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    Downpatrick is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland. The district elects five members to Newry,...
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    Seaforde and Strangford. The Down District Council area consisted of 4 electoral areas: Ballynahinch, Downpatrick, Newcastle and Rowallane. At the last...
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    the nine district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1985 to 2014, when it was mostly replaced by the Ormiston district. Located...
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  • Down Area B was one of the three district electoral areas in Down, Northern Ireland which existed from 1973 to 1985. The district elected six members to...
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    covers the Mourne Mountains, and Downpatrick to the north. It has a short border with the Republic to the south. The area voted to Remain in the EU. The...
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  • country was divided into 26 smaller districts. Each of the 11 councils is divided into 7 District Electoral Areas (DEAs), with the exception of Belfast...
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    uk. "Ballynahinch Result Sheet" (PDF). EONI. Retrieved 26 July 2021. "Downpatrick Result Sheet" (PDF). EONI. Retrieved 26 July 2021. "Newcastle Result...
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    Live. 25 April 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-06. "New Councillor - Newry District Electoral Area". "New Councillor - Slieve Croob District Electoral Area"....
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    Industry and Commerce (1928). "Table 9. Population, Area and Valuation of Urban and Rural Districts and of all Towns with a Population of 1,500 Inhabitants...
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  • into several boroughs, urban districts, and rural districts. Each district was divided into a number of district electoral divisions. Northern Ireland...
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  • Down and County Antrim. It is within the Lisburn City Council area, and the Maze electoral ward. In the 2001 Census, there were 363 residents. Maze is the...
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    city and county is divided into local electoral areas for the election of councillors. The boundaries of the areas and the number of councillors assigned...
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    Lower, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the town of Comber. It lies within the electoral division of Ballygowan which is part of the Ards and North Down Borough...
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    increasingly political and base its influence on electoral politics rather than paramilitarism. The electoral effects of this strategy were shown later by...
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  • Antrim, Armagh, Down Banbridge – Armagh, Down Lisburn – Antrim, Down Downpatrick – Down Dromore West – Sligo Tobercurry – Sligo Boyle – Leitrim, Roscommon...
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    For the purpose of elections the council is divided into seven district electoral areas (DEA): † Co-opted to replace an elected councillor The Mournes...
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    Maghera (category Mid-Ulster District)
    part of the Mid-Ulster District Council. It is located within the Carntogher district electoral area (DLE) which contains the areas Lower Glenshane, Swatragh...
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    easily separable words; thus ... Carrickfergus is shortened into Carrick, Downpatrick into Down, ... etc." Occasionally, acts of the Irish (pre-1801) or UK...
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    designs. The only preserved line of this gauge on the island is the Downpatrick and County Down Railway, which operates heritage steam and diesel locomotives...
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  • rural district of Downpatrick, exclusive of the district electoral divisions of Ballynahinch, Kilmore and Leggygowan; the part of the rural district of Kilkeel...
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    Féin, 2 SDLP and 1 Independent councillors being elected in the Newry electoral area, only change from the 2014 result was Kevin McAteer who went from SDLP...
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  • their seats if elected. After Gerry Adams became party leader in 1983, electoral politics were prioritised increasingly. In 1986, the party dropped its...
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    graveyard. Dundonald acquired rail links to Belfast and Newtownards in 1850, Downpatrick in 1859 and Newcastle in 1869. The town was located on the once extensive...
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    Listowel (category Former urban districts in the Republic of Ireland)
    ISBN 0-85342-374-1. "S.I. No. 51/2014 - County of Kerry Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts Order 2014". Irish Statute Book. 7 February 2014. Retrieved...
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    loyalist and republican areas. In many cases, there was little parental supervision of children in some of the poorer districts. The Department of Health...
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  • speculation and former party leader Margaret Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick rejected the idea. Speaking at the 2010 Irish Labour Party national conference...
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    transferable vote electoral system, ten of the eleven councils were under no overall control. The exception was Fermanagh and Omagh District Council where...
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    Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 (category Districts of Northern Ireland, 1972–2015)
    proportional representation using multi-member district electoral areas had been introduced. The electoral areas consisted of groupings of between four and...
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  • Unionists maintained political control of Derry by two means. Firstly, electoral wards were gerrymandered so as to give unionists a majority of elected...
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    Patrick Brown (Northern Irish politician) (category People from Downpatrick)
    organisation working on basic income advocacy. Brown grew up in Crossgar and Downpatrick where he attended two schools, including Shimna Integrated College. Brown...
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