Londonderry (Assembly constituency)

Coordinates: 54°55′19″N 6°57′11″W / 54.922°N 6.953°W / 54.922; -6.953

Londonderry was a constituency used for the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. Members were then elected from the constituency to the 1975 Constitutional Convention and the 1982 Assembly. After the Assembly dissolved in 1986, the constituency was not used again, its area being represented by parts of East Londonderry, Foyle and Mid Ulster.

It usually shared boundaries with the Londonderry UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 as the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes.

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

Members

In 1982, elections were held for an Assembly for Northern Ireland to hold the Secretary of State to account, in the hope that this would be the first step towards restoring devolution. The seven members elected from the Londonderry constituency were:

In 1975 elections were held to a Constitutional Convention which sought (unsuccessfully) to generate a consensus on the future of the province. The seven members elected from the Londonderry constituency were:

In 1973 elections were held to the Assembly set up under the Sunningdale Agreement. The seven members elected from the Londonderry constituency were:

Glenn Barr Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
Michael Canavan Social Democratic and Labour Party
Sheena Conn Ulster Unionist Party anti Sunningdale
William Douglas Ulster Unionist Party anti Sunningdale
John Hume Social Democratic and Labour Party
Hugh Logue Social Democratic and Labour Party
Leslie Morrell Ulster Unionist Party pro Sunningdale

Elections

1982

Assembly Election – 20 October 1982
Party		Candidate	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12
	SDLP	John Hume	12282
	Sinn Féin	Martin McGuinness	8207	8207	8207	8207	8207
	DUP	James McClure	6857	6861	6864	6871	6875	6875	7061	7877	7992	8827	8827	8827
	UUP	Jack Allen	6107	6110	6111	6113	6148	6148	6351	6409	6980	9357
	DUP	Gregory Campbell	5305	5306	5306	5311	5327	5328	5337	5763	5801	5889	5981	6540
	UUP	William Douglas	5031	5033	5035	5039	5046	5046	5755	6299	6488	8051	9244
	SDLP	Hugh Logue	4828	6961	7076	7350	7414	7490	7496	7500	7986	8005	8008	8013
	UUP	Paul Baxter	3766	3769	3769	3772	3787	3787	4483	4502	5150
	SDLP	Pat Devine	3169	5028	5115	5413	5528	5584	5589	5590	5968	5977	5978	5985
	Alliance	Bill Matthews	2309	2348	2353	2451	3620	3623	3641	3650
	DUP	William Norris	1876	1877	1880	1883	1885	1886	1896
	UUP	Thomas Fleming	1841	1841	1842	1844	1849	1849
	Alliance	Ita Breen	1354	1396	1402	1532
	Workers' Party	Eamon Melaugh	974	1046	1122
	Sinn Féin	Cathal Crumley	556	606
Electorate=100198, valid=64462, spoiled=1663, quota=8058

1975

	Candidate	1st Pref	Result
SDLP	John Hume	11,941	Elected
UUP	Sheena Conn	8,789	Elected
Vanguard	Glenn Barr	7,883	Elected
SDLP	Hugh Logue	6,661	Elected
UUP	William Douglas	4,939	Elected
SDLP	Michael Canavan	4,600	Elected
DUP	James McClure	3,436	Elected
UUP	John Williamson	3,105	Not elected
Alliance	Ivor Canavan	2,889	Not elected
Unionist Party NI	Leslie Morrell	2,529	Not elected
Vanguard	Randall Crawford	2,021	Not elected
Alliance	Bill Matthews	1,889	Not elected
Republican Clubs	Liam Gallagher	773	Not elected
Republican Clubs	Patrick Kealey	473	Not elected
NI Labour	Alan Carr	328	Not elected
Republican Clubs	Cahal Newcombe	146	Not elected

1973

1973 Assembly election:Londonderry
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11
	SDLP	John Hume	18.9	12,596
	UUP	Leslie Morrell	14.6	9,685	9,685
	UUP	William Douglas	12.4	8,245	8,245.68	8,865.80
	SDLP	Hugh Logue	10.9	7,230	8,767.82	8,767.82	8,767.82	8,767.82
	UUP	Sheena Conn	9.9	6,550	6,552.38	7,080.54	7,560.50	7,603.96	7,604.16	7,677.28	7,736.26	8,027.08	8,078.06	8,096.24
	Vanguard	Glenn Barr	9.8	6,511	6,512.46	6,540.50	6,552.02	6,562.30	6,562.40	6,930.60	6,951.90	8567.90	8567.90	8567.90
	Nationalist	Eddie McAteer	5.6	3,712	3,988.08	3,989.06	3,989.42	4,018.38	4.061.18	4,061.52	4,080.46	4,083.56	4,157.54
	SDLP	Michael Canavan	5.5	3,647	5,964.10	5,965.08	5,965.20	6,031.60	6,415.50	6,416.54	6,450.46	6,457.72	6,612.98	8,647.98
	Alliance	Brian Brown	3.7	2,454	2,483.58	2,515.92	2,519.52	2,615.08	2,619.48	2,626.14	3,285.44	3.302.54	5,457.62	5,711.66
	Alliance	Edward McIvor	3.0	2,001	2,062.88	2,076.46	2,077.06	2,148.78	2,160.58	2,163.14	2,523.74	2,538.44
	Vanguard	Thomas Hagan	2.0	1,371	1,373.04	1,401.60	1,410.36	1,416.50	1,416.80	1,992.28	2,009.18
	Alliance	John Hamill	1.6	1,093	1,113.40	1,150.92	1,154.40	1,205.12	1,207.02	1,213.82
	Vanguard	Jackson Taggart	1.5	1,008	1,008.34	1,039.56	1,047.12	1,049.40	1,049.40
	NI Labour	Grace Stevenson	0.5	360	367.14	375.54	376.14
Electorate: 89,849 Valid: 66,463 Spoilt: 1,698 Quota: 8,308 Turnout: 68,161 (75.9%)

References

Northern Ireland Assembly

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

Elections	1998 2003 2007 2011 Next

Procedure	Cross-community vote

See also	Good Friday Agreement St Andrews Agreement

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