Editing Cookstown (section)

==Politics==
In elections for the [[Westminster Parliament]] and the [[Northern Ireland Assembly]] it is part of the [[Mid Ulster (Assembly constituency)|Mid Ulster constituency]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eoni.org.uk/getmedia/bad00d05-3fd6-4a55-83ee-0b84486b16d1/Statement-of-Person-Nominated-Mid-Ulster|title=Statement of Persons Nominated – Mid Ulster|access-date=8 April 2022|archive-date=8 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408195834/http://www.eoni.org.uk/getmedia/bad00d05-3fd6-4a55-83ee-0b84486b16d1/Statement-of-Person-Nominated-Mid-Ulster|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The local authority, [[Cookstown District Council]], was established in 1973, and included part of [[County Londonderry]], notably the villages of [[Moneymore]], [[The Loup]] and [[Ballyronan]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KjqXEh-clIcC&dq=%22Cookstown+District+Council%22&pg=PA66|title=Transport Year Book 2006|date=18 November 2005 |publisher=Stationery Office|page=66|isbn=9780117035850 |access-date=30 November 2022}}</ref>

As part of the Local Government Reform (NI) [[Cookstown District Council]] merged with [[Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council]] and [[Magherafelt District Council]] to form a larger [[Mid-Ulster District Council]] in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.midulstercouncil.org/your-council/elections/electoral-areas|title=Electoral Areas|publisher=Mid-Ulster District Council|access-date=30 November 2022}}</ref>