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Jim Speers

Member of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council
In office 22 May 2014 – 18 May 2023
Preceded by	Council created
Succeeded by	Keith Ratcliffe
Constituency	Cusher
Member of Armagh City and District Council
In office 15 May 1985 – 22 May 2014
Preceded by	District created
Succeeded by	Council abolished
Constituency	The Orchard
In office 18 May 1977 – 20 May 1981
Preceded by	Nelson Huddleston
Succeeded by	District abolished
Constituency	Armagh Area B
Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for Newry and Armagh
In office 30 May 1996 – 25 April 1998
Preceded by	Forum established
Succeeded by	Forum dissolved
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Armagh
In office 1983–1986
Preceded by	Seamus Mallon
Succeeded by	Assembly dissolved

Personal details
Born	20 May 1946 County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Political party	Ulster Unionist Party

James Alexander Speers MBE (born 20 May 1946), known as Jim Speers, is a Northern Irish farmer and former Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician, active in County Armagh.

Career

Speers works as a businessman and part-time farmer. He was elected to Armagh City and District Council in 1977 for the Ulster Unionist Party.^[1]

He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly election, but was elected to the Assembly the following year in a by-election caused by the disqualification of Seamus Mallon, a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) member of the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly, who had been a member of Seanad Éireann at the time of his election.^[2] The SDLP called on voters to boycott the election, which Speers contested as the UUP candidate. He easily beat the only other candidate, Tom French of the Workers' Party, and served on the Assembly until it was abolished in 1986.^[3]

Speers contested Newry and Armagh at the 1992 United Kingdom general election, and took second place, with 36% of the vote.^[4] In 1996, he was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum, as a UUP representative for Newry and Armagh. However, he failed to take a seat at the 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election.^[5]

Speers later served on the Northern Ireland Tourist Board,^[1] and as of 2007^[update] is the Chairperson of the UUP's Newry & Armagh Constituency Association,^[6] while continuing to sit on Armagh Council.

References

^ ^a ^b "RE-APPOINTMENT TO THE NORTHERN IRELAND TOURIST BOARD", Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, 2 September 2003
^ Northern Ireland elections
^ A Chronology of the Conflict – 1983 Archived 1 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine, CAIN Web Service
^ Newry and Armagh, 1983–1992, Northern Ireland Elections
^ Newry and Armagh Archived 13 November 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Ireland Elections
^ About us Archived 14 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine, Newry and Armagh Ulster Unionist Constituency Association

Northern Ireland Assembly (1982)
Preceded by Seamus Mallon	MPA for Armagh 1983–1986	Assembly abolished
Northern Ireland Forum
New forum	Member for Newry and Armagh 1996–1998	Forum dissolved
Civic offices
Preceded by Jim Nicholson	Mayor of Armagh 1996–1997	Succeeded by Pat Brannigan
Preceded by Thomas O'Hanlon	Mayor of Armagh 2010–2011	Succeeded by Freda Donnelly

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