Cookstown District
Geography
Area: - Total - % Water	Ranked 9th 622 km² ? %
Admin HQ:	Cookstown
ISO 3166-2:	GB-CKT
ONS code:	95I
Demographics
Population: - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density	Ranked 22nd 32,581 52 / km²
Community:	Protestant: 41.1% Catholic: 57.6%
Politics
Cookstown District Council http://www.cookstown.gov.uk
MPs:	Martin McGuinness

Cookstown District Council is a Local Council covering an area partly in County Tyrone and partly in County Londonderry. Council headquarters are in Cookstown. Small towns in the Council area include Pomeroy, Moneymore, Coagh and Stewartstown and in the east the area is bounded by Lough Neagh. It covers an area of 235 square miles and has a current population of over 32,500. This article explains the meaning of area as a Physical quantity. ... This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by area. ... (Redirected from 1 E8 m2) To help compare different orders of magnitude and geographical regions, we list here areas between 100 km² and 1000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Cookstown (An Chorr Chríochach in Irish) is a town in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. ... The ISO 3166-2 codes for the United Kingdom correspond to the nations administrative divisions. ... The Office for National Statistics coding system is a hierarchical code used in the United Kingdom for tabulating census and other statistical data. ... In the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species—living in a given geographic area. ... April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Density (symbol: ρ - Greek: rho) is a measure of mass per unit of volume. ... This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by population (census April 29, 2001 [1]). See also: Local Councils in Northern Ireland Local Councils in Northern Ireland by area Local Councils in Northern Ireland by community make-up ... This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by Protestant / Catholic community make-up In the 2001 decennial census, the Census Office for Northern Ireland (CONI) asked a new question to attempt to achieve a more accurate depiction of the balance of the mainly Unionist Protestant and mainly... This is a list of MPs elected to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Third Parliament of the United Kingdom at the UK general election, 2001, arranged by constituency. ... James Martin Pacelli McGuinness (born May 23, 1950) is an Irish nationalist politician, and terrorist leader (as member of the IRA army council). ... This article is about County Tyrone. ... For other places with similar names, see Londonderry (disambiguation) and Derry (disambiguation). ... Cookstown may refer to either of the following: Cookstown, County Tyrone Cookstown, Ontario This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Pomeroy may refer to: Pomeroy, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland Pomeroy, Iowa Pomeroy, Ohio Pomeroy, South Africa Pomeroy, Washington This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Moneymore is a town in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, lying near Lough Neagh. ... Stewartstown can refer to: Stewartstown, New Hampshire Stewartstown, Pennsylvania This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Lough Neagh (Loch nEathach in Irish) is the largest lough, or body of freshwater, in the British Isles. ...

The Council has 16 elected representatives. Local elections are held every four years on a Proportional Representation system. The Chairman and Vice Chairman are elected on an annual basis at the Annual General Meeting in June. Proportional Representation (PR) describes various multi-winner electoral systems which try to ensure that the proportional support gained by different groups is accurately reflected in the election result. ...

The Cookstown District Council area consists of 3 electoral areas: Drum Manor, Ballinderry and Cookstown Central. At the last elections in 2001 members were elected from the following political parties: 6 Sinn Fein, 4 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 3 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 2 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and 1 Independent Unionist Party (IUP). In 2004-05 the Council Chairman is Councillor Trevor Wilson (UUP) and the Vice Chairman is Councillor Patrick Pearse McAleer (Sinn Fein). 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sinn Féin (in the Irish language ourselves or we ourselves; not as sometimes incorrectly translated, ourselves alone) is an Irish political party. ... The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP — Irish: Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is the smaller of the two major nationalist parties in Northern Ireland. ... The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP) is a political party in Northern Ireland representing the unionist community, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972. ... The Democratic Unionist Party is a hardline Unionist party in Northern Ireland led by Ian Paisley. ...

The next election is due to take place in May 2005.

In elections for the Westminster Parliament it is part of the Mid Ulster constituency.

See Also: Local Councils in Northern Ireland