Fermanagh and South Tyrone is a Northern Ireland parliamentary constituency in the British House of Commons. It is currently represented by Pat Cullen of Sinn Féin.
Boundaries
The constituency was created in 1950 when the old Fermanagh and Tyrone two-member constituency was abolished as part of the final move to single-member seats. As the name implies, it includes all of County Fermanagh and the southern part of County Tyrone. Of the post-1973 districts, it contained all of Fermanagh, and Dungannon and South Tyrone. In boundary changes resulting from a review in 1995, however, a section of Dungannon and South Tyrone (then called Dungannon) district, around the town of Coalisland, was transferred to the Mid Ulster constituency.
1950–1983: The county of Fermanagh, the Urban District of Dungannon, the Rural Districts of Clogher and Dungannon, and that part of the Rural District of Omagh consisting of the district electoral divisions of Aghafad, Dervaghroy, Dromore, Drumharvey, Ecclesville, Fallaghearn, Fintona, Greenan, Killskerry, Lifford, Moorfield, Rahoney, Seskinore, Tattymoyle and Trillick.
1983–1997: The District of Fermanagh, and the District of Dungannon.
1997–2024: The District of Fermanagh, and the District of Dungannon wards of Augher, Aughnacloy, Ballygawley, Ballysaggart, Benburb, Caledon, Castlecaulfield, Clogher, Coolhill, Drumglass, Fivemiletown, Killyman, Killymeal, Moy, Moygashel, and Mullaghmore.
2024–present: The District of Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon, the District of Fermanagh and Omagh wards of Blackwatertown, Ballinamallard, Belcoo & Garrison, Belleek & Boa, Boho, Cleenish & Letterbreen, Brookeborough, Castlecoole, Derrygonnelly, Derrylin, Donagh, Ederney & Kesh, Erne, Florence Court & Kinawley, Irvinestown, Lisbellaw, Lisnarrick, Lisnaskea, Maguiresbridge, Newtownbutler, Portora, Rosslea, Rossorry, and Tempo, and the District of Mid Ulster wards of Augher & Clogher, Aughnacloy, Ballygawley, Ballysaggart, Caledon, Castlecaulfield, Fivemiletown, Killymeal, Moy, Moygashel, and Mullaghmore.
History
For the history of the constituency prior to 1950, see Fermanagh and Tyrone.
Throughout the existence of Fermanagh and South Tyrone, there has been a rough balance between unionist and nationalist voters, though in recent years the nationalists have had a slight majority. Many elections have seen a candidate from one community triumph due to multiple candidates from the other community splitting the vote. Perhaps because of this balance between the communities, Fermanagh and South Tyrone has repeatedly had the highest turn-out (and the smallest winning margin) of any constituency in Northern Ireland.
The seat was won by the Nationalist Party in 1950 and 1951, the closely contested 1951 election seeing a 93.4% turnout – a UK record for any election.
In 1955 the constituency was won by Philip Clarke of Sinn Féin, but he was unseated on petition on the basis that his criminal conviction (for Irish Republican Army activity) made him ineligible. Instead, the seat was awarded to the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) candidate.
In 1970 the seat was won by Frank McManus, standing on the "Unity" ticket that sought to unite nationalist voters behind a single candidate. In the February 1974 general election, however, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) contested the seat, dividing the nationalist vote and allowing Harry West of the UUP to win with the support of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party.
In the October 1974 general election a nationalist pact was agreed and Frank Maguire won, standing as an Independent Republican. He retained his seat in the 1979 general election, when both the unionist and nationalist votes were split, the former by the intervention of Ernest Baird, leader of the short-lived United Ulster Unionist Party, and the latter by Austin Currie, who defied the official SDLP decision to not contest the seat. Maguire died in early 1981.
The ensuing by-election took place amidst the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike. As part of the campaign for the five demands of the prisoners, the Provisional Irish Republican Army Officer Commanding in the Maze prison, Bobby Sands, was nominated as an Anti-H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner candidate. Harry West stood for the UUP, but no other candidates contested the by-election. On 9 April 1981, Sands won with 30,492 votes against 29,046 for West. 26 days later Sands died on hunger strike. Speedy legislation barred prisoners serving a sentence of 12 months or longer from standing for Parliament, and so in the new by-election Sands' agent Owen Carron stood as a "Proxy Political Prisoner". The UUP nominated Ken Maginnis. The second by-election in August was also contested by the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, the Workers' Party Republican Clubs, a candidate standing on a label of General Amnesty and another as The Peace Lover. The turn-out was even higher, with most of the additional votes going to the additional parties standing, and Carron was elected. In the 1982 election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, Carron headed the Sinn Féin slate for the constituency and was elected.
Republicans suffered a reversal in the 1983 general election, when the SDLP contested the seat. Maginnis won and held the seat for the UUP for the next eighteen years until he retired. By this point boundary changes had resulted in a broad 50:50 balance between unionists and nationalists and it was expected that a single unionist candidate would hold the seat in the 2001 general election. James Cooper was nominated by the UUP. On this occasion, however, both the nationalist and unionist votes were to be split. Initially, Maurice Morrow of the DUP was nominated to stand, with the DUP fiercely opposing the UUP's support for the Good Friday Agreement. Morrow then withdrew in favour of Jim Dixon, a survivor of the Enniskillen bombing who stood as an Independent Unionist opposed to the Agreement. Tommy Gallagher of the SDLP ran, but his intervention did not do enough damage to Sinn Féin. Sinn Féin's Michelle Gildernew won by 53 votes over Cooper. Subsequently, the result was challenged amid allegations that a polling station had been kept open by force for longer than the deadline, allowing more people to vote, but the courts—while conceding that this happened—did not uphold the challenge, because it held that the votes cast after the legal closing time would not have affected the outcome.
Ahead of the 2005 general election, there was speculation that a single unionist candidate could retake the seat. The UUP and DUP, however, ran opposing candidates and in the event Gildernew held her seat. She kept the seat at the 2010 general election by four votes over the Unionist candidate, Rodney Connor. Following the election, Connor lodged an election petition challenging the result, based on a dispute about differences in the number of ballot papers recorded at polling stations and those subsequently recorded at the count centre. The petition was rejected after it was found that only three extra votes remained unaccounted for. The judge ruled that "even if those votes were introduced in breach of the rules and if they had all been counted in favour of the first respondent their exclusion would still have given the first respondent (Ms Gildernew) a majority of one vote and the result would not have been affected."
In the election of May 2015 Sinn Féin's Michelle Gildernew lost the seat to the UUP's candidate Tom Elliott. Although Elliott was running for the UUP, he was also being actively supported by the DUP, the Traditional Unionist Voice and the UK Independence Party. The Conservative Party also refused to run a candidate in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, despite running in 16 out of the other 17 constituencies. Just as in the February 1974 and 1983 elections, faced with a single Unionist candidate, the SDLP refused to discuss a nationalist pact with Sinn Féin.
Gildernew re-captured her seat in the snap June 2017 election. In the 2019 election she was re-elected with a majority of just 57 votes (the narrowest result in the UK), despite the DUP withdrawing and the SDLP standing a candidate. This made the 2019 election the second time in under ten years that Fermanagh and South Tyrone has been the seat with the smallest winning majority in the UK.
In the General Election 2024, Royal College of Nursing chief Pat Cullen announced that she would contest the seat representing Sinn Féin. Cullen won the seat, with a majority of 4,486 votes despite being against single unionist candidate, Diana Armstrong of the UUP. Cullen increased Sinn Féin's vote share in Fermanagh South Tyrone by 6.7%, securing the largest Nationalist majority since the 2005 general election.
Members of Parliament
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1950 | Cahir Healy | Nationalist | |
1955 | Philip Clarke | Sinn Féin | |
1955 | Lord Robert Grosvenor | Ulster Unionist | |
1964 | The Marquess of Hamilton | ||
1970 | Frank McManus | Unity | |
February 1974 | Harry West | Ulster Unionist | |
October 1974 | Frank Maguire | Independent Republican | |
April 1981 by-election | Bobby Sands | Anti H-Block | |
August 1981 by-election | Owen Carron | ||
1982 | Sinn Féin | ||
1983 | Ken Maginnis | Ulster Unionist | |
2001 | Michelle Gildernew | Sinn Féin | |
2015 | Tom Elliott | Ulster Unionist | |
2017 | Michelle Gildernew | Sinn Féin | |
2024 | Pat Cullen |
Elections

Elections in the 2020s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sinn Féin | Pat Cullen | 24,844 | 48.6 | +6.1 | |
UUP | Diana Armstrong | 20,273 | 39.7 | −1.9 | |
Alliance | Eddie Roofe | 2,420 | 4.7 | −0.7 | |
SDLP | Paul Blake | 2,386 | 4.7 | −2.5 | |
Labour Alternative | Gerry Cullen | 624 | 1.2 | New | |
Aontú | Carl Duffy | 529 | 1.0 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 4,571 | 8.9 | +8.8 | ||
Turnout | 51,076 | 65.6 | −4.1 | ||
Registered electors | 77,828 | ||||
Sinn Féin hold | Swing | +4.0 |
Elections in the 2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sinn Féin | Michelle Gildernew | 21,986 | 43.3 | ―3.9 | |
UUP | Tom Elliott | 21,929 | 43.2 | ―2.3 | |
SDLP | Adam Gannon | 3,446 | 6.8 | +2.0 | |
Alliance | Matthew Beaumont | 2,650 | 5.2 | +3.5 | |
Independent | Caroline Wheeler | 751 | 1.5 | New | |
Majority | 57 | 0.1 | ―1.6 | ||
Turnout | 50,762 | 69.7 | ―6.1 | ||
Registered electors | 72,829 | ||||
Sinn Féin hold | Swing | ―0.8 |
Caroline Wheeler is a member of the United Kingdom Labour Party who ran as an independent in the seat as the Labour Party do not run in Northern Ireland.
This was the smallest majority at the 2019 general election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sinn Féin | Michelle Gildernew | 25,230 | 47.2 | +1.8 | |
UUP | Tom Elliott | 24,355 | 45.5 | ―0.9 | |
SDLP | Mary Garrity | 2,587 | 4.8 | ―0.6 | |
Alliance | Noreen Campbell | 886 | 1.7 | +0.4 | |
Green (NI) | Tanya Jones | 423 | 0.8 | ―0.7 | |
Majority | 875 | 1.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 53,481 | 75.8 | +3.2 | ||
Registered electors | 70,601 | ||||
Sinn Féin gain from UUP | Swing | ―1.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Tom Elliott | 23,608 | 46.4 | +0.9 | |
Sinn Féin | Michelle Gildernew | 23,078 | 45.4 | ―0.1 | |
SDLP | John Coyle | 2,732 | 5.4 | ―1.8 | |
Green (NI) | Tanya Jones | 788 | 1.5 | New | |
Alliance | Hannah Su | 658 | 1.3 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 530 | 1.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 50,864 | 72.6 | +3.7 | ||
Registered electors | 70,108 | ||||
UUP gain from Sinn Féin | Swing | +23.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sinn Féin | Michelle Gildernew | 21,304 | 45.52 | +7.3 | |
Ind. Unionist | Rodney Connor | 21,300 | 45.51 | New | |
SDLP | Fearghal McKinney | 3,574 | 7.6 | ―7.2 | |
Alliance | Vasundhara Kamble | 437 | 0.9 | New | |
Independent | John Stevenson | 188 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 4 | 0.01 | ―9.4 | ||
Turnout | 46,803 | 68.9 | ―3.7 | ||
Registered electors | 67,908 | ||||
Sinn Féin hold | Swing | ―19.1 |
Rodney Connor had the support of the Democratic Unionist Party and the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists. Following the close result, Connor lodged an election petition against Gildernew alleging irregularities in the counting of the votes had affected the result. However the High Court found that there were only three ballot papers which could not be accounted for, and even if they were all votes for Connor, Gildernew would have had a plurality of one. The election was therefore upheld.
Elections in the 2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sinn Féin | Michelle Gildernew | 18,638 | 38.2 | +4.1 | |
DUP | Arlene Foster | 14,056 | 28.8 | New | |
UUP | Tom Elliott | 8,869 | 18.2 | ―15.8 | |
SDLP | Tommy Gallagher | 7,230 | 14.8 | ―3.9 | |
Majority | 4,582 | 9.4 | +9.3 | ||
Turnout | 48,793 | 72.6 | ―5.4 | ||
Registered electors | 66,415 | ||||
Sinn Féin hold | Swing | ―12.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sinn Féin | Michelle Gildernew | 17,739 | 34.13 | +11.0 | |
UUP | James Leslie Cooper | 17,686 | 34.03 | ―17.5 | |
SDLP | Tommy Gallagher | 9,706 | 18.7 | ―4.2 | |
Independent | William James Dixon | 6,843 | 13.2 | New | |
Majority | 53 | 0.10 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 51,974 | 78.0 | +3.2 | ||
Registered electors | 61,390 | ||||
Sinn Féin gain from UUP | Swing | +14.2 |
Elections in the 1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Ken Maginnis | 24,862 | 51.5 | ―1.0 | |
Sinn Féin | Gerry McHugh | 11,174 | 23.1 | +4.0 | |
SDLP | Tommy Gallagher | 11,060 | 22.9 | 0.0 | |
Alliance | Stephen Farry | 977 | 2.0 | 0.0 | |
Natural Law | Simeon Gillan | 217 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 13,688 | 28.4 | ―1.0 | ||
Turnout | 48,290 | 74.8 | ―3.7 | ||
Registered electors | 59,086 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing | ―8.1 |
Boundary changes took effect from the 1997 general election. The projections of what the 1992 result would have been if fought on 1997 boundaries are shown below
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | N/A | 25,740 | 52.5 | N/A | |
SDLP | N/A | 10,982 | 22.9 | N/A | |
Sinn Féin | N/A | 9,143 | 19.1 | N/A | |
Others | N/A | 1,841 | 3.8 | N/A | |
Alliance | N/A | 950 | 2.0 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,089 | 29.4 | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Ken Maginnis | 26,923 | 48.8 | ―0.8 | |
SDLP | Tommy Gallagher | 12,810 | 23.2 | +4.1 | |
Sinn Féin | Francie Molloy | 12,604 | 22.9 | ―3.5 | |
Independent Progressive Socialist | David Kettyles | 1,094 | 2.0 | New | |
Alliance | Eric Bullick | 950 | 1.7 | ±0.0 | |
New Agenda (Ireland) | Gerry Cullen | 747 | 1.4 | New | |
Majority | 14,113 | 25.6 | +2.4 | ||
Turnout | 55,128 | 78.5 | ―1.8 | ||
Registered electors | 70,253 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Elections in the 1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Ken Maginnis | 27,446 | 49.6 | +2.0 | |
Sinn Féin | Paul Corrigan | 14,623 | 26.4 | ―8.4 | |
SDLP | Rosemary Flanagan | 10,581 | 19.1 | +2.6 | |
Workers' Party | David Kettyles | 1,784 | 3.2 | +2.1 | |
Alliance | John Haslett | 950 | 1.7 | New | |
Majority | 12,823 | 23.2 | +10.4 | ||
Turnout | 55,834 | 80.3 | ―8.3 | ||
Registered electors | 68,979 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Ken Maginnis | 27,857 | 49.7 | +2.1 | |
Sinn Féin | Owen Carron | 15,278 | 27.2 | ―7.6 | |
SDLP | Austin Currie | 12,081 | 21.5 | +5.0 | |
Workers' Party | David Kettyles | 864 | 1.5 | ―0.4 | |
Majority | 12,579 | 22.5 | +9.7 | ||
Turnout | 56,080 | 80.4 | ―8.2 | ||
Registered electors | 69,767 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Ken Maginnis | 28,630 | 47.6 | +19.6 | |
Sinn Féin | Owen Carron | 20,954 | 34.8 | N/A | |
SDLP | Rosemary Flanagan | 9,923 | 16.5 | New | |
Workers' Party | David Kettyles | 649 | 1.1 | New | |
Majority | 7,676 | 12.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 60,156 | 88.6 | +1.5 | ||
Registered electors | 67,842 | ||||
UUP gain from Anti H-Block | Swing |
Minor boundary changes took effect from the 1983 general election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anti H-Block | Owen Carron | 31,278 | 49.1 | ―2.1 | |
UUP | Ken Maginnis | 29,048 | 45.6 | ―3.2 | |
Alliance | Seamus Close | 1,930 | 3.0 | New | |
Republican Clubs | Tom Moore | 1,132 | 1.8 | New | |
General Amnesty | Martin Green | 249 | 0.4 | New | |
The Peace Lover | Simon Hall-Raleigh | 90 | 0.1 | New | |
Majority | 2,230 | 3.5 | +1.1 | ||
Turnout | 63,727 | 88.6 | +1.7 | ||
Registered electors | 73,161 | ||||
Anti H-Block hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anti H-Block | Bobby Sands | 30,492 | 51.2 | New | |
UUP | Harry West | 29,046 | 48.8 | +20.8 | |
Majority | 1,447 | 2.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 59,538 | 86.9 | ―0.2 | ||
Registered electors | 72,349 | ||||
Anti H-Block gain from Ind. Republican | Swing |
Elections in the 1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ind. Republican | Frank Maguire | 22,398 | 36.0 | ―15.8 | |
UUP | Raymond Ferguson | 17,411 | 28.0 | ―19.9 | |
Independent SDLP | Austin Currie | 10,785 | 17.3 | New | |
UUUP | Ernest Baird | 10,607 | 17.0 | New | |
Alliance | Peter Newton Acheson | 1,070 | 1.7 | New | |
Majority | 4,987 | 8.0 | +4.1 | ||
Turnout | 62,271 | 87.1 | ―1.6 | ||
Registered electors | 71,481 | ||||
Ind. Republican hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ind. Republican | Frank Maguire | 32,795 | 51.8 | New | |
UUP | Harry West | 30,285 | 47.9 | +4.3 | |
Marxist–Leninist | Alan John Evans | 185 | 0.3 | New | |
Majority | 2,510 | 3.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 63,265 | 88.7 | +0.3 | ||
Registered electors | 71,343 | ||||
Ind. Republican gain from UUP | Swing | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Harry West | 26,858 | 43.6 | ―5.3 | |
Unity | Frank McManus | 16,229 | 26.3 | ―24.8 | |
SDLP | Denis Haughey | 15,410 | 25.0 | New | |
Pro-Assembly Unionist | Hubert Irvin Brown | 3,157 | 5.1 | New | |
Majority | 10,629 | 17.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 61,654 | 88.4 | ―3.7 | ||
Registered electors | 69,775 | ||||
UUP gain from Unity | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unity | Frank McManus | 32,837 | 51.1 | +24.2 | |
UUP | James Hamilton | 31,390 | 48.9 | ―5.1 | |
Majority | 1,447 | 2.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 64,227 | 92.1 | +6.1 | ||
Registered electors | 70,381 | ||||
Unity gain from UUP | Swing |
Elections in the 1960s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | James Hamilton | 29,352 | 54.0 | ―1.1 | |
Unity | James J. Donnelly | 14,645 | 26.9 | New | |
Ind. Republican | Ruairí Ó Brádaigh | 10,370 | 19.1 | ―10.5 | |
Majority | 14,707 | 27.1 | +1.6 | ||
Turnout | 54,367 | 86.0 | +0.1 | ||
Registered electors | 63,188 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | James Hamilton | 30,010 | 55.1 | ―26.3 | |
Ind. Republican | Aloysius Mulloy | 16,138 | 29.6 | New | |
Ulster Liberal | Giles FitzHerbert | 6,006 | 11.0 | New | |
NI Labour | Baptist W. Gamble | 2,339 | 4.3 | New | |
Majority | 13,872 | 25.5 | ―37.3 | ||
Turnout | 54,493 | 85.9 | +24.3 | ||
Registered electors | 63,642 | ||||
UUP hold | Swing | N/A |
Elections in the 1950s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Robert Grosvenor | 32,080 | 81.4 | +31.6 | |
Sinn Féin | James Martin | 7,348 | 18.6 | ―31.6 | |
Majority | 24,732 | 62.8 | +62.4 | ||
Turnout | 39,428 | 61.6 | ―31.0 | ||
Registered electors | 64,022 | ||||
UUP gain from Sinn Féin | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sinn Féin | Philip Clarke | 30,529 | 50.2 | New | |
UUP | Robert Grosvenor | 30,268 | 49.8 | +0.9 | |
Majority | 261 | 0.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 60,797 | 92.6 | ―0.8 | ||
Registered electors | 65,770 | ||||
Sinn Féin gain from Irish Nationalist | Swing |
After the election, Philip Clarke was found ineligible by an election court, and Lord Robert Grosvenor was declared elected in his place.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nationalist | Cahir Healy | 32,717 | 52.1 | +0.2 | |
UUP | Frederick Patterson | 30,268 | 47.9 | ―0.2 | |
Majority | 2,635 | 4.2 | +0.4 | ||
Turnout | 62,985 | 93.4 | +1.3 | ||
Registered electors | 67,219 | ||||
Nationalist hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nationalist | Cahir Healy | 32,188 | 51.9 | ||
UUP | Henry Richardson | 29,877 | 48.1 | ||
Majority | 2,311 | 3.8 | |||
Turnout | 62,065 | 92.1 | |||
Registered electors | 67,424 | ||||
Nationalist win (new seat) |
Demographics
On Census day 2021 there were 111,790 people living in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone parliamentary constituency. Of these:
- 60.4% (67,560) belong to or were brought up in the Catholic Christian faith and 33.7% (37,711) belong to or were brought up in various 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' denominations. 1.0% (1,107) belong to other religions and 4.8% (5,412) had no religious background.
- 24.4% (27,263) indicated that they had a British only identity, 37.1% (41,447) had an Irish only identity and 19.2% (21,439) had a Northern Irish only identity (respondents could indicate more than one national identity).
See also
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- "Parliamentary Constituency 2024". NISRA. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
- "National identity (person based) – basic detail (classification 1)". NISRA. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
Further reading
- FWS Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 – 1949
- FWS Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950 – 1970
External links
- 2017 Election House Of Commons Library 2017 Election report
- "Fermanagh & South Tyrone". Ask Aristotle (Election results from 1992). Guardian Unlimited. Guardian Media Group. Archived from the original on 10 August 2004. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
- "Political Science Resource". Keele University. 2 July 2009. Archived from the original on 2 July 2009. (Election results from 1951 to present)
- Fermanagh and South Tyrone ARK – Access Research Knowledge – (Election results 1983 – 1992)
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "F"
- Fermanagh and South Tyrone UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) at MapIt UK
- Fermanagh and South Tyrone UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) at MapIt UK
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Fermanagh and South Tyrone is a Northern Ireland parliamentary constituency in the British House of Commons It is currently represented by Pat Cullen of Sinn Fein Fermanagh and South TyroneCounty constituency for the House of CommonsInteractive map of boundaries from 2024Location within Northern IrelandDistricts of Northern IrelandFermanagh Dungannon and South TyroneElectorate69 413 March 2011 Major settlementsEnniskillen and DungannonCurrent constituencyCreated1950Member of ParliamentPat Cullen Sinn Fein Seats1Created fromFermanagh and TyroneBoundariesThe constituency was created in 1950 when the old Fermanagh and Tyrone two member constituency was abolished as part of the final move to single member seats As the name implies it includes all of County Fermanagh and the southern part of County Tyrone Of the post 1973 districts it contained all of Fermanagh and Dungannon and South Tyrone In boundary changes resulting from a review in 1995 however a section of Dungannon and South Tyrone then called Dungannon district around the town of Coalisland was transferred to the Mid Ulster constituency 1950 1983 The county of Fermanagh the Urban District of Dungannon the Rural Districts of Clogher and Dungannon and that part of the Rural District of Omagh consisting of the district electoral divisions of Aghafad Dervaghroy Dromore Drumharvey Ecclesville Fallaghearn Fintona Greenan Killskerry Lifford Moorfield Rahoney Seskinore Tattymoyle and Trillick 1983 1997 The District of Fermanagh and the District of Dungannon 1997 2024 The District of Fermanagh and the District of Dungannon wards of Augher Aughnacloy Ballygawley Ballysaggart Benburb Caledon Castlecaulfield Clogher Coolhill Drumglass Fivemiletown Killyman Killymeal Moy Moygashel and Mullaghmore 2024 present The District of Armagh Banbridge and Craigavon the District of Fermanagh and Omagh wards of Blackwatertown Ballinamallard Belcoo amp Garrison Belleek amp Boa Boho Cleenish amp Letterbreen Brookeborough Castlecoole Derrygonnelly Derrylin Donagh Ederney amp Kesh Erne Florence Court amp Kinawley Irvinestown Lisbellaw Lisnarrick Lisnaskea Maguiresbridge Newtownbutler Portora Rosslea Rossorry and Tempo and the District of Mid Ulster wards of Augher amp Clogher Aughnacloy Ballygawley Ballysaggart Caledon Castlecaulfield Fivemiletown Killymeal Moy Moygashel and Mullaghmore HistoryFor the history of the constituency prior to 1950 see Fermanagh and Tyrone Throughout the existence of Fermanagh and South Tyrone there has been a rough balance between unionist and nationalist voters though in recent years the nationalists have had a slight majority Many elections have seen a candidate from one community triumph due to multiple candidates from the other community splitting the vote Perhaps because of this balance between the communities Fermanagh and South Tyrone has repeatedly had the highest turn out and the smallest winning margin of any constituency in Northern Ireland The seat was won by the Nationalist Party in 1950 and 1951 the closely contested 1951 election seeing a 93 4 turnout a UK record for any election In 1955 the constituency was won by Philip Clarke of Sinn Fein but he was unseated on petition on the basis that his criminal conviction for Irish Republican Army activity made him ineligible Instead the seat was awarded to the Ulster Unionist Party UUP candidate In 1970 the seat was won by Frank McManus standing on the Unity ticket that sought to unite nationalist voters behind a single candidate In the February 1974 general election however the Social Democratic and Labour Party SDLP contested the seat dividing the nationalist vote and allowing Harry West of the UUP to win with the support of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party and the Democratic Unionist Party In the October 1974 general election a nationalist pact was agreed and Frank Maguire won standing as an Independent Republican He retained his seat in the 1979 general election when both the unionist and nationalist votes were split the former by the intervention of Ernest Baird leader of the short lived United Ulster Unionist Party and the latter by Austin Currie who defied the official SDLP decision to not contest the seat Maguire died in early 1981 The ensuing by election took place amidst the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike As part of the campaign for the five demands of the prisoners the Provisional Irish Republican Army Officer Commanding in the Maze prison Bobby Sands was nominated as an Anti H Block Armagh Political Prisoner candidate Harry West stood for the UUP but no other candidates contested the by election On 9 April 1981 Sands won with 30 492 votes against 29 046 for West 26 days later Sands died on hunger strike Speedy legislation barred prisoners serving a sentence of 12 months or longer from standing for Parliament and so in the new by election Sands agent Owen Carron stood as a Proxy Political Prisoner The UUP nominated Ken Maginnis The second by election in August was also contested by the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland the Workers Party Republican Clubs a candidate standing on a label of General Amnesty and another as The Peace Lover The turn out was even higher with most of the additional votes going to the additional parties standing and Carron was elected In the 1982 election for the Northern Ireland Assembly Carron headed the Sinn Fein slate for the constituency and was elected Republicans suffered a reversal in the 1983 general election when the SDLP contested the seat Maginnis won and held the seat for the UUP for the next eighteen years until he retired By this point boundary changes had resulted in a broad 50 50 balance between unionists and nationalists and it was expected that a single unionist candidate would hold the seat in the 2001 general election James Cooper was nominated by the UUP On this occasion however both the nationalist and unionist votes were to be split Initially Maurice Morrow of the DUP was nominated to stand with the DUP fiercely opposing the UUP s support for the Good Friday Agreement Morrow then withdrew in favour of Jim Dixon a survivor of the Enniskillen bombing who stood as an Independent Unionist opposed to the Agreement Tommy Gallagher of the SDLP ran but his intervention did not do enough damage to Sinn Fein Sinn Fein s Michelle Gildernew won by 53 votes over Cooper Subsequently the result was challenged amid allegations that a polling station had been kept open by force for longer than the deadline allowing more people to vote but the courts while conceding that this happened did not uphold the challenge because it held that the votes cast after the legal closing time would not have affected the outcome Ahead of the 2005 general election there was speculation that a single unionist candidate could retake the seat The UUP and DUP however ran opposing candidates and in the event Gildernew held her seat She kept the seat at the 2010 general election by four votes over the Unionist candidate Rodney Connor Following the election Connor lodged an election petition challenging the result based on a dispute about differences in the number of ballot papers recorded at polling stations and those subsequently recorded at the count centre The petition was rejected after it was found that only three extra votes remained unaccounted for The judge ruled that even if those votes were introduced in breach of the rules and if they had all been counted in favour of the first respondent their exclusion would still have given the first respondent Ms Gildernew a majority of one vote and the result would not have been affected In the election of May 2015 Sinn Fein s Michelle Gildernew lost the seat to the UUP s candidate Tom Elliott Although Elliott was running for the UUP he was also being actively supported by the DUP the Traditional Unionist Voice and the UK Independence Party The Conservative Party also refused to run a candidate in Fermanagh and South Tyrone despite running in 16 out of the other 17 constituencies Just as in the February 1974 and 1983 elections faced with a single Unionist candidate the SDLP refused to discuss a nationalist pact with Sinn Fein Gildernew re captured her seat in the snap June 2017 election In the 2019 election she was re elected with a majority of just 57 votes the narrowest result in the UK despite the DUP withdrawing and the SDLP standing a candidate This made the 2019 election the second time in under ten years that Fermanagh and South Tyrone has been the seat with the smallest winning majority in the UK In the General Election 2024 Royal College of Nursing chief Pat Cullen announced that she would contest the seat representing Sinn Fein Cullen won the seat with a majority of 4 486 votes despite being against single unionist candidate Diana Armstrong of the UUP Cullen increased Sinn Fein s vote share in Fermanagh South Tyrone by 6 7 securing the largest Nationalist majority since the 2005 general election Members of ParliamentElection Member Party 1950 Cahir Healy Nationalist 1955 Philip Clarke Sinn Fein 1955 Lord Robert Grosvenor Ulster Unionist 1964 The Marquess of Hamilton 1970 Frank McManus Unity February 1974 Harry West Ulster Unionist October 1974 Frank Maguire Independent Republican April 1981 by election Bobby Sands Anti H Block August 1981 by election Owen Carron 1982 Sinn Fein 1983 Ken Maginnis Ulster Unionist 2001 Michelle Gildernew Sinn Fein 2015 Tom Elliott Ulster Unionist 2017 Michelle Gildernew Sinn Fein 2024 Pat CullenElectionsElections in the 2020s General election 2024 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes Sinn Fein Pat Cullen 24 844 48 6 6 1 UUP Diana Armstrong 20 273 39 7 1 9 Alliance Eddie Roofe 2 420 4 7 0 7 SDLP Paul Blake 2 386 4 7 2 5 Labour Alternative Gerry Cullen 624 1 2 New Aontu Carl Duffy 529 1 0 0 9 Majority 4 571 8 9 8 8 Turnout 51 076 65 6 4 1 Registered electors 77 828 Sinn Fein hold Swing 4 0 Elections in the 2010s General election 2019 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes Sinn Fein Michelle Gildernew 21 986 43 3 3 9 UUP Tom Elliott 21 929 43 2 2 3 SDLP Adam Gannon 3 446 6 8 2 0 Alliance Matthew Beaumont 2 650 5 2 3 5 Independent Caroline Wheeler 751 1 5 New Majority 57 0 1 1 6 Turnout 50 762 69 7 6 1 Registered electors 72 829 Sinn Fein hold Swing 0 8 Caroline Wheeler is a member of the United Kingdom Labour Party who ran as an independent in the seat as the Labour Party do not run in Northern Ireland This was the smallest majority at the 2019 general election General election 2017 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes Sinn Fein Michelle Gildernew 25 230 47 2 1 8 UUP Tom Elliott 24 355 45 5 0 9 SDLP Mary Garrity 2 587 4 8 0 6 Alliance Noreen Campbell 886 1 7 0 4 Green NI Tanya Jones 423 0 8 0 7 Majority 875 1 7 N A Turnout 53 481 75 8 3 2 Registered electors 70 601 Sinn Fein gain from UUP Swing 1 3 General election 2015 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes UUP Tom Elliott 23 608 46 4 0 9 Sinn Fein Michelle Gildernew 23 078 45 4 0 1 SDLP John Coyle 2 732 5 4 1 8 Green NI Tanya Jones 788 1 5 New Alliance Hannah Su 658 1 3 0 4 Majority 530 1 0 N A Turnout 50 864 72 6 3 7 Registered electors 70 108 UUP gain from Sinn Fein Swing 23 3 General election 2010 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes Sinn Fein Michelle Gildernew 21 304 45 52 7 3 Ind Unionist Rodney Connor 21 300 45 51 New SDLP Fearghal McKinney 3 574 7 6 7 2 Alliance Vasundhara Kamble 437 0 9 New Independent John Stevenson 188 0 4 New Majority 4 0 01 9 4 Turnout 46 803 68 9 3 7 Registered electors 67 908 Sinn Fein hold Swing 19 1 Rodney Connor had the support of the Democratic Unionist Party and the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists Following the close result Connor lodged an election petition against Gildernew alleging irregularities in the counting of the votes had affected the result However the High Court found that there were only three ballot papers which could not be accounted for and even if they were all votes for Connor Gildernew would have had a plurality of one The election was therefore upheld Elections in the 2000s General election 2005 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes Sinn Fein Michelle Gildernew 18 638 38 2 4 1 DUP Arlene Foster 14 056 28 8 New UUP Tom Elliott 8 869 18 2 15 8 SDLP Tommy Gallagher 7 230 14 8 3 9 Majority 4 582 9 4 9 3 Turnout 48 793 72 6 5 4 Registered electors 66 415 Sinn Fein hold Swing 12 4 General election 2001 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes Sinn Fein Michelle Gildernew 17 739 34 13 11 0 UUP James Leslie Cooper 17 686 34 03 17 5 SDLP Tommy Gallagher 9 706 18 7 4 2 Independent William James Dixon 6 843 13 2 New Majority 53 0 10 N A Turnout 51 974 78 0 3 2 Registered electors 61 390 Sinn Fein gain from UUP Swing 14 2 Elections in the 1990s General election 1997 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes UUP Ken Maginnis 24 862 51 5 1 0 Sinn Fein Gerry McHugh 11 174 23 1 4 0 SDLP Tommy Gallagher 11 060 22 9 0 0 Alliance Stephen Farry 977 2 0 0 0 Natural Law Simeon Gillan 217 0 4 New Majority 13 688 28 4 1 0 Turnout 48 290 74 8 3 7 Registered electors 59 086 UUP hold Swing 8 1 Boundary changes took effect from the 1997 general election The projections of what the 1992 result would have been if fought on 1997 boundaries are shown below Notional 1992 UK General Election Result Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes UUP N A 25 740 52 5 N A SDLP N A 10 982 22 9 N A Sinn Fein N A 9 143 19 1 N A Others N A 1 841 3 8 N A Alliance N A 950 2 0 N A Majority 14 089 29 4 N A General election 1992 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes UUP Ken Maginnis 26 923 48 8 0 8 SDLP Tommy Gallagher 12 810 23 2 4 1 Sinn Fein Francie Molloy 12 604 22 9 3 5 Independent Progressive Socialist David Kettyles 1 094 2 0 New Alliance Eric Bullick 950 1 7 0 0 New Agenda Ireland Gerry Cullen 747 1 4 New Majority 14 113 25 6 2 4 Turnout 55 128 78 5 1 8 Registered electors 70 253 UUP hold Swing Elections in the 1980s General election 1987 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes UUP Ken Maginnis 27 446 49 6 2 0 Sinn Fein Paul Corrigan 14 623 26 4 8 4 SDLP Rosemary Flanagan 10 581 19 1 2 6 Workers Party David Kettyles 1 784 3 2 2 1 Alliance John Haslett 950 1 7 New Majority 12 823 23 2 10 4 Turnout 55 834 80 3 8 3 Registered electors 68 979 UUP hold Swing By election 1986 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes UUP Ken Maginnis 27 857 49 7 2 1 Sinn Fein Owen Carron 15 278 27 2 7 6 SDLP Austin Currie 12 081 21 5 5 0 Workers Party David Kettyles 864 1 5 0 4 Majority 12 579 22 5 9 7 Turnout 56 080 80 4 8 2 Registered electors 69 767 UUP hold Swing General election 1983 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes UUP Ken Maginnis 28 630 47 6 19 6 Sinn Fein Owen Carron 20 954 34 8 N A SDLP Rosemary Flanagan 9 923 16 5 New Workers Party David Kettyles 649 1 1 New Majority 7 676 12 8 N A Turnout 60 156 88 6 1 5 Registered electors 67 842 UUP gain from Anti H Block Swing Minor boundary changes took effect from the 1983 general election By election August 1981 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes Anti H Block Owen Carron 31 278 49 1 2 1 UUP Ken Maginnis 29 048 45 6 3 2 Alliance Seamus Close 1 930 3 0 New Republican Clubs Tom Moore 1 132 1 8 New General Amnesty Martin Green 249 0 4 New The Peace Lover Simon Hall Raleigh 90 0 1 New Majority 2 230 3 5 1 1 Turnout 63 727 88 6 1 7 Registered electors 73 161 Anti H Block hold Swing By election April 1981 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes Anti H Block Bobby Sands 30 492 51 2 New UUP Harry West 29 046 48 8 20 8 Majority 1 447 2 4 N A Turnout 59 538 86 9 0 2 Registered electors 72 349 Anti H Block gain from Ind Republican Swing Elections in the 1970s General election 1979 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes Ind Republican Frank Maguire 22 398 36 0 15 8 UUP Raymond Ferguson 17 411 28 0 19 9 Independent SDLP Austin Currie 10 785 17 3 New UUUP Ernest Baird 10 607 17 0 New Alliance Peter Newton Acheson 1 070 1 7 New Majority 4 987 8 0 4 1 Turnout 62 271 87 1 1 6 Registered electors 71 481 Ind Republican hold Swing General election October 1974 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes Ind Republican Frank Maguire 32 795 51 8 New UUP Harry West 30 285 47 9 4 3 Marxist Leninist Alan John Evans 185 0 3 New Majority 2 510 3 9 N A Turnout 63 265 88 7 0 3 Registered electors 71 343 Ind Republican gain from UUP Swing N A General election February 1974 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes UUP Harry West 26 858 43 6 5 3 Unity Frank McManus 16 229 26 3 24 8 SDLP Denis Haughey 15 410 25 0 New Pro Assembly Unionist Hubert Irvin Brown 3 157 5 1 New Majority 10 629 17 3 N A Turnout 61 654 88 4 3 7 Registered electors 69 775 UUP gain from Unity Swing General election 1970 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes Unity Frank McManus 32 837 51 1 24 2 UUP James Hamilton 31 390 48 9 5 1 Majority 1 447 2 2 N A Turnout 64 227 92 1 6 1 Registered electors 70 381 Unity gain from UUP Swing Elections in the 1960s General election 1966 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes UUP James Hamilton 29 352 54 0 1 1 Unity James J Donnelly 14 645 26 9 New Ind Republican Ruairi o Bradaigh 10 370 19 1 10 5 Majority 14 707 27 1 1 6 Turnout 54 367 86 0 0 1 Registered electors 63 188 UUP hold Swing General election 1964 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes UUP James Hamilton 30 010 55 1 26 3 Ind Republican Aloysius Mulloy 16 138 29 6 New Ulster Liberal Giles FitzHerbert 6 006 11 0 New NI Labour Baptist W Gamble 2 339 4 3 New Majority 13 872 25 5 37 3 Turnout 54 493 85 9 24 3 Registered electors 63 642 UUP hold Swing N A Elections in the 1950s General election 1959 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes UUP Robert Grosvenor 32 080 81 4 31 6 Sinn Fein James Martin 7 348 18 6 31 6 Majority 24 732 62 8 62 4 Turnout 39 428 61 6 31 0 Registered electors 64 022 UUP gain from Sinn Fein Swing General election 1955 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes Sinn Fein Philip Clarke 30 529 50 2 New UUP Robert Grosvenor 30 268 49 8 0 9 Majority 261 0 4 N A Turnout 60 797 92 6 0 8 Registered electors 65 770 Sinn Fein gain from Irish Nationalist Swing After the election Philip Clarke was found ineligible by an election court and Lord Robert Grosvenor was declared elected in his place General election 1951 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes Nationalist Cahir Healy 32 717 52 1 0 2 UUP Frederick Patterson 30 268 47 9 0 2 Majority 2 635 4 2 0 4 Turnout 62 985 93 4 1 3 Registered electors 67 219 Nationalist hold Swing General election 1950 Fermanagh and South Tyrone Party Candidate Votes Nationalist Cahir Healy 32 188 51 9 UUP Henry Richardson 29 877 48 1 Majority 2 311 3 8 Turnout 62 065 92 1 Registered electors 67 424 Nationalist win new seat DemographicsOn Census day 2021 there were 111 790 people living in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone parliamentary constituency Of these 60 4 67 560 belong to or were brought up in the Catholic Christian faith and 33 7 37 711 belong to or were brought up in various Protestant and Other Christian including Christian related denominations 1 0 1 107 belong to other religions and 4 8 5 412 had no religious background 24 4 27 263 indicated that they had a British only identity 37 1 41 447 had an Irish only identity and 19 2 21 439 had a Northern Irish only identity respondents could indicate more than one national identity See alsoList of parliamentary constituencies in Northern IrelandReferencesKelly Gary 18 September 2001 Court told of UUP claim of polling irregularities The Mirror MGN Retrieved 20 May 2022 via The Free Library SF s Gildernew retains her seat BBC News 7 May 2010 Unionists launch election challenge News Letter National World Publishing 28 May 2010 Retrieved 9 August 2010 Fermanagh South Tyrone election result challenge fails BBC News 22 October 2010 Retrieved 20 May 2022 Northern Ireland Conservatives launch manifesto BBC News 17 April 2015 Retrieved 20 May 2022 Leigh Rayment s Historical List of MPs Constituencies beginning with L part 4 Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll Electoral Office for Northern Ireland 7 June 2024 Retrieved 7 June 2024 Fermanagh amp South Tyrone report Sinn Fein s Pat Cullen secures clear win over DUP The Irish Times Retrieved 5 July 2024 Fermanagh amp South Tyrone Parliamentary constituency Election 2019 BBC News 13 December 2019 Retrieved 18 November 2019 Fermanagh amp South Tyrone Vote Caroline Wheeler a labour and trade union voice Socialist Party 25 November 2019 Breen Suzanne 7 November 2019 Labour not running candidates in NI elections is disappointing Hoey Belfast Telegraph Media Huis Retrieved 20 May 2022 General Election 2019 results and analysis PDF House of Commons Library 28 January 2020 via UK Parliament Election of a Member of Parliament for the FERMANAGH AND SOUTH TYRONE Constituency Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll Electoral Office of Northern Ireland 11 May 2017 Retrieved 16 May 2017 Fermanagh amp South Tyrone Election 2017 BBC News 9 June 2017 Retrieved 9 June 2017 Election Data 2015 Electoral Calculus Archived from the original on 17 October 2015 Retrieved 17 October 2015 UK Parliamentary Election Result Fermanagh amp South Tyrone Electoral Office of Northern Ireland EONI Statement of Persons Nominated Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Electoral Office for Northern Ireland Fermanagh amp South Tyrone Election 2010 BBC News Election Data 2010 Electoral Calculus Archived from the original on 26 July 2013 Retrieved 17 October 2015 Unionist unity candidate agreed BBC News 9 April 2010 Retrieved 20 May 2022 Unionist dismay as election case falters News Letter National World Publishing 23 October 2010 Archived from the original on 17 May 2014 Retrieved 15 May 2014 Election Data 2005 Electoral Calculus Archived from the original on 15 October 2011 Retrieved 18 October 2015 Election Data 2001 Electoral Calculus Archived from the original on 15 October 2011 Retrieved 18 October 2015 Election Data 1997 Electoral Calculus Archived from the original on 15 October 2011 Retrieved 18 October 2015 Fermanagh and South Tyrone General Election 1997 BBC News Archived from the original on 11 January 2005 Retrieved 20 December 2019 Election Data 1992 Electoral Calculus Archived from the original on 15 October 2011 Retrieved 18 October 2015 Election Data 1987 Electoral Calculus Archived from the original on 15 October 2011 Retrieved 18 October 2015 Results of Byelections in the 1983 87 Parliament Election Demon David Boothroyd Archived from the original on 5 April 2018 Retrieved 4 May 2018 Election Data 1983 Electoral Calculus Archived from the original on 15 October 2011 Retrieved 18 October 2015 Boothroyd David Results of Byelections in the 1979 83 Parliament United Kingdom Election Results Archived from the original on 9 June 2000 Retrieved 19 September 2015 via Election Demon Parliamentary Constituency 2024 NISRA Retrieved 17 July 2024 National identity person based basic detail classification 1 NISRA Retrieved 17 July 2024 Further readingFWS Craig British Parliamentary Election Results 1918 1949 FWS Craig British Parliamentary Election Results 1950 1970External links2017 Election House Of Commons Library 2017 Election report Fermanagh amp South Tyrone Ask Aristotle Election results from 1992 Guardian Unlimited Guardian Media Group Archived from the original on 10 August 2004 Retrieved 20 May 2022 Political Science Resource Keele University 2 July 2009 Archived from the original on 2 July 2009 Election results from 1951 to present Fermanagh and South Tyrone ARK Access Research Knowledge Election results 1983 1992 Leigh Rayment s Historical List of MPs Constituencies beginning with F Fermanagh and South Tyrone UK Parliament constituency boundaries April 2010 May 2024 at MapIt UK Fermanagh and South Tyrone UK Parliament constituency boundaries from June 2024 at MapIt UK 54 32 31 N 7 18 32 W 54 542 N 7 309 W 54 542 7 309