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Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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9 June 1983		38,208/59,372	64.35
John Robert Beggs	Official Unionist Party	14,293	37.41
James Hugh Allister	Democratic Unionist Party	13,926	36.45
Sean Neeson	Alliance Party	7,620	19.94
Michael O'Cleary	Social Democratic Labour Party	1,047	2.74
William Anthony Cunning	Independent	741	1.94
Austin Kevin Kelly	Workers Party	581	1.52
Majority		367	0.96

17 December 1985 Resignation of Roy Beggs over the Anglo-Irish Agreement. (Chiltern Hundreds)

23 January 1986		35,791/59,372	60.28
John Robert Beggs	Official Unionist Party	30,386	84.90
Sean Neeson	Alliance Party	5,405	15.10
Majority		24,981	69.80

11 June 1987		33,460/61,281	54.60
John Robert Beggs	Official Unionist Party	23,942	71.55
Sean Neeson	Alliance Party	8,582	25.65
Austin Kevin Kelly	Workers Party	936	2.80
Majority		15,360	45.91

9 April 1992		39,251/62,839	62.46
John Robert Beggs	Ulster Unionist Party	16,966	43.22
Nigel Alexander Dodds	Democratic Unionist Party	9,544	24.32
Sean Neeson	Alliance Party	9,132	23.27
Myrtle Margaretta Boal	Conservative & Unionist Party	3,359	8.56
Andrea Palmer	Natural Law Party	250	0.64
Majority		7,422	18.91

Major Boundary Change
1 May 1997		34,353/58,963	58.26
John Robert Beggs	Ulster Unionist Party	13,318	38.77
Sean Neeson	Alliance Party	6,929	20.17
Jack McKee	Democratic Unionist Party	6,682	19.45
Terence Stanley Dick	Conservative & Unionist Party	2,334	6.79
Billy Donaldson	PUP	1,757	5.11
Daniel Gabriel O'Connor	Social Democratic Labour Party	1,576	4.59
Robert Lindsay Mason	Independent	1,145	3.33
Chrissie McAuley	Sinn Féin	543	1.58
Maura McCann	Natural Law Party	69	0.20
Majority		6,389	18.60

7 June 2001		36,000/60,897	59.12
John Robert Beggs	Ulster Unionist Party	13,101	36.39
Samuel Wilson	Democratic Unionist Party	12,973	36.04
John Mathews	Alliance Party	4,483	12.45
Daniel Gabriel O'Connor	Social Democratic Labour Party	2,641	7.34
Robert Lindsay Mason	Independent	1,092	3.03
Janette Graffin	Sinn Féin	903	2.51
Alan James Greer	Conservative & Unionist Party	807	2.24
Majority		128	0.36

5 May 2005		31,767/58,335	54.46
Samuel Wilson	Democratic Unionist Party	15,766	49.63
John Robert Beggs	Ulster Unionist Party	8,462	26.64
Sean Neeson	Alliance Party	4,869	15.33
Daniel Gabriel O'Connor	Social Democratic Labour Party	1,695	5.34
James McKeown	Sinn Féin	828	2.61
David Thomas Kerr	Rainbow	147	0.46
Majority		7,304	22.99

Minor Boundary Change
6 May 2010		30,502/60,204	50.66
Samuel Wilson	Democratic Unionist Party	13,993	45.88
Rodney James McCune	Ulster Conservatives & Unionists	7,223	23.68
Gerry Lynch	Alliance Party	3,377	11.07
Oliver McMullan	Sinn Féin	2,064	6.77
Justin McCamphill	Social Democratic Labour Party	2,019	6.62
Samuel Morrison	Traditional Unionist Voice	1,826	5.99
Majority		6,770	22.20

7 May 2015		33,497/62,811	53.33
Samuel Wilson	Democratic Unionist Party	12,103	36.13
John Robert Beggs	Ulster Unionist Party	6,308	18.83
Stewart Clyde Dickson	Alliance Party	5,021	14.99
Noel Jordan	UK Independence Party	3,660	10.93
Oliver McMullan	Sinn Féin	2,314	6.91
Ruth Wilson	Traditional Unionist Voice	1,903	5.68
Margaret Anne McKillop	Social Democratic Labour Party	1,639	4.89
Alex Wilson	Conservative & Unionist Party	549	1.64
Majority		5,795	17.30

8 June 2017		38,143/62,908	60.63
Samuel Wilson	Democratic Unionist Party	21,873	57.34
Stewart Clyde Dickson	Alliance Party	5,950	15.60
John Stewart	Ulster Unionist Party	4,524	11.86
Oliver McMullan	Sinn Féin	3,555	9.32
Margaret Anne McKillop	Social Democratic Labour Party	1,278	3.35
Mark Rory Logan	Conservative & Unionist Party	963	2.52
Majority		15,923	41.75

12 December 2019		37,261/64,830	57.47
Rt Hon Samuel Wilson	Democratic Unionist Party	16,871	45.28
Danny Donnelly	Alliance Party	10,165	27.28
Steve Aiken	Ulster Unionist Party	5,475	14.69
Oliver McMullan	Sinn Féin	2,120	5.69
Aaron Rankin	Conservative & Unionist Party	1,043	2.80
Angela Mulholland	Social Democratic Labour Party	902	2.42
Philip George Randle	Green Party	685	1.84
Majority		6,706	18.00

Major Boundary Change
4 July 2024		39,675/73,302	54.13
Rt Hon Samuel Wilson	Democratic Unionist Party	11,462	28.89
Danny Donnelly	Alliance Party	10,156	25.60
John Stewart	Ulster Unionist Party	9,476	23.88
Matthew Warwick	Traditional Unionist Voice	4,135	10.42
Oliver McMullan	Sinn Féin	2,986	7.53
Margaret Anne McKillop	Social Democratic Labour Party	892	2.25
Mark Francis Bailey	Green Party	568	1.43
Majority		1,306	3.29