Boyd Douglas

Albert Boyd Douglas, known as Boyd Douglas (born 13 July 1950) is a politician in Northern Ireland.

Boyd Douglas
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for East Londonderry
In office
25 June 1998 – 26 November 2003
Preceded byNew Creation
Succeeded byNorman Hillis
Personal details
Born (1950-07-13) 13 July 1950
Political partyTraditional Unionist Voice

The son of William Douglas (Northern Ireland politician), he attended Strabane Agriculture College before working as a farmer. He was elected as an Ulster Unionist Party representative on Limavady Borough Council in 1997, but soon resigned in opposition to the Good Friday Agreement.

Douglas was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998 as an independent Unionist representing East Londonderry. With two other anti-agreement Unionists, he formed the United Unionist Coalition. He retained his seat on the council in 2001, but lost his Assembly seat, along with all the other Coalition MLAs, in 2003. In 2005, he was able to top the poll in his seat in Limavady.

Douglas subsequently joined Traditional Unionist Voice, and contested East Londonderry seat for the party at the 2011 Assembly election, in which he came 10th out of the 12 candidates and was not elected to a seat.[1] In reference to his decision to run, Douglas said: "Though public service has been part of my life and upbringing, returning to Stormont has not been a burning ambition. But while I’ve watched the past 4 years of failure and deadlock, with virtually nothing done for East Londonderry, I’ve concluded it requires us all, myself included, to try and make things better."[2]

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "TUV.org article". Tuv.org. Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
Northern Ireland Assembly
New assembly MLA for East Londonderry
1998–2003		 Succeeded by
Norman Hillis
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