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Elections to Dungannon District Council were held on 21 May 1997 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 22 councillors.
There was no change from the prior election.[1]
Election results
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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Ulster Unionist | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36.4 | 30.3 | 7,445 | 1.5 | |
Sinn Féin | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.7 | 30.0 | 7,382 | 5.9 | |
SDLP | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.2 | 18.2 | 4,468 | 2.2 | |
DUP | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.6 | 14.0 | 3,440 | 0.8 | |
Independent Nationalist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 4.8 | 1,183 | 1.5 | |
Democratic Left | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 1.7 | 412 | 0.2 | |
Alliance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 269 | 1.1 | |
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
Districts summary
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UUP | Sinn Féin | SDLP | DUP | DL | Others | ||||||||
Blackwater | 43.2 | 3 | 15.6 | 0 | 16.0 | 1 | 25.2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 5 |
Clogher Valley | 33.2 | 2 | 23.2 | 1 | 26.8 | 1 | 16.8 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 5 |
Dungannon Town | 31.0 | 2 | 24.5 | 1 | 14.8 | 1 | 17.3 | 1 | 7.5 | 1 | 4.9 | 0 | 6 |
Torrent | 16.7 | 1 | 51.6 | 3 | 15.4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 16.3 | 1 | 6 |
Total | 30.3 | 8 | 30.0 | 5 | 18.2 | 4 | 14.0 | 3 | 1.7 | 1 | 5.8 | 1 | 22 |
District results
Blackwater
1993: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1997: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1993-1997 Change: No change
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
DUP | James Ewing* | 10.05% | 596 | 910 | 1,284 | ||||
Ulster Unionist | Jim Hamilton* | 15.27% | 905 | 955 | 980 | 1,066 | |||
Ulster Unionist | Jim Brady* | 13.48% | 799 | 847 | 877 | 1,001 | |||
Ulster Unionist | Derek Irwin* | 14.47% | 858 | 864 | 908 | 964 | 1,039.51 | ||
SDLP | Patrick Daly* | 16.03% | 950 | 953 | 953 | 953 | 953.91 | 978.48 | |
Sinn Féin | Michelle Gildernew | 15.52% | 920 | 920 | 920 | 920 | 920 | 920 | |
DUP | Robert McFarland | 7.64% | 453 | 478 | |||||
DUP | Roger Burton | 7.54% | 447 | ||||||
Electorate: 7,802 Valid: 5,928 (75.98%) Spoilt: 80 Quota: 989 Turnout: 6,008 (77.01%) |
Clogher Valley
1993: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP
1997: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP
1993-1997 Change: No change
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
Ulster Unionist | Noel Mulligan* | 18.62% | 1,097 | |||
SDLP | Anthony McGonnell* | 18.38% | 1,083 | |||
Sinn Féin | Seamus Flanagan | 17.45% | 1,028 | |||
DUP | William McIlwrath* | 16.79% | 989 | |||
Ulster Unionist | Robert Mulligan* | 14.54% | 857 | 963.9 | 963.9 | |
SDLP | Margaret Monaghan | 8.47% | 499 | 500.7 | 562.7 | |
Sinn Féin | Brian Kilpatrick | 5.75% | 339 | |||
Electorate: 7,503 Valid: 5,892 (78.53%) Spoilt: 91 Quota: 983 Turnout: 5,983 (79.74%) |
Dungannon Town
1993: 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Democratic Left
1997: 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Democratic Left
1993-1997 Change: No change
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Vincent Kelly* | 19.26% | 1,065 | |||||||
Ulster Unionist | Joan Carson | 17.00% | 940 | |||||||
DUP | Maurice Morrow* | 17.27% | 955 | |||||||
Ulster Unionist | John Reilly | 14.05% | 777 | 777 | 909.94 | |||||
SDLP | Vincent Currie* | 11.77% | 651 | 661.92 | 663.11 | 678.06 | 802.06 | |||
Democratic Left | Gerry Cullen* | 7.45% | 412 | 420.32 | 437.83 | 500.85 | 518.23 | 696.77 | 753.89 | |
Sinn Féin | Edward Devlin | 5.26% | 291 | 524.74 | 524.74 | 524.97 | 540.35 | 582.74 | 583.25 | |
Alliance | Ephrem Bogues | 4.86% | 269 | 276.02 | 279.93 | 343.87 | 359.44 | |||
SDLP | Peggy Devlin | 3.07% | 170 | 180.14 | 180.14 | 186.81 | ||||
Electorate: 8,715 Valid: 5,530 (63.45%) Spoilt: 79 Quota: 791 Turnout: 5,609 (64.36%) |
Torrent
1993: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1997: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1993-1997 Change: No change
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Francie Molloy* | 19.41% | 1,407 | ||||
Ulster Unionist | Norman Badger* | 16.72% | 1,212 | ||||
Independent Nationalist | Jim Canning* | 16.32% | 1,183 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Michael Gillespie | 14.03% | 1,017 | 1,045.6 | |||
SDLP | Jim Cavanagh* | 11.48% | 832 | 844.48 | 1,078.48 | ||
Sinn Féin | Brendan Doris* | 11.34% | 822 | 955.64 | 970.98 | 990.98 | |
Sinn Féin | Jim O'Donnell | 6.80% | 493 | 670.58 | 687.88 | 695.88 | |
SDLP | Joseph Gervin | 3.90% | 283 | 288.46 | |||
Electorate: 9,730 Valid: 7,249 (74.50%) Spoilt: 159 Quota: 1,036 Turnout: 7,408 (76.14%) |
References
- 1 2 3 "Dungannon Borough Council, 1993-2011". www.ark.ac.uk.
- 1 2 3 4 "Local Government Results 1997". EONI. Retrieved 8 August 2021.