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DUP | V/UUUP | UUP | U(P)/UPNI | A | WP/RC | SDLP | Oth Nat | SF | |
82a | 23.3%** | 7.7% | 15.6%* | 4.6% | 3.3% | 24.9%** | 20.5%* | ||
79w | 44.9% | 5.3% | 1.8% | 29.6% | 18.5% | ||||
75cc | 14.6%* | 9.9%* | 24.1%** | 4.0% | 6.0% | 6.4% | 35.0%** | ||
74wo | 47.3% | 12.5% | 40.1% | ||||||
74wf | 39.0% | 6.9% | 29.0% | 25.0% | |||||
73a | 7.0% | 11.1%* | 8.4%* | 19.7%* | 5.9% | 7.3% | 36.8%*** | 4.0% |
William McCrea (DUP) 10,445 Denis Haughey (SDLP) 8,413 Danny Morrison (SF) 6,927 Francis McElwee (SF) 5,763 * William Thompson (UUP) 5,546 Mary McSorley (SDLP) 4,169 Samuel Glasgow (UUP) 4,143 Alan Kane (DUP) 3,981 * Robert Overend (UUUP) 3,056 Aidan Lagan (Alliance) 2,872 Liam McQuaid (SDLP) 2,862 John Dunlop MP (UUUP) 1,732 Francie Donnelly (WP) 1,311 Francie McElroy (WP) 746 |
Votes by party: SDLP 15,444 (24.9%) 2 seats (1.7 quotas) DUP 14,426 (23.3%) 2 seats (1.6 quotas) SF 12,690 (20.5%) 1 seat (1.4 quotas) UUP 9,689 (15.6%) 1 seat (1.1 quotas) UUUP 4,788 (7.7%, 0.5 quotas) best result for UUUP in Northern Ireland Alliance 2,872 (4.6%, 0.3 quotas) WP 2,057 (3.3%, 0.2 quotas) Electorate: 84,699 Votes cast: 63,943 (75.5%); spoilt votes 1,977 (3.1%) Valid votes: 61,966; quota 8,853 |
* Elected to the 1975 Constitutional Convention
Sinn Fein effectively won the seat taken by Overend for Vanguard in 1975. I think that Dunlop's dismal 1,732 first preferences, 2.8%, is the worst ever vote gained at a regional level election by a sitting Westminster MP, though this was the UUUP's best constituency in the election. On the last count, Danny Morrison had 7415 votes to his Sinn Féin colleague Francis McElwee's 6343.
UUUP majority: 9,983; Electorate: 81,499; Turnout: (80.9%)
* sitting MP
Dunlop was
fortunate to benefit from a Unionist pact; not only was there
a clear Nationalist majority in the constituency, but also the
UUUP was
on its last legs. This also marked the best ever election result
anywhere
for the IIP; their failure to pass the SDLP even here meant that
they
were
ripe for eclipse by SF a few years later.
* William Thompson (UUP-UUUC) 9,342
* Ivan Cooper (SDLP) 9,073 Richard Reid (DUP-UUUC) 8,250 Robert Overend (VUP-UUUC) 5,573 Francis Thompson (UUP-UUUC) 4,292 * Paddy Duffy (SDLP) 4,130 * Aidan Larkin (SDLP) 3,868 Stephen McKenna (SDLP) 2,705 * Thomas Pollock (UPNI) 2,264 Aidan Lagan (Alliance) 1,842 Douglas Cooper (Alliance) 1,526 Francie Donnelly (Rep Clubs) 1,387 Francie McElroy (Rep Clubs) 1,270 Ivan Barr (Rep Clubs) 947 |
Votes by party: [UUUC got 27,457 votes (48.6%) and won 4 seats (3.4 quotas)] SDLP 19,776 (35.0%) 2 seats (2.4 quotas) UUP 13,684 (24.1%) 2 seats (1.7 quotas) DUP 8,250 (14.6%) 1 seat (1.0 quotas) VUP 5,573 (9.9%) 1 seat (0.7 quotas) Rep Clubs 3,604 (6.4%, 0.4 quotas) Alliance 3,368 (6.0%, 0.4 quotas) UPNI 2,264 (4.0%, 0.3 quotas) Electorate: 80,806 Votes cast: 58,549 (72.5%); spoilt votes 2,080 (3.6%) Valid votes: 56,469; quota 8,068 |
The UUUC were fortunate to get four seats with less than three and a half quotas. This was one of the two seats lost by the SDLP compared with 1973, in this case effectively to the DUP. Also Pollock, elected in 1973 as a pro-White Paper UUP candidate, was unsuccessful this time as a UPNI candidate. On the last count, Overend of Vanguard had 6315 votes to 6191 for Larkin of the SDLP, a margin of only 124 which could easily have been reversed out of the thousands of non-transferable votes from Alliance and Republican Clubs.
Vanguard majority: 4,667; Electorate: 82,718; Turnout: 79.2%
* sitting MP
@ Member of Assembly (which by this time had been prorogued)
Cooper demonstrated the difficulties the SDLP faces when trying to get Republican tactical votes.
Vanguard majority: 6,672; Electorate: 80,982; Turnout: 82.7%
* sitting MP
@ Member of Assembly
McAliskey (née Devlin) had won the seat in a by-election in 1968 and retained it in the 1970 election; after this it was not won by a Nationalist candidate again until Martin McGuinness's victory in 1997 (though Danny Morrison came pretty close in 1983). This was another of the seats where the UUUC candidate defeated an incumbent MP on a minority of the votes.
* Ivan Cooper (SDLP) 12,614 Thomas Pollock (UUP, pro-White Paper) 9,557 John Dunlop (Vanguard) 7,082 William Thompson (UUP, anti-White Paper) 5,352 Edward Sayers (DUP) 4,454 Paddy Duffy (SDLP) 4,437 Aidan Larkin (SDLP) 4,045 Verdun Wright (UUP, pro-White Paper) 3,034 Desmond Gourley (Rep Clubs) 2,899 $ P.F. McGill (Nationalist) 2,558 Stephen McKenna (SDLP) 2,444 * Tom Gormley (Alliance) 2,055 Ivan Barr (Rep Clubs) 1,755 Robin Glendinning (Alliance) 1,389 George Logue (Alliance) 339 |
Votes by party: [UUP got 17,943 votes (2.0%) and won 2 seats (2.0 quotas)] SDLP 23,540 (36.8%) 3 seats (2.6 quotas) UUP (pro) 12,591 (19.7%) 1 seat (1.4 quotas) Vanguard 7,082 (11.1%) 1 seat (0.8 quotas) UUP (anti) 5,352 (8.4%) 1 seat (0.6 quotas) Rep Clubs 4,654 (7.3%, 0.5 quotas) DUP 4,454 (7.0%, 0.5 quotas) Alliance 3,783 (5.9%, 0.4 quotas) Nationalist 2,558 (4.0%, 0.3 quotas) Electorate: 79,331 Votes cast: 65,386 (82.4%); spoilt votes 1,372 (2.1%) Valid votes: 64,014; quota 9,145 |
* Member of
the Northern Ireland House of Commons when it was dissolved.
$ Member of the Northern Ireland Senate
when
it was dissolved.
The SDLP benefited from transfers from the old Nationalist Party (here represented by outgoing Senator P.F. McGill) to win a third seat. In fact the race for the last seat was between two SDLP candidates, Larkin, who finished with 6,018 votes, and McKenna, who finished with 5,402.
See also:
Results from 1973 to 1982 for each seat: East Belfast | North Belfast | South Belfast | West Belfast | North Antrim | South Antrim | Armagh | North Down | South Down | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Londonderry | Mid Ulster
Other sites based at ARK: ORB (Online Research Bank) | CAIN (Conflict Archive on the INternet) | Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
Your comments, please! Send an email to me at nicholas.whyte@gmail.com.
Nicholas Whyte, 25 March 2003.
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