Newry and Mourne District Council was a local council in Northern Ireland. It merged with Down District Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Newry,Mourne and Down District Council.
Newry and Armagh is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current MP is Mickey Brady of Sinn Féin.
Armagh City and District Council was a district council in County Armagh in Northern Ireland. It merged with Banbridge District Council and Craigavon Borough Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Armagh,Banbridge and Craigavon District Council.
Conor Terence Murphy is an Irish republican Sinn Féin politician,who has served as Minister for the Economy of Northern Ireland since 2024. He has been the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Newry and Armagh since 2015,having previously served as the Member of Parliament for Newry and Armagh from 2005 to 2015,observing the Sinn Fein policy of abstentionism.
Davy Hyland is an Irish republican former politician who was a Sinn Fein Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Newry and Armagh from 2003 to 2007.
Willie Clarke is an Irish Sinn Féin politician,serving as a Newry,Mourne and Down Councillor for The Mournes DEA since 2014. He was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for South Down from 2003 to 2012.
Gerry McHugh is an Irish Republican politician,active in Northern Ireland,who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Fermanagh and South Tyrone from 1998 to 2003,and then again from 2007 to 2011.
Michael Murphy is an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland.
Elections for local government were held in Northern Ireland in 1989,with candidates contesting 565 seats.
James McAllister,known as Jim McAllister,was an Irish republican activist and former politician from Ireland.
Newry,Mourne and Down District Council is a local authority in Northern Ireland that was established on 1 April 2015. It replaces Down District Council and Newry and Mourne District Council and covers most of the southeast of Northern Ireland. The first elections to the authority were on 22 May 2014. At the 2019 Northern Ireland local elections,Sinn Féin became the largest party with 16 seats. This success was continued at the 2023 Northern Ireland local elections,winning 20 seats.
The first election to Newry,Mourne and Down District Council,part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 22 May 2014,returned 41 members to the newly formed council via Single Transferable Vote. Sinn Féin and the Social Democratic and Labour Party won the most seats,with 14 each,with Sinn Féin taking a plurality of first-preference votes.
Henry Reilly is a Northern Irish unionist politician,serving as a Newry,Mourne and Down Councillor for The Mournes DEA since 2014. Reilly currently sits as a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) member on the council,having joined the party in 2022.
Local elections were held in Northern Ireland on Thursday 2 May 2019. The last elections were held in 2014. 819 candidates contested 462 seats across Northern Ireland's 11 local government districts. 1,305,384 people aged 18 and over were eligible to vote,and 52.7% of the electorate turned out.
Elections to Newry and Mourne District Council were held on 5 May 2011 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used five district electoral areas to elect a total of 30 councillors.
Cathy Mason is a Sinn Féin politician who was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly from South Down in the 2022 election.
Slieve Croob is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Newry,Mourne and Down,Northern Ireland. The district elects five members to Newry,Mourne and Down District Council and contains the wards of Ballydugan,Ballyward,Castlewellan,Drumaness and Dundrum. Slieve Croob forms part of the South Down constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
Slieve Gullion is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Newry,Mourne and Down,Northern Ireland. The district elects seven members to Newry,Mourne and Down District Council and contains the wards of Bessbrook,Camlough,Crossmaglen,Forkhill,Mullaghbane,Newtownhamilton and Whitecross. Slieve Gullion forms part of the Newry and Armagh constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
The Fews was one of the three district electoral areas in Newry and Mourne,Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected six members to Newry and Mourne District Council,and formed part of the Newry and Armagh constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
Newry and Mourne Area D was one of the six district electoral areas in Newry and Mourne,Northern Ireland which existed from 1973 to 1985. The district elected seven members to Newry and Mourne District Council,and formed part of the Armagh constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament,and part of the South Down constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
