The 2023 election to
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 ...
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
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.
They returned 40 members to the council via
Single Transferable Vote
The single transferable vote (STV) or proportional-ranked choice voting (P-RCV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vot ...
.
Election results
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, style="text-align:right;" , 67,505
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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
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!rowspan=2 align="left", District Electoral Area (DEA)
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!rowspan=2, Total
cllrs
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!colspan=2 bgcolor="" , Sinn Féin
!colspan=2 bgcolor="" , DUP
!colspan=2 bgcolor="", SDLP
!colspan=2 bgcolor="" , UUP
!colspan=2 bgcolor="" , TUV
!colspan=2 bgcolor="" , Alliance
!colspan=2 bgcolor="white", Independents and others
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, align="left", Carntogher
, bgcolor="#008800", 65.47
, bgcolor="#008800", 4 1
, 13.69
, 1
, 9.39
, 0 1
, 0.00
, 0
, 6.00
, 0
, 0.00
, 0
, 5.45
, 0
, 5
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, align="left", Clogher Valley
, bgcolor="#008800", 35.79
, bgcolor="#008800", 2
, 30.04
, 2
, 9.74
, 0 1
, 11.74
, 1
, 0.00
, 0
, 0.00
, 0
, 12.68
, 1 1
, 6
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, align="left", Cookstown
, bgcolor="#008800", 49.99
, bgcolor="#008800", 3
, 19.61
, 2 1
, 7.48
, 1
, 11.94
, 1 1
, 6.44
, 0
, 4.12
, 0
, 0.43
, 0
, 7
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, align="left", Dungannon
, 28.39
, 2 1
, bgcolor="#D46A4C", 28.64
, bgcolor="#D46A4C", 2
, 6.25
, 1
, 5.48
, 0 1
, 3.11
, 0
, 4.90
, 0
, 23.13
, 1
, 6
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, align="left", Magherafelt
, bgcolor="#008800", 43.68
, bgcolor="#008800", 2
, 25.55
, 2
, 9.74
, 1
, 7.11
, 0
, 8.13
, 0
, 5.79
, 0
, 0.00
, 0
, 5
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, align="left", Moyola
, bgcolor="#008800", 57.21
, bgcolor="#008800", 3
, 17.07
, 1
, 7.11
, 1 1
, 6.47
, 0 1
, 5.67
, 0
, 2.70
, 0
, 3.79
, 0
, 5
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, align="left", Torrent
, bgcolor="#008800", 51.61
, bgcolor="#008800", 3
, 11.00
, 1 1
, 9.04
, 1
, 6.72
, 0 1
, 0.00
, 0
, 2.67
, 0
, 18.97
, 1
, 6
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, align="left", Total
, 47.16
, 19 2
, 20.81
, 11 2
, 8.39
, 5 1
, 7.27
, 2 4
, 3.97
, 0
, 2.82
, 0
, 9.59
, 3 1
, 40
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District results
Carntogher
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
Clogher Valley
2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP
2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Ind ( Rep)
2019–2023 Change: Ind ( Rep) gain from SDLP
Cookstown
2019: 3 x Sinn Féin, 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
2023: 3 x Sinn Féin, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP
2019–2023 Change: DUP gain from UUP
Dungannon
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent ( Rep)
2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent ( Rep)
2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin gain from UUP
Magherafelt
2019: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
2023: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
2019–2023 Change: No change
Moyola
2019: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP
2023: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
2019–2023 Change: SDLP gain from UUP
Torrent
2019: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent ( Rep)
2023: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent ( Rep)
2019–2023 Change: DUP gain from UUP
Changes during the term
† Co-options
Notes
References
{{2023 United Kingdom local elections
2023 Northern Ireland local elections
Mid Ulster District Council elections