Upper Bann is a parliamentary constituency in Northern Ireland,which is represented in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Carla Lockhart of the DUP.
Armagh City and District Council was a district council in County Armagh in Northern Ireland. It merged with Banbridge District Council and Craigavon Borough Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Armagh,Banbridge and Craigavon District Council.
Craigavon Borough Council was a local council in counties Armagh,Down and Antrim,in Northern Ireland. It merged with Armagh City and District Council and Banbridge District Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Armagh,Banbridge and Craigavon District Council.
Thomas David Simpson is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician in Northern Ireland,who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Upper Bann from 2005 to 2019. On 6 November 2019 Simpson announced that he would not be standing for re-election in the 2019 general election.
Paul Berry is a Northern Irish Independent Unionist politician,serving as an Armagh City,Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Councillor for the Cusher DEA since 2014.
John Fitzgerald O'Dowd is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Upper Bann since 2003. He has served as Minister for Infrastructure from May to October 2022,and again since 2024. He served as Minister for Education in the Stormont Executive from 2011 to 2016. He briefly took on the duties of deputy First Minister in 2011 while Martin McGuinness ran in the 2011 Irish presidential election.
James Harold McCusker was a Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politician who served as the Deputy Leader of the UUP Assembly Group from 1982 to 1986.
Mary Dolores Kelly is a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician. She was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann from 2003 until 2016,and again from 2017 until 2022.
Hugh Casey MBE was a politician in Northern Ireland.
Denis Watson is a former Northern Irish unionist politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann from 1998 to 2003.
William Mervyn Carrick,known as Mervyn Carrick is a former Unionist politician from Northern Ireland representing the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
David Calvert is a Northern Irish unionist politician. He worked as a director of a family shirt manufacturing company. He was a founder member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in County Armagh.
Alderman Sydney Alexander Anderson is a former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician who was an Armagh,Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Councillor for the Portadown DEA from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann from 2010 to 2017.
The first election to Armagh City,Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 22 May 2014,returned 41 members to the newly-formed council via Single Transferable Vote. The Democratic Unionist Party won a plurality of seats,although the Ulster Unionist Party attracted the most first-preference votes.
Carla Rebecca Lockhart is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician,who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Upper Bann since the 2019 general election,currently serving as the DUP Spokesperson for Environment,Food &Rural Affairs. She was previously a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Upper Bann,elected at the 2016 election,until 2019.
Jonathan Buckley is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician who has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann since 2017. He currently serves as the DUP's Spokesman for Economy,Business,and Energy and Trade Union Engagement.
Local elections were held in Northern Ireland on Thursday 2 May 2019. The last elections were held in 2014. 819 candidates contested 462 seats across Northern Ireland's 11 local government districts. 1,305,384 people aged 18 and over were eligible to vote,and 52.7% of the electorate turned out.
Paul Rankin is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician,serving as an Armagh City,Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Councillor for the Lagan River DEA since 2014 .
Eóin Tennyson is a Northern Irish Alliance Party politician who has served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann since the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election.
Lagan River is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Armagh City,Banbridge and Craigavon,Northern Ireland. The district elects five members to Armagh City,Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council and contains the wards of Donaghcloney,Dromore,Gransha,Quilly and Waringstown. Lagan River forms part of the Upper Bann constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament and part of the Lagan Valley constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
