Philip McGuigan
Northern Irish politician
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Philip McGuigan (born 1973) is a Sinn Féin member of Ballymoney Borough Council in Northern Ireland and MLA. He was raised in Swatragh, County Londonderry.
Philip was elected to the Assembly in 2003 representing North Antrim.
Philip McGuigan was elected to the Ballymoney Council in 2001, aged 27, with the highest vote of any of the 16 elected council and then elected to the Causeway Coat and Glens Council in 2013.
He resides in Dunloy.
He was elected in the assembly elections for North Antrim in 2003 but stood aside to let Daithi McKay contest the election on behalf of Sinn Féin in 2007.
He returned to the Assembly in 2016, replacing McKay following the latter's resignation.