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May Beattie

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May Beattie
Member of
Mid and East Antrim Borough Council
In office
22 May 2014 – 2 May 2019
Preceded bySeat created
Succeeded byMarc Collins
ConstituencyKnockagh
Member of Carrickfergus Borough Council
In office
21 May 1997 – 22 May 2014
Preceded byWilliam Haggan
Succeeded byCouncil abolished
ConstituencyKnockagh
Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for
East Antrim
In office
30 May 1996 – 25 April 1998
Personal details
Born1950
Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland
Political partyTraditional Unionist Voice (2019 - present)
Other political
affiliations
Democratic Unionist Party (1993 - 2019)

May Beattie (born c. 1950) is a former Northern Irish unionist politician who was a Mid and East Antrim Councillor for the Knockagh DEA from 2014 to 2019. A former member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Beattie previously represented Knockagh on the former Carrickfergus Borough Council from 1997 to 2014.

Background

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Born in Carrickfergus, Beattie became involved in politics by assisting the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) during elections. She became a party member in the early 1990s,[1] and first stood for election to Carrickfergus Borough Council at the 1993 Northern Ireland local elections.[2]

Although unsuccessful, she was elected for the DUP in East Antrim at the Northern Ireland Forum election in 1996, and sat on the forum's health committee.[1][3] She gained a seat on Carrickfergus council in 1997, and held this in 2001, 2005 and 2011.[2] She was Mayor of Carrickfergus in 2003–4 and sits on a large number of committees. She is currently[when?] an alderman.[4]

Beattie has also been secretary for the DUP's East Antrim branch and for the East Antrim Imperial Association, and was previously a member of the Association of Loyal Orangewomen of Ireland.[1]

In the 2019 Northern Ireland local elections, she unsuccessfully ran as a Traditional Unionist Voice candidate in the Knockagh ward for Mid and East Antrim Borough Council[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Rachel Ward, Women, unionism and loyalism in Northern Ireland, p.170
  2. ^ a b "Carrickfergus Borough Council Elections 1993-2011", Northern Ireland Elections
  3. ^ "East Antrim", Northern Ireland Elections
  4. ^ "Alderman May Beattie", Carrickfergus Borough Council
  5. ^ "Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll" (PDF). Deputy Returning Officer, Mid and East Antrim District Council. 8 April 2019.
    - "Election 2019: District Electoral Area: Knockagh". The Belfast Telegraph.
Northern Ireland Forum
New forum Member for East Antrim
1996–1998
Forum dissolved
Civic offices
Preceded by
Eric Ferguson
Mayor of Carrickfergus
2003–2004
Succeeded by