The Alliance Party has selected Alderman Richard Stewart to contest the general election in East Londonderry; The seat is currently held by the Democratic Unionist Party’s Gregory Campbell.
Ross McMullan has stepped down as Alliance councillor for Ormiston on Belfast City Council saying that “the right decision is to give way to allow someone new to take on this amazing role”.
Councillor on Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, Andrew McMurray, is selected by the Alliance Party to replace Patrick Brown, who resigned from Stormont last week.
Michelle Guy was first elected as a councillor for Castlereagh South in 2019, and has now been selected by local party members to contest the upcoming Westminster election in Strangford.
Patrick Brown served as a councillor for eight years and was first elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2022 but has tonight resigned ‘due to personal reasons’, the Alliance Party has said.
With Labour expected to come into power later this year, their Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn has been meeting with ministers and parties at Stormont.
Blair was co-opted into the South Antrim seat formerly held by David Ford in 2018 and was re-elected in the 2022 Assembly election.
The Windsor Framework allows the Assembly to vote on whether new EU regulations should apply in Northern Ireland, the DUP’s motion has failed to pass through the Assembly.
Danny Donnelly has been an MLA for East Antrim since 2022, and ran in the 2019 general election, failing to get elected but he came second with the DUP holding the seat.
