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Elections to Lisburn Borough Council were held on 21 May 1997 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used five district electoral areas to elect a total of 30 councillors.
Election results
[edit]Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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UUP | 13 | 0 | 3 | ![]() |
43.3 | 36.6 | 11,799 | ![]() | |
Sinn Féin | 4 | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
13.3 | 13.7 | 4,427 | ![]() | |
Alliance | 3 | 0 | 0 | ![]() |
10.0 | 13.0 | 4,188 | ![]() | |
DUP | 2 | 0 | 1 | ![]() |
6.7 | 13.2 | 4,239 | ![]() | |
SDLP | 2 | 0 | 1 | ![]() |
6.7 | 5.8 | 1,859 | ![]() | |
Ulster Democratic | 2 | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
6.7 | 5.0 | 1,615 | ![]() | |
Ind. Unionist | 1 | 0 | 0 | ![]() |
3.3 | 3.3 | 1,068 | ![]() | |
NI Conservatives | 1 | 0 | 0 | ![]() |
3.3 | 2.9 | 935 | ![]() | |
Protestant Unionist | 1 | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
3.3 | 2.1 | 671 | ![]() | |
Independent Nationalist | 1 | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
3.3 | 1.6 | 502 | ![]() | |
NI Women's Coalition | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() |
0.0 | 0.6 | 209 | New | |
Workers' Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() |
0.0 | 0.6 | 192 | ![]() |
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
Districts summary
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UUP | Sinn Féin | Alliance | DUP | SDLP | UDP | Conservative | Others | ||||||||||
Downshire | 39.0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 17.0 | 1 | 28.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 16.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 5 |
Dunmurry Cross | 20.0 | 1 | 50.1 | 4 | 3.2 | 0 | 2.6 | 0 | 16.2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 7.9 | 1 | 7 |
Killultagh | 47.1 | 3 | 0.0 | 0 | 9.1 | 0 | 24.1 | 1 | 17.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.7 | 0 | 5 |
Lisburn Town North | 33.8 | 3 | 0.0 | 0 | 20.3 | 1 | 9.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 10.5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 25.6 | 2 | 7 |
Lisburn Town South | 54.4 | 4 | 0.0 | 0 | 19.4 | 1 | 9.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 15.8 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 1.1 | 0 | 6 |
Total | 36.6 | 13 | 13.7 | 4 | 13.0 | 3 | 13.2 | 2 | 5.8 | 2 | 5.0 | 2 | 2.9 | 1 | 9.8 | 3 | 30 |
Districts results
[edit]Downshire
[edit]1993: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Conservative
1997: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Conservative
1997-2001 Change: Alliance gain from UUP
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
UUP | William Falloon* | 25.06% | 1,328 | ||||
DUP | Edwin Poots | 19.65% | 1,041 | ||||
Alliance | Elizabeth Campbell | 17.02% | 902 | ||||
NI Conservatives | William Bleakes* | 15.97% | 846 | 784.9 | |||
UUP | Kenneth Hull | 6.64% | 352 | 637.6 | 647.05 | 945.05 | |
DUP | Jonathan Craig | 8.32% | 441 | 457.66 | 567.16 | 608.16 | |
UUP | William Moore | 7.34% | 389 | 500.18 | 519.38 | ||
Electorate: 12,872 Valid: 5,299 (41.17%) Spoilt: 81 Quota: 884 Turnout: 5,380 (41.80%) |
Dunmurry Cross
[edit]1993: 3 x Sinn Féin, 2 x UUP, 2 x SDLP
1997: 4 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1993-1997 Change: Sinn Féin gain from UUP, Independent Nationalist leaves SDLP
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |||||
Sinn Féin | Michael Ferguson* | 15.45% | 1,365 | |||||||||||||
Sinn Féin | Paul Butler | 14.26% | 1,260 | |||||||||||||
Sinn Féin | Sue Ramsey | 11.60% | 1,025 | 1,061.86 | 1,146.94 | |||||||||||
UUP | Billy Bell* | 10.90% | 963 | 963.57 | 963.69 | 966.89 | 1,095.69 | 1,173.69 | ||||||||
SDLP | William McDonnell* | 10.50% | 928 | 933.89 | 937.73 | 1,006.16 | 1,006.16 | 1,064.35 | 1,066.35 | 1,071.35 | 1,480.35 | |||||
Sinn Féin | Ita Gray | 8.79% | 777 | 982.01 | 1,038.41 | 1,044.41 | 1,045.6 | 1,045.91 | 1,046.91 | 1,046.91 | 1,060.39 | 1,098.39 | 1,139.73 | |||
Independent Nationalist | Hugh Lewsley* | 5.68% | 502 | 504.85 | 507.01 | 542.01 | 543.01 | 600.01 | 607.01 | 610.01 | 690.94 | 959.94 | 960.24 | 966.3 | ||
UUP | Frederick Parkinson | 5.36% | 474 | 474 | 474 | 475 | 523 | 545 | 888 | 945 | 948 | 949 | 949 | 949.12 | ||
SDLP | Mary Rodgers | 5.67% | 501 | 502.52 | 504.08 | 517.46 | 517.46 | 541.46 | 542.46 | 542.46 | ||||||
UUP | Andrew Park | 3.73% | 330 | 330 | 330.12 | 330.12 | 381.12 | 406.12 | ||||||||
Alliance | Owen Gawith | 3.21% | 284 | 284.76 | 284.88 | 298.88 | 301 | |||||||||
DUP | Yvonne Craig | 2.67% | 236 | 236.19 | 236.31 | 236.31 | ||||||||||
Workers' Party | Frances McCarthy | 1.88% | 192 | 192.76 | 193 | |||||||||||
Electorate: 18,255 Valid: 8,837 (48.41%) Spoilt: 194 Quota: 1,105 Turnout: 9,031 (49.47%) |
Killultagh
[edit]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 | ||||
UUP | Jim Dillon* | 26.23% | 1,432 | ||||
SDLP | Peter O'Hagan* | 17.05% | 931 | ||||
DUP | Cecil Calvert* | 16.56% | 904 | 949.72 | |||
UUP | David Greene* | 10.09% | 551 | 919.64 | |||
UUP | Kenneth Watson* | 10.82% | 591 | 668.4 | 686.12 | 973.12 | |
Alliance | Trevor Lunn | 8.96% | 489 | 496.92 | 605.64 | 621.64 | |
DUP | James Tinsley | 7.55% | 412 | 422.44 | 426.44 | ||
NI Women's Coalition | Sybil Moses | 2.75% | 150 | 151.44 | |||
Electorate: 12,966 Valid: 5,460 (42.11%) Spoilt: 84 Quota: 911 Turnout: 5,544 (42.76%) |
Lisburn Town North
[edit]1993: 4 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent Unionist
1997: 3 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UDP, 1 x Independent Unionist, 1 x Protestant Unionist
1993-1997 Change: UDP gain from UUP, Protestant Unionist leaves DUP
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
UUP | William Lewis* | 17.39% | 1,237 | |||||||||
Alliance | Frazer McCammond* | 13.37% | 951 | |||||||||
Ind. Unionist | Ronnie Crawford* | 11.39% | 810 | 838 | 844.56 | 850.52 | 852.08 | 1,027.08 | ||||
UUP | William Gardiner-Watson* | 9.17% | 652 | 751.12 | 764.52 | 798.12 | 799.14 | 809.5 | 857.34 | 870.8 | 932.8 | |
Ulster Democratic | David Adams | 10.52% | 748 | 758.92 | 760.92 | 765.2 | 765.56 | 774.46 | 798.38 | 827.34 | 892.34 | |
Protestant Unionist | William Beattie* | 9.43% | 671 | 692.28 | 697.56 | 702.12 | 702.3 | 724.04 | 735.08 | 760.92 | 788.74 | |
UUP | Lorraine Martin* | 5.74% | 408 | 476.32 | 483.32 | 596.52 | 597 | 613.74 | 637.66 | 663.98 | 760.34 | |
DUP | Eleanor Calvert | 5.64% | 401 | 408.56 | 412.84 | 415.52 | 415.7 | 433.7 | 440.14 | 645.82 | 656.72 | |
Alliance | William Whitley | 6.96% | 495 | 503.4 | 531.68 | 535.52 | 587.06 | 602.46 | 622.79 | 627.66 | ||
DUP | James Tinsley | 4.13% | 294 | 304.64 | 307.64 | 313.48 | 313.66 | 318.78 | 321.54 | |||
Ind. Unionist | Anne Blake | 3.63% | 258 | 267.24 | 275.52 | 279.08 | 279.44 | |||||
UUP | Noel Malcolm | 1.39% | 99 | 172.36 | 181.2 | |||||||
NI Conservatives | Leonard Jarvis | 1.25% | 89 | 92.92 | ||||||||
Electorate: 17,508 Valid: 7,113 (40.63%) Spoilt: 111 Quota: 890 Turnout: 7,224 (41.26%) |
Lisburn Town South
[edit]1993: 4 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UDP
1997: 4 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UDP
1993-1997 Change: No change
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
UUP | Ivan Davis* | 26.73% | 1,469 | |||||
Alliance | Seamus Close* | 19.41% | 1,067 | |||||
Ulster Democratic | Gary McMichael* | 13.65% | 750 | 844.56 | ||||
UUP | Thomas Archer | 10.52% | 578 | 749.84 | 781.8 | 791.37 | ||
UUP | George Morrison* | 7.04% | 387 | 565.56 | 612.14 | 634.25 | 757.3 | |
UUP | Joseph Lockhart* | 8.26% | 454 | 588.88 | 621.18 | 626.79 | 744.02 | |
DUP | Stuart Deignan | 9.28% | 510 | 549.36 | 552.42 | 554.73 | 599.8 | |
NI Women's Coalition | Bronya Bonar | 1.07% | 59 | 63.32 | 204.08 | 206.06 | ||
Ulster Democratic | Philip Dean | 2.13% | 117 | 139.56 | 151.12 | 164.32 | ||
UUP | Margaret Little | 1.91% | 105 | 141 | 152.22 | 155.52 | ||
Electorate: 13,176 Valid: 5,496 (41.71%) Spoilt: 105 Quota: 786 Turnout: 5,601 (42.51%) |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Lisburn Borough Council, 1993-2011". www.ark.ac.uk.
- ^ a b c d e "Local Government Results 1997". EONI. Retrieved 8 July 2021.