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Roy Thompson
Roy Thompson
Member of Antrim Borough Council
	In office; 5 May 2011 – 22 May 2014
Preceded by	Mel Lucas
Succeeded by	Council abolished
Constituency	Antrim South East
	In office; 15 May 1985 – 5 May 2005
Preceded by	District created
Succeeded by	Alan Lawther
Constituency	Antrim South East
	In office; 20 May 1981 – 15 May 1985
Preceded by	Allister Lucas
Succeeded by	District abolished
Constituency	Antrim Area B
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for ; South Antrim
	In office; 1982–1986
Personal details
Born	1946; County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Political party	DUP (before 1992; since 2005)
Other political; affiliations	Independent Unionist (1992-1997) ; Ulster Unionist (1997 - 2005)

Roy Thompson (born 1946) is a former Northern Irish unionist politician who has served as both a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) representative.

Background

A dairy farmer by profession Thompson was involved in politics from an early age and was a founder member of the DUP, serving on the new party's executive.^[1] He was elected to Antrim Borough Council in the 1981 elections and the following year was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly for South Antrim.^[1] Whilst serving as deputy mayor of Antrim in 1992 he resigned from the DUP for unknown reasons, although he stated publicly that his decision had nothing to do with Ian Paisley's leadership.^[1]

Thompson has subsequently changed political allegiance on a number of occasions. In the 1993 local elections he was returned to Antrim Council as an Independent Unionist before in 1997 retaining the seat as a UUP member. He remained a councillor until 2005 when he was defeated, having returned to the DUP.^[2] Once again representing the DUP Thompson was re-elected to the council in 2011.^[3] Roy Thompson was convicted of subsidy fraud in November 2003.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c W.D. Flackes & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968–1993, The Blackstaff Press, 1994, p. 322
^ Antrim Borough Council Elections, 1993–2005
^ Northern Ireland council elections. BBC. 11 May 2011
^ [1] The Free Library