Raymond McCullough (1919 – June 1985) was a Northern Irish Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for South Down from 1982, until 1985.
Political career McCullough, who was Honorary Secretary of the South Down Unionist Association, was elected to Banbridge District Council on that body's creation in 1973 and subsequently served as chairman.W.D. Flackes & Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968–1993, Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1994, p. 219 He was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly at the 1982 election to represent South Down and remained a member until his death, serving as deputy chairman of the Agriculture Committee and a member of the Environment Committee. He was also a member of the committee of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland under the Loyal Orange Institution.
Following his death McCullough's Assembly seat was won by Jeffrey DonaldsonBy-election details whilst his council seat went to his daughter Vivienne McCullough as an independent Unionist.
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