| John Junkin | |
| Constituency: | Moyola |
| Term Start: | 15 May 1985 |
| Term End: | 5 May 2005 |
| Predecessor: | District created |
| Successor: | John Crawford |
| Constituency1: | Magherafelt Area B |
| Term Start1: | 20 May 1981 |
| Term End1: | 15 May 1985 |
| Predecessor1: | Thomas Kelso |
| Successor1: | District abolished |
| Office2: | Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for Mid Ulster |
| Term Start2: | 30 May 1996 |
| Term End2: | 25 April 1998 |
| Birth Date: | 1949 |
| Birth Place: | County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
| Party: | Independent Unionist (2005) |
| Otherparty: | UUP (until 2005) |
John Junkin (born 1949) is a former Northern Irish unionist politician.
Long active in the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), Junkin was elected to Magherafelt District Council at the 1981 Northern Ireland local elections,[1] and held a seat in Moyola in 1985, 1989 and 1993.[2] [3] By the start of the 1990s, he was a Vice-President of the UUP, serving alongside Ken Maginnis, Martin Smyth and Hazel Bradford.[4]
Junkin was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996, representing Mid Ulster,[5] and held his council seat in 1997, but lost out in the 1998 Northern Ireland Assembly election, to fellow party member Billy Armstrong.[6]
Although Junkin was re-elected to Magherafelt Council in 2001, he then resigned from the UUP and stood as an independent in 2005. He lost his seat, defeated by new UUP candidate Jackie Crawford.[7] He subsequently left politics, but hit the local news in 2007 after a boat which he had fitted out for the use of an autistic child was destroyed by arson.[8]