Brian Kingston

Brian Kingston (born 22 February 1966) is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician, serving as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Belfast North since 2022. Kingston is the DUP Spokesperson for Local Government.

He was previously High Sheriff of Belfast from 2013 to 2014, and then Lord Mayor of Belfast from 2016 to 2017. Kingston was a Belfast City Councillor for the Court DEA from 2010 to 2022.

Career Kingston was co-opted onto Belfast City Council for the Court District in 2010, and was subsequently elected in 2011, 2014 and 2019.

He was also the DUP candidate in Belfast West at the 2011 Northern Ireland Assembly election, but was not elected.

Kingston later stood in the 2011 Belfast West by-election to the House of Commons, coming fourth.

He was appointed High Sheriff of Belfast in 2013, and was later elected Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2016.

At the 2022 Assembly election, he was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly as one of two DUP representatives in Belfast North