	3,601	3,692	3,701	3,702	4,669	5,204	5,220	5,248	5,251	6,855	7,724
	Unionist Party NI	Peter McLachlan	5.70%	3,919	3,968	4,006	4,032	4,082	4,276	4,353	4,509	5,003	5,270	5,812	5,905
	Ulster Unionist	John Logan	3.77%	2,595	2,746	3,519	3,523	3,525	4,626	4,930	4,944	4,999	5,010
	Alliance	John Cousins	4.69%	3,228	3,265	3,340	3,453	4,042	4,061	4,078
	DUP	James Smith	4.32%	2,970	3,336	3,468	3,490	3,499	3,686
	Ulster Unionist	Samuel Semple	4.09%	2,813	3,175	3,395	3,400	3,403
	SDLP	James McDonald	2.74%	1,888	1,889	1,889
	Republican Clubs	Kevin Smith	1.03%	710	714	718
	Communist	William Somerset	0.36%	248	249	249
Electorate: 119,723 Valid: 68,806 (57.47%) Spoilt: 1,323 Quota: 7,646 Turnout: 70,129 (58.58%)

1973[edit]

1973 Assembly election: South Antrim – 8 seats^[11]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
	DUP	William Beattie	13.50%	10,126
	Ind. Unionist	Anne Dickson	12.04%	9,033
	SDLP	Vincent McCloskey	10.53%	7,899	7,900	7,901	7,915	7,977	7,979	8,060	8,178	8,552
	Alliance	Derrick Crothers	7.96%	5,975	5,983	6,020	6,038	6,166	6,176	6,299	6,928	7,435	7,536	7,597	7,600	10,234
	Ulster Unionist	Nat Minford	7.05%	5,289	5,324	5,452	5,453	5,454	5,499	5,525	5,539	5,595	5,598	5,836	5,877	5,934	6,266	6,886	7,016	9,076
	Ulster Unionist	Austin Ardill	6.98%	5,234	5,337	5,397	5,400	5,401	5,496	5,500	5,510	5,534	5,536	6,368	6,431	6,467	6,628	7,823	8,128	8,645
	Vanguard	Kennedy Lindsay	4.00%	3,005	3,148	3,155	3,157	3,157	3,181	3,186	3,187	3,207	3,207	3,305	5,037	5,047	5,066	5,209	7,829	8,011	8,034
	Ulster Unionist	Peter McLachlan	5.31%	3,983	4,002	4,107	4,109	4,110	4,144	4,156	4,163	4,202	4,202	4,313	4,327	4,366	4,534	5,456	5,517	7,324	7,998
	DUP	Allen Annesley	5.64%	4,232	5,321	5,332	5,333	5,334	5,357	5,365	5,370	5,397	5,397	5,504	5,685	5,698	5,733	5,943	6,488	6,621	6,663
	Ulster Unionist	George Swann	4.99%	3,742	3,754	3,816	3,817	3,817	3,856	3,864	3,895	3,920	3,923	4,226	4,266	4,316	4,628	4,949	5,012
	Vanguard	Robert Bradford	3.45%	2,587	2,883	2,890	2,891	2,894	2,907	2,917	2,922	2,943	2,943	3,080	3,740	3,752	3,774	3,891
	Ulster Unionist	Alexander McGowan	3.10%	2,327	2,343	2,389	2,390	2,392	2,686	2,694	2,700	2,746	2,747	3,382	3,436	3,487	3,659
	Alliance	William Gawn	2.28%	1,709	1,711	1,731	1,741	1,783	1,787	1,828	2,591	2,918	3,018	3,059	3,069
	Vanguard	William Snoddy	3.61%	2,706	2,731	2,735	2,736	2,736	2,748	2,757	2,765	2,790	2,790	2,809
	Ulster Unionist	John Blakeley	3.17%	2,375	2,438	2,493	2,496	2,500	2,655	2,659	2,664	2,697	2,700
	NI Labour	Bob Kidd	0.99%	740	742	747	921	1,204	1,207	1,734	1,791
	Alliance	Joan Tomlin	2.10%	1,572	1,573	1,585	1,596	1,608	1,613	1,685
	NI Labour	Sandy Scott	1.14%	854	857	861	909	969	971
	Ulster Unionist	William King	0.92%	694	708	767	771	771
	NI Labour	Deirdre Byrne	0.75%	559	561	562	608
	NI Labour	Robert Johnston	0.46%	342	343	345
Electorate: 114,240 Valid: 75,033 (65.68%) Spoilt: 1,486 Quota: 8,338 Turnout: 76,519 (66.98%)

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[8] 1996 Candidates – South Antrim Archived 7 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Ireland Elections

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