West Tyrone (Assembly constituency)

West Tyrone
County Constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly
West Tyrone shown within Northern Ireland
Districts	Omagh, Strabane
Current constituency
Created	1996
Assembly Members	Michaela Boyle Thomas Buchanan Daniel McCrossan Ross Hussey Declan McAleer Barry McElduff

West Tyrone 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 largely part of the Mid Ulster constituency with a smaller section coming from Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the West Tyrone UK Parliament constituency.

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

Members

Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–present)

Election	MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)
1998		Oliver Gibson (DUP)		Pat Doherty (Sinn Féin)		Barry McElduff (Sinn Féin)		Joe Byrne (SDLP)		Eugene McMenamin (SDLP)		Derek Hussey (UUP)
2003		Thomas Buchanan (DUP)						Kieran Deeny (Independent)
2007										Claire McGill (Sinn Féin)		Allan Bresland (DUP)
2011								Joe Byrne (SDLP)		Michaela Boyle (Sinn Féin)		Ross Hussey (UUP)
July 2012 co-option				Declan McAleer (Sinn Féin)
December 2015 co-option								Daniel McCrossan (SDLP)

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.

Northern Ireland Forum (1996)

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

• Joe Byrne – Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Oliver Gibson – Democratic Unionist Party
• Derek Hussey – Ulster Unionist Party
• Barry McElduff – Sinn Féin
• Paddy McGowan- Social Democratic and Labour Party

Elections

2016 Assembly election
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1
	SDLP	Daniel McCrossan
	Sinn Féin	Barry McElduff
	Sinn Féin	Grace McDermott
	Sinn Féin	Michaela Boyle
	Sinn Féin	Declan McAleer
	UUP	Ross Hussey
	Independent	Corey French

Northern Ireland Assembly

2011 Assembly election: West Tyrone
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Sinn Féin	Barry McElduff	15.3	6,008
	Sinn Féin	Pat Doherty	14.3	5,630	5,630	5,630	5,630	5,630
	Sinn Féin	Michaela Boyle	12.8	5,053	5,089.30	5,445.94	7,791.94
	DUP	Thomas Buchanan	12.8	5,027	5,027.42	5,133.66	5,143.80	5,162.80
	UUP	Ross Hussey	10.4	4,072	4,073.08	4,365.88	4,394.94	4,397.94
	DUP	Allan Bresland	10.3	4,059	4,059.18	4,115.18	4,116.78	4,123.78
	SDLP	Joe Byrne	8.5	3,353	3,372.08	4,555.86	4,918.98	5,320.98
	Sinn Féin	Declan McAleer	7.7	3,008	3,372.90	3,576.40
	Independent	Paddy McGowan	2.9	1,145	1,158.92
	Independent	Eugene McMenamin	2.8	1,096	1,099.18
	Alliance	Eric Bullick	2.2	852	854.04
Electorate: 62,970   Valid: 39,303   Spoilt: 1,020   Quota: 5,615   Turnout: 40,323 (64.0%)

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	Sinn Féin	Barry McElduff	6,971	Elected	1
	Sinn Féin	Pat Doherty	6,709	Elected	1
	Sinn Féin	Claire McGill	4,757	Elected	3
	DUP	Thomas Buchanan	4,625	Elected	6
	DUP	Allan Bresland	4,244	Elected	7
	Independent	Kieran Deeny	3,776	Elected	7
	UUP	Derek Hussey	3,686	Not elected	5
	SDLP	Josephine Deehan	2,689	Not elected	7
	SDLP	Eugene McMenamin	2,272	Not elected	5
	SDLP	Seamus Shields	1,057	Not elected	4
	(Republican Sinn Féin)	Joe O'Neill	448	Not elected	4
	UK Unionist	Robert McCartney	220	Not elected	4

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2003
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	Independent	Kieran Deeny	6,158	Elected	1
	Sinn Féin	Pat Doherty	6,019	Elected	1
	Sinn Féin	Barry McElduff	5,642	Elected	8
	DUP	Thomas Buchanan	4,739	Elected	5
	Sinn Féin	Brian McMahon	4,450	Not elected
	UUP	Derek Hussey	3,733	Elected	6
	SDLP	Eugene McMenamin	3,465	Elected	8
	SDLP	Joe Byrne	2,645	Not elected
	DUP	Derek Reaney	2,547	Not elected
	UUP	Bert Wilson	1,934	Not elected
	PUP	Roy Reid	233	Not elected
	Alliance	Steven Alexander	164	Not elected

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	DUP	Oliver Gibson	8,015	Elected
	Sinn Féin	Pat Doherty	7,027	Elected
	SDLP	Joe Byrne	6,495	Elected
	Sinn Féin	Barry McElduff	4,963	Elected
	UUP	Derek Hussey	4,622	Elected
	Sinn Féin	Seamus Devine	3,676	Not elected
	SDLP	Eugene McMenamin	3,548	Elected
	UUP	Alastair Patterson	2,615	Not elected
	SDLP	Pat McDonnell	1,772	Not elected
	Independent Community Candidate	Paddy McGowan	1,269	Not elected
	Alliance	Ann Gormley	1,011	Not elected
	Independent	Johnny McLaughlin	570	Not elected
	Independent	Laurence O'Kane	171	Not elected
	Workers' Party	Tommy Owens	157	Not elected
	Natural Law	Robert Johnstone	40	Not elected

1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.

Party		Candidates	Votes	Percentage
	SDLP	Joe Byrne Paddy McGowan Ignatius Murtagh Seamus Shields	11,622	28.4
	Sinn Féin	Barry McElduff Patrick McMahon Francis Mackey Patrick Watters Padraigin Ui Mhurdchadha	11,516	28.1
	UUP	Derek Hussey William Oldcroft Edward Turner Desmond Anderson James Emery	7,327	13.9
	DUP	Oliver Gibson Thomas Kerrigan	6,727	16.4
	Alliance	Ann Gormley Elizabeth McCaffrey John Devine	1,081	2.6
	Labour coalition	John McLaughlin Michael Duffy Anton McCabe Manus Maguire	792	1.9
	Ulster Democratic	Thomas Lowry Stephen Taylor	397	1.0
	UK Unionist	Dennis Wickersham John McNeil	292	0.7
	PUP	Eileen Ward George McDermott	238	0.6
	NI Women's Coalition	Helena Schlindwein Maria McGilloway Frances Donaghy	185	0.5
	Workers' Party	Hugh Mullan John Doherty	169	0.4
	Green (NI)	Ben Ryan Carolyn Bell Donald Spencer	158	0.4
	Democratic Left	P. J. McClean Teresa McVeigh Mary Veronica McElroy Martin McCay	130	0.3
	Conservative	Lindsay Cumming Julian Robertson	119	0.3
	Ulster Independence	Sandra Jones Stanley Hayes Richard Button	107	0.3
	Natural Law	John McCallen Denis Nelson	45	0.1
	Independent Chambers	Mandy Beattie Heather Ewart	30	0.1