Cookstown (District)

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Cookstown District
Ceantar na Coirre Críochaí
Republik Irland Schottland Moyle Coleraine Limavady Derry Ballymoney Larne Strabane Carrickfergus North Down Belfast Castlereagh Ards Down Ballymena Antrim Newtownabbey Lisburn Banbridge Craigavon Newry and Mourne Armagh Magherafelt Cookstown Omagh Dungannon and South Tyrone FermanaghLocation in Northern Ireland
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geography
Traditional county Counties Tyrone and Counties Londonderry
surface 622 km²
Administrative headquarters Cookstown
ISO 3166-2 GB-CKT
Demographics
population 37,411 (2012)
density 60 people / km²
Denominations Protestants 34.0%
Catholics 55.1%

Cookstown ( Irish An Chorr Chríochach ) was one of the 26 Northern Irish districts that existed from 1973 to 2015. The district was in the traditional counties of Tyrone and Londonderry . The administrative seat was the city of Cookstown . Other significant places were Pomeroy , Moneymore , Coagh and Stewartstown . On April 1, 2015, it went on in the new District Mid Ulster .

The district was on the east bank of Lough Neagh .

Cookstown Council

The election to the Cookstown Council on May 11, 2011 resulted in the following:

Political party 2011 result Change from 2005
Seats be right Seats be right
  Sinn Féin 6th 39.1% 1 5.6%
  Social Democratic and Labor Party (SDLP) 4th 18.0% −1 0.7%
  Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) 3 18.1% 0 −4.4%
  Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) 3 16.9% 0 −2.6%
  Traditional Unionist Voice 0 7.4% 0 7.4%

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Northern Ireland Population Estimates 2012 (XLS file)
  2. Northern Ireland Census 2011: Religion (administrative geographies)
  3. ^ Election result on BBC News (accessed July 26, 2011)

Coordinates: 54 ° 38 ′ 35 "  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 42"  W.