Steven Agnew
| Steven Agnew | |
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| Leader of the Green Party in Northern Ireland |
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Assumed office January 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Down |
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In office 6 May 2011 – 26 January 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Brian Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Election in progress |
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12 October 1979 Dundonald, Northern Ireland |
| Political party | Green Party |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast |
| Occupation | Activist, politician |
Steven Agnew (born 12 October 1979) is the leader of the Green Party in Northern Ireland. He was elected as an MLA to the Northern Ireland Assembly in May 2011.
Agnew was born in Dundonald and studied at Brooklands Primary School, Grosvenor Grammar School and Queen's University Belfast. Sammy Wilson and Michelle McIlveen were teachers at his school. He grew up around a "very negative political landscape", where politics was "about being anti-Catholic, anti the Pope and anti-Sinn Fein".
Agnew joined the Green Party in 2003 during its campaign against the invasion of Iraq. During a protest march from Queen's to the US Consulate, he met John Barry, who convinced him that "the Green Party had a practical agenda of what needed to be changed". He came to believe "environmental justice is interlinked" with social justice.
At the 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election, he stood in Belfast East, where he took 2.2% of the vote and was not elected. Brian Wilson was successful for the party at the election, and Agnew became his full-time research officer. He was the party's candidate for the 2009 European Parliament election in the Northern Ireland constituency, where he increased the party's share to 3.3%, although he still came bottom of the poll. At the 2010 United Kingdom general election, he stood in North Down, taking 3.1% of the votes cast.
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