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Political career [ edit ]
She unsuccessfully stood for election in the South Down Westminster constituency at the 2017 UK general election . She came in third place polling 8,867 votes, equating to 17.4% of the total vote.[3]
In April 2022, shortly before the 2022 Assembly election , all of the DUP's officers in South Down refused to endorse the party's candidate Forsythe and resigned from the DUP.[4]
The Police Service of Northern Ireland launched an investigation into "a defamatory message" being shared about Forsythe during the election campaign.[5]
On 5 May 2022, Diane Forsythe was elected as the new Democratic Unionist Party MLA for the South Down Constituency. Polling 6,497 first preference votes, and successful being elected on the 6th count with 11,073 votes. She became the first female unionist MLA for the constituency.[6]
References [ edit ]
^ "South Down parliamentary constituency - Election 2019 - BBC News" . Retrieved 2022-05-07 .
^ "DUP officers in South Down, representing 305 years' party membership, dramatically resign" . The News Letter
^ Simpson, Claire (3 May 2022). "Diane Forsythe: Police launch probe into 'defamatory message' circulated online" . The Irish News . Retrieved 30 May 2022 .
^ "South Down: History in the making as Diane Forsthye becomes area's first female unionist MLA and Alliance's Patrick Brown gets elected" . BelfastTelegraph.co.uk . 2022-05-07. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 2023-09-18 .
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