Members
The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2011 election are:
- Tom Elliott – Ulster Unionist Party
- Phil Flanagan – Sinn Féin
- Arlene Foster – Democratic Unionist Party
- Michelle Gildernew – Sinn Féin
- Sean Lynch – Sinn Féin
- Lord Morrow – Democratic Unionist Party
Arlene Foster is the current Minister of Enterprise, and Tom Elliot is the former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party.
Bronwyn McGahan replaced Michelle Gildernew in June 2012. The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2007 election were:
- Tom Elliott – Ulster Unionist Party
- Arlene Foster – Democratic Unionist Party
- Tommy Gallagher – Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Michelle Gildernew – Sinn Féin
- Gerry McHugh – Independent (elected as Sinn Féin, member of Fianna Fáil)
- Lord Morrow – Democratic Unionist Party
Maurice Morrow become a peer and therefore is known as Lord Morrow.
The six MLAs for the constituency elected in the 2003 election were:
- Tom Elliott – Ulster Unionist Party
- Arlene Foster – Ulster Unionist Party
- Tommy Gallagher – Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Michelle Gildernew – Sinn Féin
- Maurice Morrow – Democratic Unionist Party
- Tom O'Reilly – Sinn Féin
Changes 2003 – present
- Arlene Foster resigned from the Ulster Unionist Party on 18 December 2003 and joined the Democratic Unionist Party on 5 January 2004.
In the 1998 election the six MLAs elected were:
- Joan Carson – Ulster Unionist Party
- Sam Foster – Ulster Unionist Party
- Tommy Gallagher – Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Michelle Gildernew – Sinn Féin
- Gerry McHugh – Sinn Féin
- Maurice Morrow – Democratic Unionist Party
In the 1996 election to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum, 5 Forum members were elected from Fermanagh & South Tyrone. They were as follows:
- Sam Foster – Ulster Unionist Party
- Tommy Gallagher – Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Ken Maginnis – Ulster Unionist Party
- Gerry McHugh – Sinn Féin
- Maurice Morrow – Democratic Unionist Party
In 1982 elections were held for an Assembly for Northern Ireland to hold the Secretary of State to account, in the hope that this would be the first step towards restoring devolution. Fermanagh & South Tyrone elected 5 members as follows:
- Owen Carron – Sinn Féin
- Austin Currie – Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Raymond Ferguson – Ulster Unionist Party
- Ivan Foster – Democratic Unionist Party
- Ken Maginnis – Ulster Unionist Party
In 1975 elections were held to a Constitutional Convention which sought (unsuccessfully) to generate a consensus on the future of the province. The six members elected from Fermanagh & South Tyrone were:
- Ernest Baird – Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
- Austin Currie – Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Thomas Daly – Social Democratic and Labour Party
- John McKay – Ulster Unionist Party
- Harry West – Ulster Unionist Party
In 1973 elections were held to the Assembly set up under the Sunningdale Agreement. The six members elected from Fermanagh & South Tyrone were:
- Ernest Baird – Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
- Austin Currie – Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Thomas Daly – Social Democratic and Labour Party
- John Taylor – Ulster Unionist Party
- Harry West – Ulster Unionist Party
Read more about this topic: Fermanagh And South Tyrone (Assembly Constituency)
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