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Faughan (District Electoral Area)
Faughan is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Derry and Strabane, Northern Ireland. The district elects five members to Derry and Strabane District Council and contains the wards of Claudy, Eglinton, Enagh, New Buildings and Slievekirk. Faughan forms part of the Foyle constituencies for the Foyle (Assembly constituency), Northern Ireland Assembly and Foyle (UK Parliament constituency), UK Parliament. It was created for the 2014 Derry and Strabane District Council election, 2014 local elections, replacing the Rural (District Electoral Area), Rural DEA which had existed since 1985. Councillors 2023 Election 2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Alliance 2023: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP 2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin and UUP gain from DUP and Alliance 2019 Election 2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin 2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Alliance 2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain from SDLP 2014 Ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derry And Strabane District Council
Derry City and Strabane District Council (; Ulster-Scots: ''Derry Cittie & Stràbane Destrìck Cooncil'') is the local authority for Derry and Strabane district in Northern Ireland. It was created as part of the 2014 Northern Ireland local government reform, replacing Derry City Council and Strabane District Council. The first elections to the authority were on 22 May 2014 and it acted as a shadow authority to its two predecessors until the new district formally came into being on 1 April 2015. The name was changed from Derry and Strabane City Council on 24 February 2016. Mayoralty Mayor Deputy Mayor Councillors For the purpose of elections the council is divided into seven district electoral areas (DEAs): Party strengths Councillors by electoral area Population The area covered by the new council has a population of 150,756 residents according to the 2011 UK census. See also * Local government in Northern Ireland * 2014 Northern Ireland local ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Derry And Strabane District Council Election
The first election to the new Derry and Strabane District Council took place on 22 May 2014, as part of the Northern Ireland local elections that year. Results by party Because these elections were contested with new electoral boundaries, the results are not directly comparable with those of the last election. However, psephologist Nicholas Whyte has calculated notional results by which to judge the parties' relative performance.">[8/nowiki>/sup> The changes in seats and first preference vote share are relative to these notional results. 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="", Sinn Féin, !colspan=2 bgcolor="", Social Democratic and Labour Party, !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , Democratic Unionist Party, !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="white", , - , align="left", Ballyarnett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Devenney
Alderman Maurice Devenney (born 1 January 1959) is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician who was a Derry and Strabane Councillor for the Sperrin DEA from 2019 to 2023. Devenney also briefly served as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Foyle from 2014 to 2015. Career Devenney was first elected to Derry City Council in 2005 as a member for the Rural DEA, having unsuccessfully contested that district in 1997. Between 2011 and 2012, he served as Mayor of the city. He was elected to the successor council of Derry and Strabane, representing the Faughan DEA, in 2014. In October 2014, he was co-opted to the Northern Ireland Assembly to replace retiring Speaker and MLA for Foyle, Willie Hay, but resigned from the Assembly five months later to continue as a councillor. In February 2016, Devenney resigned from the DUP. A few weeks beforehand, he had been suspended from the party. The suspension was linked to an allegation that Devenney had encouraged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Derry And Strabane District Council Election
The 2019 election to the Derry City and Strabane District Council, part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 2 May 2019, returned 40 members to the council via Single Transferable Vote. Election results Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The overall turnout was 56.21% with a total of 60,695 valid votes cast. A total of 1,103 ballots were rejected. Districts summary , - class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left", Ward ! % !Cllrs ! % !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="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="white", , - , align="left", Ballyarnett , 30.7 , 2 , bgcolor="#99FF66", 39.7 , bgcolor="#99FF66", 3 , 0.0 , 0 , 0.0 , 0 , 8.6 , 0 , 3.6 , 0 , 17.5 , 1 , 6 , - , align="left", Derg , bgcolor="#008800", 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent (politician)
An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party and therefore they choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In some cases, a politician may be a member of an unregistered party and therefore officially recognised as an independent. Officeholders may become independents after losing or repudiating a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance Party Of Northern Ireland
The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI), or simply Alliance, is a liberal and centrist political party in Northern Ireland. Following the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election, it was the third-largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, holding seventeen seats. It broke through by achieving third place in first preference votes in the 2019 European Parliament election and polling third-highest regionally at the 2019 UK general election. The party won one of the three Northern Ireland seats in the European Parliament, and one seat, North Down, in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Founded in 1970 from the New Ulster Movement, the Alliance Party originally represented moderate and non-sectarian unionism. However, over time, particularly in the 1990s, it moved towards neutrality on the Union, and came to represent wider liberal and non-sectarian concerns. It supports the Good Friday Agreement but maintains a desir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Derry City And Strabane District Council Election
The 2023 election to Derry City and Strabane District Council was 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. The election 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;" , 63,669 , Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. Districts summary , - class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left", District Electoral Area (DEA) ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2, Totalcllrs , - class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" , !colspan=2 bgcolor="", ! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rural (District Electoral Area)
Rural was one of the five district electoral areas in Derry, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected seven members to Derry City Council until 1993, and six members until 2014, and formed part of the Foyle constituencies for the Foyle (Assembly constituency), Northern Ireland Assembly and Foyle (UK Parliament constituency), UK Parliament. It was created for the 1985 Derry City Council election, 1985 local elections, replacing Londonderry Area A which had existed since 1973, and contained the wards of Banagher, Claudy, Corrody, Eglinton, Enagh, Faughan and New Buildings. For the 1993 Derry City Council election, 1993 local elections it was reduced by one ward, losing Corrody and Faughan but gaining Holly Mount. It was abolished for the 2014 Derry and Strabane District Council election, 2014 local elections and replaced with the Faughan (District Electoral Area), Faughan DEA. Councillors 2011 election 2005: 3 x SDLP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin 2011: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foyle (UK Parliament Constituency)
Foyle is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency in Northern Ireland covering Derry, represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament. Its current Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) has been Colum Eastwood of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, SDLP since 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019. Boundaries The seat was created in boundary changes in 1983, as part of an expansion of Northern Ireland's constituencies from 12 to 17, and was predominantly made up from the old Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency), Londonderry constituency. From further revisions in 1995 (when it lost parts of the district of Strabane to the West Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency), West Tyrone constituency), and until the 2008 revision, it covered exactly the same area as Derry City Council. Prior to the 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 ge ... [...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] |
Foyle (Assembly Constituency)
Foyle is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for 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 List o ... in 1996. Since 1998, it has elected members to the current Assembly. For Assembly elections prior to 1996, the constituency was largely part of the Londonderry constituency. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the Foyle UK Parliament constituency. For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Foyle (UK Parliament constituency). 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, s ... [...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] |
