John Junkin (Northern Ireland politician)

John Junkin (born 1949) is a former Northern Irish unionist politician.

John Junkin
Member of Magherafelt District Council
In office
15 May 1985 – 5 May 2005
Preceded byDistrict created
Succeeded byJohn Crawford
ConstituencyMoyola
In office
20 May 1981 – 15 May 1985
Preceded byThomas Kelso
Succeeded byDistrict abolished
ConstituencyMagherafelt Area B
Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for
Mid Ulster
In office
30 May 1996 – 25 April 1998
Personal details
BornCounty Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Political partyIndependent Unionist (2005)
Other political
affiliations		UUP (until 2005)

Background

Long active in the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), Junkin was elected to Magherafelt District Council at the 1981 Northern Ireland local elections,[1] and held a seat in Moyola in 1985, 1989 and 1993.[2][3] By the start of the 1990s, he was a Vice-President of the UUP, serving alongside Ken Maginnis, Martin Smyth and Hazel Bradford.[4]

Junkin was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996, representing Mid Ulster,[5] and held his council seat in 1997,[3] but lost out in the 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election, to fellow party member Billy Armstrong.[6]

Although Junkin was re-elected to Magherafelt Council in 2001, he then resigned from the UUP and stood as an independent in 2005.[3] He lost his seat, defeated by new UUP candidate Jackie Crawford.[7] He subsequently left politics, but hit the local news in 2007 after a boat which he had fitted out for the use of an autistic child was destroyed by arson.[8]

References
  1. "The Local Government Elections 1973–1981: Magherafelt", Northern Ireland Elections
  2. "Local Government Elections 1985 – 1989: Magherafelt", Northern Ireland Elections
  3. "Magherafelt District Council Elections 1993–2011", Northern Ireland Elections
  4. Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Vol.159 (1991), p.679
  5. 1996 "Forum Elections: Candidates in Mid Ulster", Northern Ireland Elections
  6. "Mid Ulster", Northern Ireland Elections
  7. "SF take control in Magherafelt", Mid Ulster Mail, 20 May 2005
  8. "Vandals destroy boat used by autistic child", Mid Ulster Mail, 3 October 2007
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