Fermanagh and Omagh District Council Comhairle Ceantair Fhear Manach agus na hÓmaí Districk Cooncil o Fermanagh an Omey | |
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Type | |
Type | |
History | |
Founded | 1 April 2015 |
Preceded by | Fermanagh District Council Omagh District Council |
Leadership | |
Chair | Errol Thompson, Democratic Unionist Party |
Deputy Chair | Chris McCaffrey, Sinn Féin |
Structure | |
Seats | 40 |
Political groups | Sinn Féin (15) UUP (9) DUP (5) SDLP (5) Independents (4) Alliance (1) Militant Left (1) |
Elections | |
Last election | 2 May 2019 |
Website | |
http://www.fermanaghomagh.com/ |
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council (Irish: Comhairle Ceantair Fhear Manach agus na hÓmaí; Ulster-Scots: Districk Cooncil o Fermanagh an Omey[1]) is a local authority in Northern Ireland and was established on 1 April 2015. It replaced Fermanagh District Council and Omagh District Council and covers most of the southwest of Northern Ireland. Its first election was on 22 May 2014, and it acted as a shadow authority prior to the creation of the Fermanagh and Omagh district in April 2015.
From | To | Name | Party | |
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2015 | 2016 | Thomas O'Reilly | Sinn Féin | |
2016 | 2017 | Mary Garrity | SDLP | |
2017 | 2018 | Stephen McCann | Sinn Féin | |
2018 | 2019 | Howard Thornton | UUP | |
2019 | 2020 | Siobhan Currie | Sinn Féin | |
2020 | 2020 | Chris Smyth | UUP | |
2020 | 2021 | Diana Armstrong | UUP | |
2021 | 2022 | Errol Thompson | DUP |
From | To | Name | Party | |
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2015 | 2016 | Paul Robinson | DUP | |
2016 | 2017 | Bert Wilson | UUP | |
2017 | 2018 | Alex Baird | UUP | |
2018 | 2019 | John Feely | Sinn Féin | |
2019 | 2020 | Diana Armstrong | UUP | |
2020 | 2021 | John Coyle | SDLP | |
2021 | 2022 | Chris McCaffrey | Sinn Féin |
For the purpose of elections the council is divided into seven district electoral areas (DEA):[2]
Area | Seats |
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Enniskillen | 6 |
Erne East | 6 |
Erne North | 5 |
Erne West | 5 |
Mid Tyrone | 6 |
Omagh | 6 |
West Tyrone | 6 |
Party | Elected 2014 | Elected 2019 | Current | |
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Sinn Féin | 17 | 15 | 15 | |
Ulster Unionist Party | 9 | 9 | 9 | |
Social Democratic and Labour Party | 8 | 5 | 5 | |
Democratic Unionist Party | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Cross-Community Labour Alternative | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Militant Left (Ireland) | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Independents | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Current council members | |||
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District electoral area | Name | Party | |
Enniskillen | Keith Elliot | DUP | |
Paul Blake | SDLP | ||
Robert Irvine | UUP | ||
Howard Thornton | UUP | ||
Tommy Maguire | Sinn Féin | ||
Donal O'Cofaigh ‡ | Militant Left | ||
Erne East | Paul Robinson | DUP | |
Victor Warrington | UUP | ||
Eamon Keenan † | Independent | ||
Tom O'Reilly | Sinn Féin | ||
Sheamus Greene | Sinn Féin | ||
Garbhan McPhillips | SDLP | ||
Erne North | Diana Armstrong | UUP | |
John Coyle | SDLP | ||
Siobhan Currie | Sinn Féin | ||
John McClaughtry | UUP | ||
Paul Stevenson † | DUP | ||
Erne West | Alex Baird | UUP | |
Bernice Swift | Independent | ||
Anthony Feely | Sinn Féin | ||
Chris McCaffrey | Sinn Féin | ||
Adam Gannon | SDLP | ||
Mid Tyrone | Emmet McAleer | Independent | |
Pádraigín Kelly | Sinn Féin | ||
Catherine Kelly | Sinn Féin | ||
Bert Wilson | UUP | ||
Sean Clarke | Sinn Féin | ||
Patrick Withers † | Sinn Féin | ||
Omagh | Errol Thompson | DUP | |
Barry McElduff | Sinn Féin | ||
Josephine Deehan | Independent | ||
Stephen Donnelly | Alliance | ||
Matthew Bell † | UUP | ||
Anne-Marie Fitzgerald | Sinn Féin | ||
West Tyrone | Mark Buchanan | DUP | |
Allan Rainey | UUP | ||
Mary Garrity | SDLP | ||
Anne-Marie Donnelly | Sinn Féin | ||
Glenn Campbell | Sinn Féin | ||
Stephen McCann | Sinn Féin |
† Co-opted to fill a vacancy since the election.
‡ Changed party affiliation since the election.
Last updated 13 January 2022.
For further details see 2019 Fermanagh and Omagh District Council election
The area covered by the new council has a population of 113,161 residents according to the 2011 Northern Ireland census.[3]