1993_Down_District_Council_election

1993 Down District Council election

Local govt election in Northern Ireland

Elections to Down District Council were held on 19 May 1993 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 23 councillors.

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District results

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	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
SDLP	13	1	0	1	56.5	51.2	13,102	2.0
UUP	7	0	1	1	30.4	28.5	7,300	2.6
DUP	3	1	0	1	13.0	9.9	2,545	1.4
Alliance	0	0	1	1	0.0	3.8	971	1.6
Sinn Féin	0	0	0	0	0.0	3.2	815	1.6
Independent	0	0	0	0	0.0	2.7	694	2.7
Workers' Party	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.6	151	1.0

Ward	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	Total Cllrs
Ward	SDLP		UUP		DUP		Others		Total Cllrs
Ballynahinch	49.4	2	30.8	2	19.8	1	0.0	0	5
Downpatrick	65.3	6	13.4	1	0.0	0	21.3	0	7
Newcastle	56.4	4	20.9	1	6.7	1	16.0	0	6
Rowallane	29.0	1	54.4	3	16.6	1	0.0	0	5
Total	51.2	13	28.5	7	9.9	3	10.4	0	23

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3
	SDLP	Patrick Toman*	25.41%	1,480
	SDLP	Anne Marie McAleenan	23.97%	1,396
	DUP	William Alexander	19.81%	1,154
	UUP	James Cochrane*	16.12%	939	1,025
	UUP	Walter Lyons*	8.38%	488	648	867
	UUP	Janet Crothers	6.32%	368	450	583
Electorate: 8,953 Valid: 5,825 (65.06%) Spoilt: 132 Quota: 971 Turnout: 5,957 (66.54%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	SDLP	Dermot Curran*	14.30%	1,075
	SDLP	John Doris*	13.79%	1,037
	SDLP	John Ritchie*	13.71%	1,031
	UUP	Jack McIlheron	13.37%	1,005
	SDLP	Malachi Curran*	9.63%	724	800.18	829.28	858.26	859.69	874.21	912.37	957.37
	SDLP	Francis McCann	7.57%	569	582	625.4	643.4	643.62	657.8	662.06	694.44	729.72	781.35	787.83
	SDLP	Owen Adams	6.33%	476	489.52	506.72	539.39	540.27	543.56	552.95	585.08	634.5	714.13	724.39
	Alliance	Michael Healy*	5.89%	443	447.55	449.75	452.09	488.94	516.91	534.34	544.6	592.25	720.56	721.1
	Independent	Keith Bradford	3.87%	291	293.47	295.87	298.39	312.69	340.4	351.17	383.5	409.54
	Independent	Patrick O'Connor	3.14%	236	244.45	244.55	245.18	249.14	258.32	340.86	365.35
	Sinn Féin	Patrick McGreevy	4.18%	314	316.6	317.6	318.32	318.54	324.82	328.21
	Independent	James Masson	2.22%	167	175.84	176.14	176.23	178.87	180.87
	Workers' Party	Desmond O'Hagan	2.01%	151	151.65	152.65	154	155.87
Electorate: 12,290 Valid: 7,519 (61.18%) Spoilt: 150 Quota: 940 Turnout: 7,669 (62.40%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SDLP	Michael Boyd*	21.83%	1,405
	SDLP	Eamon O'Neill*	17.87%	1,150
	UUP	Gerald Douglas*	14.73%	948
	SDLP	Peter Fitzpatrick*	10.36%	667	723	724.98	870.98
	SDLP	Frances Flynn	6.39%	411	631.68	706.86	753.66	760.66	920.9
	DUP	John Finlay	6.68%	430	432.16	432.79	432.79	682.79	684.42	700.95
	Alliance	Anne Carr	8.20%	528	571.92	580.53	582.13	637.68	676.05	681.93
	Sinn Féin	Sean Fitzpatrick	7.78%	501	521.52	544.62	547.72	547.72
	UUP	William Brown*	6.15%	396	401.04	401.67	401.77
Electorate: 10,170 Valid: 6,436 (63.28%) Spoilt: 182 Quota: 920 Turnout: 6,618 (65.07%)

Rowallane - 5 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2
	UUP	Samuel Osborne*	22.80%	1,322
	SDLP	Margaret Ritchie*	20.20%	1,171
	UUP	Albert Colmer*	15.21%	882	1,067.36
	UUP	William Biggerstaff*	16.42%	952	1,058.12
	DUP	William Dick*	16.57%	961	1,017.56
	SDLP	Hugh Flynn	8.80%	510	514.76
Electorate: 9,320 Valid: 5,798 (62.21%) Spoilt: 110 Quota: 967 Turnout: 5,908 (63.39%)