West Tyrone (Assembly constituency)

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West Tyrone Northern Ireland Assembly County constituency
West Tyrone shown within Northern Ireland
First Used:	1996
Assembly Members:	Allan Bresland Thomas Buchanan Kieran Deeny Pat Doherty Barry McElduff Claire McGill
Districts:	Omagh, Strabane

West Tyrone is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996. Since 1998, it has elected members to the current Assembly.

For Assembly elections prior to 1996, the constituency was largely part of the Mid Ulster constituency with a smaller section coming from Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the West Tyrone UK Parliament constituency.

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

Contents 1 Members 2 Elections 2.1 2007 2.2 2003 2.3 1998 2.4 1996 Forum 3 References

[edit] Members

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

• Allan Bresland - Democratic Unionist Party
• Thomas Buchanan - Democratic Unionist Party
• Kieran Deeny - Independent
• Pat Doherty - Sinn Féin
• Barry McElduff - Sinn Féin
• Claire McGill - Sinn Féin

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

• Thomas Buchanan - Democratic Unionist Party
• Kieran Deeny - Independent
• Pat Doherty - Sinn Féin
• Derek Hussey - Ulster Unionist Party
• Barry McElduff - Sinn Féin
• Eugene McMenamin - Social Democratic and Labour Party

In the 1998 election the six MLAs elected were:

• Joe Byrne- Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Pat Doherty - Sinn Féin
• Oliver Gibson - Democratic Unionist Party
• Derek Hussey - Ulster Unionist Party
• Barry McElduff - Sinn Féin
• Eugene McMenamin - Social Democratic and Labour Party

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

• Joe Byrne - Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Oliver Gibson - Democratic Unionist Party
• Derek Hussey - Ulster Unionist Party
• Barry McElduff - Sinn Féin
• Paddy McGowan- Social Democratic and Labour Party

[edit] Elections

[edit] 2007

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	Sinn Féin	Barry McElduff	6,971	Elected	1
	Sinn Féin	Pat Doherty	6,709	Elected	1
	Sinn Féin	Claire McGill	4,757	Elected	3
	Democratic Unionist Party	Thomas Buchanan	4,625	Elected	6
	Democratic Unionist Party	Allan Bresland	4,244	Elected	7
	Independent	Kieran Deeny	3,776	Elected	7
	Ulster Unionist	Derek Hussey	3,686	Not elected	5
	Social Democratic and Labour	Josephine Deehan	2,689	Not elected	7
	Social Democratic and Labour	Eugene McMenamin	2,272	Not elected	5
	Social Democratic and Labour	Seamus Shields	1,057	Not elected	4
	(Republican Sinn Féin)	Joe O'Neill	448	Not elected	4
	UK Unionist	Robert McCartney	220	Not elected	4

[edit] 2003

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	Independent	Kieran Deeny	6,158	Elected	1
	Sinn Féin	Pat Doherty	6,019	Elected	1
	Sinn Féin	Barry McElduff	5,642	Elected	8
	Democratic Unionist Party	Thomas Buchanan	4,739	Elected	5
	Sinn Féin	Brian McMahon	4,450	Not elected
	Ulster Unionist	Derek Hussey	3,733	Elected	6
	Social Democratic and Labour	Eugene McMenamin	3,465	Elected	8
	Social Democratic and Labour	Joe Byrne	2,645	Not elected
	Democratic Unionist Party	Derek Reaney	2,547	Not elected
	Ulster Unionist	Bert Wilson	1,934	Not elected
	Progressive Unionist	Roy Reid	233	Not elected
	Alliance	Steven Alexander	164	Not elected

[edit] 1998

Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	Democratic Unionist Party	Oliver Gibson	8,015	Elected
	Sinn Féin	Pat Doherty	7,027	Elected
	Social Democratic and Labour	Joe Byrne	6,495	Elected
	Sinn Féin	Barry McElduff	4,963	Elected
	Ulster Unionist	Derek Hussey	4,622	Elected
	Sinn Féin	Seamus Devine	3,676	Not elected
	Social Democratic and Labour	Eugene McMenamin	3,548	Elected
	Ulster Unionist	Alastair Patterson	2,615	Not elected
	Social Democratic and Labour	Pat McDonnell	1,772	Not elected
	Independent Community Candidate	Paddy McGowan	1,269	Not elected
	Alliance	Ann Gormley	1,011	Not elected
	Independent	Johnny McLaughlin	570	Not elected
	Independent	Laurence O'Kane	171	Not elected
	Workers' Party	Tommy Owens	157	Not elected
	Natural Law	Robert Johnstone	40	Not elected

[edit] 1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.^[1]

Party		Candidates	Votes	Percentage
	Social Democratic and Labour	Joe Byrne Paddy McGowan Ignatius Murtagh Seamus Shields	11,622	28.4
	Sinn Féin	Barry McElduff Patrick McMahon Francis Mackey Patrick Watters Padraigin Ui Mhurdchadha	11,516	28.1
	Ulster Unionist	Derek Hussey William Oldcroft Edward Turner Desmond Anderson James Emery	7,327	13.9
	Democratic Unionist Party	Oliver Gibson Thomas Kerrigan	6,727	16.4
	Alliance	Ann Gormley Elizabeth McCaffrey John Devine	1,081	2.6
	Labour Coalition	John McLaughlin Michael Duffy Anton McCabe Manus Maguire	792	1.9
	Ulster Democratic	Thomas Lowry Stephen Taylor	397	1.0
	UK Unionist	Dennis Wickersham John McNeil	292	0.7
	Progressive Unionist	Eileen Ward George McDermott	238	0.6
	NI Women's Coalition	Helena Schlindwein Maria McGilloway Frances Donaghy	185	0.5
	Workers' Party	Hugh Mullan John Doherty	169	0.4
	Green Party	Ben Ryan Carolyn Bell Donald Spencer	158	0.4
	Democratic Left	P. J. McClean Teresa McVeigh Mary Veronica McElroy Martin McCay	130	0.3
	Conservative	Lindsay Cumming Julian Robertson	119	0.3
	Ulster Independence	Sandra Jones Stanley Hayes Richard Button	107	0.3
	Natural Law	John McCallen Denis Nelson	45	0.1
	Independent Chambers	Mandy Beattie Heather Ewart	30	0.1

[edit] References

1. ^ 1996 Candidates - West Tyrone, Northern Ireland Elections

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