Mid Ulster (Assembly constituency)

Mid Ulster (Irish: Lár Uladh, Ulster Scots: Mid Ulstèr) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Mid Ulster
Northern Ireland Assembly Parliamentary Constituency
Mid Ulster shown within Northern Ireland
Current constituency
Created	1973
Seats	6 (1996–2016) 5 (2017–)
MLAs	Keith Buchanan (DUP)      Linda Dillon (SF)      Patsy McGlone (SDLP)      Michelle O'Neill (SF)      Emma Sheerin (SF)
Districts	Mid-Ulster District Council
EP constituency	Northern Ireland

It was first used for a Northern Ireland-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 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.

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, 1 SDLP, 1 UUP and 1 DUP.

For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Mid Ulster (UK Parliament constituency).

Members

Election	MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)
1973		Paddy Duffy (SDLP)		Ivan Cooper (SDLP)		Aidan Larkin (SDLP)		William Thompson (UUP)		Duncan Pollock (UUP)		John Dunlop (Vanguard)
1975						Francis Thompson (UUP)				Richard Reid (DUP)		Robert Overend (Vanguard)
1982		Danny Morrison (Sinn Féin)		Mary McSorley (SDLP)		Denis Haughey (SDLP)				Alan Kane (DUP)		William McCrea (DUP)
1996		Patrick Groogan (Sinn Féin)		Francie Molloy (Sinn Féin)		Patsy McGlone (SDLP)	5 seats 1996-1998			John Junkin (UUP)
1998		John Kelly (Sinn Féin)				Martin McGuinness (Sinn Féin)		Denis Haughey (SDLP)		Billy Armstrong (UUP)
2003		Geraldine Dougan (Sinn Féin)						Patsy McGlone (SDLP)
2007		Michelle O'Neill (Sinn Féin)										Ian McCrea (DUP)
2011										Sandra Overend (UUP)
April 2013 co-option				Ian Milne (Sinn Féin)
2016						Linda Dillon (Sinn Féin)						Keith Buchanan (DUP)
2017									5 seats 2017–present
December 2018 co-option				Emma Sheerin (Sinn Féin)

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

2017

2017 Assembly election: Mid Ulster – 5 Seats[1]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Sinn Féin	Michelle O'Neill	20.6	10,258
	DUP	Keith Buchanan	19.3	9,568
	Sinn Féin	Linda Dillon	15.7	7,806	9,032
	Sinn Féin	Ian Milne	16.4	8,143	8,553
	SDLP	Patsy McGlone	12.9	6,419	6,683	6,699	7,732	8,247
	UUP	Sandra Overend	9.1	4,516	4,519	5,260	7,052	7,058
	TUV	Hannah Loughrin	2.5	1,244	1,245	1,692
	Alliance	Fay Watson	2.0	1,017	1,030	1,036
	Independent	Hugh McCloy	0.5	247	253	256
	Green (NI)	Stefan Taylor	0.5	243	246	247
	Workers' Party	Hugh Scullion	0.4	217	221	222
Electorate: 69,396   Valid: 49,678   Spoilt: 550 (1.10%)   Quota: 8,280   Turnout: 50,853 (73.28%)

2016

2016 Assembly election: Mid Ulster – 6 Seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	Sinn Féin	Ian Milne	17.3	7,035
	SDLP	Patsy McGlone	15.2	6,209
	Sinn Féin	Michelle O'Neill	15.1	6,147
	Sinn Féin	Linda Dillon	14.3	5,833
	UUP	Sandra Overend	11.9	4,862	4,896	4,925.88	4,959.12	4,966.14	4,989.36	5,161.28	5,328.48	6,155.48
	DUP	Keith Buchanan	8.9	3,628	3,634	3,639.88	3,683.36	3,686.60	3,691.65	3,705.05	3,752.24	4,353.94	4,566.61
	DUP	Ian McCrea	9.2	3,765	3,772	3,778	3,808.12	3,811.90	3,817.17	3,822.95	3,845.40	4,288.69	4,405.99
	TUV	Hanna Loughrin	4.6	1,877	1,883	1,888.04	1,981.04	1,982.66	1,990.38	2,006.21	2,046.68
	Workers' Party	Hugh Scullion	0.8	316	918	1,043.64	1,052.84	1,197.83	1,414.75	1,778.95
	Alliance	Néidín Hendron	1.2	471	718	861.88	875.96	959.39	1,162.57
	Green (NI)	Stefan Taylor	0.9	349	581	639.92	650.52	727.47
	UKIP	Alan Day	0.6	256	270	276.96
Electorate: 70,430   Valid: 40,748   Spoilt: 633 (1.53%)   Quota: 5,822   Turnout: 58.75%

2011

2011 Assembly election: Mid Ulster – 6 Seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Sinn Féin	Martin McGuinness	20.6%	8,957
	DUP	Ian McCrea	16.4%	7,127
	SDLP	Patsy McGlone	11.6%	5,065	5,482	5,511	5,727	6,110
	UUP	Sandra Overend	10.1%	4,409	4,412	5,107	5,229	5,336	7,130
	Sinn Féin	Michelle O'Neill	11.9%	5,178	5,515	5,515	5,542	5,591	5,710	5,735
	Sinn Féin	Francie Molloy	9.8%	4,263	4,813	4,814	4,843	4,929	5,180	5,191
	Sinn Féin	Ian Milne	6.1%	2,635	3,962	3,962	4,005	4,133	4,412	4,457
	TUV	Walter Millar	4.8%	2,075	2,087	2,330	2,383	2,431
	SDLP	Austin Kelly	2.8%	1,214	1,262	1,266	1,332	1,429
	Independent	Hugh McCloy	2.1%	933	989	1,003	1,207
	Alliance	Michael McDonald	0.9%	398	405	417
	People Before Profit	Harry Hutchinson	0.6%	243	249	262
	Independent	Gary McCann	0.6%	241	253	256
Electorate: 66,602   Valid: 42,738   Spoilt: 784 (1.80%)   Quota: 6,106   Turnout: 65.35%

2007

2007 Assembly election: Mid Ulster – 6 Seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Sinn Féin	Martin McGuinness	18.2%	8,065
	DUP	Ian McCrea	17.2%	7,608
	Sinn Féin	Francie Molloy	14.9%	6,597
	Sinn Féin	Michelle O'Neill	14.5%	6,432
	SDLP	Patsy McGlone	11.2%	4,976	6,176	6,183	6,264	6,430
	UUP	Billy Armstrong	10.8%	4,781	4,788	4,940	4,940	5,037	5,573	6,355
	SDLP	Kathleen Lagan	6.2%	2,759	3,118	3,120	3,267	3,469	3,497	3,531
	DUP	Elizabeth Forde	2.3%	1,021	1,023	2,026	2,026	2,068	2,625
	UK Unionist	Walter Millar	2.7%	1,210	1,216	1,257	1,258	1,299
	Republican Sinn Féin	Brendan McLaughlin	1.0%	437	527	527	544
	Alliance	Margaret Marshall	0.5%	221	229	230	233
	Independent	Harry Hutchinson	0.4%	170	197	205	208
Electorate: 61,223   Valid: 44,277   Spoilt: 451 (1.01%)   Quota: 6,326   Turnout: 73.06%

2003

2003 Assembly election: Mid Ulster – 6 Seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	DUP	William McCrea	18.5%	8,211
	Sinn Féin	Martin McGuinness	18.3%	8,128
	Sinn Féin	Francie Molloy	11.8%	5,255	5,255	6,377
	Sinn Féin	Geraldine Dougan	13.1%	5,827	5,827	5,998	6,916
	UUP	Billy Armstrong	9.7%	4,323	4,462	4,462	4,509	4,514	6,165	7,048
	SDLP	Patsy McGlone	9.7%	4,295	4,301	4,505	4,694	4,951	4,985	5,140	5,246
	SDLP	Denis Haughey	8.7%	3,843	3,844	3,940	4,111	4,212	4,250	4,459	4,612
	DUP	Alan Millar	2.3%	1,029	2,566	2,572	2,581	2,582	3,035
	UUP	Trevor Wilson	4.7%	2,071	2,183	2,184	2,229	2,234
	Sinn Féin	Cora Groogan	2.2%	984	984	1144
	Workers' Party	Francis Donnelly	0.5%	230	230	237
	Alliance	James Holmes	0.4%	166	167	169
Electorate: 60,095   Valid: 44,362   Spoilt: 661 (1.47%)   Quota: 6,338   Turnout: 64.92%

1998

1998 Assembly election: Mid Ulster – 6 Seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	DUP	William McCrea	20.8%	10,339
	Sinn Féin	Martin McGuinness	17.5%	8,703
	UUP	Billy Armstrong	9.0%	4,498	4,695	4,916	4,916	6,881	7,467
	Sinn Féin	Francie Molloy	12.0%	6,008	6,010	6,041	7,074	7,076	7,083
	SDLP	Denis Haughey	12.9%	6,410	6,414	6,652	6,737	6,769	7,051
	Sinn Féin	John Kelly	11.2%	5,594	5,596	5,658	5,899	5,901	5,914
	SDLP	Patsy McGlone	9.4%	4,666	4,677	4,782	4,957	4,970	5,076
	DUP	Paul McLean	0.6%	307	3,008	3,035	3,042	3,728
	UUP	John Junkin	4.9%	2,440	2,681	2,759	2,759
	Alliance	Yvonne Boyle	1.0%	497	499
	Workers' Party	Francis Donnelly	0.4%	207	208
	Socialist Party	Harry Hutchinson	0.2%	91	106
	Natural Law	Mary Daly	0.1%	38	38
Electorate: 59,991   Valid: 49,798   Spoilt: 824 (1.63%)   Quota: 7,115   Turnout: 84.38%

1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.[2]

Party		Candidate(s)	Votes	Percentage
	Sinn Féin	Francie Molloy Patsy Groogan Sean Begley Margaret McKenna Owen Carron	13,001	29.6
	SDLP	Patsy McGlone Denis Haughey Kathleen Lagan Pat McErlean Joe McBride	12,492	28.5
	UUP	John Junkin Norman Badger Trevor Wilson	7,935	18.1
	DUP	William McCrea William Larmour Paul McLean	7,243	16.5
	Alliance	Aidan Lagan Keith Jacques	549	1.2
	UK Unionist	Daniel Huston Hugh Moore	435	1.0
	PUP	John Coyle Kenneth Rutherford	380	0.9
	Ulster Democratic	John Haveron James English	375	0.9
	Labour coalition	Harry Hutchinson Anne Gribbon John McLaughlin Paddy McGrath Joanne Kane	271	0.6
	Ulster Independence	Walter Millar Dierdre Speer-White	263	0.6
	NI Women's Coalition	Cherry Dickson Ann McCrystal Sheila Murphy Mary Hogg Mary Doyle	259	0.6
	Workers' Party	Francie Donnelly Gerard Brennan	210	0.5
	Green (NI)	David Lyttle Lucille O'Shea	132	0.3
	NI Conservatives	Elspeth Irvine Eileen Elizabeth McKee	119	0.3
	Democratic Partnership	Charles McKee Patrick Pearse Kelly	93	0.2
	Democratic Left	Patricia Cullen Frank McElroy	41	0.1
	Natural Law	Stewart Luck Richard Mulholland	24	0.1
	Independent Chambers	Angela Moore Linda Chambers	20	0.1

1982 Assembly Election

1982 Assembly election: Mid Ulster - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12
	DUP	William McCrea	16.9	10,445
	SDLP	Denis Haughey	13.6	8,413	8,413.60	8,474.60	8,806	8,827.60	10,236.60
	UUP	William Thompson	9.0	5,546	5,594	5,594.45	5,597.45	5,772.30	5,773	5,773.30	6,108.75	7,343	11,830.40
	DUP	Alan Kane	6.4	3,981	5,300.70	5,306.70	5,321	5,566.75	5,572.90	5,572.90	5,628.80	7,075.10	8,238.35	11,167.63
	SDLP	Mary McSorley	6.7	4,169	4,169.60	4,196.60	4,366.75	4,372	5,535.35	6,787.79	7,979.33	7,982.48	8,018.63	8,034.27	8,184.23
	Sinn Féin	Danny Morrison	11.2	6,927	6,927.75	7,022.75	7,117.75	7,120.75	7,211.75	7,222.53	7,379.35	7,387.65	7,400.80	7,402.64	7,414.60
	Sinn Féin	Francis McElwee	9.3	5,763	5,764.05	5,867.65	6,075.65	6,083.65	6,150.95	6,161.73	6,333.65	6,334.80	6,334.80	6,335.72	6,343.08
	UUP	Samuel Glasgow	6.7	4,143	4,157.85	4,157.85	4,174.85	4,715.05	4,717.05	4,717.05	4,954.20	6,002.30
	UUUP	Robert Overend	4.9	3,056	3,188.45	3,188.45	3,191.75	3,792.90	3,794.90	3,795	3,924
	Alliance	Aidan Lagan	4.6	2,872	2,874.70	2,919.70	3,184.70	3,236.70	3,415.70	3,478.42
	SDLP	Liam McQuaid	4.6	2,862	2,863.20	2,911.35	3,006.35	3,015.35
	UUUP	John Dunlop	2.8	1,732	1,768.75	1,770.75	1,816.75
	Workers' Party	Francie Donnelly	2.1	1,311	1,311.90	1,622.90
	Workers' Party	Francie McElroy	1.2	746	747.80
Electorate: 84,699   Valid: 61,966   Spoilt: 1,977 (3.09%)   Quota: 8,853   Turnout: 63,943 (75.49%)

1975 Constitutional Convention

1975 Constitutional Convention: Mid Ulster - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11
	UUP	William Thompson	16.5	9,342
	SDLP	Ivan Cooper	16.1	9,073
	DUP	Richard Reid	14.6	8,250
	SDLP	Paddy Duffy	7.3	4,130	4,130	4,809.14	4,848.31	4,934.07	5,129.95	5,141.39	6,418.60	7,003.32	8,119.32
	UUP	Francis Thompson	7.6	4,292	5,426.90	5,427.34	5,430.34	5,430.34	5,456.99	6,655.14	6,658.27	6,667.38	7,221.77	7,275.79
	Vanguard	Robert Overend	9.9	5,573	5,624.74	5,624.85	5,626.85	5,626.85	5,645.09	5,968.25	5,980.36	6,003.36	6,206.41	6,315.65
	SDLP	Aidan Larkin	6.8	3,868	3,868	3,959.63	3,967.51	3,987.75	4,031.28	4,054.28	4,994	5,304.58	6,190.51	6,190.53
	Alliance	Aidan Lagan	3.3	1,842	1,844.47	1,865.70	1,870.25	1,910.24	3,018.53	3,624.31	4,105.70	4,425.43
	Republican Clubs	Francie Donnelly	2.5	1,387	1,387	1,415.05	2,152.55	3,193.88	3,276.16	3,278.27	3,357.92
	SDLP	Stephen McKenna	4.8	2,705	2,705.13	2,787.30	2,797.40	2,862.61	2,888.15	2,892.37
	Unionist Party NI	Duncan Pollock	4.0	2,264	2,284.04	2,285.12	2,286.12	2,288.12	2,355.97
	Alliance	Douglas Cooper	2.7	1,526	1,528.34	1,568.60	1,628.91	1,641.02
	Republican Clubs	Francie McElroy	2.2	1,270	1,270	1,275.17	1,338.50
	Republican Clubs	Ivan Barr	1.7	947	947	963.39
Electorate: 80,806   Valid: 56,469   Spoilt: 2,080 (3.55%)   Quota: 8,068   Turnout: 58,549 (72.46%)

1973 Assembly Election

1973 Assembly election: Mid Ulster - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12	Count 13
	SDLP	Ivan Cooper	19.7	12,614
	UUP	Duncan Pollock	14.9	9,557
	SDLP	Paddy Duffy	6.9	4,437	6,594.03	6,600.84	6,600.96	6,610.97	6,936.21	7,446.02	7,450.10	8,014	9,491
	Vanguard	John Dunlop	11.1	7,082	7,089.83	7,096.10	7,103.46	7,117.58	7,125.66	7,132.20	7,538.04	7,596.71	7,622.06	11,276.06
	UUP	William Thompson	8.4	5,352	5,353.08	5,358.08	5,490.28	5,517.72	5,520.72	5,521.99	8,048.66	8,604.58	8,613.70	9,550.70
	SDLP	Aidan Larkin	6.3	4,045	4,606.06	4,629.22	4,629.22	4,636.19	4,693.88	4,918.18	4,920.22	5,306.51	5,986.56	5,991.87	6,006.87	6,017.87
	SDLP	Stephen McKenna	3.8	2,444	2,719.67	2,726.29	2,726.37	2,763.80	2,794.55	4,127.67	4,127.94	4,753.70	5,360.13	5,376.91	5,392.91	5,401.91
	DUP	Eddie Sayers	7.0	4,454	4,455.89	4,459.16	4,459.16	4,485.32	4,503.02	4,507.29	4,671	4,755.40	4,782.67
	Republican Clubs	Desmond Gourley	4.5	2,899	2,929.24	2,935.24	2,935.48	2,952.29	4,148.76	4,460.63	4,463.71	4,663.16
	Alliance	Tom Gormley	3.2	2,055	2,147.88	2,289.15	2,290.75	3,580.92	3,665.86	3,914.77	4,029
	UUP	Verdun Wright	4.7	3,034	3,035.35	3,043.35	3,254.35	3,332.91	3,334.91	3,340.18
	Nationalist	Patrick Francis McGill	4.0	2,558	2,692.19	2,696.27	2,696.31	2,706.47	2,794.24
	Republican Clubs	Ivan Barr	2.7	1,755	1,857.06	1,859.33	1,859.45	1,866.72
	Alliance	Robin Glendinning	2.2	1,389	1,410.60	1,541.87	1,543.99
	Alliance	George Logue	0.5	339	347.10
Electorate: 79,331   Valid: 64,014   Spoilt: 1,372 (2.10%)   Quota: 9,145   Turnout: 65,386 (82.42%)

References

1. "Statement of Persons Nominated". EONI. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
2. 1996 Candidates - Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland Elections