Bob Stoker

Bob Stoker
44th Lord Mayor of Belfast
In office
1999–2000
Preceded by David Alderdice
Succeeded by Sammy Wilson
Constituency South Belfast
Personal details
Born Unknown
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Political party UK Independence Party
UUP (until 2014)
Website http://www.UKIP.org

Bob Stoker is a UK Independence Party Councillor in South Belfast, Former Lord Mayor of Belfast and a former Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for South Belfast.

Biography

As a member of the Ulster Unionist Party, Stoker was elected to Northern Ireland Forum for Belfast South in May 1996. He had already been elected as a councillor to represent the Balmoral Electoral Area in a by-election in May 1995. He was re-elected in May 1997, June 2001 and June 2005 and 2011.

He was elected Deputy Lord Mayor of the City in June 1998 and Lord Mayor of Belfast in June 1999.

He contested the Belfast South constituency in the 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election, but was unsuccessful, finishing 9th out of 18 candidates with 1,122 votes, 3.7% of the total first preference votes cast.[1]

Alderman Stoker, by then one of Belfast's longest serving councillors, left the Ulster Unionist Party in October 2014, joining UKIP. He cited wanting to be "part of a national party" and claimed that the old unionist parties were neglecting the very people on the ground who elected them. He contested the 2015 general election for UKIP finishing 7th with 1900 votes (4.9% of the total share).

In 2015, Stoker was elected as the Vice Chairman of UKIP in Northern Ireland by the local membership of the party.

References


Civic offices
Preceded by
Jim Rodgers
Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast
19981999
Succeeded by
Marie Moore
Preceded by
David Alderdice
Lord Mayor of Belfast
1999 - 2000
Succeeded by
Sammy Wilson
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