North Antrim (Assembly constituency)
| North Antrim | |
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Northern Ireland Assembly Parliamentary Constituency |
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North Antrim shown within Northern Ireland
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| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1973 |
| Seats | 6 (1996–2016) 5 (2017–) |
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| Districts |
Mid and East Antrim Borough Council Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council |
| EP constituency | Northern Ireland |
Coordinates: 54°57′50″N 6°10′26″W / 54.964°N 6.174°W
North Antrim (Irish: Aontroim Thuaidh, Ulster Scots: North 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 North 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.
In 1996 members of the Northern Ireland Forum were 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. However the boundaries of North Antrim were not changed in the 1996–1997 redistribution.
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.
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