David McNarry
| David McNarry | |
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| Leader of the UK Independence Party in Northern Ireland | |
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In office 4 October 2012 – 28 November 2016 |
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| Leader | Nigel Farage |
| Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Strangford |
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In office 26 November 2003 – 30 March 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Tom Hamilton |
| Succeeded by | Philip Smith |
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| Born | 25 May 1948 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party |
UKIP (since 2012) Ulster Unionist (until 2012) |
| Children | 2 |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Religion | Protestant |
David McNarry (born 25 May 1948) is a member and former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in Northern Ireland. He stood for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in North Down in the 1982 Assembly elections but failed to be elected. He was first elected as an MLA for the UUP in 2003 and subsequently re-elected in 2007 and again in 2011, before parting company with the party in 2012 and then going on to join UKIP. He is a former UUP chief whip and education spokesman.
A Northern Ireland Office (NIO) memo released in 2012 described him as "a dangerous nuisance". He is the current Assistant Grand Master of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland.
In 1973, he stood unsuccessfully as a pro-White Paper Unionist candidate in the election to the Northern Ireland Assembly, and unsuccessfully again, this time for the United Ulster Unionist Council, in the Constitutional Convention election of 1975. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Ulster Unionist Party in the Northern Ireland Assembly election of 1982
McNarry was selected in 2001 to contest the Strangford Westminster seat after the incumbent, John Taylor, announced he would be retiring. Iris Robinson of the Democratic Unionist Party was the eventual winner of the seat.
McNarry is a former local councillor and Deputy Mayor of Ards. Prior to his election to the Assembly, he was an adviser to First Minister of Northern Ireland David Trimble. He stood for the party leadership in 2005 along with Alan McFarland and Lord Reg Empey which Empey went on to win. Following the contest, he was appointed as the UUP education spokesman. He is a former chairman of the Ulster Young Unionist Council.
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