Danny Donnelly is an Alliance Party politician in Northern Ireland, serving as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for East Antrim since May 2022.

[3] Donnelly began his political career as a candidate for the Green Party NI in the 2011 local elections for Larne Borough Council, before leaving the party to join Alliance.

[4] Donnelly later ran in the newly formed Mid and East Antrim Borough Council in the 2014 local elections as the Alliance candidate for the Braid constituency, but failed to be elected.

[8] Later that year, Donnelly replaced Stewart Dickson as the Alliance Party candidate for East Antrim.

He contested the 2019 general election, increasing the Alliance Vote in the constituency by 11.7% and coming second.