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Carntogher (District Electoral Area)
Carntogher 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 Lower Glenshane, Maghera, Swatragh, Tamlaght O'Crilly and Valley. Carntogher 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 2014 local elections, largely replacing the Sperrin DEA which had existed since 1985. Councillors 2023 Election 2019: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP 2023: 4 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP 2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP 2019 Election 2014: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 2019: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 2014–2019 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid Ulster District Council
Mid Ulster District Council (; Ulster Scots dialects, Ulster-Scots: ''Mid Ulstèr Airts Cooncil'') is a local authority that was established on 1 April 2015. It replaced Cookstown District Council, Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council and Magherafelt District Council. The first elections to the authority took place on 2014 Northern Ireland local elections, 22 May 2014 and it acted as a shadow authority, prior to the creation of the Mid Ulster District, Mid Ulster district on 1 April 2015. Chairpersonship Chair Vice Chair Councillors For the purpose of elections the council is divided into seven district electoral areas (DEA): Seat summary Councillors by electoral area Population The area covered by the Council has a population of 138,590 residents according to the 2011 Northern Ireland census. References {{NI districts District councils of Northern Ireland Politics of County Londonderry Politics of County Tyrone Mid-Ulster District, * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Unionist Party
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is a Unionism in Ireland, unionist, Ulster loyalism, loyalist, British nationalist and national conservative political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1971 during the Troubles by Ian Paisley, who led the party for the next 37 years. It is currently led by Gavin Robinson, who initially stepped in as an interim after the resignation of Jeffrey Donaldson. It is the second-largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, and won five seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 election. The party has been mostly described as right-wing"It will be ‘difficult’ for May to survive, says N Ireland’s DUP" , By Vincent Boland & Robert Wright. Financial Times. 9 June 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin ( ; ; ) is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The History of Sinn Féin, original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith. Its members founded the revolutionary Irish Republic and its parliament, the First Dáil, and many of them were active in the Irish War of Independence, during which the party was associated with the Irish Republican Army (1919–1922). The party split before the Irish Civil War and again in its aftermath, giving rise to the two traditionally dominant parties of Irish politics: Fianna Fáil, and Cumann na nGaedheal (which merged with smaller groups to form Fine Gael). For several decades the remaining Sinn Féin organisation was small and often without parliamentary representation. It continued its association with the Irish Republican Army (1922–1969), Irish Republican Army. Another split in 1970 at the start of the Troubles led to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid Ulster (district)
Mid Ulster () is a local government district in Northern Ireland. 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 County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland. The district had a population of in . 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. The first election for the new district council was originally due to take place in May 2009, but on April 25, 2008, Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland The secretary of state for Northern Ireland (; ), also referred to as Northern Irela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service has over 5,500 journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid Ulster (Assembly Constituency)
Mid Ulster is a constituency represented in the Northern Ireland Assembly. 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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid Ulster (UK Parliament Constituency)
Mid Ulster is a parliamentary constituency in the UK House of Commons. The current MP is Cathal Mallaghan, of Sinn Féin, who was first elected at the 2024 election. Constituency profile The seat covers a rural area to the west of Lough Neagh, including part of the Sperrins. Since 1997, the seat has been nationalist-leaning. Boundaries 1950–1983: The Urban Districts of Cookstown, Omagh, and Strabane, the Rural Districts of Castlederg, Cookstown, Magherafelt, and Strabane, and that part of the Rural District of Omagh not contained within the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone. 1983–1997: the Cookstown District Council; the Omagh District Council; the Magherafelt District Council wards of Ballymaguigan, Draperstown, and Lecumpher; and the Strabane District Council wards of Castlederg, Clare, Finn, Glenderg, Newtownstewart, Plumbridge, Sion Mills, and Victoria Bridge. 1997–present: the District of Cookstown; the District of Magherafelt; and the Dun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Mid Ulster District Council Election
The 2014 Mid Ulster District Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Mid Ulster District Council in Northern Ireland. This was on the same day as other local elections. Results by party 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", Carntogher , bgcolor="#008800", 60.9 , bgcolor="#008800", 3 , 9.0 , 1 , 8.7 , 0 , 14.8 , 1 , 6.6 , 0 , 5 , - , align="left", Clogher Valley , bgcolor="#008800", 33.1 , bgcolor="#008800", 2 , 28.4 , 2 , 25.1 , 1 , 13.5 , 1 , 0.0 , 0 , 6 , - , align="left", Cookstown , bgcolor="#008800", 42.3 , bgcolor="#008800", 3 , 12.5 , 1 , 23.7 , 2 , 12.0 , 1 , 9.5 , 0 , 7 , - , align="left", Dungannon , 20.3 , 1 , bgcolor="#D46A4C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
2023 Mid Ulster District Council Election
The 2023 election to Mid Ulster District Council was scheduled and held on 18 May 2023, alongside other local elections in Northern Ireland, two weeks after local elections in England. The Northern Ireland elections were delayed by 2 weeks to avoid overlapping with the coronation of King Charles III. They returned 40 members to the council via Single Transferable Vote. Election results , - , colspan="2" style="background-color:#f2f2f2;text-align:center;margin-bottom:-1px;border:1px solid #aaa;padding:.2em .4em" , , style="text-align:right;" , 40 , , , , , , style="text-align:right;" , 67,505 , Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. * (a) The three independents identify themselves as Independent Republican. * The electorate was 105,819 , the turnout 68,361 (64.60%) and there was 856 spoilt votes. Districts summary , - class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left", District Electoral Area (DEA) ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Mid Ulster District Council Election
The 2019 Mid Ulster District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Mid Ulster District Council in Northern Ireland. This was on the same day as other local elections. Election results Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The overall turnout was 58.97% with a total of 59,108 valid votes cast. A total of 1,072 ballots were rejected. Districts summary , - class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left", Ward ! % !Cllrs ! % !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="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="white", , - , align="left", Carntogher , bgcolor="#008800", 54.4 , bgcolor="#008800", 3 , 15.5 , 1 , 13.5 , 1 , 7.0 , 0 , 0.0 , 0 , 9.7 , 0 , 5 , - , align="left", Clogher Valley , 31.3 , 2 , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 32.7 , bgcolor="#D46A4C", 2 , 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
