Cookstown (District)
| Cookstown District Ceantar na Coirre Críochaí |
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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 | |||
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| 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
- ↑ Northern Ireland Population Estimates 2012 (XLS file)
- ↑ Northern Ireland Census 2011: Religion (administrative geographies)
- ^ Election result on BBC News (accessed July 26, 2011)
Antrim | Ards | Armagh | Ballymena | Ballymoney | Banbridge | Belfast | Carrickfergus | Castlereagh | Coleraine | Cookstown | Craigavon | Derry | Down | Dungannon and South Tyrone | Fermanagh | Larne | Limavady | Lisburn | Magherafelt | Moyle | Newry and Morne | Newtownabbey | North Down | Omagh | Strabane
Coordinates: 54 ° 38 ′ 35 " N , 6 ° 44 ′ 42" W.