Faughan (District Electoral Area)
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.
| Faughan | |
|---|---|
| Derry and Strabane District Council DEA constituency | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2014 |
| Seats | 5 (2014-) |
| Councillors | |
It was created for the 2014 local elections, replacing the Rural DEA which had existed since 1985.
Councillors
| Election | Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Alex Duffy (Sinn Féin) |
Sean Fleming (Sinn Féin) |
Declan Norris (SDLP) |
Ryan McCready (UUP)/ (DUP) |
Julie Middleton (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
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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Ulster Unionist | Ryan McCready* | 15.84% | 1,282 | 1,414 | |||||
| SDLP | Declan Norris* | 11.35% | 919 | 984 | 989.22 | 1,396.22 | |||
| DUP | 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 | |
| DUP | Gary Wilkinson | 8.07% | 653 | 685 | 708.20 | 712.78 | |||
| SDLP | 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
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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| DUP | Graham Warke* ‡ | 14.70% | 1,050 | 1,050 | 1,051 | 1,253 | ||||
| DUP | Ryan McCready ‡ | 13.16% | 940 | 940 | 942 | 1,225 | ||||
| SDLP | 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 | |
| SDLP | Brenda Stevenson | 9.70% | 693 | 717 | 767 | 784 | 789.2 | 794.49 | ||
| Ulster Unionist | William Jamieson | 9.94% | 710 | 710 | 715 | |||||
| SDLP | 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
2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| DUP | Gary Middleton* † | 17.05% | 1,077 | |||||||||
| DUP | 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 | |||||
| SDLP | Jim McKeever | 7.80% | 493 | 496 | 496.14 | 564.14 | 591.16 | 651 | 655 | 914.18 | 985.18 | |
| SDLP | 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 | ||
| SDLP | 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
- 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.
- "Local Council Elections 2019 - Results by Stage". 2 May 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
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