East Londonderry
County constituency for theHouse of Commons
Interactive map of boundaries from 2024
Boundary within Northern Ireland
Districts of Northern Ireland	Causeway Coast and Glens (part),Derry and Strabane (part)[1]
Electorate	63,491 (December 2019)
Major settlements	Coleraine,Limavady andDungiven
Current constituency
Created	1983
Member of Parliament	Gregory Campbell (DUP)
Seats	1
Created from	Londonderry,Mid Ulster andNorth Antrim[2]

East Londonderry is a constituency in Northern Ireland represented in theHouse of Commons of theUK Parliament. Its current Member of Parliament (MP) has beenGregory Campbell of theDUP since 2001.

This is a mostly rural constituency stretching from the hill country of theSperrin Mountains in the south to the Atlantic coast in the north; and from the suburbs ofDerry city in the west to theRiver Bann in the east. The constituency's two main towns areLimavady andColeraine; other urban areas include the upland town ofDungiven; and the coastal resorts ofPortstewart andPortrush (the latter in fact lies inCountry Antrim).

The seat was created in boundary changes in 1983, as part of an expansion of Northern Ireland's constituencies from 12 to 17, and was predominantly made up from the oldLondonderry constituency, minus the area around the city ofDerry itself which formed the newFoyle constituency.

From further revisions in 1995 (when it lost parts of the district ofMagherafelt to theMid Ulster constituency), and until the 2008 revision, it covered exactly the same area as the districts ofColeraine andLimavady. The inclusion of all of Coleraine Borough means that part of the East Londonderry constituency is actually inCounty Antrim.

For the2010 general election, the East Londonderry constituency was formed by the following local government areas, as confirmed by the Northern Ireland Parliamentary Constituencies Order.^[3]

• The entire local government districts ofLimavady andColeraine.
• Banagher, and Claudy, from the Londonderry district.

Prior to the2024 general election, the following additions were made to the East Londonderry constituency:^[4][1]

• The entire ward ofEglinton is transferred fromFoyle.
• The entire ward ofClaudy, which was split betweenFoyle and East Londonderry, is assigned to East Londonderry.

The constituency has aUnionist plurality although, in many elections,nationalists have polled 40% of the vote, and the middle-of-the-roadAlliance Party sometimes above 10%. Until the 2010 election the main interest in elections had been the contest between theUlster Unionist Party and theDemocratic Unionist Party. The UUP were normally ahead of the DUP until the 2001 general election, when the DUP finally overtook them.

The 2001 election was seen at a province-wide level as a battle over theBelfast Agreement, with the DUP opposed to it and most of the UUP in favour. However, that situation was seemingly reversed in East Londonderry, in which the sitting Ulster Unionist MP, William Ross, was completely opposed to all involvement with the Agreement and its institutions, whilst the DUP candidate, Gregory Campbell, was a minister in the executive set up by the agreement. Many commentators joked that the DUP's gain meant that East Londonderry now had amore pro-agreement MP than before.^{[citation needed]}

In the2016 EU referendum 21,098 people in the constituency voted to remain in the European Union, 19,455 voted to leave, and 10 votes were rejected.

Unionist candidates failed to get a majority of the votes for the first time at the 2019 election, although they secured a plurality of votes. The seat had a considerable swing to Sinn Féin in the 2024 general election of over 12%, but the DUP retained the constituency, albeit with a very narrow majority of 179 votes.

The Member of Parliament since the2001 general election isGregory Campbell of theDemocratic Unionist Party. In that election he defeatedWilliam Ross of theUlster Unionist Party who had represented East Londonderry since1983 and its predecessor seat ofLondonderry between1974 and1983.

1997 changes are compared to the notional figures from 1992.^[17]

On Census day 2021 there were 103,285 people living in the East Londonderry parliamentary constituency.^[23] Of these:

• 42.5% (43,869) belong to or were brought up in the Catholic Christian faith and 48.7% (50,342) belong to or were brought up in various 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' denominations. 0.8% (871) belong to other religions and 7.9% (8,203) had no religious background.
• 36.6% (37,829) indicated that they had a British only identity, 22.9% (23,639) had an Irish only identity and 23.3% (24,083) had a Northern Irish only identity (respondents could indicate more than one national identity).^[24]

• List of parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland

• 2017 Election House of Commons Library 2017 Election report
• A Vision Of Britain Through Time (Constituency elector numbers)
• East Londonderry UK Parliament constituency (boundaries April 2010 – May 2024) atMapIt UK
• East Londonderry UK Parliament constituency (boundaries from June 2024) atMapIt UK

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