| Dermot Nesbitt | |
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Minister for Environment
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| In office February 20, 2002 – October 15, 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Sam Foster |
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| Succeeded by | Arlene Foster |
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Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for South Down |
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| Born | August 14, 1947 Northern Ireland |
| Political party | Ulster Unionist Party |
Dermot Nesbitt (born 14 August 1947) is a Northern Irish politician. Major Samuel (Sam Foster CBE (born 7 December 1931) is a former Ulster Unionist Party politician who served in the Northern Ireland Executive Arlene Isabel Foster (née Kelly) (b July 1970 is a Northern Irish unionist politician The Northern Ireland Assembly ( Irish: Tionól Thuaisceart Éireann, Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann Semmlie) is the devolved Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a Country within the United Kingdom, lying in the northeast of The Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or in a historic sense simply the Unionist Party Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a Country within the United Kingdom, lying in the northeast of A politician (from Greek " Polis " is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of Politics or a person
Nesbitt studied economics at Queens University Belfast and joined the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Queen's University Belfast is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or in a historic sense simply the Unionist Party He was the election agent for Brian Faulkner from 1973 until 1977, most of this period spent as a member of the Unionist Party of Northern Ireland. In Elections in the United Kingdom, as well as in certain other similar political systems such as India 's an election agent is the person legally responsible for Arthur Brian Deane Faulkner Baron Faulkner of Downpatrick, PC ( February 18, 1921 - March 3, 1977) was the sixth and last The Unionist Party of Northern Ireland was a political party founded by Brian Faulkner in September 1974.
Nesbitt worked as a lecturer at Queens and by 1981 he had rejoined the UUP, being elected to Down District Council. Lecturer is a term of Academic rank. In the United Kingdom lecturer is the name given to University Teachers in their first permanent Down District Council is a Local Council in County Down in Northern Ireland. He held this seat until 1989.
Nesbitt was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum for South Down in 1996, and held this seat on the Northern Ireland Assembly at the 1998 and 2003 elections. The Northern Ireland Forum, or formally the Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue was a body set up in 1996 to conduct the negotiations that eventually South Down is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. The Northern Ireland Assembly ( Irish: Tionól Thuaisceart Éireann, Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann Semmlie) is the devolved The first elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly were held on June 25, 1998. The second elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, which at the time of the elections had been suspended for just over a year were held on Thursday November 26 He was a junior minister in the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from 1998 until 2002, when he took up the post of Minister for the Environment. The Office of the First Minister and the deputy First Minister ( OFMDFM) ( Irish: Oifig an Chéad-Aire agus an leasChéad-Aire He retired in 2007, and party colleague John McCallister retained a UUP seat in the South Down constituency. John McCallister, MLA (born 20 February 1972) is a Northern Ireland Unionist politician who in 2007 was elected to the South Down is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
At the 1997, 2001 and 2005 UK general elections, Nesbitt stood unsuccessfully for the Westminster seat of South Down. Results The election was fought under new boundaries with a net increase of eight seats compared to the 1992 election Results |} Total votes cast 26368204 All parties with more than 500 votes shown Results Overview For events leading up to the date of the election see article Pre-election day events of the United Kingdom general South Down is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.