Newry and Armagh (Assembly constituency)
54°12′40″N 6°29′56″W / 54.211°N 6.499°W
Newry and Armagh | |
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Northern Ireland Assembly Parliamentary constituency | |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1996 |
Seats | 6 (1996–2016) 5 (2017–) |
MLAs |
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Districts | Newry, Mourne and Down District Council |
Boundaries |
Newry and Armagh (Irish: An tIúr agus Ard Mhacha, Ulster Scots: Newrie an Airmagh) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996. Since 1998, it has elected members to the current Assembly.
For Assembly elections prior to 1996, the constituency was part of the Armagh and South Down constituencies. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the Newry and Armagh UK Parliament constituency.
For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Newry and Armagh (UK Parliament constituency).
Members[edit]
Election | MLA (party) |
MLA (party) |
MLA (party) |
MLA (party) |
MLA (party) |
MLA (party) | ||||||
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1996 | Maria Caraher (Sinn Féin) |
Patrick McNamee (Sinn Féin) |
Frank Feely (SDLP) |
Seamus Mallon (SDLP) |
Jim Speers (UUP) |
5 seats 1996–1998 | ||||||
1998 | Conor Murphy (Sinn Féin) |
John Fee (SDLP) |
Danny Kennedy (UUP) |
Paul Berry (DUP) | ||||||||
2003 | Davy Hyland (Sinn Féin) |
Pat O'Rawe (Sinn Féin) |
Dominic Bradley (SDLP) | |||||||||
2007 | Cathal Boylan (Sinn Féin) |
Mickey Brady (Sinn Féin) |
William Irwin (DUP) | |||||||||
2011 | ||||||||||||
July 2012 co-option |
Megan Fearon (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||
June 2015 co-option |
Conor Murphy (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||
2016 | Justin McNulty (SDLP) | |||||||||||
2017 | 5 seats 2017–present | |||||||||||
January 2020 co-option |
Liz Kimmins (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||
2022 |
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[edit]
Northern Ireland Assembly[edit]
2022[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Conor Murphy | 16.72% | 9,847 | |||||
Sinn Féin | Cathal Boylan | 16.72% | 9,843 | |||||
Social Democratic and Labour | Justin McNulty | 10.56% | 6,217 | 6,585 | 7,483 | 7,686 | 10,231 | |
Sinn Féin | Liz Kimmins | 13.52% | 7,964 | 8,192 | 9,464 | 9,472 | 9,969 | |
Democratic Unionist | William Irwin | 12.87% | 7,577 | 7,668 | 7,720 | 9,414 | 9,784 | |
TUV | Keith Ratcliffe | 9.18% | 5,407 | 5,436 | 5,461 | 6,706 | 6,892 | |
Alliance | Jackie Coade | 5.68% | 3,345 | 3,637 | 4,088 | 4,741 | ||
Ulster Unionist | David Taylor | 6.56% | 3,864 | 3,895 | 3,956 | |||
Independent | Gavin Malone | 5.36% | 3,157 | 3,380 | ||||
Aontú | Daniel Connolly | 2.02% | 1,189 | |||||
Green (NI) | Ciara Henry | 0.53% | 314 | |||||
Workers' Party | Nicola Grant | 0.27% | 160 | |||||
Electorate: 87,156 Valid: 58,884 (67.56%) Spoilt: 809 Quota: 9,815 Turnout: 59,693 (68.49%) |
2017[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
Democratic Unionist | William Irwin | 17.77% | 9,760 | |||
Sinn Féin | Cathal Boylan | 16.75% | 9,197 | |||
Social Democratic and Labour | Justin McNulty | 16.36% | 8,983 | 10,085 | ||
Sinn Féin | Megan Fearon | 16.17% | 8,881 | 9,175 | ||
Sinn Féin | Conor Murphy | 15.39% | 8,454 | 8,681 | 9,018 | |
Ulster Unionist | Danny Kennedy | 13.21% | 7,256 | 7,675 | 7,939 | |
Alliance | Jackie Coade | 2.58% | 1,418 | |||
CISTA | Emmet Crossan | 1.28% | 704 | |||
Green (NI) | Rowan Tunnicliffe | 0.48% | 265 | |||
Electorate: 80,140 Valid: 54,918 (68.53%) Spoilt: 707 Quota: 9,154 Turnout: 55,625 (69.41%) |
2016[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Democratic Unionist | William Irwin | 16.72% | 7,980 | |||||||||
Sinn Féin | Megan Fearon | 14.33% | 6,838 | |||||||||
Sinn Féin | Cathal Boylan | 14.30% | 6,822 | |||||||||
Ulster Unionist | Danny Kennedy | 10.28% | 4,904 | 5,602.25 | 5,602.25 | 5,616.7 | 5,804,4 | 5,817.4 | 5,905.05 | 9,595.3 | ||
Sinn Féin | Conor Murphy | 12.27% | 5,854 | 5,855.05 | 5,855.05 | 5,883.05 | 5,922.05 | 6,125.05 | 6,421.35 | 6,435.35 | 6,442.35 | |
Social Democratic and Labour | Justin McNulty | 10.01% | 4,775 | 4,779.05 | 4,779.05 | 4,806.05 | 4,936.2 | 5,128.35 | 5,325.5 | 5,369.2 | 5,701.2 | |
Social Democratic and Labour | Karen McKevitt | 8.22% | 3,923 | 3,929.45 | 3,929.45 | 3,963.6 | 4,086.2 | 4,356.35 | 4,515.65 | 4,564.2 | 5,042.2 | |
Ulster Unionist | Sam Nicholson | 3.86% | 1,841 | 2,045.75 | 2,045.75 | 2,049.2 | 2,159.85 | 2,166.85 | 2,220.45 | |||
Independent | Paul Berry | 3.49% | 1,663 | 1,861.6 | 1,861.6 | 1,865.6 | 1,940.45 | 1,957.05 | 1,998.95 | |||
CISTA | Emmet Crossan | 2.16% | 1,032 | 1,036.5 | 1,036.5 | 1,112.1 | 1,228.6 | 1,308.6 | ||||
Independent | Martin McAllister | 1.97% | 940 | 941.2 | 941.2 | 957.2 | 1,003.5 | |||||
Alliance | Craig Weir | 1.03% | 493 | 498.75 | 498.75 | 597.05 | ||||||
UKIP | Alan Love | 0.66% | 315 | 346.05 | 346.05 | 349.2 | ||||||
Green (NI) | Michael Watters | 0.70% | 335 | 337.4 | 337.4 | |||||||
Electorate: 81,756 Valid: 47,715 (58.36%) Spoilt: 783 Quota: 6,817 Turnout: 48,498 (59.32%) |
2011[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Conor Murphy | 19.62% | 9,127 | ||||||
Ulster Unionist | Danny Kennedy | 18.74% | 8,718 | ||||||
Social Democratic and Labour | Dominic Bradley | 15.31% | 7,123 | ||||||
Sinn Féin | Cathal Boylan | 14.22% | 6,614 | 8,092.40 | |||||
Democratic Unionist | William Irwin | 13.12% | 6,101 | 6,105.48 | 7,502.46 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Mickey Brady | 7.00% | 3,254 | 4,049.48 | 4,058.58 | 5,376.54 | 5,615.30 | 5,624.92 | |
Social Democratic and Labour | Thomas O'Hanlon | 8.22% | 3,825 | 3,934.48 | 4,011.70 | 4,063.50 | 4,640.70 | 5,014.06 | |
TUV | Barrie Halliday | 1.78% | 830 | 831.40 | 1,238.30 | 1,239.70 | |||
Alliance | David Murphy | 1.58% | 734 | 748.28 | 838.76 | 840.44 | |||
UKIP | Robert Woods | 0.21% | 98 | 99.40 | 125.66 | 126.22 | |||
Independent | James Malone | 0.19% | 90 | 93.92 | 99.12 | 99.68 | |||
Electorate: 77,544 Valid: 46,514 (59.98%) Spoilt: 1,048 Quota: 6,645 Turnout: 47,562 (61.34%) |
2007[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Conor Murphy | 14.99% | 7,437 | |||||||
Sinn Féin | Cathal Boylan | 14.32% | 7,105 | |||||||
Sinn Féin | Mickey Brady | 12.77% | 6,337 | 6,455 | 6,705.92 | 7,513.92 | ||||
Democratic Unionist | William Irwin | 12.93% | 6,418 | 6,672 | 6,672.12 | 6,674.12 | 8,008.12 | |||
Ulster Unionist | Danny Kennedy | 13.13% | 6,517 | 6,813 | 6,813.28 | 6,833.36 | 7,653.36 | |||
Social Democratic and Labour | Dominic Bradley | 10.72% | 5,318 | 5,530 | 5,551.64 | 5,974.48 | 6,025.6 | 6,169.6 | 6,310.6 | |
Social Democratic and Labour | Sharon Haughey | 9.07% | 4,500 | 4,709 | 4,722.32 | 5,001.48 | 5,068.48 | 5,229.48 | 5,368.48 | |
Independent | Paul Berry | 4.67% | 2,317 | 2,512 | 2,512.44 | 2,526.48 | ||||
Independent | Davy Hyland | 4.41% | 2,188 | 2,260 | 2,267.76 | |||||
Independent | Willie Frazer | 1.22% | 605 | |||||||
Green (NI) | Brendan Morgan | 1.21% | 599 | |||||||
Alliance | Máire Hendron | 0.56% | 278 | |||||||
Electorate: 70,823 Valid: 49,619 (70.06%) Spoilt: 546 Quota: 7,089 Turnout: 50,165 (70.83%) |
2003[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
Democratic Unionist | Paul Berry | 17.15% | 8,125 | |||||
Sinn Féin | Conor Murphy | 16.04% | 7,595 | |||||
Ulster Unionist | Danny Kennedy | 15.51% | 7,347 | |||||
Social Democratic and Labour | Dominic Bradley | 8.68% | 4,111 | 4,119.8 | 4,135 | 4,400.14 | 6,783.14 | |
Sinn Féin | Davy Hyland | 12.20% | 5,779 | 5,779.48 | 6,347.38 | 6,367 | 6,633.9 | |
Sinn Féin | Pat O'Rawe | 11.56% | 5,478 | 5,478.16 | 5,590.66 | 5,603.32 | 5,712 | |
Social Democratic and Labour | Jim Lennon | 8.69% | 4,116 | 4,118.88 | 4,125.98 | 4,390.98 | 5,112.5 | |
Social Democratic and Labour | John Fee | 7.20% | 3,410 | 3,411.28 | 3,459.38 | 3,656.96 | ||
Democratic Unionist | Freda Donnelly | 1.00% | 474 | 1,638.64 | 1,638.94 | |||
Independent | Willie Frazer | 1.33% | 632 | 743 | 744 | |||
Alliance | Pete Whitcroft | 0.66% | 311 | 314 | 315 | |||
Electorate: 68,731 Valid: 47,378 (68.93%) Spoilt: 855 Quota: 6,769 Turnout: 48,233 (70.18%) |
1998[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Social Democratic and Labour | Seamus Mallon | 25.09% | 13,582 | ||||||||
Democratic Unionist | Paul Berry | 13.33% | 7,214 | 7,217.44 | 7,231.87 | 7,899.87 | |||||
Ulster Unionist | Danny Kennedy | 10.15% | 5,495 | 5,522.52 | 5,692.11 | 5,979.84 | 6,090 | 10,184 | |||
Sinn Féin | Conor Murphy | 8.94% | 4,839 | 5,017.45 | 5,026.46 | 5,294.25 | 5,294.25 | 5,305.54 | 5,311.54 | 7,741.25 | |
Sinn Féin | Patrick McNamee | 8.44% | 4,570 | 5,078.26 | 5,087.41 | 5,320.81 | 5,320.81 | 5,332.53 | 5,334.53 | 7,176.79 | |
Social Democratic and Labour | John Fee | 5.85% | 3,166 | 5,419.63 | 5,485.67 | 6,429.02 | 6,430.38 | 6,514.11 | 6,949.11 | 7,169.01 | |
Social Democratic and Labour | Frank Feely | 4.07% | 2,205 | 4,238.47 | 4,317.4 | 4,852.86 | 4,853.54 | 4,957.65 | 5,492.65 | 5,874.55 | |
Sinn Féin | Davy Hyland | 8.58% | 4,643 | 4,879.5 | 4,888.08 | 5,261.06 | 5,261.74 | 5,270.37 | 5,284.37 | ||
Ulster Unionist | Jim Speers | 7.99% | 4,324 | 4,353.24 | 4,558.26 | 4,747.56 | 4,799.24 | ||||
NI Women's Coalition | Kate Fearon | 2.10% | 1,138 | 1,391.7 | 1,635.5 | ||||||
Independent | Mary Allen | 2.27% | 1,227 | 1,357.29 | 1,398.45 | ||||||
Ulster Independence | Willie Frazer | 1.72% | 933 | 935.58 | 947.58 | ||||||
Alliance | Peter Whitcroft | 1.44% | 777 | 860.85 | |||||||
Natural Law | David Evans | 0.04% | 23 | 25.15 | |||||||
Electorate: 71,553 Valid: 54,136 (75.66%) Spoilt: 1,157 Quota: 7,735 Turnout: 55,293 (77.28%) |
1996 forum[edit]
Successful candidates are shown in bold.[8]
Party | Candidate(s) | Votes | Percentage | |
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Social Democratic and Labour | Seamus Mallon Frank Feely Pat Brannigan Mary McLeown John Fee |
16,775 | 34.1 | |
Sinn Féin | Patrick McNamee Maria Caraher Noel Sheridan Brendan Curran Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin |
12,585 | 25.6 | |
Ulster Unionist | Jim Speers Danny Kennedy Elaine McClure Sylvia McRoberts |
11,047 | 22.5 | |
Democratic Unionist | Meredith Patterson Margaret Black John McKew |
4,774 | 9.8 | |
Alliance | Pete Whitcroft Anne-Marie Cunningham |
1,037 | 2.1 | |
PUP | David Jamison Raymond Laverty |
640 | 1.4 | |
UK Unionist | Robert St-Cyr Margaret Thomson |
474 | 0.9 | |
NI Women's Coalition | Sheila Fairon Lynd Roper Kathleen Magee |
356 | 0.7 | |
Labour coalition | Eimear Duffy Marian McKeown Eamon Duffy Eoin McGuinness |
262 | 0.5 | |
Ulster Democratic | William Garrett Alan Hewitt |
257 | 0.5 | |
Workers' Party | Dennis Carroll Vivian Hutchinson Mary Campbell James McConville Pat Smith |
208 | 0.4 | |
Green (NI) | Vincent MacDowell Tara Foley |
205 | 0.4 | |
Ulster Independence | Willie Frazer John Gray |
173 | 0.3 | |
NI Conservatives | Sarah Humphreys Jennifer Cumming |
131 | 0.3 | |
Democratic Partnership | Ronald Dawson Donal Kelly |
114 | 0.2 | |
Independent DUP | Nigel Cummings John Whitten |
55 | 0.1 | |
Democratic Left | Brendan Montague Orla McClean |
46 | 0.1 | |
Natural Law | Eileen Leahy Miguel Martin-Ramos |
31 | 0.1 | |
Independent Chambers | Stella Irvine Sharon Ralston |
12 | 0.0 |
References[edit]
- ^ "Statement of Persons Nominated – Newry and Armagh". Retrieved 8 April 2022.
- ^ "NI Assembly Election 2017". EONI. Archived from the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ "NI Assembly Election 2016". EONI. Archived from the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ "NI Assembly Election 2011" (PDF). EONI. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ "NI Assembly Election 2007". EONI. Archived from the original on 19 August 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ "NI Assembly Election 2003". EONI. Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ "NI Assembly Election 1998". EONI. Archived from the original on 20 March 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ 1996 Candidates – Newry and Armagh Archived 23 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Northern Ireland Elections