Newry and Armagh (UK Parliament constituency)
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Newry and Armagh | |
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County constituency for the House of Commons |
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![]() Boundary of Newry and Armagh in Northern Ireland.
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Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of parliament | Mickey Brady (Sinn Féin) |
Created from | Armagh |
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European Parliament constituency | Northern Ireland |
Newry and Armagh is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.
Contents
Boundaries
1983–1997: The District of Newry and Mourne wards of Ballybot, Belleek, Bessbrook, Camlough, Creggan, Crossmaglen, Daisy Hill, Derrymore, Drumalane, Drumgullion, Fathom, Forkhill, Newtownhamilton, St Mary's, St Patrick's, Tullyhappy, and Windsor Hill; and the District of Armagh.
1997–present: The District of Newry and Mourne wards of Ballybot, Bessbrook, Camlough, Creggan, Crossmaglen, Daisy Hill, Derrymore, Drumgullion, Drumalane, Fathom, Forkhill, Newtownhamilton, Silver Bridge, St Mary's, St Patrick's, Tullyhappy, and Windsor Hill; and the District of Armagh.
The seat was created in boundary changes in 1983, as part of an expansion of Northern Ireland's constituencies from 12 to 17, and was predominantly made up from the old Armagh constituency with the addition of Newry town from the old South Down constituency. In 1995, the Boundary Commission originally proposed to abolish the seat with the Armagh district joining most of Dungannon in a new 'Blackwater' constituency with the rest becoming part of a new Newry and Mourne constituency. This was strongly opposed during the local enquiries and the eventual boundary review left the seat unchanged. It contains the entirety of Armagh district and the Newry half of Newry and Mourne district.
History
For the history of the equivalent constituency prior to 1983, please see Armagh.
The constituency is overwhelmingly nationalist, though initially on its creation in 1983 Jim Nicholson of the Ulster Unionist Party won the seat due to the nationalist vote being divided between the Social Democratic and Labour Party and Sinn Féin. In 1986 Nicholson, along with all the other unionist MPs, resigned his seat in protest over the Anglo Irish Agreement and stood in a by-election to provide voters the opportunity to decide on it. However the nationalist parties contested the seat and Seamus Mallon of the SDLP gained sufficient votes to outpoll Nicholson and win the seat. Mallon held it until his retirement in 2005.
The unionist vote in the constituency has declined somewhat in recent years, with the shift being more marked as both the Ulster Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party now stand. The main attention has been upon the rise of the Sinn Féin vote. In the 2001 they surged forward, cutting Mallon's majority drastically, as well as heavily outpolling the SDLP in the equivalent area local elections held on the same day. Then in the 2003 Assembly election Sinn Féin won three seats to the SDLP's one. Mallon stood down at the 2005 general election and, as widely predicted, the seat fell to Sinn Féin.
Members of Parliament
The Member of Parliament since the 2015 general election is Mickey Brady of Sinn Féin. He succeeded his party colleague Conor Murphy who had gained the seat from the SDLP in 2005.
Election | Member[1] | Party | |
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1983 | Jim Nicholson | Ulster Unionist | |
1986 by-election | Seamus Mallon | SDLP | |
2005 | Conor Murphy | Sinn Féin | |
2015 | Mickey Brady | Sinn Féin |
Election results
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Sinn Féin | Mickey Brady | 20,488 | 41.1 | -0.9 | |
UUP | Danny Kennedy[4] | 16,312 | 32.7 | +13.6 | |
SDLP | Justin McNulty | 12,026 | 24.1 | +0.7 | |
Alliance | Kate Nicholl | 841 | 1.7 | +0.5 | |
NI Conservatives | Robert Rigby | 210 | 0.4 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 4,176 | 8.4 | -10.2 | ||
Turnout | 49,877 | 64.2 | +3.8 | ||
Sinn Féin hold | Swing | -7.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Sinn Féin | Conor Murphy | 18,857 | 42.0 | -0.9 | |
SDLP | Dominic Bradley | 10,526 | 23.4 | −1.8 | |
UCU-NF | Danny Kennedy | 8,558 | 19.1 | +5.2 | |
DUP | William Irwin | 5,764 | 12.8 | −5.6 | |
Independent | Willie Frazer | 656 | 1.5 | +1.5 | |
Alliance | Andrew Muir | 545 | 1.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 8,331 | 18.6 | +2.4 | ||
Turnout | 44,906 | 60.4 | −9.6 | ||
Sinn Féin hold | Swing | +1.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Sinn Féin | Conor Murphy | 20,965 | 41.4 | +10.5 | |
SDLP | Dominic Bradley | 12,770 | 25.2 | −12.2 | |
DUP | Paul Berry | 9,311 | 18.4 | −1.0 | |
UUP | Danny Kennedy | 7,025 | 13.9 | +1.6 | |
Independent | Gerry Markey | 625 | 1.2 | +1.2 | |
Majority | 8,195 | 16.2 | |||
Turnout | 50,696 | 70.0 | −6.8 | ||
Sinn Féin gain from SDLP | Swing | +11.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | Seamus Mallon | 20,784 | 37.4 | −5.6 | |
Sinn Féin | Conor Murphy | 17,209 | 30.9 | +9.9 | |
DUP | Paul Berry | 10,795 | 19.4 | N/A | |
UUP | Sylvia McRoberts | 6,833 | 12.3 | −21.5 | |
Majority | 3,575 | 6.4 | |||
Turnout | 55,621 | 76.8 | +1.3 | ||
SDLP hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | Seamus Mallon | 22,904 | 43.0 | −6.3 | |
UUP | Danny Kennedy | 18,015 | 33.8 | −2.4 | |
Sinn Féin | Patrick D. McNamee | 11,218 | 21.1 | +8.6 | |
Alliance | Pete W.R. Whitcroft | 1,015 | 1.9 | +0.0 | |
Natural Law | David Evans | 123 | 0.2 | N/A | |
Majority | 4,889 | 9.2 | |||
Turnout | 53,275 | 75.4 | −2.5 | ||
SDLP hold | Swing | −2.0 |
1997 Changes are compared to the 1992 notional results shown below.[10]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | N/A | 25,740 | 49.3 | N/a | |
UUP | N/A | 18,930 | 36.3 | N/A | |
Sinn Féin | N/A | 6,530 | 12.5 | N/A | |
Alliance | N/A | 972 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,810 | 13.1 | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | Seamus Mallon | 26,073 | 49.6 | +1.5 | |
UUP | Jim Speers | 18,982 | 36.1 | −1.8 | |
Sinn Féin | Brendan P. Curran | 6,547 | 12.5 | +0.7 | |
Alliance | Eileen Bell | 972 | 1.8 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 7,091 | 13.5 | |||
Turnout | 52,574 | 77.9 | -1.3 | ||
SDLP hold | Swing | +1.7 |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | Seamus Mallon | 25,137 | 48.1 | +11.3 | |
UUP | James Frederick Nicholson | 19,812 | 37.9 | −2.1 | |
Sinn Féin | Jim McAllister | 6,173 | 11.8 | −9.1 | |
Alliance | William Henry Jeffrey | 664 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Workers' Party | Gerard O'Hanlon | 482 | 0.9 | −1.4 | |
Majority | 5,325 | 10.2 | +6.9 | ||
Turnout | 52,268 | 79.2 | +3.2 | ||
SDLP gain from UUP | Swing | +6.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | Seamus Mallon | 22,694 | 45.5 | +3.7 | |
UUP | James Frederick Nicholson | 20,111 | 40.3 | +0.2 | |
Sinn Féin | Jim McAllister | 6,609 | 13.2 | −7.7 | |
Workers' Party | Patrick McCusker | 515 | 1.0 | −1.2 | |
Majority | 2,583 | 5.2 | |||
Turnout | 49,929 | 76.9 | |||
SDLP gain from UUP | Swing | +4.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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UUP | James Frederick Nicholson | 18,988 | 40.0 | N/A | |
SDLP | Seamus Mallon | 17,434 | 36.8 | N/A | |
Sinn Féin | Jim McAllister | 9,928 | 20.9 | N/A | |
Workers' Party | Thomas O. Moore | 1,070 | 2.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 1,554 | 3.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 47,420 | 76.0 | N/A | ||
UUP win (new seat) |
See also
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1983
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- Politics of Newry
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