Mid Ulster District Council

Mid Ulster District Council

Comhairle Ceantair Lár Uladh
Mid Ulstèr Airts Cooncil
Mid Ulster District Council ; Comhairle Ceantair Lár Uladh; Mid Ulstèr Airts Cooncil
Type
Type	District council of Mid Ulster District
History
Founded	1 April 2015
Preceded by	Cookstown District Council; Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council; Magherafelt District Council
Leadership
Chair	Councillor Eugene McConnell, Sinn Féin
Deputy Chair	Councillor Weasley Brown, Democratic Unionist Party
Structure
Seats	40
Political groups	; Sinn Féin (19); DUP (11); SDLP (5); Independents (3); UUP (2)
Elections
Last election	18 May 2023
Website
	http://www.midulstercouncil.org/

Mid Ulster District Council (Irish: Comhairle Ceantair Lár Uladh; Ulster-Scots: Mid Ulstèr Airts Cooncil^[1]) is a local authority that was established on 1 April 2015. It replaced Cookstown District Council, Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council and Magherafelt District Council. The first elections to the authority took place on 22 May 2014 and it acted as a shadow authority, prior to the creation of the Mid Ulster district on 1 April 2015.

Chairpersonship

From	To	Name
2015	2016	Linda Dillon	Sinn Féin
2016	2017	Trevor Wilson	UUP
2017	2018	Kim Ashton	DUP
2018	2019	Seán McPeake	Sinn Féin
2019	2020	Martin Kearney	SDLP
2020	2021	Cathal Mallaghan	Sinn Féin
2021	2022	Paul McLean	DUP
2022	2023	Cora Corry	Sinn Féin
2023	2024	Dominic Molloy	Sinn Féin
2024	Present	Eugene McConnell	Sinn Féin

From	To	Name
2015	2016	Kim Ashton	DUP
2016	2017	Sharon McAleer	SDLP
2017	2018	Mark Glasgow	UUP
2018	2019	Frances Burton	DUP
2019	2020	Clement Cuthbertson	DUP
2020	2021	Meta Graham	UUP
2021	2022	Christine McFlynn	SDLP
2022	2023	Frances Burton	DUP
2023	2024	Meta Graham	UUP
2024	Present	Wesley Brown	DUP

For the purpose of elections the council is divided into seven district electoral areas (DEA):^[2]

	Elected 2014	Elected 2019	Elected 2023
Sinn Féin	18	17	19
DUP	8	9	11
UUP	7	6	2
SDLP	6	6	5
Independents	1	2	3

The area covered by the Council has a population of 138,590 residents according to the 2011 Northern Ireland census.^[3]

^ "Equality Impect Assessment o tha Draft Ullans Leid Policy (in Ulster-Scots)" (PDF). Mid Ulster Council. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
^ "Local Government District Electoral Areas: 2013: Index Map of Northern Ireland: Final Recommendations" (PDF). Land and Property Services. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
^ "NI Census 2011 - Key Statistics Summary Report, September 2014" (PDF). NI Statistics and Research Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 December 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.