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Upper Bann is a constituency in the
Northern Ireland Assembly The Northern Ireland Assembly (; ), often referred to by the metonym ''Stormont'', is the devolved unicameral legislature of Northern Ireland. It has power to legislate in a wide range of areas that are not explicitly reserved to the Parliam ...
. The seat was first used for a
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-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
Armagh Armagh ( ; , , " Macha's height") is a city and the county town of County Armagh, in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish. It is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland – the seat of the Archbishops of Armagh, the Primates of All ...
and South Down constituencies with a small section around Aghagallon joining from South Antrim. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the Upper Bann UK Parliament constituency. For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see
Upper Bann (UK Parliament constituency) Upper Bann is a parliamentary constituency in Northern Ireland, which is represented in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Carla Lockhart of the Democratic Unionist Party. Constituency profile Upper Bann includes the post ...
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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, see the detailed results of that election.


Elections


Northern Ireland Assembly


2022


2017


2016


2011


2007


2003


1998


1996 forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.1996 Candidates – Upper Bann
, Northern Ireland Elections


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Upper Bann, Assembly Constituencies of the Northern Ireland Assembly Politics of County Down Politics of County Armagh 1996 establishments in Northern Ireland Constituencies established in 1996