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. The district was created on 1 April 2015 by merging Magherafelt District, Cookstown District, and the Borough of Dungannon and South Tyrone. The local authority is Mid Ulster District Council.

Geography

The district covers parts of counties Londonderry, Tyrone, and Armagh, taking in the entire western shore of Lough Neagh, and bordering

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. The district has a population of . The name of the new district was announced on 17 September 2008.

Mid Ulster District Council

Mid Ulster District Council replaced Magherafelt District Council, Cookstown District Council and

Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council ( ga, Comhairle Buirge Dhún Geanainn agus Thír Eoghain Theas, Ulster Scots: ''Rathgannon an Sooth Owenslanngh Cooncil'') was a local council in Northern Ireland from 1973 until 2015. It was originall ...

. The first election for the new district council was originally due to take place in May 2009, but on April 25, 2008,

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, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until 2011.''Northern Ireland elections are postponed'', BBC News, April 25, 2008, accessed April 27, 2008
/ref> The first elections took place on 22 May 2014 and the council acted as a shadow authority until 1 April 2015.

References

{{NI districts Districts of Northern Ireland, 2015-present