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{{Short description|British politician (born 1951)}}
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|honorific-prefix = 
|name         = David Burnside
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|caption      = [[Northern Ireland]] politician
|office = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]]<br />for [[South Antrim (Assembly constituency)|South Antrim]]
|assembly     = Northern Ireland
|majority     = 
|term_start   = 26 November 2003
|term_end     = 1 June 2009
|predecessor  = [[Duncan Shipley-Dalton]]
|successor    = [[Danny Kinahan]]
|office2= [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[South Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)|South Antrim]]
|parliament2  = 
|majority2      = 1,011 (2.3%)
|term_start2  = 7 June 2001
|term_end2    = 11 April 2005
|predecessor2 = [[William McCrea, Baron McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown|William McCrea]] 
|successor2   = William McCrea
|birth_name   = David Wilson Boyd Burnside
|birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1951|08|24|df=yes}}
|birth_place  = [[Ballymoney]], [[Northern Ireland]]
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|nationality  = [[British people|British]]
|party        = [[Ulster Unionist Party]] <small>(1978-2003, 2004-present)</small>
|otherparty   = [[Independent Unionist]] <small>(2003-2004)</small><br/>[[Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party]] <small>(before 1978)</small>
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|children     = 2
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|alma_mater   = [[Queen's University Belfast]]
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|profession   = Businessman 
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| allegiance       = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]
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'''David Wilson Boyd Burnside''' (born 24 August 1951) is an [[Ulster Unionist Party]] (UUP) politician, who was the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[South Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)|South Antrim]] from [[2001 United Kingdom general election|2001]] to [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005]].

Burnside was also a [[Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly]] (MLA) for [[South Antrim (Assembly constituency)|South Antrim]] from 2003 to 2009.

In the 1970s Burnside served as press officer for the [[Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party]], and he unsuccessfully contested [[North Antrim (Assembly constituency)|North Antrim]] for the party at the [[1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election]].<ref>[http://www.uup.org/peoplefinder_left_david_burnside.htm ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070902081057/http://www.uup.org/peoplefinder_left_david_burnside.htm |date=2 September 2007 }}</ref> After the collapse of Vanguard he joined the [[Ulster Unionist Party]], standing unsuccessfully in the [[1982 Northern Ireland Assembly election|1982 Northern Ireland Assembly]] but then took a back seat from politics for many years while working as a prominent [[public relations]] consultant based in London which led him to set up his own PR company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/cna.htm|title=North Antrim 1973-82|website=ark.ac.uk}}</ref><ref>[http://dbapr.co.uk/_wsn/page2.html]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He also served in the [[Ulster Defence Regiment]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2051590.stm David Burnside Profile] ''BBC Politics''</ref>

Since 2015 he has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Constitution Reform Group (CRG),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.constitutionreformgroup.co.uk/steering-committee/|title=Steering Committee}}</ref> a cross-party pressure group chaired by [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury]], which seeks a new constitutional settlement in the UK. The Constitution Reform Group's Act of Union Bill 2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2295|title=Act of Union Bill [HL] - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament|website=bills.parliament.uk|access-date=11 May 2021|archive-date=11 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511013022/https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2295|url-status=dead}}</ref>
was introduced as a [[Private Member's Bill]] by [[Lord Lisvane]] in the [[House of Lords]] on 9 October 2018, when it received a formal first reading. The bill has been described by the [[BBC]] as "one to watch" <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50786212|title=General election 2019: Ten lesser-known MPs to keep an eye on|work=BBC News|date=15 December 2019|via=bbc.co.uk}}</ref> in the current Parliament.