1985 Dungannon District Council election
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Elections to Dungannon District Council were held on 15 May 1985 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 | 0 | 36.4 | 32.1 | 7,848 | 1.1 | |
SDLP | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 13.6 | 17.6 | 4,293 | 2.9 | |
Sinn Féin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 18.2 | 22.9 | 5,592 | New | |
DUP | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.6 | 17.2 | 4,202 | 0.5 | |
Ind. Nationalist | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9.1 | 9.7 | 2,363 | 5.9 | |
Ind. Republican | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 140 | 6.2 |
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
Districts summary
[edit]Ward | % |
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UUP | SDLP | Sinn Féin | DUP | Others | |||||||
Blackwater | 44.1 | 3 | 14.6 | 1 | 13.8 | 0 | 27.5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 5 |
Clogher Valley | 31.7 | 2 | 27.1 | 1 | 21.0 | 1 | 20.2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 5 |
Dungannon Town | 37.0 | 2 | 10.4 | 1 | 18.8 | 0 | 18.0 | 1 | 15.8 | 1 | 6 |
Torrent | 17.3 | 1 | 17.9 | 2 | 36.6 | 2 | 4.5 | 0 | 23.7 | 1 | 6 |
Total | 32.1 | 8 | 17.6 | 5 | 22.9 | 4 | 17.2 | 3 | 10.2 | 2 | 22 |
District results
[edit]Blackwater
[edit]1985: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
DUP | James Ewing* | 16.86% | 979 | |||||
UUP | Derek Irwin* | 13.85% | 804 | 1,143 | ||||
UUP | Jim Brady* | 10.73% | 623 | 688 | 736.76 | 1,019.29 | ||
UUP | John Taggart* | 10.56% | 613 | 689 | 808.78 | 1,109.49 | ||
SDLP | Patrick Daly* | 14.61% | 848 | 851 | 851 | 852 | 878 | |
Sinn Féin | Eilish McCabe | 13.83% | 803 | 804 | 804 | 804 | 805 | |
DUP | Norman Lockhart | 10.61% | 616 | 645 | 651.36 | |||
UUP | Rodney Mullan | 8.96% | 520 | |||||
Electorate: 7,076 Valid: 5,806 (82.05%) Spoilt: 89 Quota: 968 Turnout: 5,895 (83.31%) |
Clogher Valley
[edit]1985: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Seamus Cassidy* | 20.98% | 1,280 | ||||
SDLP | Anthony McGonnell* | 17.13% | 1,045 | ||||
UUP | Samuel Brush* | 16.40% | 1,001 | ||||
DUP | William McIlwrath* | 10.96% | 669 | 669.84 | 1,144.26 | ||
UUP | Noel Mulligan* | 15.29% | 933 | 934.26 | 949.26 | 1,050.24 | |
SDLP | John Monaghan | 10.03% | 612 | 866.52 | 871.94 | 891.94 | |
DUP | Thomas Maxwell | 9.21% | 562 | 564.52 | |||
Electorate: 7,003 Valid: 6,102 (87.13%) Spoilt: 93 Quota: 1,018 Turnout: 6,195 (88.46%) |
Dungannon Town
[edit]1985: 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
UUP | Ken Maginnis* | 21.99% | 1,329 | ||||||
DUP | Maurice Morrow* | 17.97% | 1,086 | ||||||
Ind. Nationalist | Michael McLoughlin* | 15.87% | 959 | ||||||
UUP | William Brown* | 14.97% | 905 | ||||||
SDLP | Vincent Currie | 7.02% | 424 | 813 | 984 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Anita Cavlan | 10.62% | 642 | 644 | 646 | 648.79 | 663.79 | 737.28 | |
Sinn Féin | Martin McNulty | 8.17% | 494 | 494 | 495 | 495.93 | 510.63 | 570.07 | |
SDLP | Terence Foley | 3.39% | 205 | 259 | 286 | 402.25 | 459.65 | ||
Electorate: 8,157 Valid: 6,044 (74.10%) Spoilt: 124 Quota: 864 Turnout: 6,168 (75.62%) |
Torrent
[edit]1985: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
UUP | Thomas Kempton* | 17.27% | 1,120 | ||||||
Sinn Féin | Francie Molloy | 16.64% | 1,079 | ||||||
Ind. Nationalist | Jim Canning* | 13.14% | 852 | 853.44 | 923.44 | 935.2 | |||
Sinn Féin | Brian Duffin | 10.07% | 653 | 653 | 668 | 785.6 | 786.6 | 821.3 | |
SDLP | Patrick McGlinchey* | 8.80% | 571 | 572.26 | 590.26 | 594.04 | 628.6 | 789.4 | |
SDLP | Jim Cavanagh | 9.07% | 588 | 588.36 | 609.36 | 610.48 | 648 | 773.92 | |
Sinn Féin | Frances Donaghy | 9.88% | 641 | 641 | 644 | 653.38 | 653.38 | 763.08 | |
Ind. Nationalist | Owen Nugent* | 8.51% | 552 | 553.08 | 561.08 | 564.16 | 596.38 | ||
DUP | Edith White | 4.47% | 290 | 478.64 | 479.64 | 479.64 | |||
Ind. Republican | John Corr* | 2.16% | 140 | 140 | |||||
Electorate: 8,203 Valid: 6,486 (79.07%) Spoilt: 174 Quota: 927 Turnout: 6,660 (81.19%) |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Local Government Elections 1985-1989: Dungannon". www.ark.ac.uk.
- ^ a b c d "Local Government Results 1985". EONI. Retrieved 8 August 2021.