Miss Northern Ireland

Miss Northern Ireland
Formation	1980 (For Miss United Kingdom) 2000 (For Miss World)
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Belfast
Location	Northern Ireland
Membership	Miss World Miss Europe Miss Supranational
Official language	English

Miss Northern Ireland is a national beauty pageant in Northern Ireland, run by Alison Clarke.

History

Before 1999, the winner of Miss Northern Ireland would have to compete in the Miss United Kingdom competition and win it in order to be applicable to compete in the Miss World competition. Since then however, the winner of each nation of the UK sends separate representatives to the Miss World pageant, the highest ranking of the four delegates is then named Miss United Kingdom, and competes at the Miss International Pageant the following year under the "Britain" or "United Kingdom" banner.

Titleholders

Color key

Declared as Winner
Ended as runner-up
Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

2000 to Present

Since 2000, winners of Miss Northern Ireland have been competing in the Miss World pageant.

Year	Miss Northern Ireland	Represented	Placement at Miss World	Special Awards
2021	Anna Leitch^[1]	Lisburn	Top 40	4th Runner-up at Miss World Talent Top 32 at Miss World Sport
2020	Due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, no pageant in 2020
2019	Lauren Leckey	Stoneyford	Unplaced	Top 32 at Miss World Sport
2018	Katharine Walker	Belfast	Top 30	Top 24 at Miss World Sport
2017	Anna Henry	Belfast	Unplaced	Top 20 at Miss World Talent
2016	Emma Carswell ^[2]	Gilford	Unplaced
2015	Leanne McDowell	Cookstown	Top 20
2014	Rebekah Shirley	Belfast	Unplaced
2013	Meagan Green	Belfast	Unplaced
2012	Tiffany Brien	Belfast	Top 30	Top 10 at Miss World Beach Beauty 1st Runner-up at Miss World Sport
2011	Finola Guinnane	Drumbo	Unplaced	Top 20 at Miss World Beach Beauty
2010	Lori Moore	Belfast	Top 25	Miss World Sport
2009	Cherie Gardiner	Bangor	Unplaced
2008	Judith Wilson	Enniskillen	Unplaced	Top 19 at Miss World Talent
2007	Melissa Patton	Belfast	Unplaced
2006	Catherine Jean Milligan^[3]	Newtownards	Top 17	Miss World Talent
2005	Lucy Evangelista	Portglenone	Top 15
2004	Kirsty Anne Gabriel Stewart	Enniskillen	Unplaced
2003	Diana Sayers	Belfast	Unplaced
2002	Gayle Williamson	Lurgan	Unplaced
2001	Angela McCarthy	Belfast	Unplaced
2000	Julie Lee-Ann Martin	Belfast	Unplaced

1980 to 1999

Year	Miss Northern Ireland	Represented	Placement at Miss UK
1999	Zöe Salmon	Bangor
1998	Joanne Salley	Dungannon	1st Runner-Up
1997	Louis-Jayne Brown	Dunmurry
1996	Fiona Hurley	Belfast
1995	Shauna Marie Gunn	County Fermanagh	WINNER
1994	Tracey Chambers	Belfast
1993	Mary McGonagle	Newtownstewart
1992	Sharon McLaughlin	Limavady
1991	Eileen Carson	Belfast
1990	Judith Spratt	Belfast
1989	Pauline Taylor	Newry
1988	Barbara Bothwell	Belfast
1987	Majella Byrne	Belfast
1986	Karen Duncan	Belfast
1985	Linda Brotherson	Belfast
1984	Susan Tan	Coleraine	2nd Runner-Up
1983	Caroline Doherty	Belfast
1982	Alison Smyth	Belfast	1st Runner-Up
1981	Colette Ramsay	Belfast
1980	Geraldine McGrory	Belfast

References

^ "Miss Northern Ireland 2021 : Cookstown's Anna Leitch crowned". belfasttelegraph. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
^ "New Miss NI Emma Carswell more than a beauty queen". belfasttelegraph.com. 16 May 2016.
^ "Beauty and the beast". belfasttelegraph. Retrieved 16 October 2021.

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Sovereign states	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom England Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
States with limited recognition	Kosovo
Dependencies and other entities	Faroe Islands Gibraltar

Miss World participant countries and territories

Active
(1951–present)

Africa	Angola Botswana Cameroon Cote d'Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Madagascar Mauritius Namibia Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Tanzania Tunisia Uganda Zambia
Americas	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Curaçao Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Lucia Sint Maarten Trinidad and Tobago United States US Virgin Islands Uruguay Venezuela
Asia	Bangladesh Cambodia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Iraq Japan Korea Kyrgyzstan Laos Macau Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Thailand Vietnam
Europe	Albania Armenia Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark England Finland France Georgia Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Turkey Ukraine Wales
Oceania	Australia Cook Islands New Zealand Samoa

Inactive since 2019 (latest edition before the COVID-19 pandemic)

Africa	Algeria (2002) Cape Verde (2017) Chad (2014) Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016) Egypt (2018) Eswatini (2009) Gabon (2015) Gambia (1986) Lesotho (2018) Liberia (2017) Malawi (2012) Morocco (1968) São Tomé and Príncipe (2014) Seychelles (2017) Zimbabwe (2018)
Americas	Bermuda (2015) Bonaire (2012) Cuba (1975) Dominica (2013) Grenada (2007) Martinique (2018) Montserrat (1964) Saint Barthelemy (2011) Saint Kitts and Nevis (2015) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1994) Suriname (2012) Turks and Caicos (2004)
Asia	Chinese Taipei (2013) Israel (2017) Jordan (1981) Lebanon (2018) Syria (1966) Uzbekistan (2013)
Europe	Andorra (2003) Austria (2018) Cyprus (2018) Estonia (2007) Germany (2018) Greenland (1992) Kosovo (2014) Latvia (2018) Lithuania (2014) Monaco (1955) North Macedonia (2015) Switzerland (2014)
Oceania	Fiji (2017) Guam (2018) Northern Marianas (2003) Papua New Guinea (1990) Tahiti (2010) Tonga (1986)

Inactive non-existing countries and former territories and others
Africa South (Miss South Africa for Blacks) (1976) Czechoslovakia (1992) Hawaii (2001) Guernsey (1975) Isle of Man (1988) Jersey (1981) Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1965) Serbia and Montenegro (2005) Tanganyika (1960) United Kingdom (1999) USSR (1990) Yugoslavia (2002)

Miss Supranational participant countries and territories

List of Miss Supranational countries (Active since 2009–present)

Africa	Cameroon Cote d'Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Mauritius Namibia Nigeria Rwanda Sierra Leone South Africa South Sudan Zambia
Americas	Argentina Bahamas Barbados Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States US Virgin Islands Venezuela
Asia	Bangladesh Cambodia India Indonesia Japan Korea Laos Macau Myanmar Nepal Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Thailand Vietnam
Europe	Albania Belarus Belgium Croatia Czech Republic Denmark England Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Lithuania Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Slovakia Spain Sweden Turkey Ukraine Wales
Oceania	Australia New Zealand

Inactive since 2019 (latest edition before COVID-19)

Africa	Angola (2017) Cape Verde (2017) Egypt (2016) Gambia () Guinea () Gabon () Mali () Morocco () Réunion (2013) São Tomé and Príncipe (2017) Togo (2018) Zimbabwe (2017)
Americas	Aruba () Belize () Bonaire () Cuba () Curaçao () Guadeloupe (2018) Martinique (2013) Nicaragua (2013) Uruguay (2013)
Asia	Chinese Taipei () Iraq (2013) Israel () Hong Kong () Lebanon (2018) Malaysia (2018) Mongolia (2016) Pakistan (2018)
Europe	Armenia () Azerbaijan (2013) Bosnia and Herzegovina () Bulgaria () Cyprus () Estonia () Georgia () Gibraltar (2017) Italy (2018) Kazakhstan (2017) Kosovo (2018) Latvia () Luxembourg () Macedonia () Montenegro (2018) Moldova (2018) Serbia (2013) Slovenia (2018) Switzerland (2018)
Oceania	Polynesia ()