     foyle is a parliamentary constituency in the house of commons of the united kingdom. ==boundaries== 1983-1997: the district of londonderry; and the district of strabane wards of artigarvan, dunnamanagh, east, north, slievekirk, south, and west. 1997-2010: the district of derry. 2010-present: the district of derry wards of altnagelvin, ballynashallog, beechwood, brandywell, carn hill, caw, clondermot, creggan central, creggan south, crevagh, culmore, ebrington, eglinton, enagh, foyle springs, holly mount, kilfennan, lisnagelvin, new buildings, pennyburn, rosemount, shantallow east, shantallow west, springtown, strand, the diamond, victoria, and westland. the seat was created in boundary changes in 1983, as part of an expansion of northern ireland's constituencies from 12 to 17, and was predominantly made up from the old londonderry constituency. from further revisions in 1995 (when it lost parts of the district of strabane to the west tyrone constituency), and until the 2008 revision, it covered exactly the same area as derry city.  the name comes from the river foyle which the city lies on and is used to avoid the contentious names of derry or londonderry, as well as to cover the areas of county tyrone that were originally in the constituency. prior to the 2010 general election the transfer of claudy and banagher wards to east londonderry were approved through the passing of the northern ireland parliamentary constituencies orderhttp://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/draft/ukdsi_9780110813172_en_1 in 2008. ==history== for the history of the equivalent constituency prior to 1983, see londonderry. the constituency is overwhelmingly nationalist and in many elections has often had the strongest vote for the social democratic and labour party (sdlp) in the whole of northern ireland. unionists of various parties routinely poll around 20%â25%
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