East Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)

East Antrim
County constituency for the House of Commons
Boundary of East Antrim in Northern Ireland.
Districts of Northern Ireland	Larne, Carrickfergus, Newtownabbey, Moyle
Electorate	61,745 (March 2011)
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of parliament	Sammy Wilson (DUP)
Number of members	One
Created from	North Antrim and South Antrim
1885–1922
Number of members	One
Type of constituency	County constituency
Replaced by	Antrim, Carrickfergus
Created from	Antrim
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency	Northern Ireland

East Antrim is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Sammy Wilson, a member of the Democratic Unionist Party. The constituency has voted for unionist candidates since its re-creation in 1983.

A constituency with identical boundaries is also used for elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The original county constituency comprised the eastern part of County Antrim, being carved out of the former Antrim constituency. From 1885, East Antrim consisted of the baronies of Belfast Lower and Glenarm Upper, and parts of the baronies of Antrim Upper, Antrim Lower and Belfast Upper, and the town of Carrickfergus.

It returned one Member of Parliament 1885–1922.

The current seat was created in boundary changes in 1983, as part of an expansion of Northern Ireland's constituencies from 12 to 17, and was predominantly made up from parts of North Antrim and South Antrim. Since further revisions in 1995 (when it lost part of the district of Newtownabbey to the North Belfast constituency) it now covers the entirety of the districts of Larne and Carrickfergus, as well as part of Newtownabbey and Moyle.