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2014 Mid Ulster District Council election

Local government election in Northern Ireland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ16997731 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2014 Mid Ulster District Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of Mid Ulster District Council in Northern Ireland. This was on the same day as other local elections.

Results by party

Districts summary

District results

Carntogher

Clogher Valley

Cookstown

Dungannon

Magherafelt

Moyola

Torrent

* Incumbent

Changes during the term

† Co-options

‡ Changes of affiliation

Last updated 25 March 2019.

Current composition: see Mid Ulster District Council.

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The public source identifies “2014 Mid Ulster District Council election” as local government election in Northern Ireland. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ulster, District and Council.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ulster, District and Council providing the first useful test.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16997731. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “2014 Mid Ulster District Council election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.