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Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Assembly constituency)

Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Northern Ireland Assembly
Parliamentary Constituency
FermanaghSouthTyroneConstituency.svg
Fermanagh and South Tyrone shown within Northern Ireland
Current constituency
Created 1973
Seats 5 (2017–)
6 (1996–2016)
MLAs Election in progress
Districts Fermanagh and Omagh District Council
EP constituency Northern Ireland

Coordinates: 54°32′31″N 7°18′32″W / 54.542°N 7.309°W / 54.542; -7.309

Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Irish: Fear Manach agus Tír Eoghain Theas, Ulster Scots: Fermanay an Sooth Owenslann) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. It usually shares boundaries with the Fermanagh and South Tyrone UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 as 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.


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