Constituency: North Down

Electorate Seats Total Poll Turnout Valid Poll Spoiled Votes
73,885 1 43,464 58.83% 43,296 168

Vote Distribution

Count 1

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Count Results

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Alex Easton Alex Easton
(IND)

20913

Stephen Farry Stephen Farry
(AP)

13608

Tim Collins Tim Collins
(UUP)

6754

Barry McKee Barry McKee
(GRN)

1247

Deirdre Vaughan Deirdre Vaughan
(SDLP)

657

Chris Carter Chris Carter
(IND)

117

On the Ballot

Chris Carter

Chris Carter

Independent

This election will mark the fourth time Chris Carter has stood as an Independent General Election candidate for North Down. In 1995, he received 101 votes; in 2001 he won 444 and in 2005 he won 211. In 2012, senior judges at the High Court in Belfast ruled that a legal challenge to Northern Ireland's smoking ban brought by Mr Carter could not go before the Supreme Court. He had been involved in a four-year legal battle to quash his conviction for lighting up at the front of Bangor Town Hall in October 2007

Tim Collins

Tim Collins

Ulster Unionist Party

Belfast-born Tim Collins is a retired British Army Colonel best known for his role in the Iraq War in 2003. Since leaving the Army in 2004, he co-founded an intelligence-based security services company. He has rejected previous approaches from the Conservative Party to enter political life.

Alex Easton

Alex Easton

Independent

Bangor resident Alex Easton has been a North Down MLA since 2003, when he won the seat as a DUP representative. He left the party in 2021 citing a lack of "respect, discipline or decency" in the party's behaviour. He was re-elected as an Independent in 2022, topping the poll in the area for the fifth consecutive time.

Stephen Farry

Stephen Farry

Alliance Party

Alliance Party deputy leader Stephen Farry is defending the seat he won in the 2019 General Election when he claimed 45% of the vote. He entered politics as a North Down Borough councillor in 1993 and served as Mayor in 2007. In the same year, he was elected to the Assembly and held his seat until 2019 when he entered Parliament.

Barry McKee

Barry McKee

Green Party

Barry McKee has been a councillor in the Bangor West DEA since he was co-opted in December 2018. He was successfully re-elected to Ards and North Down Borough Council in 2019 and 2023.

Deirdre Vaughan

Deirdre Vaughan

Social Democratic and Labour Party

Deirdre Vaughan stood in the Assembly election in 2022, winning 727 first preference votes and being eliminated at the fifth stage of the count. In November of last year, Ms Vaughan announced her decision to step away from politics entirely, a decision which has now been reversed.
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  • Democratic Unionist Party
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  • Alliance Party
  • Independent
  • Ulster Unionist Party
  • Traditional Unionist Voice

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