Mid Ulster (,
Ulster Scots: ''Mid Ulstèr'') is a constituency in the
Northern Ireland Assembly
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It was first used for a
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
-only election in 1973, which elected the
then Northern Ireland Assembly. It usually shares boundaries with the
Mid Ulster UK Parliament constituency. However, the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 (because the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes) and from 1996 to 1997, when members of the
Northern Ireland Forum
The Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue was a body set up in 1996 as part of a process of negotiations that eventually led to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
The forum was elected, with five members being elected for each Westmin ...
had been elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st
Parliament of the United Kingdom
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, 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.
Mid Ulster is the only constituency in Northern Ireland to have returned the same number of Assembly members from the same parties at each election before
that of 2017 – 3
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin ( , ; en, " eOurselves") is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Gri ...
, 1
SDLP
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, 1
UUP and 1
DUP.
For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see
Mid Ulster (UK Parliament constituency)
Mid Ulster is a parliamentary constituency in the UK House of Commons. The current MP is Francie Molloy of Sinn Féin.
Constituency profile
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Members
Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.
Elections
Northern Ireland Assembly
2022
2017
2016
2011
2007
2003
1998
1996 forum
Successful candidates are shown in bold.
1996 Candidates – Mid Ulster
, Northern Ireland Elections
1982 Assembly election
1975 Constitutional Convention
1973 Assembly election
References
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Constituencies of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Politics of County Tyrone
Politics of County Londonderry
1973 establishments in Northern Ireland
Constituencies established in 1973