Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Assembly constituency)

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Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Northern Ireland Assembly
County constituency
Fermanagh and South Tyrone shown within Northern Ireland
First Used: 1973
Assembly Members: 6
Districts: Fermanagh,
Dungannon and South Tyrone

Fermanagh and South Tyrone is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the Fermanagh and South Tyrone UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 as the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes and from 1996 to 1997 when members of the Northern Ireland Forum had been elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected in 1992 under the 1983-95 constituency boundaries, was still in session.

Members were then elected from the constituency to the 1975 Constitutional Convention, the 1982 Assembly, the 1996 Forum and then to the current Assembly from 1998.

For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Fermanagh and South Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency).

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[edit] Members

The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2007 election are:

The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2003 election were:

Changes 2003 - present

In the 1998 election the six MLAs elected were:

In the 1996 election to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum, 5 Forum members were elected from Fermanagh & South Tyrone. They were as follows:

In 1982 elections were held for an Assembly for Northern Ireland to hold the Secretary of State to account, in the hope that this would be the first step towards restoring devolution. Fermanagh & South Tyrone elected 5 members as follows:

In 1975 elections were held to a Constitutional Convention which sought (unsuccessfully) to generate a consensus on the future of the province. The six members elected from Fermanagh & South Tyrone were:

In 1973 elections were held to the Assembly set up under the Sunningdale Agreement. The six members elected from Fermanagh & South Tyrone were:

[edit] Elections

[edit] 2007

Party Candidate 1st Pref Result Count
Democratic Unionist Party Arlene Foster 7,138 Elected 1
Sinn Féin Michelle Gildernew 7,026 Elected 1
Ulster Unionist Tom Elliott 6,603 Elected 2
Sinn Féin Gerry McHugh 5,103 Elected 8
Sinn Féin Sean Lynch 4,704 Not elected 8
Democratic Unionist Party Maurice Morrow 4,700 Elected 8
Social Democratic and Labour Tommy Gallagher 4,440 Elected 7
Ulster Unionist Kenny Donaldson 2,531 Not elected 7
Social Democratic and Labour Vincent Currie 2,043 Not elected 6
Independent Republican Gerry McGeough 813 Not elected 5
Alliance Allan Leonard 521 Not elected 5
(Republican Sinn Féin) Michael McManus 431 Not elected 5
UK Unionist Robert McCartney 388 Not elected 4

[edit] 2003

Party Candidate 1st Pref Result Count
Sinn Féin Michelle Gildernew 6,489 Elected 5
Ulster Unionist Tom Elliott 6,181 Elected 3
Democratic Unionist Party Maurice Morrow 5,536 Elected 6
Sinn Féin Tom O'Reilly 5,019 Elected 8
Ulster Unionist Arlene Foster 4,938 Elected 5
Social Democratic and Labour Tommy Gallagher 4,735 Elected 5
Sinn Féin Gerry McHugh 4,393 Not elected
Democratic Unionist Party Bert Johnston 3,094 Not elected
Social Democratic and Labour Frank Britton 2,772 Not elected
Ulster Unionist Robert Mulligan 2,110 Not elected
NI Women's Coalition Eithne McNulty 650 Not elected
Alliance Linda Cleland 243 Not elected

[edit] 1998

Party Candidate 1st Pref Result Count
Social Democratic and Labour Tommy Gallagher 8,135 Elected
Ulster Unionist Sam Foster 5,589 Elected
Sinn Féin Gerry McHugh 5,459 Elected
Sinn Féin Michelle Gildernew 4,703 Elected
Ulster Unionist Joan Carson 4,400 Elected
UK Unionist Jim Dixon 4,262 Not elected
Democratic Unionist Party Maurice Morrow 3,987 Elected
Sinn Féin Pat Treanor 3,552 Not elected
Democratic Unionist Party Bert Johnston 3,095 Not elected
Social Democratic and Labour Olive Mullen 2,872 Not elected
Ulster Unionist Bertie Kerr 2,583 Not elected
NI Women's Coalition Marie Crawley 1,729 Not elected
Alliance Stephen Farry 614 Not elected
Natural Law Simeon Gillan 63 Not elected

[edit] 1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.[1]

Party Candidate(s) Votes Percentage
Ulster Unionist Ken Maginnis
Sam Foster
Joan Carson
Bertie Kerr		 15,542 32.3
Sinn Féin Gerry McHugh
Michelle Gildernew
Robin Martin
Vincent Kelly
Pat Trainor		 11,666 24.2
Social Democratic and Labour Tommy Gallagher
Anthony McGonnell
Anne McQuillan
Vincent Currie
Mary Flanagan		 10,399 21.6
Democratic Unionist Party Maurice Morrow
Joseph Dodds		 6,589 13.7
Alliance Stephen Farry
Julie Greaves		 831 1.7
UK Unionist Muriel Boston
Robert Peden		 468 1.0
Ulster Democratic Raymond Gilliland
Paul Longman		 464 1.0
NI Women's Coalition Roisin Keenan
Audrey Johnston
Florence Ellis		 461 1.0
Progressive Unionist Tracy Gould
Paul Ferguson		 410 0.9
Labour Coalition Ciaran Molloy
Patrick Mulholland
Nigel Cooke		 297 0.6
Green Party Roy Hadden
Roy Johnston
Peg Alexander		 208 0.4
Workers' Party Tommy Owens
Marian Donnelly		 199 0.4
Ulster Independence Simon Dilworth
Stuart Boyd		 189 0.4
Democratic Left Gerry Cullen
Doris Wray		 128 0.3
Independent McMullan Philip McClinchey
Ann McDermott		 118 0.2
Conservative William Quin
Eric Milligan		 113 0.2
Independent Chambers William Chambers
May Blayney		 36 0.1
Natural Law Charles Cunningham
Simeon Gillen
Peter Lavery		 23 0.0

[edit] 1982

Assembly Election – 20th October, 1982
Party Candidate Count 1 Count 2 Count 3 Count 4 Count 5 Count 6 Count 7 Count 8 Count 9 Count 10
Sinn Féin Owen Carron 14025
Ulster Unionist Ken Maginnis 10117 10117 10117 10117 10117 10117 10117 10117 10117 10117
Social Democratic and Labour Austin Currie 6800 7093 7259 7717 7758 8374 8383 8387 12402
Ulster Unionist Raymond Ferguson 5877 5885 6216 6268 6966 6976 9403 9921 9921 9921
Democratic Unionist Party Ivan Foster 4324 4328 4342 4350 4956 4957 5142 8070 8114 8145
Democratic Unionist Party Bert Johnston 2965 2966 2986 2990 3336 3337 3559
Social Democratic and Labour Joseph Maguire 2912 3060 3168 3451 3458 5179 5196 5202
Sinn Féin Francie Molloy 2700 6096 6108 6414 6427 6528 6537 6540 6848 7603
Ulster Unionist Cecil Noble 2597 2602 2684 2706 2964 2970
Social Democratic and Labour Fergus McQuillan 2288 2400 2448 2634 2634
United Ulster Unionist Ernest Baird 2010 2012 2041 2050
Workers' Party Tommy Owens 1394 1481 1724
Alliance John Haslett 1171 1177
Electorate=73930, valid=59180, spoiled=2171, quota=9864

[edit] 1975

Party Candidate 1st Pref Result Count
Ulster Unionist Harry West 12,922 Elected
Social Democratic and Labour Austin Currie 9,984 Elected
Vanguard Progressive Unionist Ernest Baird 8,067 Elected
Social Democratic and Labour Thomas Daly 7,145 Elected
Social Democratic and Labour Thomas Murray 4,143 Not elected
Democratic Unionist Party David Calvert 3,389 Not elected
Ulster Unionist John McKay 3,194 Elected
Republican Clubs Eugene Lyttle 1,501 Not elected
Alliance Bill Barbour 1,464 Not elected
Unionist Party NI George Cathcart 1,245 Not elected

[edit] 1973

Party Candidate 1st Pref Result Count
Social Democratic and Labour Austin Currie 11,016 Elected
Vanguard Progressive Unionist Ernest Baird 8,456 Elected
Ulster Unionist John Taylor 8,410 Elected
Ulster Unionist Harry West 8,198 Elected
Social Democratic and Labour Thomas Daly 7,511 Elected
Social Democratic and Labour David McQuillan 4,074 Not elected
Republican Clubs James McQuaid 2,923 Not elected
Independent Jack Hassard 2,008 Not elected
Democratic Unionist Party William Mitchell 1,974 Not elected
Alliance Patrick Reihill 1,960 Not elected
Independent David Brien 396 Not elected

[edit] References

  1. ^ 1996 Candidates - Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Northern Ireland Elections
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