Foyleside (District Electoral Area)
| Foyleside | |
|---|---|
| Derry and Strabane District Council DEA constituency | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2014 |
| Seats | 5 (2014-) |
| Councillors | |
Foyleside 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 Ballymagroaty, Foyle Springs, Madam's Bank, Northland and Springtown.[2] Ballyarnett forms part of the Foyle constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
It was created for the 2014 local elections, replacing the Northland DEA which had existed since 1985.
Councillors
[edit]| Election | Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 Defection | Conor Heaney (Sinn Féin) |
Grace Uí Niallais (Sinn Féin) |
Shaun Harkin (PBP) |
Lilian Seenoi-Barr (SDLP) |
Shauna Cusack (SDLP)/ (Independent) | |||||
| 2023 | ||||||||||
| June 2021 Co-Option | Sean Carr (Independent) | |||||||||
| April 2021 Co-Option | Mary Durkan (SDLP) | |||||||||
| 2019 | Michael Cooper (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||
| 2014 | Eric McGinley (Sinn Féin) |
Darren O'Reilly (Independent) |
John Boyle (SDLP) | |||||||
2023 Election
[edit]2019: 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit, 1 x Independent
2023: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x People Before Profit,
2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin gain from Independent
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Conor Heaney* | 25.77% | 1,846 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Grace Uí Niallais | 15.57% | 1,115 | 1,635.80 | ||||
| People Before Profit | Shaun Harkin* | 13.67% | 979 | 999.65 | 1,074.90 | 1,140.15 | 1,239.15 | |
| SDLP | Shauna Cusack* ‡ | 13.23% | 948 | 984.75 | 1,072.25 | 1,131.35 | 1,200.35 | |
| SDLP | Lilian Seenoi-Barr* | 13.40% | 960 | 988.00 | 1,073.40 | 1,130.30 | 1,177.30 | |
| SDLP | Stephen McCallion | 8.74% | 626 | 638.60 | 672.55 | 734.70 | 777.70 | |
| Aontú | Seán Mac Cearáin | 5.91% | 423 | 434.55 | 472.70 | 493.50 | ||
| Alliance | Danny McCloskey | 3.71% | 266 | 275.45 | 307.30 | |||
| Electorate: 13,372 Valid: 7,163 (53.57%) Spoilt: 136 Quota: 1,194 Turnout: 7,299 (54.58%) | ||||||||
2019 Election
[edit]2014: 2 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Independent
2019: 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit, 1 x Independent
2014-2019 Change: People Before Profit gain from Sinn Féin
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SDLP | Mary Durkan † | 16.73% | 1,231 | |||||
| SDLP | Shauna Cusack* | 15.34% | 1,129 | 1,209 | 1,243 | |||
| People Before Profit | Shaun Harkin | 13.28% | 977 | 1,058 | 1,078 | 1,259 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Michael Cooper* † | 12.07% | 888 | 897 | 1,151 | 1,206 | 1,208.34 | |
| Independent | Sean Carr | 11.17% | 822 | 854 | 870 | 1,014 | 1,038.96 | |
| Sinn Féin | Eric McGinley* | 8.87% | 653 | 661 | 972 | 1,016 | 1,020.29 | |
| SDLP | Lilian Seenoi-Barr | 9.80% | 721 | 775 | 777 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Hayleigh Fleming | 8.60% | 632 | 644 | ||||
| Alliance | John Doherty | 4.16% | 305 | |||||
| Electorate: 13,233 Valid: 7,358 (55.60%) Spoilt: 162 Quota: 1,227 Turnout: 7,520 (56.83%) | ||||||||
2014 Election
[edit]2014: 2 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Independent
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| SDLP | John Boyle* | 17.78% | 1,132 | |||||
| Independent | Darren O'Reilly | 17.13% | 1,091 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Michael Cooper* | 12.58% | 801 | 843 | 847.74 | 1,154.74 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Eric McGinley* | 12.42% | 791 | 817 | 818.68 | 1,124.68 | ||
| SDLP | Shauna Cusack* | 11.62% | 740 | 842 | 894.14 | 943.62 | 975.62 | |
| SDLP | Rory Farrell | 11.67% | 743 | 804 | 809.4 | 827.52 | 841.52 | |
| Sinn Féin | Barney O'Hagan* | 11.01% | 701 | 722 | 723.14 | |||
| People Before Profit | Sha Gillespie | 3.64% | 232 | |||||
| Alliance | Daniel Comer | 2.15% | 137 | |||||
| Electorate: 12,724 Valid: 6,368 (50.05%) Spoilt: 171 Quota: 1,062 Turnout: 6,539 (51.39%) | ||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ "Foyleside". Derry City & Strabane District Council.
- ^ "Local Council Elections 2019 - Results by Stage". 2 May 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ "Local Council Elections 2014 - Results by Stage". Archived from the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2022.