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Newry and Armagh (Assembly constituency)

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Created
  
1996

Founded
  
1996

EP constituency
  
Northern Ireland

Newry and Armagh (Assembly constituency)

Seats
  
6 (1996–2016) 5 (2017–)

MLAs
  
Cathal Boylan (SF)      Megan Fearon (SF)      William Irwin (DUP)      Justin McNulty (SDLP)      Conor Murphy (SF)

Districts
  
Newry, Mourne and Down District Council

Newry and Armagh (Irish: An Iúraigh agus Ard Mhacha, Ulster Scots: Newrie an Airmagh) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Contents

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996. Since 1998, it has elected members to the current Assembly.

For Assembly elections prior to 1996, the constituency was part of the Armagh and South Down constituencies. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the Newry and Armagh UK Parliament constituency.

For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Newry and Armagh (UK Parliament constituency).

Members

Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.

1996 Forum

Successful candidates are shown in bold.

References

Newry and Armagh (Assembly constituency) Wikipedia