Kellie Armstrong is the Vice chair of the Alliance Party. She was first elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in May 2016 and was re-elected in March 2017. She is the party's infrastructure spokesperson. She is a director in Northern Ireland for the Community Transport Association. She previously ran PACT (Peninsula Community Transport) and was a member of Cloughey & District Community Association. Ms Armstrong has fundraised for cancer charities and campaigned to save local playgrounds.
Constituency: Strangford
| Electorate | Seats | Total Poll | Turnout | Valid Poll | Spoiled Votes |
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| 64,327 | 1 | 38,826 | 60.36% | 38,749 | 77 |
Vote Distribution
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On the Ballot
Ricky Bamford has worked for 30 years for the voluntary sector in housing and homelessness and says she has witnessed first hand the results of division and inequality.
First elected in 2005 to Ards Borough Council, Joe Boyle has chaired several committes and is also vice chair of the NI local Government Partnership On Travellers’ Issues, as well as sitting on several other local government bodies. He has been in business for 30 years in Portaferry and is involved with the GAA as an administrator at club and county level.
Claire Hiscott is a Conservative councillor for the Horfield ward in Bristol and a pharmacist within the NHS.
Carole Murphy
Sinn Fein
The former UUP leader was first elected to Stormont in 2011. He was re-elected in Strangford in 2016 and again in 2017, but quit the leadership of his party immediately after it underperformed in the March Assembly poll. He had a long and high profile career as a journalist and broadcaster with the BBC and UTV, before moving into public relations. He was appointed a Victims' Commissioner in 2008, but stood down to become a politician. He was born in Belfast and is a graduate of Cambridge University. Mr Nesbitt is married to the former UTV presenter Lynda Bryans.
Jim Shannon was first elected to Ards Borough Council in 1985 and served as Mayor in 1991/92. He was elected as a member of the Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue in 1996 until it completed its work in 1998. He was subsequently elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly representing Strangford. He was re-elected in 2003 and 2007, stepping down from the Assembly in 2010 after he was elected to Westminster. He was re-elected as MP in 2015.
