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UK Parliament - Newry & Armagh

RACE DETAILS

Parents

> United Kingdom > Northern Ireland > Northern Ireland > Newry & Armagh

Office

Parliament

Type

General Election

Filing Deadline

April 20, 2010 - 06:00pm

Polls Open

May 06, 2010 - 01:00am

Polls Close

May 06, 2010 - 04:00pm

Term Start

May 17, 2010 - 12:00pm

Term End

May 17, 2015 - 12:00pm

Contributor

Ralphie

Last Modified

Ralphie May 06, 2010 09:38pm

Data Sources

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Description

BBC Profile:
A split nationalist vote enabled the Ulster Unionist Party's Jim Nicholson to hold the constituency in the 1980s but after resigning his seat in protest at the Anglo Irish Agreement in 1985 he failed to hold it in the subsequent by-election, losing out to Seamus Mallon of the Social Democratic and Labour Party. Mallon was both deputy leader of his party and a deputy first minster in the Northern Ireland Executive. He held the seat until his retirement in 2005.

At the 2005 general election Sinn Fein's Conor Murphy defeated the SDLP's Dominic Bradley to succeed Mallon, securing over 40% of the vote and a sizable swing towards his party.

There are no boundary changes affecting this seat.

This is a large constituency between Belfast and the border with the Republic. It covers the whole of Armagh and most of Newry and Mourne district councils. It is dominated by the two cities that give it its name.

Armagh is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland and is home to the heads of both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church of Ireland.

Newry attained city status in 2002 as part of the Golden Jubilee. It has enjoyed something of a boom status in the years since and has enjoyed a period of relative prosperity as its proximity to the Republic of Ireland's border led shoppers from south of the border to take advantage of more competitive prices than they could get at home.

Rallings & Thrasher Notional:
No Boundary Changes