Foyle (Assembly constituency)

Coordinates: 55°03′07″N 7°14′42″W / 55.052°N 7.245°W / 55.052; -7.245

Foyle
County Constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly
Foyle shown within Northern Ireland
Districts	Derry City Council
Current constituency
Created	1996
Assembly Members	Maeve McLaughlin Gary Middleton Mark H. Durkan Colum Eastwood Raymond McCartney Gerard Diver

Foyle 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 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

Northern Ireland Forum (1996)

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

Election	Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)
1996		John Hume (SDLP)		Mark Durkan (SDLP)		John Tierney (SDLP)		Martin McGuinness (Sinn Féin)		Mitchel McLaughlin (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.

Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–present)

Election
1998	John Hume (SDLP)	Mark Durkan (SDLP)	John Tierney (SDLP)	William Hay (DUP)	Mitchel McLaughlin (Sinn Féin)	Mary Nelis (Sinn Féin)
December 2000 co-option	Annie Courtney (SDLP)		John Tierney (SDLP)
2003	Mary Bradley (SDLP)		Pat Ramsey (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)	Gary Middleton (DUP)

Elections

Northern Ireland Assembly

2016

2016 Assembly election
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1
	Independent	Kathleen Bradley
	Independent	Maurice Devenney
	SDLP	Gerard Diver
	NI Conservatives	Alan Dunlop
	SDLP	Mark H. Durkan
	SDLP	Colum Eastwood
	Green (NI)	Mary Hassan
	UUP	Julia Kee
	CISTA	John Lindsay
	People Before Profit	Eamonn McCann
	Sinn Féin	Raymond McCartney
	Alliance	Chris McCaw
	Independent	Dr. Ann McCloskey^[1]
	Sinn Féin	Martin McGuinness^[2]
	Sinn Féin	Maeve McLaughlin
	DUP	Gary Middleton
Electorate: - Valid: - Spoilt: - Quota: - Turnout: -

2011

2011 Assembly election: Foyle – 6 Seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	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
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	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 Quota: 5,863 Turnout: 41,455 (63.9)

2003

2003 Assembly election: Foyle - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	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
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	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.^[3]

	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

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Constituencies	Belfast East Belfast North Belfast South Belfast West East Antrim East Londonderry Fermanagh and South Tyrone Foyle Lagan Valley Mid Ulster Newry and Armagh North Antrim North Down South Antrim South Down Strangford Upper Bann West Tyrone

Parties	Current: Alliance Democratic Unionist Green NI21 Sinn Féin Social Democratic and Labour Traditional Unionist Voice UKIP Ulster Unionist

Elections	1998 2003 2007 2011 2016

Procedure	Cross-community vote

See also	Good Friday Agreement St Andrews Agreement

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