Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Assembly constituency)

54.542°N 7.309°W / 54.542; -7.309

Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Northern Ireland Assembly Parliamentary constituency
Fermanagh and South Tyrone shown within Northern Ireland
Current constituency
Created	1973
Seats	5 (2017–) 6 (1996–2016)
MLAs	Jemma Dolan (SF)   Diana Armstrong (UUP)   Deborah Erskine (DUP)   Colm Gildernew (SF)   Áine Murphy (SF)
Districts	Fermanagh and Omagh District Council Mid Ulster District Council
Boundaries

Fermanagh and South Tyrone is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

It was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election in 1973, which elected the then Northern Ireland Assembly. It usually shares boundaries with the Fermanagh and South Tyrone UK Parliament constituency. However, the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 (because 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.

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

Members

Election	MLA (party)		MLA (party)		MLA (party)		MLA (party)		MLA (party)		MLA (party)
1973	5 seats 1996–1998			Thomas Daly (SDLP)		Austin Currie (SDLP)		John Taylor (UUP)		Harry West (UUP)		Ernest Baird (Vanguard)
1975								John McKay (UUP)
1982				Owen Carron (Sinn Féin)				Raymond Ferguson (UUP)		Ken Maginnis (UUP)		Ivan Foster (DUP)
1996				Gerry McHugh (Sinn Féin)		Tommy Gallagher (SDLP)		Sam Foster (UUP)				Maurice Morrow (DUP)
1998		Michelle Gildernew (Sinn Féin)								Joan Carson (UUP)
2003				Tom O'Reilly (Sinn Féin)				Tom Elliott (UUP)		Arlene Foster (UUP/ DUP)
2007				Gerry McHugh (Sinn Féin)
2011				Seán Lynch (Sinn Féin)		Phil Flanagan (Sinn Féin)
July 2012 co-option		Bronwyn McGahan (Sinn Féin)
June 2015 co-option								Neil Somerville (UUP)
January 2016 co-option								Alastair Patterson (UUP)
2016		Michelle Gildernew (Sinn Féin)				Richie McPhillips (SDLP)		Rosemary Barton (UUP)
2017						Jemma Dolan (Sinn Féin)					5 seats 2017–present
June 2017 co-option		Colm Gildernew (Sinn Féin)
July 2021 co-option				Áine Murphy (Sinn Féin)
October 2021 co-option										Deborah Erskine (DUP)
2022								Tom Elliott (UUP)
September 2024 co-option								Diana Armstrong (UUP)

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

Northern Ireland Assembly

2022

2022 Assembly election: Fermanagh and South Tyrone – 5 seats^[1]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Sinn Féin	Jemma Dolan	16.87%	9,067
	UUP	Tom Elliott	10.12%	5,442	5,497	5,497	7,607	8,112	9,007
	Sinn Féin	Colm Gildernew	14.07%	7,562	7,865	7,898	7,904	8,124	8,128	8,129	9,279
	Sinn Féin	Áine Murphy	13.73%	7,379	7,644	7,691	7,693	7,815	7,816	7,816	9,104
	DUP	Deborah Erskine	9.80%	5,272	5,333	5,333	5,469	5,532	6,536	6,564	6,695
	DUP	Paul Bell	7.91%	4,255	4,301	4,301	4,693	4,788	6,033	6,050	6,187
	SDLP	Adam Gannon	7.13%	3,836	4,394	4,402	4,439	5,987	6,027	6,029
	TUV	Alex Elliott	5.75%	3,091	3,165	3,165	3,288	3,351
	Alliance	Matthew Beaumont	4.81%	2,583	3,024	3,026	3,151
	UUP	Rosemary Barton	5.41%	2,912	2,959	2,959
	Aontú	Denise Mullen	1.72%	927
	Labour Alternative	Donal O'Cofaigh	1.12%	602
	Green (NI)	Kellie Turtle	0.62%	335
	Independent	Emma DeSouza	0.46%	249
	Independent	Derek Backhouse	0.23%	128
	People Before Profit	Emmett Kilpatrick	0.19%	103
Electorate: 78,963   Valid: 53,743 (68.06%)   Spoilt: 817   Quota: 8,958   Turnout: 54,560 (69.09%)

2017

2017 Assembly election: Fermanagh and South Tyrone – 5 seats^[2]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	DUP	Arlene Foster	16.22%	8,479	8,745
	Sinn Féin	Michelle Gildernew	15.28%	7,987	8,228	9,385
	Sinn Féin	Jemma Dolan	14.86%	7,767	8,023	8,928
	UUP	Rosemary Barton	11.60%	6,060	6,863	8,334	8,442
	Sinn Féin	Seán Lynch	11.97%	6,254	6,338	7,174	7,717
	DUP	Maurice Morrow	13.59%	7,102	7,332	7,405	7,411
	SDLP	Richie McPhillips	9.82%	5,134	6,276
	Alliance	Noreen Campbell	2.75%	1,437
	TUV	Alex Elliott	1.49%	780
	Labour Alternative	Donal Ó Cófaigh	1.23%	643
	Green (NI)	Tanya Jones	1.05%	550
	NI Conservatives	Richard Dunn	0.13%	70
Electorate: 73,100   Valid: 52,263 (71.50%)   Spoilt: 812   Quota: 8,711   Turnout: 53,075 (72.61%)

2016

2016 Assembly election: Fermanagh and South Tyrone – 6 seats^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	DUP	Arlene Foster	18.66%	8,801
	DUP	Maurice Morrow	13.99%	6,602	8,072.85
	Sinn Féin	Michelle Gildernew	14.02%	6,614	6,625.73	6,628.37	6,838.37
	UUP	Rosemary Barton	6.40%	3,018	3,302.74	3,973.08	4,750.48	4,759.94	7,659.94
	Sinn Féin	Seán Lynch	10.14%	4,782	4,784.07	4,784.95	4,845.56	6,551.02	6,557.81	6,565.81
	SDLP	Richie McPhillips	8.51%	4,014	4,032.63	4,049.35	4,653.84	4,823.53	5,205.63	6,107.23
	Sinn Féin	John Feely	8.48%	4,002	4,003.15	4,004.25	4,088.08	5,581.91	5,585.57	5,590.37
	UUP	Alastair Patterson	6.38%	3,010	3,140.41	3,563.25	4,205.18	4,207.18
	Sinn Féin	Phil Flanagan	7.31%	3,449	3,452.45	3,452.67	3,510.97
	TUV	Donald Crawford	2.47%	1,164	1,223.11	1,381.95
	Green (NI)	Tanya Jones	1.90%	897	908.73	919.73
	Alliance	Kerri Blyberg	1.14%	539	545.21	552.91
	NI Labour	Damien Harris	0.60%	285	287.07	290.37
Electorate: 74,257   Valid: 47,177 (63.53%)   Spoilt: 757   Quota: 6,740   Turnout: 47,934 (64.55%)

2011

2011 Assembly election: Fermanagh and South Tyrone – 6 seats^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Sinn Féin	Michelle Gildernew	18.98%	9,110
	UUP	Tom Elliott	14.37%	6,896
	DUP	Arlene Foster	14.33%	6,876
	DUP	Maurice Morrow	10.09%	4,844	4,849.46	4,910.98	5,324.24	7,229.24
	Sinn Féin	Seán Lynch	10.72%	5,146	6,247.1	6,278.52	6,469	6,475.04	6,476.04
	Sinn Féin	Phil Flanagan	10.59%	5,082	5,781.66	5,799	6,109.2	6,127.72	6,136.72
	SDLP	Tommy Gallagher	9.60%	4,606	4,947.64	5,304.08	5,639.22	5,940.74	6,074.74
	UUP	Kenny Donaldson	4.93%	2,366	2,368.6	2,525.86	3,200.64
	TUV	Alex Elliott	2.56%	1,231	1,231.78	1,249.78
	Independent	Pat Cox	2.08%	997	1,049	1,104.78
	Alliance	Hannah Su	1.76%	845	871.78
Electorate: 70,985   Valid: 47,999 (67.62%)   Spoilt: 942   Quota: 6,858   Turnout: 48,941 (68.95%)

2007

2007 Assembly election: Fermanagh and South Tyrone – 6 seats^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	DUP	Arlene Foster	15.37%	7,138
	Sinn Féin	Michelle Gildernew	15.13%	7,026
	UUP	Tom Elliott	14.22%	6,603	6,680.42
	SDLP	Tommy Gallagher	9.56%	4,440	4,441.54	4,463.64	4,464.28	4,466.32	4,769.34	6,640
	DUP	Maurice Morrow	10.12%	4,700	5,098.23	5,098.58	5,120.18	5,304.03	5,333.26	5,345.57	7,013.57
	Sinn Féin	Gerry McHugh	10.99%	5,103	5,103	5,277.1	5,277.1	5,278.25	5,665.8	5,747.25	5,776.64
	Sinn Féin	Seán Lynch	10.13%	4,704	4,704.42	4,819.92	4,819.96	4,821.96	5,066.91	5,139.16	5,188.38
	UUP	Kenny Donaldson	5.45%	2,531	2,544.09	2,544.44	2,563.52	2,676.46	2,823.64	2,887.01
	SDLP	Vincent Currie	4.40%	2,043	2,043.56	2,065.26	2,065.34	2,069.46	2,260.76
	Ind. Republican	Gerry McGeough	1.75%	814	814	824.8	824.8	826.8
	Alliance	Allan Leonard	1.12%	521	521.49	522.79	522.83	535.94
	Republican Sinn Féin	Michael McManus	0.93%	431	431.21	432.36	432.4	432.4
	UK Unionist	Robert McCartney	0.84%	388	393.39	393.64	395
Electorate: 65,826   Valid: 46,442 (70.55%)   Spoilt: 403   Quota: 6,635   Turnout: 46,845 (71.16%)

2003

2003 Assembly election: Fermanagh and South Tyrone – 6 seats^[6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	UUP	Tom Elliott	13.39%	6,181	6,284	7,372
	SDLP	Tommy Gallagher	10.26%	4,735	4,984	5,003	5,034.95	7,359.95
	Sinn Féin	Michelle Gildernew	14.06%	6,489	6,562	6,565	6,565	6,719
	UUP	Arlene Foster	10.70%	4,938	5,004	5,868	6,564.51	6,599.51
	DUP	Maurice Morrow	11.99%	5,536	5,546	5,670	5,684.2	5,689.91	8,669.91
	Sinn Féin	Tom O'Reilly	10.87%	5,019	5,049	5,051	5,051	5,143	5,152	5,240	5,473.64
	Sinn Féin	Gerry McHugh	9.52%	4,393	4,432	4,436	4,436	4,594	4,602.71	4,691.71	5,211.5
	DUP	Bert Johnston	6.70%	3,094	3,113	3,133	3,139.39	3,162.81
	SDLP	Frank Britton	6.01%	2,772	2,978	2,994	3,011.75
	UUP	Robert Mulligan	4.57%	2,110	2,149
	NI Women's Coalition	Eithne McNulty	1.41%	650
	Alliance	Linda Cleland	0.53%	243
Electorate: 64,336   Valid: 46,160 (71.75%)   Spoilt: 713   Quota: 6,595   Turnout: 46,873 (72.86%)

1998

1998 Assembly election: Fermanagh and South Tyrone – 6 seats^[7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	SDLP	Tommy Gallagher	15.94%	8,135
	UUP	Sam Foster	10.95%	5,589	5,686	5,690.2	5,859.9	7,494.9
	Sinn Féin	Gerry McHugh	10.69%	5,459	5,481	5,576	5,886	5,899.3	5,914.5	9,096.5
	Sinn Féin	Michelle Gildernew	9.21%	4,703	4,712	4,755.3	4,893.6	4,894.6	4,896.6	5,168.8	6,894.55	8,501.55
	DUP	Maurice Morrow	7.81%	3,987	3,999	4,001.8	4,011.1	4,097.1	6,522.3	6,525.6	6,527.37	6,595.06	6,627.06
	UUP	Joan Carson	8.62%	4,400	4,480	4,482.7	4,619.3	5,253.8	5,495.2	5,497.6	5,498.19	6,141.32	6,582.32
	UK Unionist	Jim Dixon	8.35%	4,262	4,268	4,268.5	4,299.8	4,365.9	4,879	4,883.1	4,884.28	4,957.84	5,000.84
	SDLP	Olive Mullen	5.63%	2,872	2,962	3,485.4	4,302.7	4,338.1	4,352.4	4,482.3	4,548.38
	Sinn Féin	Pat Treanor	6.96%	3,552	3,559	3,585	3,707.7	3,711.3	3,711.3
	DUP	Bert Johnston	6.06%	3,095	3,102	3,103.3	3,119.9	3,309.2
	UUP	Bertie Kerr	5.06%	2,583	2,633	2,636.7	2,720
	NI Women's Coalition	Marie Crawley	3.39%	1,729	1,982	2,071.3
	Alliance	Stephen Farry	1.20%	614
	Natural Law	Simeon Gillan	0.12%	63
Electorate: 65,383   Valid: 51,043 (78.07%)   Spoilt: 880   Quota: 7,292   Turnout: 51,923 (79.41%)

1996 forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.^[8]

Party		Candidate(s)	Votes	Percentage
	UUP	Ken Maginnis Sam Foster Joan Carson Bertie Kerr	15,542	32.3
	Sinn Féin	Gerry McHugh Michelle Gildernew Robin Martin Vincent Kelly Pat Trainor	11,666	24.2
	SDLP	Tommy Gallagher Anthony McGonnell Anne McQuillan Vincent Currie Mary Flanagan	10,399	21.6
	DUP	Maurice Morrow Joseph Dodds	6,589	13.7
	Alliance	Stephen Farry Julie Greaves	831	1.7
	UK Unionist	Muriel Boston Robert Peden	468	1.0
	Ulster Democratic	Raymond Gilliland Paul Longman	464	1.0
	NI Women's Coalition	Roisin Keenan Audrey Johnston Florence Ellis	461	1.0
	PUP	Tracy Gould Paul Ferguson	410	0.9
	Labour coalition	Ciaran Molloy Patrick Mulholland Nigel Cooke	297	0.6
	Green (NI)	Roy Hadden Roy Johnston Peg Alexander	208	0.4
	Workers' Party	Tommy Owens Marian Donnelly	199	0.4
	Ulster Independence	Simon Dilworth Stuart Boyd	189	0.4
	Democratic Left	Gerry Cullen Doris Wray	128	0.3
	Independent McMullan	Philip McClinchey Ann McDermott	118	0.2
	NI Conservatives	William Quin Eric Milligan	113	0.2
	Independent Chambers	William Chambers May Blayney	36	0.1
	Natural Law	Charles Cunningham Simeon Gillen Peter Lavery	23	0.0

1982

1982 Assembly election: Fermanagh and South Tyrone – 5 seats^[9]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Sinn Féin	Owen Carron	23.70%	14,025
	UUP	Ken Maginnis	17.10%	10,117
	UUP	Raymond Ferguson	9.93%	5,877	5,884.5	6,215.8	6,268.1	6,966.1	6,976.1	9,403.1	9,921.1
	SDLP	Austin Currie	11.49%	6,800	7,093.1	7,259.4	7,717.5	7,758.1	8,374.4	8,303.1	8,387.1	12,401.7
	DUP	Ivan Foster	7.31%	4,324	4,327.6	4,341.6	4,349.6	4,955.6	4,956.6	5,141.6	8,069.9	8,113.7	8,145.7
	Sinn Féin	Francie Molloy	4.56%	2,700	6,096.3	6,108.5	6,414.4	6,426.7	6,527.8	6,536.4	6,539.7	6,847.8	7,602.8
	SDLP	Joseph Maguire	4.92%	2,912	3,059.9	3,167.7	3,460.5	3,467.5	5,179.3	5,196.3	5,201.6
	DUP	Bert Johnston	5.01%	2,965	2,965.9	2,985.9	2,990.2	3,336.2	3,337.2	3,559.2
	UUP	Cecil Noble	4.39%	2,597	2,601.8	2,683.8	2,706.1	2,964.4	2,970.4
	SDLP	Fergus McQuillan	3.87%	2,288	2,399.6	2,447.9	2,633.9	2,633.9
	UUUP	Ernest Baird	3.40%	2,010	2,011.5	2,040.5	2,049.8
	Workers' Party	Tommy Owens	2.36%	1,394	1,480.7	1,724.3
	Alliance	John Haslett	1.98%	1,171	1,177.3
Electorate: 73,930   Valid: 59,180 (80.05%)   Spoilt: 2,171   Quota: 9,864   Turnout: 61,351 (82.99%)

1975

1975 Constitutional Convention: Fermanagh and South Tyrone – 5 seats^[10]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	UUP	Harry West	24.36%	12,922
	SDLP	Austin Currie	18.82%	9,984
	Vanguard	Ernie Baird	15.21%	8,067	9,706.28
	SDLP	Thomas Daly	13.47%	7,145	7,147.79	8,063.98	8,063.98	8,103.66	8,708.95	9,322.95
	UUP	John McKay	6.02%	3,194	5,111.66	5,113.2	5,487.12	5,817.15	5,825.75	6,365.48	6,376.26	9,836.48
	SDLP	Thomas Murray	7.81%	4,143	4,153.85	4,239.54	4,239.86	4,254.62	4,559.72	4,741.67	5,108.19	5,123.19
	DUP	David Calvert	6.39%	3,389	3,636.07	3.636.51	4,052.99	4,212.2	4,213.45	4,485.99	4,496.77
	Alliance	Bill Barbour	2.76%	1,464	1,492.21	1,506.07	1,514.71	2,179.7	2,261.51
	Republican Clubs	Eugene Lyttle	2.83%	1,501	1,503.48	1,547.15	1,548.11	1,594.83
	Unionist Party NI	George Cathcart	2.35%	1,245	1,358.15	1,359.8	1,392.6
Electorate: 70,344   Valid: 53,054 (75.42%)   Spoilt: 2,122   Quota: 8,843   Turnout: 55,176 (78.44%)

Note: Ernie Baird, David Calvert, John McKay and Harry West were all UUUC-endorsed candidates.

1973

1973 Assembly election: Fermanagh and South Tyrone – 5 seats^[11]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SDLP	Austin Currie	19.35%	11,016
	Vanguard	Ernest Baird	14.85%	8,456	8,517	8,517.56	10,081.56
	UUP	John Taylor	14.77%	8,410	8,469	8,469.7	8,712.84	9,131.88	9,338.8	9,779.8
	SDLP	Thomas Daly	13.19%	7,511	7,552	8,324.8	8,329.08	8,329.08	8,694.22	9,360.5
	UUP	Harry West	14.40%	8,198	8,252	8,252.84	8,336.84	8,491.4	8,674.02	9,084.44
	SDLP	David McQuillan	7.16%	4,074	4,080	4,558.8	4,558.8	4,559.28	4,792.98	5,175.92
	Republican Clubs	James McQuaid	5.13%	2,923	2,930	3,046.62	3,049.76	3,050.24	3,109.64	3,561.4
	Independent	Jack Hassard	3.53%	2,008	2,068	2,190.36	2,209.36	2,219.92	3,076.86
	Alliance	Patrick Reimill	3.44%	1,960	2,028	2,050.4	2,067.54	2,070.9
	DUP	William Mitchell	3.47%	1,974	1,992	1,992.98
	Independent	David Brien	0.70%	396
Electorate: 68,733   Valid: 56,926 (82.82%)   Spoilt: 1,222   Quota: 9,488   Turnout: 58,148 (84.60%)

Note: Austin Currie, John Taylor and Harry West were all members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland when it was prorogued in 1972.