Constituency: North Antrim

Electorate Seats Total Poll Turnout Valid Poll Spoiled Votes
74,697 1 41,361 55.37% 41,185 176

Vote Distribution

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Count Results

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Jim Allister Jim Allister
(TUV)

11642

Ian Paisley Ian Paisley
(DUP)

11192

Phillip McGuigan Phillip McGuigan
(SF)

7714

Sian Mulholland Sian Mulholland
(AP)

4488

Jackson Minford Jackson Minford
(UUP)

3901

Helen Maher Helen Maher
(SDLP)

1661

Raicheal Mhic Niocaill Raicheal Mhic Niocaill
(AON)

451

Tristan Morrow Tristan Morrow
(IND)

136

On the Ballot

Jim Allister

Jim Allister

Traditional Unionist Voice

TUV party leader Jim Allister has served as a North Antrim MLA since 2011. He is a former DUP member and was first elected as an MLA for North Antrim in 1982. He was also elected to the European Parliament with the DUP in 2004, a position he continued to hold after his resignation from the party led to the foundation of the TUV in 2007. He lost his European seat in 2009. He narrowly lost to Roy Beggs in the 1983 Westminster election, running for the DUP, and contested the 2010 General Election, in which he finished a distant second to Ian Paisley Jr. Mr Allister is a barrister who was called to the Senior Bar as Queen's Counsel in 2001.

Helen Maher

Helen Maher

Social Democratic and Labour Party

Helen Maher stood last year as a candidate in the Causeway Coast and Glens District Council election, but failed to win a seat in Coleraine. She has previously spoken about her MS diagnosis in 2020, which came when she was aged 27. She has also competed in beauty pageants, and was crowned Miss Grand Scotland in the same year.

Phillip McGuigan

Phillip McGuigan

Sinn Fein

Phillip McGuigan is a current MLA for North Antrim in a seat which he has held since 2016, and previously between 2003 and 2007. Mr McGuigan was also a Ballymoney Borough Councillor for the Bann Valley from 2001 to 2014. He is a member of his local Dunloy GAA club.

Raicheal Mhic Niocaill

Raicheal Mhic Niocaill

Aontú

Raicheal Mhic Niocaill (33) is director of the Glenullin Childcare Trust charity, which aims to "enhance the development and education of young children".

Jackson Minford

Jackson Minford

Ulster Unionist Party

By his own admission, Jackson Minford entered politics "a bit later in life", winning a Bannside seat in the 2023 Mid and East Antrim Borough Council election. He has since served on a number of committees, including planning, neighbourhood and communities, and the Policing and Community Safety Partnership. His father and grandfather both served as MPs at Stormont.

Tristan Morrow

Tristan Morrow

Independent

Originally from Kilkenny, Tristan Morrow has lived in Ballymoney for over a decade and has worked in a variety of sectors, from farming to retail and even as a wax product manufacturer. He is one of four Independent candidates linked to new party NI People.

Sian Mulholland

Sian Mulholland

Alliance Party

Sian Mulholland has been an MLA since April 2023, when she replaced Patricia O'Lynn, who resigned to take up a new role at Queen’s University Belfast. Previously, Mulholland had been co-opted to Belfast City Council in 2015 after working as a caseworker for party leader Naomi Long. She successfully held the seat in the 2019 local government election but resigned and briefly sat on Lisburn and Castlereagh Council (2022-2023), replacing David Honeyford upon his election as MLA.

Ian Paisley

Ian Paisley

Democratic Unionist Party

The son of the late DUP leader Ian Paisley, Ian Paisley Jr has represented North Antrim since 1996 when he was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue. In 1998, he was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly. He served as chairman of the Agriculture Committee and also as a Junior Minister in the Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister from 2007 until 2008. He has been MP for North Antrim since 2010, when he replaced Dr Paisley after he stepped down. He has held the seat in four successive elections, with majorities ranging from 11,546 to 20,643. A Paisley has been North Antrim MP since the seat was won by Ian Sr in 1970.
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