Elections
| General Election 2010: West Tyrone | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Sinn Féin | Pat Doherty | 18,050 | 48.4 | +9.5 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Tom Buchanan | 7,365 | 19.8 | +2.0 | |
| Conservatives and Unionists | Ross Hussey | 5,281 | 14.2 | N/A | |
| SDLP | Joe Byrne | 5,212 | 14.0 | +4.9 | |
| Alliance | Michael Bower | 859 | 2.3 | N/A | |
| Independent | Ciaran McClean | 508 | 1.4 | N/A | |
| Majority | 10,685 | 28.7 | |||
| Turnout | 37,275 | 61.0 | -14.2 | ||
| Sinn Féin hold | Swing | +3.8 | |||
| General Election 2005: Tyrone West | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Sinn Féin | Pat Doherty | 16,910 | 38.9 | -1.9 | |
| Independent | Kieran Deeny | 11,905 | 27.4 | N/A | |
| Democratic Unionist | Tom Buchanan | 7,742 | 17.8 | N/A | |
| SDLP | Eugene McMenamin | 3,949 | 9.1 | -19.6 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Derek Hussey | 2,981 | 6.9 | -23.5 | |
| Majority | 5,005 | 11.5 | |||
| Turnout | 43,487 | 72.1 | -7.8 | ||
| Sinn Féin hold | Swing | ||||
| General Election 2001: Tyrone West | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Sinn Féin | Pat Doherty | 19,814 | 40.8 | +10.0 | |
| Ulster Unionist | William Thompson | 14,774 | 30.4 | -4.1 | |
| SDLP | Brid Rodgers | 13,942 | 28.7 | -3.3 | |
| Majority | 5,040 | 10.4 | |||
| Turnout | 48,530 | 79.9 | +0.3 | ||
| Sinn Féin gain from Ulster Unionist | Swing | ||||
| General Election 1997: Tyrone West | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Ulster Unionist | William Thompson | 16,003 | 34.6 | N/A | |
| SDLP | Joe Byrne | 14,842 | 32.1 | +1.1 | |
| Sinn Féin | Pat Doherty | 14,280 | 30.9 | +9.9 | |
| Alliance | Ann Gormley | 829 | 1.8 | -2.9 | |
| Workers' Party | Tommy Owens | 230 | 0.5 | N/A | |
| Natural Law | Robert Johnstone | 91 | 0.2 | N/A | |
| Majority | 1,161 | N/A | |||
| Turnout | 79.6 | N/A | |||
| Ulster Unionist win (new seat) | |||||
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