Declan O'Loan (born 5 August 1951) is a former Irish Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) politician who served as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for North Antrim from 2007 to 2011.
[1] Following comments about merging with Sinn Fein, he had the SDLP whip suspended, sitting as an Independent in 2010.
[2] The SDLP had refused to make an electoral pact with Sinn Féin in the 2010 Westminster election.
[2][3] In the May 2011 election, O'Loan ran as an SDLP candidate for re-election to the Assembly from North Antrim, but was eliminated in the last round of ballot-counting.
He was, however, re-elected onto Ballymena Borough Council in the local elections held the same day.