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John Blair
Alliance Party
John Blair has been an MLA since 2018 and is the current Deputy Speaker of the Assembly. He began political life on Newtownabbey Borough Council in 1997, but lost his seat in 2001 before being re-elected 10 years later. In 2018, the Alliance Party leader David Ford stepped down as an MLA for South Antrim and Mr Blair was co-opted into his seat, which he held in the 2022 election.