Administration
Historical population | ||
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Year | Pop. | ±% |
1659 | 7,102 | — |
1821 | 130,997 | +1744.5% |
1831 | 149,763 | +14.3% |
1841 | 156,481 | +4.5% |
1851 | 116,047 | −25.8% |
1861 | 105,768 | −8.9% |
1871 | 92,794 | −12.3% |
1881 | 84,879 | −8.5% |
1891 | 74,170 | −12.6% |
1901 | 65,430 | −11.8% |
1911 | 61,836 | −5.5% |
1926 | 57,984 | −6.2% |
1937 | 54,569 | −5.9% |
1951 | 53,044 | −2.8% |
1961 | 51,531 | −2.9% |
1966 | 49,886 | −3.2% |
1971 | 50,255 | +0.7% |
1981 | 51,594 | +2.7% |
1991 | 54,033 | +4.7% |
2001 | 57,527 | +6.5% |
Fermanagh District Council is the only one of the 26 district councils in Northern Ireland that contains all of the county it is named after. The district council also contains a small section of County Tyrone in the Dromore and Kilskeery road areas.
Fermanagh is part of the Fermanagh and South Tyrone Parliamentary Constituency, renowned for high levels of voting and for electing Provisional IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands as a Member of Parliament in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, April 1981, shortly before his death.
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