| Mid Ulster | |
| Type: | Northern Ireland Assembly Parliamentary |
| Year: | 1973 |
| Members Label: | MLAs |
| Seats: | 6 (1996–2016) 5 (2017–) |
| Local Council Label: | Districts |
| Local Council: | Mid-Ulster District Council |
| Blank1 Name: | Boundaries |
Mid Ulster (Ulster Scots: Mid Ulstèr) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
It was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election in 1973, which elected the then Northern Ireland Assembly. It usually shares boundaries with the Mid Ulster UK Parliament constituency. However, the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 (because the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes) and from 1996 to 1997, when members of the Northern Ireland Forum had been elected from the newly drawn Parliamentary constituencies but the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected in 1992 under the 1983-95 constituency boundaries, was still in session.
Members were then elected from the constituency to the 1975 Constitutional Convention, the 1982 Assembly, the 1996 Forum and then to the current Assembly from 1998.
Mid Ulster is the only constituency in Northern Ireland to have returned the same number of Assembly members from the same parties at each election before that of 2017 – 3 Sinn Féin, 1 SDLP, 1 UUP and 1 DUP.
The constituency's most prominent MLA has been Michelle O'Neill, who has been the First Minister of Northern Ireland since February 2024. O'Neill is the first nationalist and the second woman to hold the post.
For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see Mid Ulster (UK Parliament constituency).
| Election | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Paddy Duffy (SDLP) | Ivan Cooper (SDLP) | Aidan Larkin (SDLP) | William Thompson (UUP) | Duncan Pollock (UUP) | John Dunlop (Vanguard) | ||||||
| 1975 | Francis Thompson (UUP) | Richard Reid (DUP) | Robert Overend (Vanguard) | |||||||||
| 1982 | Danny Morrison (Sinn Féin) | Mary McSorley (SDLP) | Denis Haughey (SDLP) | Alan Kane (DUP) | William McCrea (DUP) | |||||||
| 1996 | Patrick Groogan (Sinn Féin) | Francie Molloy (Sinn Féin) | Patsy McGlone (SDLP) | 5 seats 1996–1998 | John Junkin (UUP) | |||||||
| 1998 | John Kelly (Sinn Féin) | Martin McGuinness (Sinn Féin) | Denis Haughey (SDLP) | Billy Armstrong (UUP) | ||||||||
| 2003 | Geraldine Dougan (Sinn Féin) | Patsy McGlone (SDLP) | ||||||||||
| 2007 | Michelle O'Neill (Sinn Féin) | Ian McCrea (DUP) | ||||||||||
| 2011 | Sandra Overend (UUP) | |||||||||||
| April 2013 co-option | Ian Milne (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||
| 2016 | Linda Dillon (Sinn Féin) | Keith Buchanan (DUP) | ||||||||||
| 2017 | 5 seats 2017–present | |||||||||||
| December 2018 co-option | Emma Sheerin (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||
| 2022 | ||||||||||||
Successful candidates are shown in bold.[1]
| Party | Candidate(s) | Votes | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Francie Molloy Patsy Groogan Sean Begley Margaret McKenna Owen Carron | 13,001 | 29.6 | ||
| Patsy McGlone Denis Haughey Kathleen Lagan Pat McErlean Joe McBride | 12,492 | 28.5 | ||
| John Junkin Norman Badger Trevor Wilson | 7,935 | 18.1 | ||
| William McCrea William Larmour Paul McLean | 7,243 | 16.5 | ||
| Aidan Lagan Keith Jacques | 549 | 1.2 | ||
| Daniel Huston Hugh Moore | 435 | 1.0 | ||
| John Coyle Kenneth Rutherford | 380 | 0.9 | ||
| John Haveron James English | 375 | 0.9 | ||
| Harry Hutchinson Anne Gribbon John McLaughlin Paddy McGrath Joanne Kane | 271 | 0.6 | ||
| Walter Millar Dierdre Speer-White | 263 | 0.6 | ||
| Cherry Dickson Ann McCrystal Sheila Murphy Mary Hogg Mary Doyle | 259 | 0.6 | ||
| Francie Donnelly Gerard Brennan | 210 | 0.5 | ||
| David Lyttle Lucille O'Shea | 132 | 0.3 | ||
| Elspeth Irvine Eileen Elizabeth McKee | 119 | 0.3 | ||
| Charles McKee Patrick Pearse Kelly | 93 | 0.2 | ||
| Patricia Cullen Frank McElroy | 41 | 0.1 | ||
| Stewart Luck Richard Mulholland | 24 | 0.1 | ||
| Chambers | Angela Moore Linda Chambers | 20 | 0.1 | |