Colum Eastwood

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Colum Eastwood MP
Eastwood in 2023
Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 November 2015
Deputy	Fearghal McKinney Nichola Mallon
Preceded by	Alasdair McDonnell
Member of Parliament for Foyle
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 December 2019
Preceded by	Elisha McCallion
Majority	17,110 (36.3%)
Member of the Legislative Assembly for Foyle
In office 5 May 2011 – 12 December 2019
Preceded by	Pól Callaghan
Succeeded by	Sinead McLaughlin
Mayor of Derry
In office June 2010 – June 2011
Preceded by	Paul Fleming
Succeeded by	Maurice Devenney
Personal details
Born	(1983-04-30) 30 April 1983 (age 41) Derry, Northern Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Political party	SDLP
Spouse	Rachael Eastwood
Children	2

Colum Eastwood (born 30 April 1983)^[1] is an Irish nationalist politician serving as Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) since 2015. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Foyle since 2019, served in Northern Ireland Assembly from 2011 to 2019 and served on Derry City Council from 2005 to 2011.

Eastwood was first elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2011 and was re-elected in 2016 and 2017. He was also the SDLP candidate at the 2019 European Parliament election to represent Northern Ireland.^[2] In December 2019 he was elected to the British House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Foyle.