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Mid Ulster Northern Ireland Assembly County constituency
Mid Ulster shown within Northern Ireland
First Used:	1973
Assembly Members:	Billy Armstrong Ian McCrea Patsy McGlone Martin McGuinness Francie Molloy Michelle O'Neill
Districts:	Cookstown, Magherafelt, Dungannon and South Tyrone

Mid Ulster is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the Mid Ulster 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 and from 1996 to 1997 when members of the Northern Ireland Forum had been elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected in 1992 under the 1983-95 constituency boundaries, was still in session.

Members were then elected from the constituency to the 1975 Constitutional Convention, the 1982 Assembly, the 1996 Forum and then to the current Assembly from 1998.

Mid Ulster is only 1 of 2 constituencies in Northern Ireland (the other one being Foyle) which has returned the same number of Assembly members from the same parties at each election - 3 Sinn Féin, 1 SDLP, 1 UUP and 1 DUP.

Currently the most high-profile MLA for the constituency is Martin McGuinness, the Deputy First Minister.

For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Mid Ulster (UK Parliament constituency).

Members

The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2007 election are:

• Billy Armstrong — Ulster Unionist Party
• Ian McCrea — Democratic Unionist Party
• Patsy McGlone — Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Martin McGuinness — Sinn Féin
• Francie Molloy — Sinn Féin
• Michelle O'Neill — Sinn Féin

The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2003 election were:

• Billy Armstrong — Ulster Unionist Party
• Geraldine Dougan — Sinn Féin
• William McCrea — Democratic Unionist Party
• Patsy McGlone — Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Martin McGuinness — Sinn Féin
• Francie Molloy — Sinn Féin

• Changes Francis Molloy was suspended from Sinn Féin on November 23, 2005 following disagreements about reforms of local government. [1]

In the 1998 election the six MLAs elected were:

• Billy Armstrong — Ulster Unionist Party
• Denis Haughey — Social Democratic and Labour Party
• John Kelly — Sinn Féin
• William McCrea — Democratic Unionist Party
• Martin McGuinness — Sinn Féin
• Francie Molloy — Sinn Féin

In the 1996 election to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum, 5 Forum members were elected from Mid Ulster. They were as follows:

• John Junkin — Ulster Unionist Party
• Patsy McGlone — Social Democratic and Labour Party
• William McCrea — Democratic Unionist Party
• Patrick Groogan — Sinn Féin
• Francie Molloy — Sinn Féin

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. Mid Ulster elected 6 members as follows:

• Denis Haughey — Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Alan Kane — Democratic Unionist Party
• William McCrea — Democratic Unionist Party
• Mary McSorley — Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Danny Morrison — Sinn Féin
• William Thompson — Ulster Unionist Party

In 1975 elections were held to a Constitutional Convention which sought (unsuccessfully) to generate a consensus on the future of the province. The six members elected from Mid Ulster were:

• Ivan Cooper — Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Paddy Duffy — Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Robert Overend — Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
• Richard Reid — Democratic Unionist Party
• Francis Thompson — Ulster Unionist Party
• William Thompson — Ulster Unionist Party

In 1973 elections were held to the Assembly set up under the Sunningdale Agreement. The six members elected from Mid Ulster were:

• Ivan Cooper — Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Paddy Duffy — Social Democratic and Labour Party
• John Dunlop — Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
• Aidan Larkan — Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Thomas Pollock — Ulster Unionist Party (pro Sunningdale)
• William Thompson — Ulster Unionist Party (anti Sunningdale)

Elections

2007

2003

1998

1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.^[1]

1982

1975

1973

References

1. ^ 1996 Candidates - Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland Elections

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