| West Tyrone | |
| Type: | Northern Ireland Assembly Parliamentary |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Members Label: | MLAs |
| Seats: | 6 (1996–2016) 5 (2017–) |
| Local Council Label: | Districts |
| Local Council: | Derry and Strabane District Council |
| Blank1 Name: | Boundaries |
West Tyrone (Ulster Scots: Wast Owenslann) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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 largely part of the Mid Ulster constituency with a smaller section coming from Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency. Since 1997, it has shared boundaries with the West Tyrone UK Parliament constituency.
For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see West Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency).
| Election | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | MLA (party) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Barry McElduff (Sinn Féin) | 5 seats 1996–1998 | Paddy McGowan (SDLP) | Joe Byrne (SDLP) | Derek Hussey (UUP) | Oliver Gibson (DUP) | ||||||
| 1998 | Pat Doherty (Sinn Féin) | Eugene McMenamin (SDLP) | ||||||||||
| 2003 | Kieran Deeny (Independent) | Thomas Buchanan (DUP) | ||||||||||
| 2007 | Claire McGill (Sinn Féin) | Allan Bresland (DUP) | ||||||||||
| 2011 | Michaela Boyle (Sinn Féin) | Joe Byrne (SDLP) | Ross Hussey (UUP) | |||||||||
| July 2012 co-option | Declan McAleer (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||
| December 2015 co-option | Daniel McCrossan (SDLP) | |||||||||||
| 2016 | ||||||||||||
| 2017 | 5 seats 2017–present | |||||||||||
| June 2017 co-option | Catherine Kelly (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||
| May 2019 co-option | Maolíosa McHugh (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||
| November 2020 co-option | Nicola Brogan (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||
| 2022 | ||||||||||||
Successful candidates are shown in bold.[1]
| Party | Candidates | Votes | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Byrne Paddy McGowan Ignatius Murtagh Seamus Shields | 11,622 | 28.4 | ||
| Barry McElduff Patrick McMahon Francis Mackey Patrick Watters Padraigin Ui Mhurdchadha | 11,516 | 28.1 | ||
| Derek Hussey William Oldcroft Edward Turner Desmond Anderson James Emery | 7,327 | 17.9 | ||
| Oliver Gibson Thomas Kerrigan | 6,727 | 16.4 | ||
| Ann Gormley Elizabeth McCaffrey John Devine | 1,081 | 2.6 | ||
| John McLaughlin Michael Duffy Anton McCabe Manus Maguire | 792 | 1.9 | ||
| Thomas Lowry Stephen Taylor | 397 | 1.0 | ||
| Dennis Wickersham John McNeil | 292 | 0.7 | ||
| Eileen Ward George McDermott | 238 | 0.6 | ||
| Helena Schlindwein Maria McGilloway Frances Donaghy | 185 | 0.5 | ||
| Hugh Mullan John Doherty | 169 | 0.4 | ||
| Ben Ryan Carolyn Bell Donald Spencer | 158 | 0.4 | ||
| P. J. McClean Teresa McVeigh Mary Veronica McElroy Martin McCay | 130 | 0.3 | ||
| Lindsay Cumming Julian Robertson | 119 | 0.3 | ||
| Sandra Jones Stanley Hayes Richard Button | 107 | 0.3 | ||
| John McCallen Denis Nelson | 45 | 0.1 | ||
| Chambers | Mandy Beattie Heather Ewart | 30 | 0.1 | |