Strangford

Details of each count in 1998 election

Map by Conal Kelly

See also results of all Strangford elections 1993-2010 and full counts from 2003 and 2007.
Spreadsheet for 1998 here.

Stage 2: Of Robinson's 9479 votes, 6478 went to Shannon and 1537 to Jeffers, thus 8015 (84.56%) to the other DUP candidates; 779 (8.22%) to Wilson (UKUP); 88 to McNarry, 45 to Benson and 38 to Hamilton, thus 171 (1.80%) to the UUP candidates; 97 (1.02%) to John Beattie (Ind U); 75 (0.79%) to McNally (UDP); 69 (0.73%) to Magill (Ind U); 58 (0.61%) to Johnston (PUP); 20 to Osborne and 19 to Kieran McCarthy, thus 39 (0.41%) to the Alliance candidates; 26 to Orr (Ind Comm); 22 to Thomas Beattie (Cons); 17 to Stewart (Labour); 11 to Danny McCarthy and 4 to Hanvey, thus 15 (0.16%) to the SDLP candidates; 9 to Frew (Green); and none to either McGreevy (SF) or Mullins (MLP) with 87 (0.92%) non-transferable.

Stage 3: Of Taylor's 9203 votes, 2557 went to McNarry, 1768 to Benson and 1412 to Hamilton, thus 5737 (62.34%) to the UUP candidates; 1218 (13.23%) to John Beattie (Ind U); 350 to Osborne and 272 to Kieran McCarthy, thus 622 (6.76%) to the Alliance candidates; 461 (5.01%) to Wilson (UKUP); 260 (2.83%) to Magill (Ind U); 181 to Shannon and 60 to Jeffers, thus 241 (2.62%) to the DUP candidates; 201 (2.18%) to Johnston (PUP); 132 (1.43%) to McNally (UDP); 47 to Danny McCarthy and 22 to Hanvey, thus 69 (0.75%) to the SDLP candidates; 65 (0.71%) to Thomas Beattie (Cons); 41 (0.45%) to Orr (Ind Comm); 27 (0.29%) to Stewart (Labour); 5 (0.05%) to Mullins (NLP); 3 (0.03%) to Frew (Green); and 1 (0.01%) to McGreevy (SF) with 120 (1.30%) non-transferable.

Stage 18: Of the 1608 votes transferred to Benson from John Beattie, 336 (20.90%) went to Wilson (UKUP), 279 (17.35%) to Shannon (DUP) and 140 (8.71%) to Danny McCarthy (SDLP) with 853 (53.04%) non-transferable.

The SDLP polled very well in first preferences but attracted practically no transfers; Danny McCarthy was the runner-up. Both DUP and UUP piled most of their first preferences onto their two lead candidates, but the transferred surplus votes pulled in later runners. This was always the second most likely seat for the UKUP to win.

Full 1998 results for each seat: East Belfast | North Belfast | South Belfast | West Belfast | East Antrim | North Antrim | South Antrim | North Down | South Down | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Foyle | Lagan Valley | East Londonderry | Mid Ulster | Newry and Armagh | Strangford | West Tyrone | Upper Bann

Other sites based at ARK: ORB (Online Research Bank) | CAIN (Conflict Archive on the INternet) | Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey

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Nicholas Whyte, 15 October 2000; modified 16 February 2002.