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:	Tom Elliott Arlene Foster Tommy Gallagher Michelle Gildernew Gerry McHugh Maurice Morrow
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).

1 Members
2 Elections
3 References

[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

Arlene Foster resigned from the Ulster Unionist Party on December 18, 2003 and joined the Democratic Unionist Party on January 5, 2004.

In the 1998 election the six MLAs elected were:

Joan Carson — Ulster Unionist Party
Sam Foster — Ulster Unionist Party
Tommy Gallagher — Social Democratic and Labour Party
Michelle Gildernew — Sinn Féin
Gerry McHugh — Sinn Féin
Maurice Morrow — Democratic Unionist Party

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

Sam Foster — Ulster Unionist Party
Tommy Gallagher — Social Democratic and Labour Party
Ken Maginnis — Ulster Unionist Party
Gerry McHugh — Sinn Féin
Maurice Morrow — Democratic Unionist Party

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:

Owen Carron — Sinn Féin
Austin Currie — Social Democratic and Labour Party
Raymond Ferguson — Ulster Unionist Party
Ivan Foster — Democratic Unionist Party
Ken Maginnis — Ulster Unionist Party

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:

Ernest Baird — Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
Austin Currie — Social Democratic and Labour Party
Thomas Daly — Social Democratic and Labour Party
John McKay — Ulster Unionist Party
Harry West — Ulster Unionist Party

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

Ernest Baird — Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
Austin Currie — Social Democratic and Labour Party
Thomas Daly — Social Democratic and Labour Party
John Taylor — Ulster Unionist Party
Harry West — Ulster Unionist Party

[edit] Elections

[edit] 2007

	Candidate	1^st Pref	Result	Count
Democratic Unionist	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	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 (NI)	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

	Candidate	1^st Pref	Result	Count
Sinn Féin	Michelle Gildernew	6,489	Elected	5
Ulster Unionist	Tom Elliott	6,181	Elected	3
Democratic Unionist	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	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 (NI)	Linda Cleland	243	Not elected

[edit] 1998

	Candidate	1^st Pref	Result
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	Maurice Morrow	3,987	Elected
Sinn Féin	Pat Treanor	3,552	Not elected
Democratic Unionist	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 (NI)	Stephen Farry	614	Not elected
Natural Law	Simeon Gillan	63	Not elected

[edit] References

Assembly constituencies in Northern Ireland
Belfast East \| Belfast North \| Belfast South \| Belfast West \| East Antrim \| East Londonderry \| Fermanagh and South Tyrone \| Foyle \| Lagan Valley \| Mid Ulster \| Newry and Armagh \| North Antrim \| North Down \| South Antrim \| South Down \| Strangford \| Upper Bann \| West Tyrone