Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Assembly constituency)

Northern Ireland Assembly constituency infobox
Name = Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Type = County


Year = 1973
AM =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).

Members

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

*Tom Elliott - Ulster Unionist Party
*Arlene Foster - Democratic Unionist Party
*Tommy Gallagher - Social Democratic and Labour Party
*Michelle Gildernew - Sinn Féin
*Gerry McHugh - Sinn Féin
*Maurice Morrow - Democratic Unionist Party

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

*Tom Elliott - Ulster Unionist Party
*Arlene Foster - Ulster Unionist Party
*Tommy Gallagher - Social Democratic and Labour Party
*Michelle Gildernew - Sinn Féin
*Maurice Morrow - Democratic Unionist Party
*Tom O'Reilly - Sinn Féin

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

Elections

=2007=

=1996 Forum=

Successful candidates are shown in bold. [ [http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/96fst.htm 1996 Candidates - Fermanagh and South Tyrone] , Northern Ireland Elections]

=1973=

References