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1997 Magherafelt District Council Election
Elections to Magherafelt District Council were held on 21 May 1997 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 16 councillors. Election results Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. Districts summary , - class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left", Ward ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2, TotalCllrs , - class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="white", , - , align="left", Magherafelt Town , 24.9 , 1 , 23.2 , 2 , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 39.0 , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 2 , 11.4 , 1 , 1.5 , 0 , 6 , - , align="left", Moyola , bgcolor="#008800", 34.1 , bgcolor="#008800", 2 , 19.2 , 1 , 22.0 , 1 , 19.9 , 1 , 4.8 , 0 , 5 , - , align="left", Sperrin , bgcolor="#008800", 51.0 , bgcolor="#008800", 2 , 25.3 , 2 , 9.9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magherafelt District Council
Magherafelt District Council was a district council in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. It was merged with Cookstown District Council and Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council on 1 April 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland becoming Mid-Ulster District Council. The council headquarters were in Magherafelt. The Council area stretched from Lough Neagh and the River Bann in the east into the Sperrin Mountains in the west and was divided by the Moyola River. It covered an area of and had a population of over 45,000. Local towns in the area included Bellaghy, birthplace of poet Seamus Heaney in 1939. The council was composed of 16 elected representatives. Local elections were held every four years on a proportional representation system. At its last election, in May 2011, those elected were from the following political parties: 9 Sinn Féin, 3 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 2 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and 2 Ulster Union ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magherafelt (District Electoral Area)
Magherafelt is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Mid Ulster (district), Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland. The district elects five members to Mid Ulster District Council and contains the wards of Coolshinny, Glebe, Lissan, The Loup and Town Parks East. Magherafelt forms part of the Mid Ulster constituencies for the Mid Ulster (Assembly constituency), Northern Ireland Assembly and Mid Ulster (UK Parliament constituency), UK Parliament. It was created for the 1985 Magherafelt District Council election, 1985 local elections, replacing Magherafelt Area C which had existed since 1973. It was called Magherafelt Town until 2014, and originally contained five wards (Ballymaguigan, Knockclogrim, Lecumpter, Town Parks East and Town Parks West). For the 1993 Magherafelt District Council election, 1993 local elections it gained an additional ward, Glebe. For the 2014 Mid Ulster District Council election, 2014 local elections it was reduced to five wards. Councillors 2023 Ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kelly (Sinn Féin Politician)
John Kelly (5 April 1936 – 6 September 2007) was an Irish republican politician in Northern Ireland. He joined the Irish Republican Army in the 1950s, and was a founder member and a leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the early 1970s. Personal life John Kelly was born in Belfast, County Antrim, in 1936. Later in life he moved to Maghera, County Londonderry, where he lived until his death in 2007. He and his wife had a daughter. He was a dedicated member of local Gaelic Athletic Association club Watty Graham's Glen and a keen supporter of Gaelic games and the Irish language. IRA member Kelly joined the IRA in the early 1950s when he was 18 and took part in the Border Campaign of 1956–62, but was arrested in December 1956 and was imprisoned until 1963. He was a member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association in 1967–69 which led on to sectarian riots in Belfast. A leader of the newly formed Provisional IRA in 1969, he was involved in the formation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Groogan
Patrick "Patsy" Groogan is an Irish republican politician. Background Based in Ballinascreen, Groogan became a sports coach with a particular involvement in hurling. He became prominent in his local Gaelic Athletic Association, and joined Sinn Féin. In 1991, Bernard O'Hagan, a Sinn Féin councillor for the Sperrin area of the Magherafelt District Council, was assassinated, and Groogan was appointed as his replacement.Groogan elected Chair of Magherafelt District Council , '''', 17 June 2004 Groogan held the Sperrin seat, heading the poll in each council election from |
Sperrin (Magherafelt District Electoral Area)
Sperrin was one of the three district electoral areas in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected five members to Magherafelt District Council, and formed part of the Mid Ulster constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of .... It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing Magherafelt Area A which had existed since 1973, and contained the wards of Draperstown, Lower Glenshane, Maghera, Swatragh and Tobermore. It was abolished for the 2014 local elections and largely replaced with the new Carntogher DEA with Draperstown moving to the Moyola DEA. Councillors 2011 Election 2005: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP 2011: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Junkin (politician)
John Junkin (born 1949) is a former Northern Irish unionist politician. Background Long active in the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), Junkin was elected to Magherafelt District Council at the 1981 Northern Ireland local elections, and held a seat in Moyola in 1985, 1989 and 1993.Magherafelt District Council Elections 1993–2011 , Northern Ireland Elections By the start of the 1990s, he was a Vice-President of the UUP, serving alongside , and Hazel Bradford. Junkin was elected to the |
Moyola (District Electoral Area)
Moyola is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland. The district elects five members to Mid Ulster District Council and contains the wards of Ballymaguigan, Bellaghy, Castledawson, Draperstown and Tobermore. Moyola forms part of the Mid Ulster constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of .... It was created for the 1985 local elections, where it contained five wards (Bellaghy, Castledawson, Gulladuff, Upperlands and Valley). For the 2014 local elections it gained Ballymaguigan from the Magherafelt Town DEA and Draperstown from the abolished Sperrin DEA. Councillors 2023 Election 2019: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP 2023: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 2019� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McCrea, Baron McCrea Of Magherafelt And Cookstown
Robert Thomas William McCrea, Baron McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown (born 6 August 1948) is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician, Christian singer and retired Free Presbyterian minister from Northern Ireland. As a politician, he represented South Antrim and Mid Ulster as their Member of Parliament (MP), representing Mid Ulster from 1983 to 1997; then South Antrim between 2000 and 2001, and then again from 2005 to 2015. McCrea was also a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Mid Ulster from 1998 to 2007, before moving to represent South Antrim in the Assembly from 2007 to 2010. Early life and education McCrea was the youngest of five children born to Robert Thomas (a farmer in Stewartstown, Northern Ireland) and Sarah Jayne in August 1948. He was educated in Magherafelt and spent a short time working in Social Security in the Civil Service of Northern Ireland before beginning training as a Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster minister. He undertoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magherafelt
Magherafelt ( ; , ) is a town and Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 9,071 at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census. It is the biggest town in the south of the county and is the social, economic and political hub of the area. It is part of Mid-Ulster District. History Magherafelt has been documented as a town since 1425. An earlier name for the area was ''Teach Fíolta'' – 'Fíolta's (monastic) house'. This would suggest that there was a monastic settlement here under the leadership of Fíolta. The site of the medieval parish church may be marked by the ruins of a later church and graveyard at the bottom of Broad Street. The Worshipful Company of Salters, Salters Company of London was granted the surrounding lands in South Londonderry in the seventeenth century as part of the Plantation of Ulster. Subsequently, the town began to take on its current shape with a central diamond forming the heart of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government In Northern Ireland
Local government in Northern Ireland is divided among 11 single-tier districts known as 'Local Government Districts' (abbreviated LGDs) and formerly known as district council areas (DCAs). Councils in Northern Ireland do not carry out the same range of functions as those in the rest of the United Kingdom; for example they have no responsibility for education, road-building or housing (although they do nominate members to the advisory Northern Ireland Housing Council). Their functions include urban planning, planning, Recycling in Northern Ireland, waste and recycling services, leisure and community services, building control and local economic and cultural development. The collection of rates (tax), rates is handled centrally by the Land and Property Services agency of the Northern Ireland Executive. Local Government Districts (2015-present) Local Government Districts (2012) The 11 districts first had their boundaries determined in 2012. Elections were held to the new c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
