1993 Northern Ireland local elections

1993 Northern Ireland local elections
	19 May 1993
	19 May 1993
All council seats
	Colours denote the winning party with outright control

Elections for local government were held in Northern Ireland on 19 May 1993.

Results

Map showing the party that received the most votes by district electoral area.

Overall

Party[1]		Councillors		Votes
Party[1]		Total	+/-	% share	Total
	UUP	197	+3	29	184,082
	SDLP	127	+6	22	136,760
	DUP	103	-6	17	108,680
	Sinn Féin	51	+8	12	77,600
	Alliance	44	+6	8	47,658
	Independent	24	+1	4	25,987
	Independent Unionist	21	+6	3	19,506
	NI Conservatives	6	0	1	9,438
	Workers' Party	1	-3	1	4,827
	Newtownabbey Labour	1	0	1	3,981
	PUP	1	-2	0.4	2,350
	Democratic Left	1	+1	0.4	2,288
	Ulster Democratic	1	0	0.4	2,181
	UPUP	3	+1	0.3	1,730
	Green (NI)	0	0	0.2	1,257
	Action 93	1	+1	0.1	871

By council

Antrim

Antrim North West[2][3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	James Graham	1,167
	SDLP	Robert Loughran	1,151
	DUP	Samuel Clyde	747
	Sinn Féin	Henry Cushinan	628
	SDLP	Donovan McClelland	437
	UUP	Kenneth Swann	269
Turnout			4,530
	Sinn Fein gain from UUP

Antrim South East[2][3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Independent Unionist	Roy Thompson	1,280
	UUP	Edgar Wallace	878
	SDLP	Robert Burns	855
	Alliance	David Ford	561
	DUP	Samuel Dunlop	560
	UUP	Mervyn Rea	546
	UUP	Howard Campbell	432
	DUP	William Harkness	396
	UUP	Roy Stinson	199
	Sinn Féin	Joseph McCavana	150
Turnout			9,881
Roy Thompson leaves Ulster Unionist Party
	Alliance gain from Democratic Unionist Party

Antrim Town[2][3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Paddy Marks	791
	UUP	Jack Allen	719
	SDLP	Oran Keenan	665
	DUP	James Brown	558
	Alliance	James McConnell	399
	UUP	Andrew Ritchie	298
	Alliance	Mary Wallace	290
	UUP	Andrew Thompson	252
	Democratic Left	Patrick McGinley	179
	DUP	James Porter	151
	UUP	Aevrille Swann	150
	Workers' Party	Eamon Gillen	82
Turnout			9,881
No change

Ards

Ards East[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Thomas Benson	956
	DUP	Jeffrey Magill	866
	UUP	John Shields	741
	Alliance	Laurance Thomson	721
	DUP	St Clair McAlister	661
	UUP	Ronald Ferguson	505
	NI Conservatives	Gavin Walker	365
Turnout			4,935
New district

Ards Peninsula[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Alliance	Kieran McCarthy	1,546
	DUP	Richard Shannon	896
	UUP	Robert Ambrose	713
	Independent	James McMullan	656
	DUP	Thomas Cully	485
	UUP	Samuel Brown	261
	Alliance	William Sheldon	216
Turnout			4,931
Seats reduced from seven to five: Democratic Unionist & Ulster Unionist loss, independent gain

Ards West[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Robert Gibson	1,318
	DUP	Simpson Gibson	736
	UUP	Margaret Craig	645
	Alliance	Thomas McBriar	634
	Alliance	Kathleen Coulter	616
	DUP	Richard Finlay	481
	NI Conservatives	Robert Darnley	292
	UUP	Stanley McCoy	269
Turnout			5,109
	Alliance gain from DUP

Newtownards[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	David Smyth	817
	Alliance	Alan McDowell	768
	Independent	Nancy Orr	638
	DUP	Wilbert Magill	554
	DUP	George Ennis	545
	Independent Unionist	Bobby McBride	500
	UUP	Tom Hamilton	458
	DUP	John Purdy	214
	NI Conservatives	Andrew Thomson	162
Turnout			4,797
Seats reduced from seven to six; Democratic Unionist loss

Armagh

Armagh City[5]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	John Agnew	1,156
	SDLP	Pat Brannigan	1,012
	UUP	Gordon Frazer	992
	Sinn Féin	Noel Sheridan	961
	SDLP	Anna Brolly	710
	DUP	Harold Carson	690
	UUP	Sylvia McRoberts	644
Turnout			6,347
No change

Crossmore[5]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Thomas Kavanagh	1,379
	SDLP	James McKernan	1,028
	UUP	Jim Nicholson	1,010
	UUP	William Hamilton	858
	SDLP	James Lennon	659
	Sinn Féin	Brian Cunningham	562
	SDLP	James McGleenan	534
Turnout			6,156
	SDLP gain from UUP

Cusher[5]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Robert McWilliams	1,685
	UUP	Eric Speers	1,572
	SDLP	Thomas Canavan	1,164
	DUP	Heather Black	1,050
	UUP	Robert Turner	927
	UUP	James Clayton	697
	Sinn Féin	Margaret McNally	250
Turnout			6,156
No change

Ballymena

Banbridge

Belfast

Court[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Eric Smyth	2,385
	UUP	Fred Cobain	1,674
	PUP	Hugh Smyth	1,609
	UUP	Chris McGimpsey	1,472
	Independent Unionist	Joe Coggle	792
	UUP	Herbert Ditty	572
	PUP	Elizabeth Seawright	558
	Alliance	Irene Galway	371
	Workers' Party	Peter Cullen	116
Turnout			9,881
Seats reduced from six to five: Independent Unionist loss

Pottinger[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Sammy Wilson	2,784
	Alliance	Mervyn Jones	1,417
	UUP	Reg Empey	1,295
	DUP	Robert Clelland	982
	UUP	Sandy Blair	897
	DUP	Jim Walker	793
	UUP	Margaret Clarke	768
	Sinn Féin	Joe O'Donnell	709
	NI Conservatives	Dorothy Dunlop	538
	Independent Labour	Colin Ballentine	271
	Workers' Party	Joseph Bell	227
	Independent Unionist	Samuel Walker	133
	Green (NI)	Thaddeus Bradley	107
Turnout			11,389
	Democratic Unionist gain from Independent Unionist

Victoria[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Alliance	John Alderdice	3,337
	DUP	Wallace Browne	2,153
	UUP	Tommy Patton	1,801
	DUP	Robin Newton	1,729
	UUP	Ian Adamson	1,316
	Alliance	Maureen McConnell	768
	NI Conservatives	Jim McCormick	684
	UUP	Jim Rodgers	600
	Alliance	Danny Dow	552
	UUP	John Norris	407
	Green (NI)	Michael Bell	180
Turnout			13,887
No change

Balmoral[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Dorita Field	2,262
	DUP	John Parkes	2,076
	UUP	Margaret Crooks	1,616
	UUP	Jim Kirkpatrick	1,396
	Alliance	Philip McGarry	1,273
	Alliance	Mark Long	923
	DUP	Harry Smith	697
	UUP	Bob Stoker	611
	NI Conservatives	Esmond Birnie	279
	NI Conservatives	Billy Dickson	264
	Green (NI)	Roderick McAlister	124
	Independent Labour	Niall Cusack	113
	Democratic Left	Jean Craig	97
	NI Conservatives	Hubert Mullan	50
	Workers' Party	Shaun McKeown	48
Turnout			12,160
	Democratic Unionist gain additional seat

Castle[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Nigel Dodds	2,470
	UUP	David Browne	1,830
	SDLP	Alban Maginness	1,589
	UUP	John Carson	1,556
	Alliance	Tom Campbell	1,172
	SDLP	Jonathan Stephenson	1,090
	Independent Unionist	Nelson McCausland	1,070
	Sinn Féin	Gerard McGuigan	575
	Green (NI)	Alan Warren	251
	NI Conservatives	Margaret Redpath	246
	Workers' Party	Paul Treanor	136
Turnout			12,331
	Social Democratic and Labour gain from Alliance
	Ulster Unionist gain from Independent Unionist

Oldpark[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Sinn Féin	Joe Austin	2,229
	UUP	Fred Proctor	2,045
	Sinn Féin	Paddy McManus	1,769
	SDLP	Martin Morgan	1,763
	Sinn Féin	Bobby Lavery	1,617
	UUP	Fred Rodgers	1,343
	DUP	David Smylie	1,324
	Democratic Left	Seamus Lynch	853
	SDLP	Peter Prendiville	588
	Alliance	Beatrice Boyd	473
	Green (NI)	Peter Emerson	393
	Workers' Party	Margaret Smith	259
	NI Conservatives	David Tarr	206
Turnout			15,373
	Sinn Féin gain from Workers' Party

Laganbank[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Jim Clarke	1,845
	SDLP	Alasdair McDonnell	1,500
	SDLP	Peter O'Reilly	1,052
	DUP	Caroline Bingham	1,000
	Sinn Féin	Sean Hayes	892
	Alliance	Steve McBride	836
	Alliance	Hugh Greer	727
	UUP	Michael McGimpsey	545
	UUP	Dennis Rogan	236
	Workers' Party	Patrick Lynn	222
	Green (NI)	Andrew Frew	202
	NI Conservatives	Graham Montgomery	198
	Militant	Peter Hadden	142
	Democratic Left	Michael Craig	95
Turnout			9,805
	Social Democratic and Labour gain from Democratic Unionist

Upper Falls[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Alex Attwood	3,203
	Sinn Féin	Una Gillsepie	2,765
	Sinn Féin	Alex Maskey	2,735
	Sinn Féin	Máirtín Ó Muilleoir	2,093
	SDLP	Patricia Lewsley	798
	SDLP	Terence Tracey	702
	Independent	Cormac Boomer	378
	DUP	David McNerlin	174
	Workers' Party	James Maxwell	164
	Alliance	Julie Greaves	145
	Militant	Billy Lynn	144
Turnout			13,725
No change

Lower Falls[6]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Sinn Féin	Tom Hartley	2,573
	Sinn Féin	Fra McCann	2,393
	Sinn Féin	Patsy McGeown	2,352
	Sinn Féin	Marie Moore	1,946
	SDLP	Mary Muldoon	1,749
	SDLP	Margaret Walsh	987
	Workers' Party	John Lowry	794
	Alliance	Patrick Woods	108
	Democratic Left	Mary McMahon	101
Turnout			13,512
	Sinn Féin gain from Social Democratic and Labour

Carrickfergus

Castlereagh

Coleraine

Cookstown

Craigavon

Derry

Down

Dungannon

Fermanagh

Enniskillen[7][3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Sammy Foster	1,605
	UUP	Raymond Ferguson	1,159
	Sinn Féin	John McManus	978
	Progressive Socialist	David Kettyles	953
	UUP	William Hetherington	736
	SDLP	James Lunny	697
	SDLP	James Donnelly	679
	DUP	Joseph Dodds	483
	DUP	Frederick Black	388
	UUP	Ethel Gregg	299
Turnout			8,108
David Kettyles changes party from Workers' Party

Erne East[7][3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Fergus McQuillan	1,398
	UUP	Jean McVitty	1,127
	UUP	Cecil Noble	976
	UUP	Albert Liddle	905
	Sinn Féin	Brian McCaffrey	834
	Sinn Féin	Gerard McHugh	784
	Independent Nationalist	Antony McPhillips	722
	Independent	John McCusker	563
	DUP	Paul Robinson	480
	Sinn Féin	Philip McDonald	431
Turnout			8,378
Seats reduced from seven to six: Democratic Unionist loss

Erne North[7][3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Caldwell McClaughry	1,486
	DUP	Bert Johnston	1,032
	SDLP	Tommy Gallagher	989
	SDLP	John O'Kane	827
	UUP	Bertie Kerr	674
	UUP	Simon Loane	437
	Sinn Féin	Desmond Donnelly	421
	DUP	John Armstrong	192
Turnout			6,171
No change

Erne West[7][3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Wilson Elliott	1,616
	Independent	Patrick McCaffrey	1,250
	SDLP	Gerard Gallagher	1,039
	Sinn Féin	Robin Martin	730
	UUP	Derrick Nixon	601
	Sinn Féin	Francis Doherty	548
	Independent	Patrick Flanagan	541
	Sinn Féin	Stephen Hugget	250
	DUP	Jack Thompson	207
Turnout			7,065
No change

Larne

Limavady

Lisburn

Magherafelt

Moyle

Newry and Mourne

Newtownabbey

North Down

Omagh

Strabane

References

Local Government Elections 1993, Northern Ireland Elections
Antrim District Council Elections 1993-2011, Northern Ireland Elections
Election results 1973-2001, Electoral Office for Northern Ireland,
Ards District Council Elections 1993-2011, Northern Ireland Elections
Armagh District Council Elections 1993-2011, Northern Ireland Elections
Belfast City Council Elections 1993–2005, Northern Ireland Elections
Fermanagh District Council Elections 1993-2011, Northern Ireland Elections

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[1] Local Government Elections 1993, Northern Ireland Elections

[Antrim-2] Antrim District Council Elections 1993-2011, Northern Ireland Elections

[EONI-3] Election results 1973-2001, Electoral Office for Northern Ireland,

[Ards-4] Ards District Council Elections 1993-2011, Northern Ireland Elections

[Armagh-5] Armagh District Council Elections 1993-2011, Northern Ireland Elections

[Belfast-6] Belfast City Council Elections 1993–2005, Northern Ireland Elections

[Fermanagh-7] Fermanagh District Council Elections 1993-2011, Northern Ireland Elections

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