| Electorate | Seats | Total Poll | Turnout | Valid Poll | Spoiled Votes | Quota |
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| 72,621 | 5 | 45,440 | 62.57% | 45,069 | 371 | 7,512 |
Vote Distribution
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6846 | 6880 | 6909.58 | 7030.64 | 7130.7 | 7462.42 | 11037.42 | |
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6105 | 6131 | 6135.74 | 6340.8 | 7018.86 | 7392.86 | 7656.86 | |
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6013 | 6028 | 6146.92 | 6167.04 | 6185.04 | 6472.48 | 6820.82 | 7401.82 |
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4566 | 4584 | 4890.9 | 4908.02 | 4927.14 | 5260.84 | 5561.7 | 6415.7 |
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4492 | 4542 | 4553.46 | 4672.58 | 4736.7 | 5094.72 | ||
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3795 | 3800 | 3801.32 | 3859.38 | 4021.38 | 5383.5 | 5692.92 | 6848.92 |
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1801 | 1803 | 1803.06 | 1829.12 | 1877.12 | |||
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1389 | 1406 | 1411.88 | 1434 | 1448 | |||
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912 | 933 | 933.36 | 1217.36 | ||||
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856 | 909 | 909.72 | |||||
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Green Party
Dan Barrios-O'Neill is an environmental scientist concerned with global change, sustainability and ecology. He is campaigning for better resourced mental health services, welfare support for the unemployed and those on low incomes, and LGBT equality.
Ulster Unionist Party
Robbie Butler was elected to the Assembly in 2016 to represent the constituency of Lagan Valley. Before entering politics he had served as a Fire and Rescue Officer with the Northern Ireland Fire Service. He is the Party spokesperson on mental health.
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Pat Catney was first elected to Lisburn City Council in 2011 and is chair of the corporate services committee. Before entering politics, he was a well-known publican at the Kitchen Bar in Belfast. He has also helped run St Patrick’s Parochial Centre in Lisburn.
Sinn Fein
A native of Donegal, Dr Peter Doran is a life-long activist on peace and environmental issues. He lectures on environmental justice at Queen's University and has worked at the United Nations on climate change. He moved to Belfast with his family to lead environmental research with the Northern Ireland Assembly and later worked as a researcher and policy officer at Dáil Éireann. As a young man he spent a number of years in the Taizé Community, France, a world-renowned ecumenical monastery dedicated to post-war reconciliation. He later organised annual acts of reconciliation in Derry working with the Catholic and Church of Ireland Bishops and Cathedrals.
Democratic Unionist Party
At the age of 23, Paul Givan was the youngest person to be elected to Lisburn City Council in 2005. He was co-opted to the Assembly in June 2010 to replace Jeffrey Donaldson MP and was elected in 2011 and again in 2016 when he was appointed as Minister for the newly formed Department for Communities. Previously he was chair of the Justice Committee and the Standards and Privileges Committee and has also been a member of the Assembly and Executive Review Committee, Enterprise Committee and Health Committee.
Independent
Democratic Unionist Party
Brenda Hale was first elected to Stormont in May 2011. She has been a member of the Committee for the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister and the Regional Development Committee. Her husband served with the army and was killed in Afghanistan in 2009. Since then, Mrs Hale has campaigned on behalf of other war widows.
Alliance Party
Trevor Lunn was a Lisburn City Councillor from 2001 until 2011 and served as mayor between 2006 and 2007. He was elected to the Assembly in 2007. He sat on the Education Committee and the Assembly and Executive Review Committee and is also a member of the Policing Board. A keen supporter of integrated education, he acts as the Alliance Party’s spokesperson on justice.
Traditional Unionist Voice
Samuel Morrison has worked for TUV leader Jim Allister since completing his Masters at Queen’s in 2007 and is the party Press Officer.
Independent
Lisburn man Jonny Orr has previously run as an independent candidate in the council, Westminster and Assembly elections. He says he has a vision for the city and sees it as “alive and full of colour”. He previously called for the Maze Prison site to be turned into a theme park.
Ulster Unionist Party
Former DUP councillor Jenny Palmer secured a Stormont seat for the UUP in Lagan Valley at the expense of her former party. Jenny Palmer left the DUP in 2015. She is married to fellow councillor John Palmer and has three children.
Democratic Unionist Party
Edwin Poots was first elected to Lisburn City Council in 1997 and was deputy mayor. He stepped down in 2010 to concentrate on the Assembly where he has been Culture Minister, Environment Minister and, from 2011 to 2014, Health Minister. He was successfully re-elected in the 2016 election. Mr Poots is a farmer who studied at Greenmount. He followed his father into politics and describes himself as a “young earth creationist”.
Conservatives
Matthew Robinson - Lagan Valley Matthew grew up locally in Hillsborough, County Down, and joined the Conservative and Unionist Party in 2007
