Election results from Northern Ireland, 1998-2005

Table of Results, 1998-2005

Party 2005
Westminster
2005
local govt
2004
European
2003
Assembly
2001
Westminster
2001
local govt
1999
European
1998
Assembly
DUP 34% 
(9 MPs)
30% 
(182 cllrs)
32% 
(1 MEP)
26% 
(30 MLAs)
22% 
(5 MPs)
21% 
(131 cllrs)
28% 
(1 MEP)
18% 
(20 MLAs)
Sinn Féin 24% 
(5 MPs)
23% 
(126 cllrs)
26% 
(1 MEP)
24% 
(24 MLAs)
22% 
(4 MPs)
21% 
(108 cllrs)
17% 18% 
(18 MLAs)
UUP 18% 
(1 MP)
18% 
(115 cllrs)
17% 
(1 MEP)
23% 
(27 MLAs)
27% 
(6 MPs)
23% 
(154 cllrs)
18% 
(1 MEP)
21% 
(28 MLAs)
SDLP 18% 
(3 MPs)
17% 
(101 cllrs)
16%  17% 
(18 MLAs)
21% 
(3 MPs)
19% 
(117 cllrs)
28% 
(1 MEP)
22% 
(24 MLAs)
Alliance 4% 5% 
(30 cllrs)
[7%]* 4%
(6 MLAs)
4% 5% 
(28 cllrs)
2% 6% 
(6 MLAs)
Greens   1% 
(3 cllrs)
1% 0.4% ** 0.1%
PUP   1% 
(2 cllrs)
  1% 
(1 MLA)
1% 2% 
(4 cllrs)
3% 3% 
(2 MLAs)
Con 0.4%  0.2%  * 0.2%  0.3%  0.3%  0.2%
WP 0.2% 0.1% * 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2%
Socialist Environ-
mental Alliance
0.2% 0.2% 2% 0.4%
NIWC   0.1%   1% 0.3% 0.4% 
(1 cllr)
2% 
(2 MLAs)
UKUP   0.1%   1%
(1 MLA)
2% 1% 
(2 cllrs)
3% 5% 
(5 MLAs)
Lab * ** 0.3%
Oth Un 2%  1% 1% 
(2 cllrs)
0.3%
(2 cllrs)
4% 
(3 MLAs)
Others 2% 5% 
(21 cllrs)
2% 
(1 MLA)
1% 7%* 
(35 cllrs)
0.8%

* An independent candidate in the 2004 European election gained 6.6% of the first preference votes. He was supported by Alliance, the Worlers Party, the Conservatives and some of the Labour groups.

** New legislation caught several parties on the hop in 2001. Labour and the Greens were not officially registered in time for the elections, so their members ran as independents in the local government elections (they had no Westminster candidates). No "Labour" candidates stood in the 2003 or 2005 elections.

The next elections in Northern Ireland may be Assembly elections, technically due in November 2007; or else a likely triple whammy of European, Westminster and local elections in 2009.

Past Election Results

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