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2023 Fermanagh and Omagh District Council election

The 2023 election to Fermanagh and Omagh District Council was held on 18 May 2023, alongside other local elections in Northern Ireland, two weeks after local elections in England. The Northern Ireland elections were delayed by 2 weeks to avoid overlapping with the coronation of King Charles III.

Voters returned 40 members to the council via Single Transferable Vote. In the elections, Sinn Féin took control of the council from no overall control.

Election results

|- | colspan="2" style="background-color:#f2f2f2;text-align:center;margin-bottom:-1px;border:1px solid #aaa;padding:.2em .4em" | Total | style="text-align:right;" | 40 | | | | | | style="text-align:right;" | 54,319 | <noinclude>

<small>Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.</small>

  • The electorate was 87,488 the turnout was 62.89% (55,021) and there were 702 spoiled votes.

Districts summary

|- class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left"|District Electoral Area (DEA) ! % <br /> !Cllrs<br /> ! %<br /> !Cllrs<br /> ! %<br /> !Cllrs<br /> ! % <br /> !Cllrs<br /> ! %<br /> !Cllrs<br /> ! %<br /> !Cllrs<br /> !rowspan=2|Total<br />cllrs<br /> |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | <span style="color:black;">Sinn Féin</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | <span style="color:black;">UUP</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | <span style="color:black;">DUP</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor=""| <span style="color:black;">SDLP</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | <span style="color:black;">Alliance</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| <span style="black;">Independents and others</span> |- |align="left"|Enniskillen |bgcolor="#008800"|34.52 |bgcolor="#008800"|2 1 |16.01 |2 |19.10 |1 |7.02 |0 1 |10.15 |1 1 |13.20 |0 1 |6 |- |align="left"|Erne East |bgcolor="#008800"|52.33 |bgcolor="#008800"|3 1 |13.15 |1 |16.63 |1 |5.87 |1 |2.61 |0 |9.42 |0 1 |6 |- |align="left"|Erne North |bgcolor="#008800"|33.99 |bgcolor="#008800"|2 1 |27.06 |2 |16.94 |1 |11.03 |0 1 |5.04 |0 |5.94 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Erne West |bgcolor="#008800"|54.19 |bgcolor="#008800"|3 1 |15.78 |1 |9.06 |0 |11.01 |1 |3.30 |0 |6.67 |0 1 |5 |- |align="left"|Mid Tyrone |bgcolor="#008800"|62.77 |bgcolor="#008800"|4 |8.04 |0 1 |12.37 |1 1 |5.82 |1 1 |3.64 |0 |7.36 |0 1 |6 |- |align="left"|Omagh |bgcolor="#008800"|47.14 |bgcolor="#008800"|3 1 |7.37 |0 1 |17.15 |1 |5.80 |0 |13.14 |1 |9.41 |1 |6 |- |align="left"|West Tyrone |bgcolor="#008800"|56.02 |bgcolor="#008800"|4 1 |9.99 |1 |19.50 |1 |8.99 |0 1 |5.51 |0 |0.00 |0 |6 |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |49.24 |21 6 |13.75 |7 2 |15.80 |6 1 |7.89 |3 2 |5.98 |2 1 |7.21 |1 4 |40 |-

District results

Enniskillen

2019: 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Cross-Community Labour Alternative

2023: 2 x UUP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance

2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin and Alliance gain from SDLP and Cross-Community Labour Alternative

Erne East

2019: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent

2023: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP

2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin gain from Independent

Erne North

2019: 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP

2023: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP

2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP

Erne West

2019: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent

2023: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP

2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin gain from Independent

Mid Tyrone

2019: 4 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent

2023: 4 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP

2019–2023 Change: DUP and SDLP gain from UUP and Independent

Omagh

2019: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent

2023: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent

2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin gain from UUP

West Tyrone

2019: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP

2023: 4 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP

2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP

† Co-options

‡ Changes in affiliation

Notes

References