Robert Campbell (Northern Ireland politician)
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Robert Campbell
| office = Member of
North Down Borough Council
| constituency = North Down Area C
| term_start = 30 May 1973
| term_end = 18 May 1977
| predecessor = Council established
| successor = Maisie McMullan
| office1 = Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for North Down
| term_start1 = 28 June 1973
| term_end1 = 1974
| predecessor1 = Assembly founded
| successor1 = Assembly abolished
| birth_date =
| birth_place = County Down, Northern Ireland
| death_date =
| nationality = British
| party = Unionist Party NI (from 1974)
| otherparty = Ulster Unionist (until 1974)
}}
Robert Victor Campbell was a Northern Irish unionist politician.
Political career
Campbell was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) alderman in North Down, and on 23 November 1972, he was made a freeman of the Borough of North Down – only the sixth person to receive the title.North Down Matters, Winter '07, p.8 At the 1973 Northern Ireland local elections, he was elected to the reconstituted North Down Borough Council, topping the poll in North Down C,"[http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/73-81lgnorthdown.htm The Local Government Elections 1973–1981: North Down]", Northern Ireland Elections and he was also elected at the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election in North Down."[http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/cnd.htm North Down 1973–1982]", Northern Ireland Elections
Campbell subsequently resigned from the UUP and joined the Unionist Party of Northern Ireland. He stood again in North Down for the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention, but was not elected, and did not contest his council seat in 1977.
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Category:Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly 1973–1974
Category:Ulster Unionist Party councillors