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Elections to Dungannon District Council were held on 17 May 1989 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.
Election results
[edit]Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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UUP | 8 | 0 | 0 | ![]() |
36.4 | 37.5 | 8,775 | ![]() | |
SDLP | 5 | 0 | 0 | ![]() |
22.7 | 20.1 | 4,711 | ![]() | |
Sinn Féin | 3 | 0 | 1 | ![]() |
13.6 | 18.7 | 4,369 | ![]() | |
DUP | 3 | 0 | 0 | ![]() |
13.6 | 13.1 | 3,059 | ![]() | |
Independent Nationalist | 2 | 0 | 0 | ![]() |
9.1 | 9.5 | 2,226 | ![]() | |
Workers' Party | 1 | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
4.5 | 1.1 | 276 | ![]() |
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
Districts summary
[edit]Ward | % |
Cllrs |
% |
Cllrs |
% |
Cllrs |
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Cllrs |
% |
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Total Cllrs |
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UUP | SDLP | Sinn Féin | DUP | Workers' Party | Others | ||||||||
Blackwater | 49.0 | 3 | 17.1 | 1 | 10.4 | 0 | 23.5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 5 |
Clogher Valley | 38.5 | 2 | 29.5 | 1 | 16.5 | 1 | 15.5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 5 |
Dungannon Town | 42.7 | 2 | 13.2 | 1 | 13.7 | 0 | 14.4 | 1 | 5.1 | 1 | 10.9 | 1 | 6 |
Torrent | 21.3 | 1 | 20.1 | 2 | 32.6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 26.0 | 1 | 6 |
Total | 37.5 | 8 | 20.1 | 5 | 18.7 | 3 | 13.1 | 3 | 1.1 | 1 | 9.5 | 2 | 22 |
District results
[edit]Blackwater
[edit]1985: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1989: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1985-1989 Change: No change
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
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1 | 2 | ||||
DUP | James Ewing* | 23.52% | 1,345 | ||
UUP | Derek Irwin* | 17.50% | 1,001 | ||
SDLP | Patrick Daly* | 17.14% | 980 | ||
UUP | Jim Hamilton | 16.02% | 916 | 1,107.89 | |
UUP | Jim Brady* | 15.46% | 884 | 1,078.37 | |
Sinn Féin | Tony Gildernew | 10.37% | 593 | 594.55 | |
Electorate: 7,203 Valid: 5,719 (79.40%) Spoilt: 128 Quota: 954 Turnout: 5,847 (81.17%) |
Clogher Valley
[edit]1985: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP
1989: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP
1985-1989 Change: No change
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
UUP | Noel Mulligan* | 19.71% | 1,171 | |||
UUP | Samuel Brush* | 18.80% | 1,117 | |||
SDLP | Anthony McGonnell* | 17.86% | 1,061 | |||
DUP | William McIlwrath* | 15.47% | 919 | 1,082.2 | ||
Sinn Féin | Raymond McMahon | 16.53% | 982 | 983.28 | 991.32 | |
SDLP | John Monaghan | 11.62% | 690 | 696.08 | 813.33 | |
Electorate: 7,065 Valid: 5,940 (84.08%) Spoilt: 142 Quota: 991 Turnout: 6,082 (86.09%) |
Dungannon Town
[edit]1985: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1989: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Workers' Party, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1985-1989 Change: Workers' Party gain from Sinn Féin
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
UUP | Ken Maginnis* | 26.86% | 1,479 | |||||||
UUP | William Brown* | 15.87% | 874 | |||||||
DUP | Maurice Morrow* | 14.44% | 795 | |||||||
SDLP | Vincent Currie* | 10.35% | 570 | 747 | 880 | |||||
Independent Nationalist | Michael McLoughlin* | 10.90% | 600 | 738 | 750 | 827.6 | ||||
Workers' Party | Gerry Cullen | 5.01% | 276 | 595 | 626 | 640.4 | 725.52 | 765.84 | 771.16 | |
Sinn Féin | Peter Corrigan | 13.75% | 757 | 759 | 760 | 760.8 | 761.94 | 761.94 | 762 | |
SDLP | Peggy Devlin | 2.83% | 156 | 197 | ||||||
Electorate: 8,169 Valid: 5,507 (67.41%) Spoilt: 120 Quota: 787 Turnout: 5,627 (68.88%) |
Torrent
[edit]1985: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1989: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1985-1989 Change: No change
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Independent Nationalist | Jim Canning* | 26.02% | 1,626 | ||||||
UUP | Thomas Kempton* | 21.33% | 1,333 | ||||||
SDLP | Jim Cavanagh* | 10.93% | 683 | 1,148.01 | |||||
SDLP | Angela Donnelly | 5.71% | 357 | 383.95 | 733.11 | 835.48 | 984.48 | ||
Sinn Féin | Brendan Doris | 12.13% | 758 | 835.91 | 836.77 | 848.66 | 878.44 | 884.44 | |
Sinn Féin | Martin McCaughey | 11.66% | 729 | 737.33 | 740.77 | 743.09 | 752.53 | 753.53 | |
Sinn Féin | John Corr | 8.80% | 550 | 617.62 | 624.5 | 656.4 | 688.57 | 697.57 | |
SDLP | Bridie O'Donnell | 3.42% | 214 | 294.85 | 373.11 | 476.64 | |||
Electorate: 8,643 Valid: 6,250 (72.31%) Spoilt: 222 Quota: 893 Turnout: 6,472 (74.88%) |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Local Government Elections 1985-1989: Dungannon". www.ark.ac.uk.
- ^ a b c d "Local Government Results 1989". EONI. Retrieved 8 August 2021.