Faughan (District Electoral Area)
Faughan | |
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Derry and Strabane District Council DEA constituency | |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2014 |
Seats | 5 (2014-) |
Councillors |
Faughan is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Derry and Strabane, Northern Ireland.[1] The district elects five members to Derry and Strabane District Council and contains the wards of Claudy, Eglinton, Enagh, New Buildings and Slievekirk.[2] Faughan forms part of the Foyle constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
It was created for the 2014 local elections, replacing the Rural DEA which had existed since 1985.
Councillors[edit]
Election | Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) | |||||
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January 2024 Co-Option | Alex Duffy (Sinn Féin) |
Sean Fleming (Sinn Féin) |
Declan Norris (SDLP) |
Janice Montgomery (UUP) |
Julie Middleton (DUP) | |||||
2023 | Ryan McCready (UUP)/ (DUP) | |||||||||
December 2022 Co-Option | Rachael Ferguson (Alliance) |
Graham Warke (DUP)/ (Independent) | ||||||||
October 2022 Co-Option | Paul Fleming (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||
June 2022 Defection | Jim McKeever (SDLP)/ (Independent) | |||||||||
July 2021 Defections | ||||||||||
2019 | ||||||||||
February 2016 Defection | Gus Hastings (SDLP) |
Maurice Devenney (DUP)/ (Independent) | ||||||||
May 2015 Co-Option | ||||||||||
2014 | Gary Middleton (DUP) |
2023 Election[edit]
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Alliance
2023: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP
2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin and UUP gain from DUP and Alliance
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Ulster Unionist | Ryan McCready* | 15.84% | 1,282 | 1,414 | |||||
Social Democratic and Labour | Declan Norris* | 11.35% | 919 | 984 | 989.22 | 1,396.22 | |||
Democratic Unionist | Julie Middleton | 12.21% | 988 | 1,016 | 1,032.82 | 1,037.82 | 1,659.82 | ||
Sinn Féin | Alex Duffy* | 14.74% | 1,193 | 1,244 | 1,244.58 | 1,325.16 | 1,325.16 | 1,326.16 | |
Sinn Féin | Sean Fleming | 14.35% | 1,162 | 1,201 | 1,201.58 | 1,241.58 | 1,242.58 | 1,243.48 | |
Alliance | Rachael Ferguson* | 8.59% | 695 | 813 | 826.34 | 947.50 | 962.88 | 1,054.88 | |
Democratic Unionist | Gary Wilkinson | 8.07% | 653 | 685 | 708.20 | 712.78 | |||
Social Democratic and Labour | Hayley Canning | 7.58% | 614 | 682 | 685.48 | ||||
People Before Profit | Damien Gallagher | 3.83% | 310 | ||||||
Independent | Graham Warke* | 3.45% | 279 | ||||||
Electorate: 14,532 Valid: 8,095 (55.70%) Spoilt: 93 Quota: 1,350 Turnout: 8,188 (56.34%) |
2019 Election[edit]
2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Alliance
2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain from SDLP
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Democratic Unionist | Graham Warke* ‡ | 14.70% | 1,050 | 1,050 | 1,051 | 1,253 | ||||
Democratic Unionist | Ryan McCready ‡ | 13.16% | 940 | 940 | 942 | 1,225 | ||||
Social Democratic and Labour | Jim McKeever* ‡† | 7.91% | 565 | 577 | 868 | 905 | 919.3 | 926.43 | 1,410.43 | |
Sinn Féin | Paul Fleming* † | 11.96% | 854 | 1,116 | 1,140 | 1,140 | 1,140.65 | 1,140.88 | 1,200.88 | |
Alliance | Rachael Ferguson | 10.96% | 783 | 795 | 859 | 965 | 996.85 | 1,012.49 | 1,148.43 | |
Independent | Paul Thomas Hughes | 10.26% | 733 | 737 | 782 | 807 | 816.75 | 821.12 | 865 | |
Social Democratic and Labour | Brenda Stevenson | 9.70% | 693 | 717 | 767 | 784 | 789.2 | 794.49 | ||
Ulster Unionist | William Jamieson | 9.94% | 710 | 710 | 715 | |||||
Social Democratic and Labour | Gus Hastings* | 6.87% | 491 | 498 | ||||||
Sinn Féin | Conor Heaney | 4.54% | 324 | |||||||
Electorate: 13,601 Valid: 7,143 (52.52%) Spoilt: 103 Quota: 1,191 Turnout: 7,246 (53.28%) |
2014 Election[edit]
2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Democratic Unionist | Gary Middleton* † | 17.05% | 1,077 | |||||||||
Democratic Unionist | Maurice Devenney* ‡ | 14.81% | 936 | 1,034 | 1,052.72 | 1,090.72 | ||||||
Sinn Féin | Paul Fleming* | 14.17% | 895 | 898 | 898.04 | 914.04 | 1,195.04 | |||||
Social Democratic and Labour | Jim McKeever | 7.80% | 493 | 496 | 496.14 | 564.14 | 591.16 | 651 | 655 | 914.18 | 985.18 | |
Social Democratic and Labour | Gus Hastings* | 7.79% | 492 | 497 | 497.02 | 542.04 | 561.04 | 602.4 | 605.4 | 796.94 | 952.94 | |
Ulster Unionist | Ronnie McKeegan | 8.78% | 555 | 605 | 607.16 | 668.2 | 669.2 | 670.08 | 692.08 | 704.1 | 717.1 | |
Independent | Paul Hughes | 7.93% | 501 | 504 | 504 | 541 | 552 | 575.76 | 575.76 | 586.76 | ||
Social Democratic and Labour | Brenda Stevenson* | 7.76% | 490 | 491 | 491.06 | 522.06 | 533.06 | 548.02 | 550.02 | |||
Sinn Féin | Michael McCrossan | 5.67% | 358 | 358 | 358.02 | 365.02 | ||||||
Alliance | David Hawthorne | 5.32% | 336 | 345 | 345.16 | |||||||
UKIP | Geoff Cruickshank | 2.93% | 185 | |||||||||
Electorate: 12,933 Valid: 6,318 (48.85%) Spoilt: 86 Quota: 1,054 Turnout: 6,404 (49.52%) |
References[edit]
- ^ Final Northern Ireland super council recommendations, BBC News, 13 December 2013, accessed 24 May 2014
- ^ "Derry and Strabane District Council". www.ark.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ^ "Faughan". Derry City & Strabane District Council.
- ^ a b "Local Council Elections 2019 - Results by Stage". 2 May 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2022.