Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council (Irish Irish is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now only spoken natively by a small minority of the Irish population but also plays an important symbolic role in the life of the Irish state, and is used across the country in a variety of media, personal: Comhairle Baile Dhún Geanainn agus Thír Eoghain Theas, Ulster Scots Ulster Scots generally refers to the dialects of Scots spoken in parts of Ulster. Some definitions of Ulster Scots may also include Standard English spoken with an Ulster Scots accent – where lexical items have been re-allocated to the phoneme classes that are nearest to the equivalent standard classes – a situation equivalent to that of: Rathgannon Sooth Owenslann Burgh Cooncil) is a local council in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and is situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west. At the time of the 2001 UK Census, its population was 1,685,000, constituting between a quarter and a third of the. Its main town is Dungannon Dungannon is a town in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. It is the third-largest town in the county (after Omagh and Strabane) and a population of 11,139 people was recorded in the 2001 Census. In August 2006, Dungannon won the Ulster In Bloom Best Kept Town award for the fifth time. It contains the headquarters of the Dungannon and South Tyrone, where the council is headquartered. The council area covers the southern part of County Tyrone (along with a small area of County Armagh County Armagh is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Ulster and is part of Northern Ireland. It was named after the town of Armagh) and has a population of nearly 48,000. Apart from Dungannon there are many smaller towns including: Augher, Clogher, Fivemiletown, Ballygawley, Caledon, Aughnacloy, Benburb, Moy and Coalisland.
The district was originally named Dungannon, and took its present name on November 25, 1999, after petitioning the Secretary of State for the Environment.
The Dungannon and South Tyrone Council area consists of four electoral areas: Blackwater, Clogher Valley, Dungannon Town and Torrent. In the 2005 elections, 22 members were elected from the following political parties: 9 Sinn Féin Sinn Féin is a political party in Ireland. The current party, led by Gerry Adams, was formed following a split in January 1970 and traces its origins back to the original Sinn Féin party formed in 1905. It is a major party of Irish republicanism and its political ideology is left wing. The party has historically been associated with the, 5 Democratic Unionist Party The Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. However, it only came second in the (DUP), 4 Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Prior to the split in Unionism in the late 1960s, when the former Protestant Unionist Party began to attract more hard line support away from the UUP, it governed Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972 as the sole Unionist party. It (UUP) and 4 Social Democratic and Labour Party The Social Democratic and Labour Party is one of the two major nationalist parties in Northern Ireland. During the Troubles, the SDLP was consistently the most popular nationalist party in Northern Ireland, but since the Provisional IRA cease-fire in 1994, it has lost ground to its rival Sinn Féin, which, in 2001, became the more popular of the (SDLP). The Council adopted the d'Hondt The d'Hondt method is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The method is named after Belgian mathematician Victor d'Hondt. This system is less proportional than the other popular divisor method, Sainte-Laguë, because d'Hondt slightly favors large parties and coalitions over scattered small system in 2001 which allows the position of Mayor and Deputy Mayor to be allocated according to party size. The current mayor is Councillor Francis Molloy (SF) and the Deputy Mayor is Councillor Norman Badger (UUP).
In elections for the Westminster Parliament The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories. It alone has parliamentary sovereignty, conferring it ultimate power over all other political bodies in the UK and its territories. At its head is the Sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II it is split between the Mid-Ulster and Fermanagh & South Tyrone constituencies.
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