Faughan (District Electoral Area)

Faughan
Derry and Strabane District Council DEA constituency
Current constituency
Created2014
Seats5 (2014-)
Councillors
  •   Alex Duffy (SF)
  •   Sean Fleming (SF)
  •   Julie Middleton (DUP)
  •   Janice Montgomery (UUP)
  •   Declan Norris (SDLP)
Faughan DEA within Derry City and Strabane

Faughan 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 Claudy, Eglinton, Enagh, New Buildings and Slievekirk.[2] Faughan forms part of the Foyle constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.

It was created for the 2014 local elections, replacing the Rural DEA which had existed since 1985.

Councillors

Election Councillor
(Party) 		Councillor
(Party) 		Councillor
(Party) 		Councillor
(Party) 		Councillor
(Party)
January 2024 Co-Option Alex Duffy
(Sinn Féin) 		Sean Fleming
(Sinn Féin) 		Declan Norris
(SDLP) 		Janice Montgomery
(UUP) 		Julie Middleton
(DUP)
2023 Ryan McCready
(UUP)/
(DUP)
December 2022 Co-Option Rachael Ferguson
(Alliance) 		Graham Warke
(DUP)/
(Independent)
October 2022 Co-Option Paul Fleming
(Sinn Féin)
June 2022 Defection Jim McKeever
(SDLP)/
(Independent)
July 2021 Defections
2019
February 2016 Defection Gus Hastings
(SDLP) 		Maurice Devenney
(DUP)/
(Independent)
May 2015 Co-Option
2014 Gary Middleton
(DUP)

2023 Election

2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Alliance

2023: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP

2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin and UUP gain from DUP and Alliance

Faughan - 5 seats[3]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6
UUP Ryan McCready* 15.84% 1,282 1,414        
SDLP Declan Norris* 11.35% 919 984 989.22 1,396.22    
DUP Julie Middleton 12.21% 988 1,016 1,032.82 1,037.82 1,659.82  
Sinn Féin Alex Duffy* 14.74% 1,193 1,244 1,244.58 1,325.16 1,325.16 1,326.16
Sinn Féin Sean Fleming 14.35% 1,162 1,201 1,201.58 1,241.58 1,242.58 1,243.48
Alliance Rachael Ferguson* 8.59% 695 813 826.34 947.50 962.88 1,054.88
DUP Gary Wilkinson 8.07% 653 685 708.20 712.78    
SDLP Hayley Canning 7.58% 614 682 685.48      
People Before Profit Damien Gallagher 3.83% 310          
Independent Graham Warke* 3.45% 279          
Electorate: 14,532   Valid: 8,095 (55.70%)   Spoilt: 93   Quota: 1,350   Turnout: 8,188 (56.34%)  

2019 Election

2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin

2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Alliance

2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain from SDLP

Faughan - 5 seats[4]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
DUP Graham Warke* ‡ 14.70% 1,050 1,050 1,051 1,253      
DUP Ryan McCready ‡ 13.16% 940 940 942 1,225      
SDLP Jim McKeever* ‡† 7.91% 565 577 868 905 919.3 926.43 1,410.43
Sinn Féin Paul Fleming* † 11.96% 854 1,116 1,140 1,140 1,140.65 1,140.88 1,200.88
Alliance Rachael Ferguson 10.96% 783 795 859 965 996.85 1,012.49 1,148.43
Independent Paul Thomas Hughes 10.26% 733 737 782 807 816.75 821.12 865
SDLP Brenda Stevenson 9.70% 693 717 767 784 789.2 794.49  
UUP William Jamieson 9.94% 710 710 715        
SDLP Gus Hastings* 6.87% 491 498          
Sinn Féin Conor Heaney 4.54% 324            
Electorate: 13,601   Valid: 7,143 (52.52%)   Spoilt: 103   Quota: 1,191   Turnout: 7,246 (53.28%)  

2014 Election

2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin

Faughan - 5 seats[4]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
DUP Gary Middleton* † 17.05% 1,077                
DUP Maurice Devenney* ‡ 14.81% 936 1,034 1,052.72 1,090.72          
Sinn Féin Paul Fleming* 14.17% 895 898 898.04 914.04 1,195.04        
SDLP Jim McKeever 7.80% 493 496 496.14 564.14 591.16 651 655 914.18 985.18
SDLP Gus Hastings* 7.79% 492 497 497.02 542.04 561.04 602.4 605.4 796.94 952.94
UUP Ronnie McKeegan 8.78% 555 605 607.16 668.2 669.2 670.08 692.08 704.1 717.1
Independent Paul Hughes 7.93% 501 504 504 541 552 575.76 575.76 586.76  
SDLP Brenda Stevenson* 7.76% 490 491 491.06 522.06 533.06 548.02 550.02    
Sinn Féin Michael McCrossan 5.67% 358 358 358.02 365.02          
Alliance David Hawthorne 5.32% 336 345 345.16            
UKIP Geoff Cruickshank 2.93% 185                
Electorate: 12,933   Valid: 6,318 (48.85%)   Spoilt: 86   Quota: 1,054   Turnout: 6,404 (49.52%)  

References

  1. ^ Final Northern Ireland super council recommendations, BBC News, 13 December 2013, accessed 24 May 2014
  2. ^ "Derry and Strabane District Council". www.ark.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Faughan". Derry City & Strabane District Council.
  4. ^ a b "Local Council Elections 2019 - Results by Stage". 2 May 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2022.