Newry and Armagh is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Mickey Brady of Sinn Féin.
Newry and Armagh | |
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county constituency for the House of Commons | |
![]() Boundary of Newry and Armagh in Northern Ireland | |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1983 |
Member of Parliament | Mickey Brady (Sinn Féin) |
Created from | Armagh and South Down[1] |
Boundaries edit
1983–1997: The District of Armagh, and the District of Newry and Mourne wards of Ballybot, Belleek, Bessbrook, Camlough, Creggan, Crossmaglen, Daisy Hill, Derrymore, Drumalane, Drumgullion, Fathom, Forkhill, Newtownhamilton, St Mary's, St Patrick's, Tullyhappy, and Windsor Hill.
1997–present: The District of Armagh, and the District of Newry and Mourne wards of Ballybot, Bessbrook, Camlough, Creggan, Crossmaglen, Daisy Hill, Derrymore, Drumgullion, Drumalane, Fathom, Forkhill, Newtownhamilton, Silver Bridge, St Mary's, St Patrick's, Tullyhappy, and Windsor Hill.
The seat was created in boundary changes in 1983, as part of an expansion of Northern Ireland's constituencies from 12 to 17, and was predominantly made up from the old Armagh constituency with the addition of Newry town from the old South Down constituency. In 1995, the Boundary Commission originally proposed to abolish the seat with the Armagh district joining most of Dungannon in a new 'Blackwater' constituency with the rest becoming part of a new Newry and Mourne constituency. This was strongly opposed during the local enquiries and the eventual boundary review did not implement it. The constituency contains the entirety of the former Armagh district and the Newry half of the former Newry and Mourne district.
History edit
For the history of the equivalent constituency prior to 1983, please see Armagh.
The constituency is majority nationalist, though initially on its creation in 1983 Jim Nicholson of the Ulster Unionist Party won the seat due to the nationalist vote being divided between the Social Democratic and Labour Party and Sinn Féin. In 1986 Nicholson, along with all the other unionist MPs, resigned his seat in protest over the Anglo-Irish Agreement and stood in a by-election to provide voters the opportunity to decide on it. However the nationalist parties contested the seat and Seamus Mallon of the SDLP gained sufficient votes to outpoll Nicholson and win the seat. Mallon held it until his retirement in 2005.
The main attention has been upon the rise of the Sinn Féin vote. In the 2001 election they surged forward, cutting Mallon's majority drastically, as well as heavily outpolling the SDLP in the equivalent area local elections held on the same day. Then in the 2003 Assembly election Sinn Féin won three seats to the SDLP's one. Mallon stood down at the 2005 general election fearing the loss of his seat as was widely predicted among political pundits, the seat subsequently fell to Sinn Féin with Murphy out polling the SDLP by almost 8000 votes.
Newry is overwhelmingly nationalist, and was one of two districts in Northern Ireland to return a numerical majority of people identifying themselves as "Irish" at the 2011 census at 52.1% Irish. Armagh is more unionist, though it does have a larger proportion of people identifying as "Irish" in comparison to the Northern Ireland average at 44.4% "British" 32.4% "Irish".[2]
Members of Parliament edit
The Member of Parliament since the 2015 general election is Mickey Brady of Sinn Féin. He succeeded his party colleague, Conor Murphy who had gained the seat from the SDLP in 2005.
Election | Member[3] | Party | Notes | |
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1983 | Jim Nicholson | Ulster Unionist | Resigned December 1985 in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement; defeated at subsequent by-election | |
1986 by-election | Seamus Mallon | SDLP | Deputy Leader of the SDLP 1979–2001; Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland 1998–2001 | |
2005 | Conor Murphy | Sinn Féin | ||
2015 | Mickey Brady |
Election results edit
Elections in the 2020s edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | Pete Byrne | ||||
Sinn Féin | Dáire Hughes | ||||
UUP | Sam Nicholson | ||||
TUV | Keith Ratcliffe | ||||
NI Conservatives | Samantha Rayner | ||||
Aontú | Liam Reichenberg | ||||
DUP | Gareth Wilson | ||||
Alliance | Helena Young | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Registered electors | |||||
Swing |
Elections in the 2010s edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Sinn Féin | Mickey Brady | 20,287 | 40.0 | ―7.9 | |
DUP | William Irwin | 11,000 | 21.7 | ―2.9 | |
SDLP | Pete Byrne | 9,449 | 18.6 | +1.7 | |
Alliance | Jackie Coade | 4,211 | 8.3 | +6.0 | |
UUP | Sam Nicholson | 4,204 | 8.3 | ±0.0 | |
Aontú | Martin Kelly | 1,628 | 3.2 | New | |
Majority | 9,287 | 18.3 | ―5.0 | ||
Turnout | 50,779 | 62.5 | ―6.0 | ||
Registered electors | 81,246 | ||||
Sinn Féin hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sinn Féin | Mickey Brady | 25,666 | 47.9 | +6.8 | |
DUP | William Irwin | 13,177 | 24.6 | New | |
SDLP | Justin McNulty | 9,055 | 16.9 | ―7.2 | |
UUP | Sam Nicholson | 4,425 | 8.3 | ―24.4 | |
Alliance | Jackie Coade | 1,256 | 2.3 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 12,489 | 23.3 | +14.9 | ||
Turnout | 53,579 | 68.5 | +4.3 | ||
Registered electors | 78,266 | ||||
Sinn Féin hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sinn Féin | Mickey Brady | 20,488 | 41.1 | ―0.9 | |
UUP | Danny Kennedy[11] | 16,312 | 32.7 | +13.6 | |
SDLP | Justin McNulty | 12,026 | 24.1 | +0.7 | |
Alliance | Kate Nicholl | 841 | 1.7 | +0.5 | |
NI Conservatives | Robert Rigby | 210 | 0.4 | New | |
Majority | 4,176 | 8.4 | ―10.2 | ||
Turnout | 49,877 | 64.2 | +3.8 | ||
Registered electors | 77,633 | ||||
Sinn Féin hold | Swing | ―7.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sinn Féin | Conor Murphy | 18,857 | 42.0 | +0.6 | |
SDLP | Dominic Bradley | 10,526 | 23.4 | ―1.8 | |
UCU-NF | Danny Kennedy | 8,558 | 19.1 | +5.2 | |
DUP | William Irwin | 5,764 | 12.8 | ―5.6 | |
Independent | Willie Frazer | 656 | 1.5 | New | |
Alliance | Andrew Muir | 545 | 1.2 | New | |
Majority | 8,331 | 18.6 | +2.4 | ||
Turnout | 44,906 | 60.4 | ―9.6 | ||
Registered electors | 74,308 | ||||
Sinn Féin hold | Swing | +1.2 |
Elections in the 2000s edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Sinn Féin | Conor Murphy | 20,965 | 41.4 | +10.5 | |
SDLP | Dominic Bradley | 12,770 | 25.2 | ―12.2 | |
DUP | Paul Berry | 9,311 | 18.4 | ―1.0 | |
UUP | Danny Kennedy | 7,025 | 13.9 | +1.6 | |
Independent | Gerry Markey | 625 | 1.2 | New | |
Majority | 8,195 | 16.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 50,696 | 70.0 | ―6.8 | ||
Registered electors | 71,771 | ||||
Sinn Féin gain from SDLP | Swing | +11.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | Seamus Mallon | 20,784 | 37.4 | ―5.6 | |
Sinn Féin | Conor Murphy | 17,209 | 30.9 | +9.8 | |
DUP | Paul Berry | 10,795 | 19.4 | New | |
UUP | Sylvia McRoberts | 6,833 | 12.3 | ―21.5 | |
Majority | 3,575 | 6.5 | ―2.7 | ||
Turnout | 55,621 | 76.8 | +1.4 | ||
Registered electors | 72,466 | ||||
SDLP hold | Swing | ―7.8 |
Elections in the 1990s edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | Seamus Mallon | 22,904 | 43.0 | ―6.3 | |
UUP | Danny Kennedy | 18,015 | 33.8 | ―2.5 | |
Sinn Féin | Patrick McNamee | 11,218 | 21.1 | +8.6 | |
Alliance | Peter Whitcroft | 1,015 | 1.9 | 0.0 | |
Natural Law | David Evans | 123 | 0.2 | New | |
Majority | 4,889 | 9.2 | ―3.9 | ||
Turnout | 53,275 | 75.4 | ―2.5 | ||
Registered electors | 70,807 | ||||
SDLP hold | Swing | ―1.9 |
1997 Changes are compared to the 1992 notional results shown below.[17]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | N/A | 25,740 | 49.3 | N/A | |
UUP | N/A | 18,930 | 36.3 | N/A | |
Sinn Féin | N/A | 6,530 | 12.5 | N/A | |
Alliance | N/A | 972 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Majority | 6,810 | 13.1 | N/A |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | Seamus Mallon | 26,073 | 49.6 | +1.5 | |
UUP | Jim Speers | 18,982 | 36.1 | ―1.8 | |
Sinn Féin | Brendan Curran | 6,547 | 12.5 | +0.7 | |
Alliance | Eileen Bell | 972 | 1.8 | +0.5 | |
Majority | 7,091 | 13.5 | +3.3 | ||
Turnout | 52,574 | 77.9 | ―1.3 | ||
Registered electors | 67,531 | ||||
SDLP hold | Swing | +1.7 |
Elections in the 1980s edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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SDLP | Seamus Mallon | 25,137 | 48.1 | +11.3 | |
UUP | Jim Nicholson | 19,812 | 37.9 | ―2.1 | |
Sinn Féin | Jim McAllister | 6,173 | 11.8 | ―9.1 | |
Alliance | William Henry Jeffrey | 664 | 1.3 | New | |
Workers' Party | Gerard O'Hanlon | 482 | 0.9 | ―1.4 | |
Majority | 5,325 | 10.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 52,268 | 79.2 | +3.2 | ||
Registered electors | 66,027 | ||||
SDLP gain from UUP | Swing | +6.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SDLP | Seamus Mallon | 22,694 | 45.5 | +8.7 | |
UUP | Jim Nicholson | 20,111 | 40.3 | +0.3 | |
Sinn Féin | Jim McAllister | 6,609 | 13.2 | ―7.7 | |
Workers' Party | Patrick McCusker | 515 | 1.0 | ―1.3 | |
Majority | 2,583 | 5.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 49,929 | 76.9 | +0.9 | ||
Registered electors | 65,142 | ||||
SDLP gain from UUP | Swing | +4.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UUP | Jim Nicholson | 18,988 | 40.0 | ||
SDLP | Seamus Mallon | 17,434 | 36.8 | ||
Sinn Féin | Jim McAllister | 9,928 | 20.9 | ||
Workers' Party | Thomas Moore | 1,070 | 2.3 | ||
Majority | 1,554 | 3.2 | |||
Turnout | 47,420 | 76.0 | |||
Registered electors | 62,298 | ||||
UUP win (new seat) |
See also edit
References edit
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- ^ Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, 2011 UK Census, National Identity (Classification 2) http://www.ninis2.nisra.gov.uk/public/pivotgrid.aspx?dataSetVars=ds-2427-lh-38-yn-2011-sk-136-sn-Census+2011-yearfilter--
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)
- ^ "Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll". Electoral Office for Northern Ireland. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
- ^ "Newry & Armagh Parliamentary constituency". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
- ^ "Commons Briefing Paper 8749. General Election 2019: results and analysis" (PDF). London: House of Commons Library. 28 January 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ "Election of a Member of Parliament for the NEWRY AND ARMAGH Constituency – Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll". Electoral Office of Northern Ireland. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
- ^ "Commons Briefing Paper 7979. General Election 2017: results and analysis" (PDF) (Second ed.). House of Commons Library. 29 January 2019 [7 April 2018]. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 November 2019.
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- ^ 24Aug15
- ^ "Member of Parliament for Newry and Armagh". YourNextMP. Archived from the original on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
- ^ "Election Data 2010". Electoral Calculus. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ Statement of Persons Nominated Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "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.
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External links edit
- 2017 Election House Of Commons Library 2017 Election report
- A Vision Of Britain Through Time (Constituency elector numbers)
- Politics Resources