Londonderry was a constituency used for the
Northern Ireland Assembly
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.
The seat was first used for a
Northern Ireland
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-only election for the
Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973
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. Members were then elected from the constituency to the
1975 Constitutional Convention and the
1982 Assembly. After the Assembly dissolved in 1986, the constituency was not used again, its area being represented by parts of
East Londonderry,
Foyle and
Mid Ulster.
It usually shared boundaries with the
Londonderry UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 as the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes.
For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see
Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency)
Londonderry was a United Kingdom constituencies, parliamentary constituency in Northern Ireland represented in the United Kingdom House of Commons, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament, as well as a constit ...
.
Members
Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention (1975) and Northern Ireland Assembly (1973, 1982)
In 1982, elections were held for an Assembly for Northern Ireland to hold the
Secretary of State to account, in the hope that this would be the first step towards restoring devolution. The seven members elected from the Londonderry constituency were:
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, see the detailed results of that election.
Elections
1982 Assembly Election
1975 Constitutional Convention
1973 Assembly Election
References
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Constituencies of the Northern Ireland Assembly (historic)
Politics of Derry (city)
Historic constituencies in County Londonderry
1973 establishments in Northern Ireland
1986 disestablishments in Northern Ireland
Constituencies established in 1973
Constituencies disestablished in 1986