Upper Bann is a constituency in 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 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 ...
.
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
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Constituencies of the Northern Ireland Assembly
Politics of County Down
Politics of County Armagh
1996 establishments in Northern Ireland
Constituencies established in 1996