The following year he was elected a representative for Fermanagh & South Tyrone to the failed Northern Ireland Assembly in 1982, Maginnis was the following year returned to the House of Commons as the constituency's Member of Parliament.
The following year, in 1982, he was elected a representative for Fermanagh & South Tyrone to the failed Northern Ireland Assembly. At the 1983 general election he was returned to the House of Commons as the constituency's Member of Parliament.