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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jonathan McCambridge

Assembly stalwarts Beggs and Weir lose seats

PA Wire

For the first time since East Antrim was created as a constituency in 1983, there will nobody from the Beggs family representing the area at either Stormont or Westminster.

Ulster Unionist Roy Beggs Jr, a former Stormont deputy speaker and party stalwart, was eliminated early in the voting process for the constituency, which covers the coastal towns of Carrickfergus and Larne.

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