Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council
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| Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough | |
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| Geography | |
| Area - Total - % Water |
Ranked 5th 784 km² ? % |
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| Admin HQ | Dungannon |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-DGN |
| ONS code | 95M |
| Demographics | |
| Population - Total (2005) - Density |
Ranked 15th 50,747 65 / km² |
| Community | Protestant: 38.2% Catholic: 60.8% |
| Politics | |
| Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough Council http://www.dungannon.gov.uk |
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| MPs | Michelle Gildernew Martin McGuinness |
Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council is a Local Council in Counties Tyrone and Armagh in Northern Ireland. Its main town is Dungannon, where the Council is headquartered. The Council area covers the southern part of County Tyrone (along with a small area of County Armagh) and has a population of nearly 48,000. Apart from Dungannon there are many smaller towns including: Augher, Clogher, Fivemiletown, Ballygawley, Caledon, Aughnacloy, Benburb, Moy and Coalisland.
The district was originally named just Dungannon, and took its present name on November 25, 1999, after petitioning the British Secretary of State for the Environment.
The Dungannon and South Tyrone Council area consists of 4 electoral areas: Blackwater, Clogher Valley, Dungannon Town and Torrent. In the 2005 elections 22 members were elected from the following political parties: 9 Sinn Féin, 5 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 4 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and 4 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). The Council adopted the D'Hondt system in 2001 which allows the position of Mayor and Deputy Mayor to be allocated according to party size. The current Mayor is Councillor Francis Molloy (SF) and the Deputy Mayor is Councillor Norman Badger (UUP).
The next election is due to take place in May 2009.
In elections for the Westminster Parliament it is split between the Mid Ulster constituency and the Fermanagh & South Tyrone constituency.
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| Districts of Northern Ireland |  |
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| Subdivisions created by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 | |
| Antrim | Ards | Armagh | Ballymena | Ballymoney | Banbridge | Belfast | Carrickfergus | Castlereagh | Coleraine | Cookstown | Craigavon | Derry | Down | Dungannon and South Tyrone | Fermanagh | Larne | Limavady | Lisburn | Magherafelt | Moyle | Newry and Mourne | Newtownabbey | North Down | Omagh | Strabane | |
