Robert Campbell (Northern Ireland politician)

Robert Victor Campbell was a Northern Irish unionist politician.

Robert Campbell
Member of
North Down Borough Council
In office
30 May 1973 – 18 May 1977
Preceded byCouncil established
Succeeded byMaisie McMullan
ConstituencyNorth Down Area C
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for North Down
In office
28 June 1973 – 1974
Preceded byAssembly founded
Succeeded byAssembly abolished
Personal details
BornCounty Down, Northern Ireland
NationalityBritish
Political partyUnionist Party NI (from 1974)
Other political
affiliations
Ulster Unionist (until 1974)

Political career

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Campbell was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) alderman in North Down, and on 23 November 1972, he was made a freeman of the Borough of North Down – only the sixth person to receive the title.[1] At the 1973 Northern Ireland local elections, he was elected to the reconstituted North Down Borough Council, topping the poll in North Down C,[2] and he was also elected at the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election in North Down.[3]

Campbell subsequently resigned from the UUP and joined the Unionist Party of Northern Ireland. He stood again in North Down for the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention, but was not elected,[3] and did not contest his council seat in 1977.[2]

References

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  1. ^ North Down Matters, Winter '07, p.8
  2. ^ a b "The Local Government Elections 1973–1981: North Down", Northern Ireland Elections
  3. ^ a b "North Down 1973–1982", Northern Ireland Elections
Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)
New assembly Assembly Member for North Down
1973–1974
Assembly abolished