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This constituency takes in all of Armagh District Council and the western part of Newry and Mourne District Council. The member of parliament is Conor Murphy (SF), who won the seat when Seamus Mallon (SDLP) retired in 2005. Mallon had defeated Jim Nicholson (UUP) in a 1986 by-election. Sinn Fein have three Assembly seats here, and the other three are held by the SDLP, UUP and DUP (Sinn Fein gained a seat from the SDLP in 2003). Newry and Armagh was created in 1983 and was hardly changed in 1995. See the 1983-1992 Newry and Armagh results. The boundary commission's current proposals leave Newry and Armagh unchanged.
See also the detailed guide from 2007 by "Sammy Morse".
Newry and Armagh's population in the 2001 census was 100,950 (6th of the 18 constituencies).
| DUP | UUP | Oth U | Alliance | Oth | SDLP | SF | |
| 2007a |
13% | 13% | 6% | 1% | 6% | 20% | 42% |
| 2005w | 18% | 14% | 1% | 25% | 41% | ||
| 2005lg | 17% | 16% | 5% | 24% | 38% | ||
| 2003a | 18% | 16% | 1% | 1% | 25% | 40% | |
| 2001w | 19% | 12% | 37% | 31% | |||
| 1997lg | 15% | 18% | 4% | 28% | 35% | ||
| 1998a | 13% | 18% | 1% | 6% | 35% | 26% | |
| 1997lg | 7% | 30% | 1% | 4% | 34% | 25% | |
| 1997w | 34% | 2% | 0% | 43% | 21% | ||
| 1996f | 10% | 22% | 3% | 2% | 3% | 34% | 26% |
| *Conor Murphy MP (SF) 7437 (15.0%) Cathal Boylan (SF) 7105 (14.3%) *Danny Kennedy (UUP) 6517 (13.1%) William Irwin (DUP) 6418 (12.9%) Mickey Brady (SF) 6337 (12.8%) *Dominic Bradley (SDLP) 5318 (10.7%) Sharon Haughey (SDLP) 4500 (9.1%) *Paul Berry (Independent Unionist) 2317 (4.7%) *Davy Hyland (Independent) 2188 (4.4%) William Frazer (Independent Unionist) 605 (1.2%) Arthur Morgan (Green) 599 (1.2%) Máire Hendron (Alliance) 278 (0.6%) *Elected in 2003 from Newry and Armagh |
SF 20,879 (42.1%, +2.3%) 3 seats SDLP 9,818 (19.8%, -4.8%) 1 seat UUP 6,517 (13.1%, -2.4%) 1 seat DUP 6,418 (12.9%, -5.2%) 1 seat Ind U's 2,922 (5.9%) Ind 2,188 (4.4%) Green 599 (1.2%) Alliance 278 (0.6%) Electorate 70,823 Votes cast 50,165 (70.8%); spoilt votes 546 (1.1%) Valid votes 49,619; quota 7,089 |
@Conor Murphy (Sinn Fein) 20,965 (41.4% +10.5%)
@Dominic Bradley (SDLP) 12,770 (25.2% -12.2%)
@Paul Berry (DUP) 9,311 (18.4% -1.0%)
@Danny Kennedy (UUP) 7,025 (13.9% +1.6%)
Gerry Markey (Independent) 625 (1.2%)
@ Member of the Assembly
SF's most widely anticipated (and, as it turned out, only) gain. These votes, if cast in a six-seat STV election, would have given SF three seats and the SDLP, DUP and UUP one each.
The Newry and Armagh constituency contains all 22 wards in Armagh and 17 of the 30 wards in Newry and Mourne (all 7 wards in the Newry Town DEA, all 5 wards in the Slieve Gullion DEA, and 5 of the 6 wards in The Fews DEA [Bessbrook, Camlough, Derrymore, Newtownhamilton and Tullyhappy])
Sinn Fein 19,449.8 (38.5%)
SDLP 12,124.8 (24.0%)
DUP 8,527.5 (16.9%)
UUP 8,142.8 (16.1%)
Independents 2,338 (4.6%)
Extrapolating from the local government elections is difficult because the Newry and Armagh constituency breaches one electoral area boundary. These votes, cast in a six seat STV election, would have elected two from SF and one each from the SDLP, DUP and UUP, with the last seat between the SDLP and SF.
| *Paul
Berry (DUP) 8125 (17.1%) *Conor Murphy (SF) 7595 (16.0%) *Danny Kennedy (UUP) 7347 (15.5%) Davy Hyland (SF) 5779 (12.2%) Patricia O'Rawe (SF) 5478 (11.6%) Jim Lennon (SDLP) 4116 (8.7%) Dominic Bradley (SDLP) 4111 (8.7%) *John Fee (SDLP) 3410 (7.2%) William Frazer (Ind) 632 (1.3%) Freda Donnelly (WP) 474 (1.0%) Peter Whitcroft (Alliance) 311 (0.7%) |
SF 18,852
(39.8%, +13.8%) 3 seats SDLP 11,637 (24.6%, -10.4%) 1 seat DUP 8,599 (18.1%, +4.8%) 1 seat UUP 7,347 (15.5%, -2.6%) 1 seat Ind 632 (1.3%) Alliance 311 (0.7%, -0.7%) Electorate 68,731 Votes cast 48,233 (70.2%); spoilt votes 855 (1.8%) Valid votes 47,378; quota 6,769 |
Electorate:
72,466; votes cast: 56,208 (77.5%); spoilt votes: 587 (1.0%)
Valid votes: 55,621; SDLP majority 3,576
* outgoing MP
@ member of the Assembly
The narrowness of Mallon's victory surprised many observers. If this had been a six-seat Assembly election, the Nationalist parties would have won two seats each and the Unionist parties one each.
SF 19161.3 (35%)
SDLP 15237.8 (28%)
UUP 10115.7 (18%)
DUP 8254.5 (15%)
NIWC 209 (0.4%)
Independents 2091 (4%)
Total valid 55069.3
The above figures in a six-seat STV election would have given two seats each to Sinn Fein and the SDLP, and one each to the UUP and the DUP.
| *Seamus
Mallon (SDLP) 13,582 Paul Berry (DUP) 7,214 *Danny Kennedy (UUP) 5,495 Conor Murphy (SF) 4,839 Davy Hyland (SF) 4,643 *Pat McNamee (SF) 4,570 Jim Speers (UUP) 4,324 John Fee (SDLP) 3,166 *Frank Feeley (SDLP) 2,205 Mary Allen (Ind) 1,227 Kate Fearon (WC) 1,138 William Fraser (Ulster Independence) 933 Pete Whitcroft (Alliance) 777 David Evans (NLP) 23 |
SDLP 18,953
votes
(35.01%) 2 seats SF 14,052 votes (25.96%) 2 seats UUP 9,819 votes (18.14%) 1 seat DUP 7,214 votes (13.33%) 1 seat Independent 1,227 votes (2.27%) WC 1,138 votes (2.10%) Ulster Independence 933 votes (1.72%) Alliance 777 votes (1.44%) NLP 23 votes (0.04%) Electorate: 71,553 |
* elected in 1996 Forum/talks election from Newry and Armagh
A good result for the DUP; not so good for the UUP who held this parliamentary seat from 1983 to 1986. The three SF candidates balanced their votes well but one was overtaken by the SDLP's John Fee, who finished with 7,169 votes, far ahead of his running mate Frank Feely's 5,875. Feely had been elected at all four previous regional elections.
Social Democratic
and Labour Party 15,705.4 (34%)
Ulster Unionist Party 13,778.6 (30%)
Sinn Féin 11,408.8 (25%)
Democratic Unionist Party 3,117 (7%)
Alliance 348 (1%)
Others 1,959 (4%)
Total valid 46489.8 (65.93% of electorate)
See also: Full 2003 results from Newry and Armagh | Full 1998 results from Newry and Armagh | The Boundary Commission's Provisional Recommendations | Boundary Commission 2003 | Jim Riley's analysis of votes and seats in the 1998 Assembly election | The constituencies
Other sites based at ARK: ORB (Online Research Bank) | CAIN (Conflict Archive on the INternet) | Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
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Nicholas Whyte, 3 June 1998; last updated 7 October 2007.
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