Boyd Douglas
Member of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council
In office
22 May 2014 – 2 May 2019
Preceded byCouncil created
Succeeded byEdgar Scott
ConstituencyBenbradagh
Member of Limavady Borough Council
In office
21 May 1997 – 22 May 2014
Preceded byDavid Robinson
Succeeded byCouncil abolished
ConstituencyBenbradagh
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
Dungiven, Northern Ireland
Political partyTraditional Unionist Voice (2011 - present)
Ulster Unionist Party (until 1997)
Other political
affiliations		Independent Unionist (1998 - 2011)
United Unionist Coalition (1998 - 2011)

Albert Boyd Douglas, known as Boyd Douglas (born 13 July 1950) is a Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) politician who was a Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Councillor for the Benbradagh DEA from 2014 to 2019. Douglas previously served as an Independent Unionist Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry from 1998 to 2003.

Career

The son of William Douglas (Northern Ireland politician), he attended Strabane Agriculture College before working as a farmer. At the 1997 local elections, Douglas was elected onto Limavady Borough Council for the Benbradagh District. He was elected to the council as an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) member, 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]

He was also re-elected onto Limavady Borough Council on the Council election that same day. Douglas was later elected on the newly-formed Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council at the 2014 local elections, again representing Benbradagh. He was one of three TUV representatives to be elected to the council in that election. At the 2019 local elections, however, Douglas lost his seat to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) candidate.

References

  1. ↑ "Boyd Douglas for East Londonderry | - Traditional Unionist Voice". Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
  2. ↑ "TUV.org article". Tuv.org. Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
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