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Sperrin (District Electoral Area)
Sperrin is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Derry and Strabane, Northern Ireland. The district elects seven members to Derry and Strabane District Council and contains the wards of Artigarvan, Ballycolman, Dunnamanagh, Glenelly Valley, Park, Strabane North and Strabane West. Sperrin forms part of the West Tyrone 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 Glenelly DEA and the Mourne DEA which had existed since 1985. Councillors 2023 Election 2019: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x DUP, 2 x Independent, 1 x SDLP 2023: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 2 x Independent 2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin gain from DUP ... [...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] |
Glenelly (District Electoral Area)
Glenelly was one of the three district electoral areas in Strabane, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected five members to Strabane District Council, and formed part of the West Tyrone 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 Strabane Area B which had existed since 1973, and contained the wards of Artigarvan, Dunnamanagh, Plumbridge, Slievekirk and Victoria Bridge. It was abolished for the 2014 local elections and replaced with the Sperrin DEA. Councillors 2011 Election 2005: 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP 2011: 3 x DUP, 2 x Sinn Féin 2005-2011 Change: DUP and Sinn Féin gain from UUP and SDLP ... [...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] |
Michaela Boyle
Michaela Boyle (born 29 September 1966) is a Sinn Féin politician in Northern Ireland. In 2008, she was co-opted onto Strabane District Council to fill the vacancy left by the death of her party colleague Cllr Ivan Barr. She served as Chairperson of Council from 2010-2011. She was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2011 as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA)representing the West Tyrone constituency. She was re-elected in 2016 and 2017 Career She was co-opted to Strabane District Council in 2008. Boyle was elected to Derry City and Strabane District Council at the local elections on 2 May 2019. She was elected as Mayor of the Council at its first sitting following the council election. She then resigned her Assembly seat, and Maolíosa McHugh Maolíosa McHugh ( , ) is a Sinn Féin politician from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland who has served as Member of the Legislative Assembly for the West Tyrone constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly since 28 ... [...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] |
Allan Bresland
Allan Bresland (born 16 August 1945) is a former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician who was a Derry and Strabane Councillor for the Sperrin DEA from 2014 to 2023. He was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for West Tyrone from 2007 to 2011. Background Bresland was educated at Ballylaw Primary School, is a retired lorry driver with the Water Service. He was first elected to Strabane District Council in 1993, representing the Glenelly District. He has been a member of various bodies including the Drainage Council of Northern Ireland, and has also served as chair of the Western Group Environmental Health Committee. He was also Chairman of North West Passage, which promotes tourism in the area and is a member of the District Policing Partnership in Strabane. At the 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election, he was elected as one of two DUP MLAs for West Tyrone, defeating Derek Hussey of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) for the sixth and last seat in the consti ... [...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] |
Social Democratic And Labour Party
The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP; ) is a social democratic and Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. The SDLP currently has eight members in the Northern Ireland Assembly ( MLAs) and two members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The SDLP party platform advocates Irish reunification and, pending the unity of all the people of Ireland and while the northern jurisdiction remains part of the United Kingdom, further devolution of powers. It is a sister party of the UK Labour Party, which maintains an electoral pact with the SDLP not to stand candidates in Northern Ireland but to support SDLP candidates instead. MPs from the SDLP sit with Labour MPs on the government benches when Labour is in power, but do not take the Labour whip, though they informally did so historically. During the Troubles, the SDLP was the most popular Irish nationalist party in Northern Ireland, but since the Provisional IRA ceasefire in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mourne (District Electoral Area)
Mourne was one of the three district electoral areas in Strabane, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected five members to Strabane District Council until 1993, and six members until 2014, and formed part of the West Tyrone 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 Strabane Area C and part of Strabane Area A, and originally contained the wards of East, North, Sion Mills, South and West. For the 1993 local elections, it gained an additional ward, Ballycolman. It was abolished for the 2014 local elections and replaced with the Sperrin DEA, with Sion Mills moving to the Derg DEA. Councillors 2011 Election 2005: 4 x ... [...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] |
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] |
West Tyrone (UK Parliament Constituency)
West Tyrone is a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The current MP is Órfhlaith Begley, a member of Sinn Féin, who has represented the constituency since the 2018 West Tyrone by-election, 2018 by-election. Constituency profile The seat is rural and includes the towns of Strabane and Omagh. Boundaries Since the constituency's creation in 1997, it has consisted of the territory of the former Districts of Omagh and Strabane. There were major local government boundary changes in 2015, but the constituency boundaries remained unchanged. The seat was created in a boundary review conducted in 1995 and was predominantly made out of the western half of the old Mid Ulster (UK Parliament constituency), Mid Ulster constituency – indeed it contains more of the old Mid Ulster than the current seat of that name. It also contains parts of the old Foyle (UK Parliament constituency), Foyle constituency. *Artigarvan; Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
