Gordon Dunne MBE (4 April 1959 – 20 June 2021) was a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for North Down from 2011 until June 2021.
[2] Born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh,[3] Dunne was first elected to North Down Borough Council in the 1981 local elections representing the Holywood area.
[5] He lost his seat in the 1993 local elections but regained it in 1997 and sat on the council since then.
[6] He resigned from the assembly effective 9 June 2021 for health reasons, and his son Stephen was subsequently co-opted to the role.
[7][1] On 20 June 2021, eleven days after his resignation, Dunne died of cancer, aged 62.