East Londonderry

East Londonderry Constituency Profile – Assembly Elections 2022…

Michael Hehir on April 22, 2022, 9:15 am

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The zenith of the Glenshane Pass near the Ponderosa Pub which boasts to be "The Highest Pub in Ireland."

This chart clearly shows a shift from unionists to others over the last two elections in East Londonderry. But the shifts at the party level have been even more dramatic: The DUP benefit substantially from tactical votes in Westminster elections, even though there is no doubt that they will win. SF has been on a sharp downward slope since 2017, to the obvious benefit of the SDLP which even finished a whisker above them. The long-term slow decline of the …

“Still, I think the name Londonderry should be kept on there somewhere.”

Mick Fealty on September 8, 2016, 12:27 pm

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So the boundary commission’s proposals are going down badly with Unionists. Hardly surprising since as Nicholas Whyte notes, the changes are likely to have a negative impact on both UU seats in Fermanagh South Tyrone and South Antrim. North West Belfast looks vulnerable for the DUP. In a reshuffle that in many ways harks after old county boundaries the one that most resembles old County Londonderry is to be given an odd name change, Glenshane, in the process abolishing Londonderry and making …

#AE16 East Londonderry: A very tight and complex fight for 5th and 6th seats

Mick Fealty on April 21, 2016, 2:48 pm

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COMPLEXITY RULES: East Londonderry starts at Eglinton just outside Derry city, running up to the boundary with North Antrim on the coast. The hinterlands of Coleraine, Limavady, Dungiven and Garvagh all represent separate and distinct political territories.

Independent unionist ‘gentleman’ MLA David McClarty dies

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on April 18, 2014, 3:51 pm

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Coleraine man and MLA for East Londonderry constituency, David McClarty has died, aged 63. An independent unionist MLA since 2011 when he successfully fought off competition from the two candidates selected by UCUNF, he had previously been a member of the UUP and a served as a UUP MLA between 1998 and 2010. By not rejoining the UUP group after the May 2011 election, the UUP lost the opportunity for a second Executive seat (which went to Alliance). He served …