Upper Bann (Assembly constituency)

Coordinates: 54°27′25″N 6°22′48″W / 54.457°N 6.380°W

Upper Bann
County Constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly
Upper Bann shown within Northern Ireland
Districts	Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon
Current constituency
Created	1996
Assembly Members	Sam Gardiner Dolores Kelly Stephen Moutray John O'Dowd Jo-Anne Dobson Sydney Anderson

Upper Bann 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 Armagh and South Down constituencies with a small section around Aghagallon joining from South Antrim. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the Upper Bann UK Parliament constituency.

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

Members

Northern Ireland Forum (1996)

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

Election	Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)		Name (Party)
1996		Mervyn Carrick (DUP)		Sam Gardiner (UUP)		Michelle O'Connor (Sinn Féin)		Bríd Rodgers (SDLP)		David Trimble (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.

Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–present)

Election	MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)		MLA (Party)
1998		David Trimble (UUP)		George Savage (UUP)		Bríd Rodgers (SDLP)		Denis Watson (Independent Unionist)		Dara O'Hagan (Sinn Féin)		Mervyn Carrick (DUP)
2003				Sam Gardiner (UUP)		Dolores Kelly (SDLP)		Stephen Moutray (DUP)		John O'Dowd (Sinn Féin)		David Simpson (DUP)
2007		George Savage (UUP)
July 2010 co-option												Sydney Anderson (DUP)
2011		Jo-Anne Dobson (UUP)
2016				Doug Beattie (UUP)		Catherine Seely (Sinn Féin)		Carla Lockhart (DUP)

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

2016

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2016
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1
	DUP	Sydney Anderson
	UUP	Doug Beattie
	UUP	Jo-Anne Dobson
	TUV	Roy Ferguson
	Alliance	Harry Hamilton
	NI Labour	Emma Hutchinson
	UKIP	David Jones[1]
	SDLP	Dolores Kelly
	CISTA	Martin Kelly
	Green (NI)	Simon Lee[2]
	DUP	Carla Lockhart
	PUP	Sophie Long
	Independent	Steven McCarroll
	NI Conservatives	Ian Nickels
	Sinn Féin	John O'Dowd
	UUP	Kyle Savage
	Sinn Féin	Catherine Seeley

2011

2011 Assembly election: Upper Bann – 6 Seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Sinn Féin	John O'Dowd	15.7%	6,649
	DUP	Sydney Anderson	13.8%	5,854	5,855	5,878	6,035	6,163
	DUP	Stephen Moutray	13.3%	5,645	5,646	5,687	5,936	6,086
	UUP	Sam Gardiner	8.7%	3,676	3,676	3,702	3,917	4,231	4,245	6,012
	UUP	Jo-Anne Dobson	7.9%	3,348	3,349	3,374	3,555	4,008	4,043	5,827
	SDLP	Dolores Kelly	11.4%	4,846	4,942	4,949	5,105	5,734	5,745	5,787
	Sinn Féin	Johnny McGibbon	11.5%	4,879	5,347	5,347	5,365	5,427	5,429	5,348
	UUP	Colin McCusker	8.0%	3,402	3,403	3,421	3,625	3,865	3,885
	Alliance	Harry Hamilton	4.7%	1,979	1,983	2,014	2,545
	TUV	David Vance	2.4%	1,026	1,026	1,092
	Alliance	Sheila McQuaid	1.9%	786	793	802
	UKIP	Barbara Trotter	0.6%	272	272
Electorate: 77,905   Valid: 42,362   Spoilt: 751 (1.74%)   Quota: 6,052   Turnout: 55.34%

2007

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	Sinn Féin	John O'Dowd	7,733	Elected	1
	DUP	David Simpson	6,828	Elected	1
	UUP	Sam Gardiner	5,135	Elected	9
	SDLP	Dolores Kelly	4,689	Elected	8
	DUP	Stephen Moutray	3,663	Elected	11
	Sinn Féin	Dessie Ward	3,118	Not elected	12
	DUP	John McCrum	2,975	Not elected	10
	UUP	George Savage	2,167	Elected	12
	UUP	Arnold Hatch	1,815	Not elected	8
	Independent Unionist	Davy Calvert	1,332	Not elected	7
	Green (NI)	Helen Corry	1,156	Not elected	7
	Alliance	Sheila McQuaid	798	Not elected	5
	SDLP	Patrick McAleenan	761	Not elected	4
	Republican Sinn Féin	Barry Toman	386	Not elected	3
	NI Conservatives	David Fry	248	Not elected	3
	Independent Unionist	Suzanne Peeples	78	Not elected	3

2003

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2003
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	UUP	David Trimble	9,158	Elected	1
	DUP	David Simpson	5,933	Elected	5
	Sinn Féin	John O'Dowd	5,524	Elected	11
	DUP	Stephen Moutray	4,697	Elected	6
	Sinn Féin	Dara O'Hagan	3,970	Not elected
	SDLP	Dolores Kelly	3,661	Elected	11
	SDLP	Kieran Corr	3,157	Not elected
	UUP	Sam Gardiner	2,359	Elected	9
	DUP	Denis Watson	1,770	Not elected
	UUP	George Savage	1,269	Not elected
	Independent	David Jones	585	Not elected
	Independent	Sidney Anderson	581	Not elected
	Alliance	Francis McQuaid	571	Not elected
	Workers' Party	Tom French	247	Not elected

1998

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	Result	Count
	UUP	David Trimble	12,338	Elected
	SDLP	Brid Rodgers	9,260	Elected
	Independent Unionist	Denis Watson	4,855	Elected
	Sinn Féin	Dara O'Hagan	4,301	Elected
	DUP	Mervyn Carrick	4,177	Elected
	DUP	Ruth Allen	3,635	Not elected
	Sinn Féin	Francie Murray	2,915	Not elected
	SDLP	Mel Byrne	2,687	Not elected
	Alliance	Francis McQuaid	1,556	Not elected
	UK Unionist	David Vance	1,405	Not elected
	UUP	George Savage	669	Elected
	UUP	Mark Neale	455	Not elected
	Labour Party NI	Alan Evans	439	Not elected
	Workers' Party	Tom French	270	Not elected
	Independent	Kenny McClinton	207	Not elected
	Ulster Independence	Brian Silcock	101	Not elected
	Natural Law	Jack Lyons	32	Not elected

1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.^[3]

Party		Candidate(s)	Votes	Percentage
	UUP	David Trimble Sam Gardiner George Savage John Dobson Mark Neale	16,592	36.3
	SDLP	Bríd Rodgers Kieran McGeown Patricia Mallon Sean McKavanagh Dolores Kelly	9,846	21.5
	DUP	Mervyn Carrick Frederick Baird Ruth Allen	7,134	15.6
	Sinn Féin	Michelle O'Connor Rory Harbinson Jean Fegan Christopher Burke	5,620	12.3
	Alliance	William Ramsey Frank McQuaid Sean Hagan	2,152	5.7
	PUP	William Lawrie Edward Kinner	1,404	3.1
	UK Unionist	Morrison Woods Dorothy Boyd	886	1.9
	Labour coalition	Hugh Casey Alan Evans William White Mary Sheen	512	1.0
	Ulster Democratic	David McCrea John Hammond	402	0.9
	NI Women's Coalition	Kate Cochrane Chris Moffat Lesley Doyle	390	0.9
	Workers' Party	Tom French Peter Smith	311	0.7
	Ulster Independence	Edward Kidd Gary Nelson	180	0.4
	Green (NI)	Gavin McDowell Jameshid Fenderesky Martha Brett	178	0.4
	Democratic Partnership	Adrian McKinney Pearl Snowden	71	0.2
	Democratic Left	Ciaran McClean Martin Cullen	36	0.1
	Natural Law	John Darby Rosalind Mulholland	14	0.0
	Independent Chambers	Keith Chambers William Larmour Jr	4	0.0

References

2. http://www.greenpartyni.org/simon-lee/
3. 1996 Candidates - Upper Bann, Northern Ireland Elections