Gerry Carroll (politician)
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Gerry Carroll MLA |
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Carroll in 2016
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| Member of Belfast City Council |
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In office 22 May 2014 – 7 May 2016 Serving with six others |
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| Preceded by | Office created |
| Succeeded by | Matthew Collins |
| Constituency | Black Mountain |
| Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast West |
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Assumed office 7 May 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Rosie McCorley |
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27 April 1987 (age 30) Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Political party | People Before Profit Alliance |
| Alma mater | University of Ulster |
| Occupation | Politician |
Gerry Carroll (born 27 April 1987) is a People Before Profit Alliance politician from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who has represented the Belfast West constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly since May 2016. From 2014 until 2016 he also represented the Black Mountain district electoral area on Belfast City Council.
When aged 16, Carroll fund-raised with fellow activists to travel to Edinburgh for the Make Poverty History protest. He contested the 2011 Belfast West by-election—triggered by the resignation of Gerry Adams—for the People Before Profit Alliance, and won 7.6% of the vote. At the 2014 Belfast City Council election he gained one of the seven seats in the Black Mountain electoral area from Sinn Féin, coming third. Following his election, he said that he did not describe himself as a nationalist or a unionist, instead choosing to identify as a socialist. He said: "There is a lot of anger in West Belfast at the minute over the situation at Royal Victoria Hospital's A&E, the privatisation of leisure centres and the Casement Park issues...residents have been trampled on". He contested Belfast West again at the 2015 general election, this time coming second, gaining 19.2% of the vote and reducing the Sinn Féin majority from 57.1% to 35.0%.
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