Everything Ulster - Election 2005

FOYLE is the most populous (105,066 people in 2001) of the 18 constituencies and covers the same area as the district council of Londonderry (which contains the city and a rural area to the south east). It will definitely be one of the more interesting constituencies to watch in this election as, SDLP leader Mark Durkan defends the seat for his party (won convincingly by John Hume in 2001) from Sinn Fein's Mitchel McLaughlin in what is bound to be a tight race.

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CONSTITUENCY of Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, since 1990, Upper Bann has an electorate of 72,402 from a population of 102,947 (2001 census; 3rd highest in NI). For a seat that is so closely associated with Unionism, Upper Bann has a Catholic population (by community background) of 43%.

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