Foyle (Assembly constituency)
Foyle (Irish: An Feabhal, Ulster Scots: Foyle) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
| Foyle | |
|---|---|
| Northern Ireland Assembly Parliamentary Constituency | |
 Foyle shown within Northern Ireland | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1996 |
| Seats | 6 (1996–2016) 5 (2017–) |
| MLAs | |
| Districts | Derry and Strabane District Council |
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 largely part of the Londonderry constituency. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the Foyle UK Parliament constituency.
For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Foyle (UK Parliament constituency).
Members
| Election | MLA (Party) |
MLA (Party) |
MLA (Party) |
MLA (Party) |
MLA (Party) |
MLA (Party) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Martin McGuinness (Sinn Féin) |
Mitchel McLaughlin (Sinn Féin) |
John Tierney (SDLP) |
Mark Durkan (SDLP) |
John Hume (SDLP) |
5 seats 1996-1998 | ||||||
| 1998 | Mary Nelis (Sinn Féin) |
William Hay (DUP) | ||||||||||
| December 2000 co-option |
Annie Courtney (SDLP) | |||||||||||
| 2003 | Pat Ramsey (SDLP) |
Mary Bradley (SDLP) | ||||||||||
| July 2004 co-option |
Raymond McCartney (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||
| 2007 | Martina Anderson (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||
| November 2010 co-option |
Pól Callaghan (SDLP) | |||||||||||
| 2011 | Mark H. Durkan (SDLP) |
Colum Eastwood (SDLP) | ||||||||||
| June 2012 co-option |
Maeve McLaughlin (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||
| October 2014 co-option |
Maurice Devenney (DUP) | |||||||||||
| April 2015 co-option |
Gary Middleton (DUP) | |||||||||||
| December 2015 co-option |
Gerard Diver (SDLP) | |||||||||||
| 2016 | Martin McGuinness (Sinn Féin) |
Eamonn McCann (PBP) | ||||||||||
| 2017 | Elisha McCallion (Sinn Féin) |
5 seats 2017-present | ||||||||||
| June 2017 co-option |
Karen Mullan (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||
| January 2020 co-option |
Sinead McLaughlin (SDLP) | |||||||||||
| February 2020 co-option |
Martina Anderson (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||
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
2017
| 2017 Assembly election: Foyle - 5 seats[1] | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Elisha McCallion | 20.6 | 9,205 | |||||||
| Sinn Féin | Raymond McCartney | 16.0 | 7,145 | 8,608.76 | ||||||
| SDLP | Colum Eastwood | 16.2 | 7,240 | 7,332.53 | 7,595.30 | |||||
| SDLP | Mark H. Durkan | 15.6 | 6,948 | 7,023.05 | 7,275.56 | 7,380.68 | 8,413.68 | |||
| DUP | Gary Middleton | 13.4 | 5,975 | 5,975 | 5,976.71 | 6,008.09 | 6,902.37 | 7,036.37 | ||
| People Before Profit | Eamonn McCann | 10.7 | 4,760 | 4,850.63 | 5,086.80 | 5,291.63 | 5,922.16 | 6,373.16 | ||
| UUP | Julia Kee | 3.7 | 1,660 | 1,661.52 | 1,668.93 | 1,704.50 | ||||
| Alliance | Colm Cavanagh | 2.5 | 1,124 | 1,132.93 | 1,179.67 | 1,295.22 | ||||
| Green (NI) | Shannon Downey | 0.5 | 242 | 244.09 | 264.42 | |||||
| CISTA | John Lindsay | 0.4 | 196 | 199.61 | 225.45 | |||||
| NI Conservatives | Stuart Canning | 0.2 | 77 | 77.19 | 78.90 | |||||
| Independent | Arthur McGuinness | 0.1 | 44 | 44.57 | 56.35 | |||||
| Electorate: 69,718 Valid: 44,616 Spoilt: 701 (1.55%) Quota: 7,437 Turnout: 65.00% (45,317) | ||||||||||
2016
| 2016 Assembly election: Foyle - 6 seats | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | Count 8 | ||
| DUP | Gary Middleton | 11.9 | 4,737 | 4,770 | 4,772 | 6,641 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | Raymond McCartney | 8.1 | 3,198 | 3,220 | 3,270 | 3,271 | 3,274 | 5,676 | ||||
| SDLP | Mark H. Durkan | 10.6 | 4,197 | 4,268 | 4,395 | 4,527 | 4,744 | 4,801 | 6,905 | |||
| SDLP | Colum Eastwood | 12.6 | 5,000 | 5,069 | 5,111 | 5,217 | 5,376 | 5,401 | 5,804 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Martin McGuinness | 12.7 | 5,037 | 5,070 | 5,168 | 5,175 | 5,176 | 5,656 | 5,712 | |||
| People Before Profit | Eamonn McCann | 10.5 | 4,176 | 4,354 | 4,551 | 4,635 | 4,720 | 4,779 | 4,927 | 5,394 | ||
| Independent | Dr. Anne McCloskey | 8.6 | 3,410 | 3,484 | 3,683 | 3,754 | 3,832 | 3,886 | 3,974 | 4,227 | ||
| SDLP | Gerard Diver | 6.8 | 2,700 | 2,743 | 2,797 | 2,974 | 3,239 | 3,249 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Maeve McLaughlin | 7.7 | 3,062 | 3,072 | 3,114 | 3,114 | 3,114 | |||||
| UUP | Julia Kee | 3.6 | 1,420 | 1,477 | 1,484 | |||||||
| Independent | Maurice Devenney | 3.0 | 1,173 | 1,190 | 1,213 | |||||||
| Independent | Kathleen Bradley | 2.3 | 902 | 928 | ||||||||
| CISTA | John Lindsay | 0.7 | 259 | |||||||||
| Alliance | Chris McCaw | 0.6 | 238 | |||||||||
| Green (NI) | Mary Hassan | 0.4 | 157 | |||||||||
| NI Conservatives | Alan Dunlop | 0.1 | 36 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 71,759 Valid: 39,702 Spoilt: 485 (1.21%) Quota: 5,672 Turnout: 58.00% | ||||||||||||
2011
| 2011 Assembly election: Foyle – 6 Seats | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | |||
| DUP | William Hay | 18.4 | 7,154 | |||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Martina Anderson | 17.9 | 6,950 | |||||||||
| SDLP | Mark H. Durkan | 12.8 | 4,970 | 5,832 | 5,484 | 5,794 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | Raymond McCartney | 9.4 | 3,638 | 3,642 | 3,904 | 4,044 | 4,102 | 4,116 | 6,245 | |||
| SDLP | Colum Eastwood | 7.6 | 2,967 | 3,069 | 3,101 | 3,403 | 5,377 | 5,501 | 5,563 | |||
| SDLP | Pat Ramsey | 8.1 | 3,138 | 3,683 | 3,717 | 4,089 | 4,554 | 4,626 | 4,876 | |||
| People Before Profit | Eamonn McCann | 8.0 | 3,120 | 3,209 | 3,255 | 3,587 | 3,698 | 3,720 | 3,916 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Paul Fleming | 6.7 | 2,612 | 2,616 | 3,434 | 3,503 | 3,607 | 3,615 | ||||
| SDLP | Pól Callaghan | 6.8 | 2,624 | 2,691 | 2,730 | 2,891 | ||||||
| Independent | Paul McFadden | 3.3 | 1,280 | 1,336 | 1,353 | |||||||
| Alliance | Keith McGrellis | 0.9 | 334 | 621 | 621 | |||||||
| Independent | Terry Doherty | 0.2 | 60 | 79 | 82 | |||||||
| Electorate: 68,663 Valid: 38,847 Spoilt: 839 (2.11) Quota: 5,550 Turnout: 57.80 | ||||||||||||
2007
| 2007 Assembly election: Foyle - 6 seats | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | Count 8 | Count 9 | Count 10 | ||
| DUP | William Hay | 17.0 | 6,960 | |||||||||||
| SDLP | Mark Durkan | 15.6 | 6,401 | |||||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Martina Anderson | 13.2 | 5,414 | 5,415.28 | 5,448.60 | 5,461.96 | 5,611.04 | 5,972.04 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | Raymond McCartney | 10.5 | 4,321 | 4,325.48 | 4,341.48 | 4,358.92 | 4,565.08 | 4,871.36 | 4,883.40 | 7,275.40 | ||||
| SDLP | Pat Ramsey | 7.9 | 3,242 | 3,279.44 | 3,356.04 | 3,458.44 | 3,617.24 | 4,018.84 | 4,826.28 | 5,049.64 | 5,367.64 | 5,395.99 | ||
| SDLP | Mary Bradley | 7.0 | 2,891 | 2,900.92 | 2,984.08 | 3,101.68 | 3,223.08 | 3,582.88 | 3,920.92 | 4,088.64 | 4,375.64 | 4,418.57 | ||
| SDLP | Helen Quigley | 6.5 | 2,648 | 2,660.80 | 2,752.12 | 2,963.32 | 3,154.36 | 3,520.20 | 3,949.08 | 4,072.60 | 4,277.60 | 4,314.05 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Lynn Fleming | 7.1 | 2,914 | 2,914.96 | 2,938.12 | 2,951.32 | 3,036.40 | 3,231.20 | 3,240.24 | |||||
| UUP | Peter Munce | 4.3 | 1,775 | 2,691.32 | 2,853.36 | 2,861.52 | 2,862.68 | 2,920.56 | ||||||
| Socialist Environmental | Eamonn McCann | 5.0 | 2,045 | 2,053.32 | 2,167.80 | 2,187.40 | 2,775.04 | |||||||
| Independent Republican | Peggy O'Hara | 4.4 | 1,789 | 1,789.48 | 1,808.48 | 1,811.68 | ||||||||
| Green (NI) | Adele Corry | 0.9 | 359 | 365.56 | ||||||||||
| Alliance | Yvonne Boyle | 0.5 | 224 | 231.52 | ||||||||||
| Independent Unionist | Willie Frazer | 0.2 | 73 | 99.72 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 64,889 Valid: 41,036 Spoilt: 419 (1.01%) Quota: 5,863 Turnout: 41,455 (63.9) | ||||||||||||||
2003
| 2003 Assembly election: Foyle - 6 seats | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | Count 8 | Count 9 | ||
| SDLP | Mark Durkan | 16.7 | 6,806 | ||||||||||
| DUP | William Hay | 15.0 | 6,101 | ||||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Mitchel McLaughlin | 14.8 | 6,036 | ||||||||||
| SDLP | Mary Bradley | 8.2 | 3,345 | 3,599.24 | 3,600.44 | 3,603.32 | 3,830.75 | 4,758.76 | 5,256.63 | 5,930.63 | |||
| SDLP | Pat Ramsey | 6.9 | 2,826 | 3,166.62 | 3,169.02 | 3,173.88 | 3,334.15 | 4,178.08 | 4,679.06 | 5,697.56 | 5,764.20 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Mary Nelis | 8.6 | 3,499 | 3,534.70 | 3,534.94 | 3,642.61 | 3,726.27 | 3,784.01 | 4,338.24 | 4,350.99 | 4,351.27 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Raymond McCartney | 9.0 | 3,679 | 3,701.12 | 3,701.24 | 3,754.25 | 3,818.43 | 3,882.87 | 4,324.40 | 4,341.40 | 4,342.80 | ||
| UUP | Mary Hamilton | 8.1 | 3,322 | 3,332.50 | 3,536.82 | 3,536.94 | 3,720.32 | 3,750.22 | 3,805.01 | ||||
| Socialist Environmental | Eamonn McCann | 5.5 | 2,257 | 2,288.64 | 2,289.68 | 2,294.51 | 2,488.09 | 2,586.03 | |||||
| SDLP | Gerard Diver | 4.3 | 1,769 | 1,978.30 | 1,979.94 | 1,982.43 | 2,152.55 | ||||||
| Independent | Annie Courtney | 2.0 | 802 | 835.18 | 843.26 | 845.57 | |||||||
| Alliance | Alan Castle | 0.6 | 227 | 231.62 | 233.14 | 233.26 | |||||||
| Independent | Danny McBrearty | 0.3 | 137 | 140.64 | 141.16 | 141.55 | |||||||
| Electorate: 65,303 Valid: 40,806 Spoilt: 630 Quota: 5,830 Turnout: 41,436 (63.5) | |||||||||||||
1998
| 1998 Assembly election: Foyle - 6 seats | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | Count 8 | |||
| SDLP | John Hume | 25.4 | 12,581 | ||||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Mitchel McLaughlin | 10.8 | 5,341 | 5,867.50 | 5,977 | 6,007.90 | 7,042.90 | ||||||
| SDLP | Mark Durkan | 8.9 | 4,423 | 6,403 | 6,523.40 | 6,812.90 | 6,873.65 | 6,979.90 | |||||
| SDLP | John Tierney | 7.6 | 3,778 | 5,295.40 | 5,349.65 | 5,457.20 | 5,494.60 | 5,600.60 | 7,812.60 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Mary Nelis | 7.0 | 3,464 | 3,592.25 | 3,643.20 | 3,659.35 | 3,838.30 | 6,210.20 | 6,593.85 | 7,171.85 | |||
| DUP | William Hay | 12.3 | 6,112 | 6,128.20 | 6,240.45 | 6,293.80 | 6,295.80 | 6,296.80 | 6,315.25 | 6,322.25 | |||
| UUP | Jack Allen | 9.4 | 4,669 | 4,714.90 | 4,920.05 | 5,353.70 | 5,354.60 | 5,355.60 | 5,501.25 | 5,698.25 | |||
| SDLP | Annie Courtney | 5.1 | 2,560 | 3,442.00 | 3,517.55 | 3,760.95 | 3,813.30 | 3,843.05 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Gearóid Ó Heára | 5.1 | 2,531 | 2,608.40 | 2,638.10 | 2,654.90 | 2,733.55 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | Lynn Fleming | 2.7 | 1,360 | 1,460.80 | 1,518.55 | 1,530.80 | |||||||
| Alliance | Colm Cavanagh | 2.1 | 1,058 | 1,200.65 | 1,347.35 | ||||||||
| Labour Party NI | Ken Adams | 0.7 | 345 | 403.95 | |||||||||
| PUP | Brian Gurney | 0.6 | 287 | 305 | |||||||||
| Green (NI) | Peter MacKenzie | 0.5 | 253 | 294.85 | |||||||||
| Natural Law | Donn Brennan | 0.1 | 32 | 36.50 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 68,888 Valid: 48,794 Spoilt: 810 Quota: 6,971 Turnout: 49,604 (72.0) | |||||||||||||
1996 Forum
Successful candidates are shown in bold.[2]
| Party | Candidate(s) | Votes | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SDLP | John Hume Mark Durkan John Tierney Pat Devine Mary Bradley |
19,997 | 44.3 | |
| Sinn Féin | Martin McGuinness Mitchel McLaughlin Mary Nelis Moira McCloskey Gary Fleming |
11,618 | 25.7 | |
| DUP | Gregory Campbell William Hay |
5,504 | 11.2 | |
| UUP | Jack Allen Richard Dallas Andrew Davidson |
4,553 | 10.1 | |
| Alliance | Aaron McCormack Gerry Lynch |
790 | 1.7 | |
| NI Women's Coalition | Margaret Logue Diane Greer Teresa Kelly |
695 | 1.5 | |
| PUP | Brian Gurney Paul Whitlock |
580 | 1.3 | |
| Labour coalition | Margaret Lawrence Jim Gannon Geraldine Quigley Tony Martin Patrick Muldowney |
544 | 1.2 | |
| Ulster Democratic | David Nicholl Thomas Stone |
497 | 1.1 | |
| UK Unionist | David Taylor Richard Jordan |
324 | 0.7 | |
| Green (NI) | Peter Doran Michael O'Kane Chloe Wilson |
194 | 0.4 | |
| NI Conservatives | Derek Sloan Elizabeth Sloan |
92 | 0.2 | |
| Workers' Party | Noel Lynch Alexander Doherty |
81 | 0.2 | |
| Ulster Independence | Donal Casey Ken Kerr |
65 | 0.1 | |
| Natural Law | Donn Brennan David Cooke |
41 | 0.1 | |
| Democratic Left | James Doody Brian Cullen |
40 | 0.1 | |
| Independent Chambers | Sydney Waddell Jason Angus |
22 | 0.1 | |
References
- "Statement of Persons Nominated". EONI. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
- 1996 Candidates – Foyle, Northern Ireland Elections
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