1989 Northern Ireland local elections

Elections for local government were held in Northern Ireland in 1989, with candidates contesting 565 seats.

1989 Northern Ireland local elections

← 1985 17 May 1989 1993 →
All council seats
First party Second party Third party   Leader James Molyneaux John Hume Ian Paisley Party UUP SDLP DUP Seats won 194 121 110 Seat change 5 19 32 Popular vote 193,064 129,557 109,342 Percentage 31.3% 21.0% 17.7% Swing 1.8% 3.2% 6.6%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Gerry Adams John Alderdice N/A Party Sinn Féin Alliance Independent Seats won 43 34 23 Seat change 16 4 14 Popular vote 69,032 42,646 23,617 Percentage 11.2% 6.9% 3.8% Swing 0.6% 0.1% 2.2%
Colours denote the winning party with outright control

Background

The elections took place after a turbulent period in Northern Irish politics. The signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA) in November 1985 had been followed by widespread protests by those in the Unionist community. In November 1985, the 18 Unionist controlled District Councils voted for a policy of adjournment in protest against the AIA and in February 1986 also refused to set the 'rates' (local government taxes). In September 1986 Unionist councillors considered but rejected the option of mass resignations but decided to continue to use council chambers as a forum to protest the agreement.^[1]

One new development on the Unionist side was the entry into Northern Ireland politics of the Conservative Party which was joined by three sitting Unionist councillors.

On the Irish Republican side, the Irish Independence Party had disbanded following poor election results in 1985. Sinn Féin had split in 1986 over the issue of sitting in the Irish parliament, Dáil Éireann, if elected. The dissenting faction had formed Republican Sinn Féin (RSF). Three of the fifty nine councillors elected for Sinn Féin in 1985 joined this grouping.^[2] The Remembrance Day bombing of 1987 had a negative impact on subsequent SF support.^[3] Irish Republicanism was also affected by the passing of the Elected Authorities (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 which disqualified candidates who refused to sign a declaration renouncing:

"(a) any organisation that is for the time being a proscribed organisation specified in Schedule 2 to the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978: or

(b) acts of terrorism (that is to say, violence for political ends) connected with the affairs of Northern Ireland"

RSF refused to sign the declaration and thus their twenty three candidates became ineligible.^[2]

Results

Overall

Party[4]		Councillors		Votes
		Total	+/-	% share	Total
	UUP	194	+5	31.3	193,064
	SDLP	121	+19	21.0	129,557
	DUP	110	-32	17.7	109,342
	Sinn Féin	43	-16	11.2	69,032
	Alliance	38	+4	6.9	42,646
	Independent	23	+14	3.8	23,617
	Ind. Unionist	15	+7	2.6	15,804
	Workers' Party	4	0	2.1	13,078
	NI Conservatives	6	N/A	0.8	5,204
	PUP	3	0	0.6	3,839
	Ulster Democratic	1	+1	0.4	2,413
	Protestant Unionist	1	0	0.3	1,879
	Protestant	1	+1	0.3	1,754
	Labour '87	1[5]	N/A	0.2	1,433
	UPUP	3	0	0.2	1,223
	Ind. Nationalist	0	-6	0.1	804
	Ind. Conservative	1	N/A	0.1	752
	Independent Democratic Unionist	0	0	0.1	585
	Independent Loyalist	0	0	0.1	351
	Green (NI)	0	0	0.1	329
	Independent Labour	0	0	0.1	293
	Communist	0	0	0.0	175
	National Front	0	0	0.0	68

By council

The results were interpreted as "movement away from the extremes"^[6] with the UUP and SDLP increasing their lead over their rivals in the DUP and Sinn Féin respectively. A total of eleven councils saw the two top posts shared by parties from either side of the political/sectarian divide.^[6] The number of councils controlled by one party increased from two to six. The DUP retained control of Ballymena, with the UUP retained control of Banbridge and gained control of Antrim and Lisburn. The SDLP gained control of Down and Derry.

Antrim

Antrim North West[7][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	James Graham	1,374
	SDLP	Robert Loughran	1,019
	DUP	Wilson Clyde	855
	Sinn Féin	Henry Cushinan	668
	SDLP	Donovan McClelland	405
	UUP	Roderick Swann	282
Turnout			4,701
	SDLP gain from Sinn Fein

Antrim South East[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Roy Thompson	1,248
	UUP	Edgar Wallace	1,043
	UUP	Mervyn Rea	876
	SDLP	Robert Burns	764
	UUP	Howard Campbell	687
	DUP	Samuel Dunlop	492
	Alliance	David Ford	299
	UUP	Roy Stinson	284
	Alliance	Theresa Gallagher	242
	DUP	James Simpson	210
Turnout			6,311
No change

Antrim Town[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Jack Allen	907
	UUP	Frederick Marks	741
	DUP	James Brown	604
	SDLP	Oran Keenan	535
	Alliance	James McConnell	355
	UUP	Andrew Thompson	244
	DUP	James Graham	200
	Alliance	Peter Kelly	172
	Sinn Féin	Paul Little	171
	Workers' Party	Eamon Gillen	158
	UUP	Avril Swann	134
	Ind. Unionist	Jim Millar	75
Turnout			4,437
	UUP gain from DUP

Ards

Ards Peninsula[9][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Alliance	Kieran McCarthy	1,119
	DUP	Jim Shannon	1,030
	UUP	John Shields	1,018
	UUP	Robert Ambrose	1,008
	DUP	Mervyn Rea	584
	Independent	James McMullan	564
	Alliance	Clifford Auld	512
	UUP	Ronald Ferguson	459
	DUP	Oliver Johnston	452
	UUP	Trevor Hussey	165
Turnout			7,140
	Alliance gain from Independent
	UUP gain from UPUP

Ards West[9][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Robert Gibson	1,375
	UUP	Edward Archdale	815
	UUP	Bobby McBride	773
	Alliance	Thomas McBriar	660
	DUP	John Hamilton	651
	DUP	David McKibben	619
	Alliance	Alan McDowell	387
	UUP	William Elliott	273
	DUP	Andrew Marks	194
	DUP	Glynn Moore	190
Turnout			6,073
No change

Newtownards[9][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Tom Benson	1,307
	DUP	Simpson Gibson	1,283
	Alliance	Owen Dorrian	719
	DUP	Wilbert Magill	548
	Independent	John Purdy	473
	UUP	David Smyth	452
	Ind. Unionist	William Hannigan	434
	DUP	John Elliott	408
	DUP	Cedric Wilson	228
	Alliance	Laurence Thompson	213
	UUP	Tom Hamilton	183
	UUP	James McKernon	98
Turnout			6,521
	Independent gain from NILP

Armagh

Armagh City[10][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	John Agnew	1,019
	UUP	George McCartney	979
	UUP	John Doogan	898
	SDLP	Pat Brannigan	893
	SDLP	Anna Brolly	816
	DUP	Harold Carson	660
	Sinn Féin	Seamus Hart	540
	Sinn Féin	Stephen Fields	305
	Workers' Party	Patrick McCusker	232
Turnout			6,544
	SDLP gain from DUP

Crossmore[10][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Jim Nicholson	1,484
	SDLP	Thomas Kavanagh	1,162
	SDLP	James McKernan	1,041
	SDLP	Charles Mallon	643
	Sinn Féin	Thomas Carroll	475
	UUP	Thomas Shilliday	440
Turnout			5,403
No change

Cusher[10][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Eric Speers	1,561
	DUP	Thomas Black	1,444
	UUP	Thomas Johnston	1,314
	SDLP	Thomas Canavan	1,154
	UUP	Robert Turner	936
	UUP	James Clayton	822
	Sinn Féin	Margaret McNally	329
	Independent Labour	Eugene Turley	100
Turnout			7,811
No change

The Orchard[10][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Jim Speers	1,665
	SDLP	John Kernan	1,203
	DUP	Douglas Hutchinson	950
	UUP	Samuel Foster	855
	UUP	Olive Whitten	677
	Sinn Féin	Brendan Casey	401
Turnout			5,862
No change

Ballymena

Ballymena Town[11][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Patrick McAvoy	897
	Alliance	John Williams	832
	Independent	Samuel Henry	814
	UUP	James Alexander	631
	UUP	Robert Coulter	595
	DUP	Maurice Mills	485
	DUP	John Wilson	442
	DUP	John Carson	409
	SDLP	Declan O'Loan	403
	DUP	Vera Mills	261
	UUP	Robert Simpson	186
Turnout			6,085
	Alliance gain from DUP

Braid Valley[11][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Desmond Armstrong	957
	Independent	James Woulahan	887
	UUP	Margaret Alexander	795
	DUP	Samuel Hanna	672
	DUP	William Armstrong	510
	DUP	Agnes McLeister	507
	DUP	Robert Robinson	395
	UUP	William Owens	372
Turnout			5,211
	Independent gain from DUP

Kells Water[11][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	William Brownlees	929
	DUP	Martin Clarke	759
	UUP	James Currie	729
	DUP	Ronald Fry	512
	DUP	David McClintock	509
	DUP	James McCosh	499
	DUP	Andrew McKendry	381
	Ind. Unionist	Melvyn McKendry	219
Turnout			4,675
	Ulster Unionist gain from DUP

The Main[11][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Roy Gillespie	1,068
	DUP	Sandy Spence	752
	DUP	Thomas Nicholl	749
	SDLP	James Laverty	626
	UUP	John Johnston	598
	DUP	Hubert Nicholl	525
	Alliance	David Alderdice	448
	UUP	Sarah McCullough	291
	UUP	Robert Megaw	258
	UUP	John Sutter	150
Turnout			5,583
No change

Ballymoney

Ballymoney Town[12][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref[lower-alpha 1]
	UUP	James McKeown	N/A
	UUP	James Simpson	NA
	DUP	Cecil Cousley	N/A
	DUP	Samuel McConaghie	N/A
	Independent	Robert McComb	N/A
Turnout			N/A
No change

1. Because only five candidates had been nominated for the five seats, there was no vote and all five candidates were declared elected.

Bann Valley[12][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Joe Gaston	790
	DUP	Robert Halliday	710
	SDLP	Malachy McCamphill	450
	SDLP	Charley O'Kane	430
	DUP	Robert Wilson	429
	Sinn Féin	Una Casey	365
	UUP	John Watt	356
	DUP	Daniel Taylor	195
Turnout			3,816
	SDLP gain from Sinn Fein

Bushvale[12][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	John Ramsay	575
	UUP	William Logan	533
	SDLP	Harry Connolly	521
	DUP	William Kennedy	497
	DUP	Donald McKenzie	354
	Sinn Féin	Malachy Carey	235
Turnout			2,774
No change

Banbridge

Banbridge Town[13][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Kathleen Baird	1,549
	UUP	Archie McKelvey	836
	UUP	John Dobson	782
	SDLP	James Walsh	774
	DUP	Margaret Walker	486
	Alliance	Mary Doyle	343
	SDLP	Robert Murray	198
Turnout			5,094
No change

Dromore[13][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Drew Nelson	1,109
	SDLP	Catherine McDermott	976
	UUP	William Martin	846
	UUP	Robert Hill	767
	UUP	William McCracken	569
	DUP	Robert McIlroy	446
	DUP	William Lough	327
	Ulster Democratic	Colin Halliday	217
	Ulster Democratic	Thomas Dickson	73
Turnout			5,433
	UUP gain from DUP

Knockiveagh[13][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Wilfred McFadden	824
	Independent	Laurence McCartan	784
	SDLP	Seamus Doyle	739
	UUP	Vivienne Bennett	721
	UUP	Samuel Walker	699
	UUP	John Hanna	526
	UUP	Bertie McRoberts	524
	SDLP	Peter McGreevy	272
Turnout			5,206
No change

Belfast

Balmoral[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Margaret Crooks	2,163
	UUP	Jim Kirkpatrick	1,818
	SDLP	Dorita Field	1,636
	DUP	Joan Parkes	1,602
	Ind. Unionist	Billy Dickson	1,177
	Alliance	Mark Long	1,105
	Alliance	John Montgomery	1,061
	DUP	Caroline Bingham	599
	Workers' Party	Shaun McKeown	243
Turnout			12,160
	SDLP gain from DUP

Castle[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Alban Maginness	2,301
	UUP	John Carson	2,192
	Ind. Unionist	Frank Millar	1,835
	DUP	Nigel Dodds	1,779
	Ind. Unionist	Nelson McCausland	1,163
	Alliance	Tom Campbell	1,053
	UUP	Alfred Redpath	767
	Workers' Party	Anthony Kerr	496
	Sinn Féin	Bobby Lavery	453
	DUP	Samuel Lowry	216
	Labour '87	Thomas Galloway	103
	Green (NI)	Maria O'Sullivan	95
Turnout			12,326
	Independent Unionist gain from UUP

Court[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	PUP	Hugh Smyth	2,533
	Protestant Unionist	Elizabeth Seawright	1,408
	UUP	Fred Cobain	1,170
	DUP	Eric Smyth	1,006
	Ind. Unionist	Joe Coggle	953
	UUP	Herbert Ditty	897
	Independent	William Smith	717
	DUP	Frederick Ashby	644
	Ind. Unionist	Alfie Ferguson	509
	Workers' Party	Peter Cullen	367
	Sinn Féin	Joe Austin	240
Turnout			10,825
No change

Laganbank[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Dixie Gilmore	1,496
	SDLP	Alasdair McDonnell	1,415
	Alliance	Steve McBride	1,107
	DUP	Rhonda Paisley	1,036
	UUP	Jim Clarke	854
	Alliance	Mary Thomas	755
	UUP	Harry Fletcher	753
	Sinn Féin	James Clinton	753
	SDLP	Gerard McGettrick	629
	Workers' Party	Kevin Smyth	479
	Ind. Unionist	Margaret Dickson	198
	DUP	Benjamin Horan	132
	Labour '87	Paul Hainsworth	109
	Communist	Barry Bruton	91
Turnout			10,179
No change

Lower Falls[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Joe Hendron	2,748
	Sinn Féin	Fra McCann	2,307
	Sinn Féin	Elizabeth Fitzsimons	1,765
	Sinn Féin	Richard May	1,626
	Sinn Féin	Seán McKnight	1,428
	Workers' Party	Mary McMahon	1,093
	SDLP	Mary Muldoon	588
	Alliance	Derrick Crothers	135
Turnout			12,260
	SDLP gain from Alliance

Oldpark[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Brian Feeney	2,426
	UUP	Fred Proctor	1,850
	Sinn Féin	Gerard McGuigan	1,682
	Workers' Party	Seamus Lynch	1,639
	Sinn Féin	Paddy McManus	1,548
	Sinn Féin	William McGarry	1,115
	Ulster Loyalist Democratic	Paddy Bird	837
	DUP	Stanley Mulholland	805
	UUP	William Gault	780
	Alliance	George Jones	443
	Ulster Loyalist Democratic	William Clark	71
Turnout			13,744
	UUP gain from DUP

Pottinger[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Sammy Wilson	2,780
	UUP	Margaret Clarke	1,480
	Alliance	Mervyn Jones	1,296
	Ind. Unionist	Dorothy Dunlop	1,179
	UUP	Reg Empey	864
	DUP	Frank Leslie	768
	Sinn Féin	Joe O'Donnell	629
	Workers' Party	Sean Flanagan	541
	DUP	Jim Walker	493
	UUP	David McNutt	420
	DUP	John Norris	263
	National Front	Stuart McCullough	27
Turnout			11,248
	Independent Unionist gain from DUP

Upper Falls[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Alex Attwood	3,292
	Sinn Féin	Alex Maskey	2,378
	Sinn Féin	Theresa Holland	2,329
	Sinn Féin	Máirtín Ó Muilleoir	1,435
	SDLP	Cormac Boomer	1,189
	SDLP	Peter Prendiville	713
	Independent	Cormac Boomer	378
	Workers' Party	Jean Craig	380
	Alliance	Dan McGuinness	326
	DUP	Robert Morrow	283
	Communist	Kevin O'Donnell	84
Turnout			12,835
	Sinn Féin gain from Alliance

Victoria[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Alliance	John Alderdice	2,933
	UUP	Tommy Patton	2,845
	UUP	Ian Adamson	1,730
	DUP	Wallace Browne	1,374
	DUP	Robin Newton	1,171
	UUP	Alan Montgomery	767
	Alliance	Danny Dow	732
	DUP	Irene Lewis	667
	Alliance	George Thompson	533
	Ind. Unionist	Samuel Walker	449
	Workers' Party	Hugh Jordan	333
Turnout			13,901
No change

Carrickfergus

Carrick Castle[15][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Alliance	Sean Neeson	1,029
	PUP	Samuel Stewart	472
	Protestant Unionist	David Hilditch	302
	DUP	Andrew Blair	291
	UUP	Samuel McCamley	287
	UUP	Robert English	228
	DUP	Margaret Cross	190
	Independent	Patrick Lennox	171
	Alliance	Arthur McQuitty	81
	UUP	Sarah Picken	76
Turnout			3,181
	Alliance gain from UUP

Kilroot[15][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Alexander Beggs	739
	Alliance	Janet Crampsey	719
	Ind. Unionist	Robert Patton	668
	UUP	James Brown	599
	DUP	William Cross	535
	Alliance	David McCann	213
	UUP	Eric Ferguson	212
Turnout			3,769
	Robert Patton leaves UUP

Knockagh Monument[15][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	William Haggan	668
	Alliance	Stewart Dickson	650
	Independent	Charles Johnston	628
	UUP	William Murray	503
	Ind. Unionist	Mary Ardill	435
	UUP	Samuel Wilson	312
	Protestant Unionist	John Everitt	169
	Alliance	Noreen McIlwrath	111
Turnout			3,549
	Mary Ardill leaves UUP

Castlereagh

Castlereagh Central[16][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Peter Robinson	3,461
	UUP	Grant Dillon	914
	Alliance	Robert Mitchell	909
	UUP	Ellen Gray	453
	Alliance	Ann Smith	446
	DUP	Alan Carson	277
	DUP	Joyce Boyd	184
	DUP	Cecil Moore	150
	DUP	Paul McNaughten	26
Turnout			6,820
No change

Castlereagh East[16][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Iris Robinson	1,168
	DUP	Matthew Anderson	938
	Ind. Unionist	William Abraham	756
	Alliance	William Boyd	749
	UPUP	Thomas Jeffers	509
	UUP	John Bell	501
	UUP	Alexander Murray	312
	Alliance	Muriel Wilkes	257
	DUP	John Boyle	196
	DUP	Simon Robinson	122
	Independent	Michael Brooks	40
Turnout			5,548
	UPUP gain from UUP
	William Abraham leaves UUP

Castlereagh South[16][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	John Taylor	2,039
	DUP	Ernest Harper	1,954
	Alliance	David Andrews	1,364
	UUP	James Clarke	667
	Alliance	Geraldine Rice	605
	DUP	Beatrice Chambers	432
	UUP	Frederick Kane	402
	UUP	Marie Luney	164
	DUP	Thomas Scott	107
	DUP	Gillian McCorkell	62
Turnout			7,796
	Alliance gain from DUP

Coleraine

Bann[17][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	William King	1,326
	UUP	William Watt	1,185
	UUP	Creighton Hutchinson	1,130
	SDLP	John Dallat	1,092
	DUP	Robert Catherwood	955
	SDLP	Gerard O'Kane	625
	UUP	John Moody	528
	Alliance	Ian McEwan	203
Turnout			7,245
No change

Coleraine Town[17][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	James McClure	1,790
	UUP	Robert White	1,129
	UUP	Gladys Black	818
	UUP	David McClarty	607
	SDLP	Gerald McLaughlin	433
	Independent	Patrick McFeely	405
	Alliance	William Mathews	398
	DUP	Marie McAllister	187
	DUP	William Thompson	118
	Labour '87	Timothy Blackman	100
	Alliance	Yvonne Boyle	98
	Green (NI)	David Garland	56
	Workers' Party	Rosemary McBride	39
Turnout			6,329
	UUP gain from DUP

The Skerries[17][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Pauline Armitage	840
	UUP	Elizabeth Black	767
	DUP	William Creelman	724
	UUP	William Glenn	658
	Ind. Unionist	Robert Mitchell	509
	Alliance	Patrick McGowan	494
	SDLP	Sean Farren	482
	UUP	Thomas Peacock	432
	DUP	Robert Stewart	403
	DUP	Eric Stewart	379
	Alliance	Catherine Condy	317
	Labour '87	Roberta Woods	134
	Green (NI)	Malcolm Samuel	71
Turnout			6,359
	Robert Mitchell leaves UUP

Cookstown

Ballinderry[18][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Paddy Duffy	1,370
	DUP	William McIntyre	1,039
	Sinn Féin	Francis McNally	868
	UUP	Victor McGahie	781
	Sinn Féin	Siobhan McQuillan	617
	DUP	Samuel McCartney	528
	UUP	Neville Forsythe	512
	SDLP	John O'Neill	402
Turnout			6,341
	SDLP gain from Sinn Fein

Cookstown Central[18][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Trevor Wilson	1,337
	DUP	Alan Kane	1,325
	SDLP	Denis Haughey	855
	Sinn Féin	Dermot Coyle	550
	SDLP	Peggy Laverty	420
	Workers' Party	Hugh Brennan	252
	DUP	Kenneth Loughrin	106
Turnout			4,935
	SDLP gain from Sinn Fein

Drum Manor[18][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Samuel Glasgow	1,096
	Sinn Féin	Sean Begley	966
	DUP	Walter Millar	863
	Ind. Unionist	Samuel Parke	747
	SDLP	James McGarvey	648
	SDLP	Sean Mallon	453
	Sinn Féin	Desmond McElhatton	266
	Workers' Party	Desmond Gourley	90
Turnout			5,296
No change

Craigavon

Craigavon Central[19][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	James McCammick	1,642
	SDLP	James Daly	1,003
	DUP	David Calvin	915
	UUP	Frederick Crowe	813
	Sinn Féin	Sheena Campbell	610
	Alliance	John Hagan	605
	UUP	Pauline Lindsay	495
	UUP	Elizabeth McClurg	457
	DUP	Meredith Patterson	406
	Workers' Party	Peter Smyth	370
	Ind. Unionist	Barrie Bradbury	255
Turnout			7,776
	UUP gain from DUP
	Alliance gain from Workers' Party

Loughside[19][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Sean McKavanagh	1,393
	UUP	Thomas Bell	861
	SDLP	Hugh Casey	754
	Workers' Party	Tom French	713
	Sinn Féin	Brendan Curran	633
	SDLP	Catherine McStravick	603
	Sinn Féin	John O'Dowd	475
	SDLP	Patrick Crilly	424
Turnout			6,047
	SDLP gain from UUP

Lurgan[19][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Sydney Cairns	1,942
	UUP	Audrey Savage	1,565
	SDLP	Brid Rodgers	1,040
	DUP	Ruth Allen	891
	DUP	Yvonne Calvert	814
	UUP	Samuel Lutton	771
	Alliance	Gordon Burrell	586
	UUP	Meta Crozier	492
	Sinn Féin	Patricia McKee	280
	Workers' Party	Maureen McKeever	88
Turnout			8,624
No change

Portadown[19][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	James Gillespie	1,583
	DUP	Michael Briggs	1,089
	SDLP	Ignatius Fox	1,071
	UUP	Joe Trueman	887
	UUP	Brian Maguinness	730
	Alliance	William Ramsay	580
	Sinn Féin	John Dignam	523
	Independent	Andrew Watson	511
	UUP	Anna Moore	449
	Independent	Mario McCooe	361
	DUP	Phyllis Lutton	209
	Workers' Party	Kathy Foy	114
Turnout			8,327
	UUP gain from DUP
	Alliance gain from Sinn Fein

Derry

Cityside[20][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Patrick Devine	1,011
	Sinn Féin	Hugh Brady	897
	SDLP	Tony Carlin	734
	Sinn Féin	Mitchel McLaughlin	698
	SDLP	Pat Ramsey	664
	Sinn Féin	Anne McGuinness	656
	SDLP	James Clifford	640
	Workers' Party	Eamon Melaugh	358
	Sinn Féin	Gerry Doherty	236
Turnout			6,126
No change

Northland[20][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	John Tierney	1,565
	SDLP	Anna Gallagher	1,289
	Sinn Féin	Bernard McFadden	1,183
	SDLP	William McCorriston	1,128
	SDLP	John Kerr	977
	SDLP	Len Green	778
	Ind. Unionist	David Davis	607
	UUP	Jack Allen	590
	Sinn Féin	Mary Nelis	428
Turnout			8,829
	SDLP gain from IIP
	David Davis leaves UUP

Rural[20][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Annie Courtney	1,117
	DUP	William Hay	1,078
	SDLP	John McNickle	1,023
	SDLP	George Peoples	946
	UUP	John Adams	922
	UUP	Ernest Hamilton	636
	DUP	Mervyn Lindsay	634
	Ind. Nationalist	Michael Breslin	544
	SDLP	Robert Brolly	499
	UUP	Margaret Parkhill	473
	DUP	David Nicholl	461
	Ulster Democratic	Ernest Curry	329
Turnout			8,873
No change

Shantallow[20][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Mary Bradley	1,502
	SDLP	Noel McKenna	1,203
	SDLP	William O'Connell	1,024
	SDLP	Shaun Gallagher	803
	Sinn Féin	Gearoid O'Heara	759
	Sinn Féin	Richard Halpenny	586
	Ind. Nationalist	Thomas Mullan	260
Turnout			6,365
No change

Waterside[20][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Gregory Campbell	1,737
	SDLP	Gerald Toland	819
	Ind. Unionist	James Guy	783
	DUP	Joe Miller	778
	SDLP	Wilfred White	732
	Sinn Féin	John Carlin	639
	UUP	George Duddy	449
	Ulster Democratic	Kenneth Kerr	389
	UUP	Albert McCartney	367
	UUP	Gladys Carey	363
	DUP	Robert Hall	315
	Ulster Democratic	Ronnie O'Brien	262
	Alliance	Snoo Sinclair	238
Turnout			8,030
	James Guy leaves UUP
	UDP gain from DUP

Down

Ballynahinch[21][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Patrick Toman	1,222
	UUP	James Cochrane	1,204
	SDLP	James Magee	985
	UUP	Walter Lyons	864
	DUP	Thomas Poole	790
	SDLP	Patrick King	388
	Sinn Féin	Patrick McGreevy	170
	Green (NI)	Philip Allen	107
Turnout			5,856
No change

Downpatrick[21][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Dermot Curran	1,198
	UUP	Samuel McCartney	1,110
	SDLP	John Ritchie	888
	SDLP	Sean Quinn	792
	SDLP	Malachi Curran	715
	SDLP	John Doris	707
	SDLP	Mary Breen	548
	Sinn Féin	Geraldine Ritchie	547
	Alliance	Michael Healy	534
	Workers' Party	Monica Hynds	214
	Labour Party of Ireland	William Hampton	193
Turnout			7,599
	Alliance gain from Workers' Party
	SDLP gain from Sinn Fein

Newcastle[21][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Gerald Douglas	1,329
	SDLP	Michael Boyd	1,271
	SDLP	Eamon O'Neill	1,093
	SDLP	Peter Fitzpatrick	542
	Sinn Féin	Sean Fitzpatrick	477
	DUP	John Finlay	416
	SDLP	Cathal O'Baoill	369
	UUP	William Brown	366
	Workers' Party	Henry Robinson	179
Turnout			6,208
	UUP gain from DUP
	SDLP gain from Sinn Fein

Rowallane[21][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Margaret Ritchie	1,509
	UUP	Samuel Osborne	1,332
	UUP	Albert Colmer	781
	UUP	William Biggerstaff	740
	DUP	William Dick	652
	Independent Loyalist	William Walker	351
	DUP	William Greer	252
Turnout			5,713
No change

Dungannon

Blackwater[22][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	James Ewing	1,345
	UUP	Derek Irwin	1,001
	SDLP	Patsy Daly	980
	UUP	Jim Hamilton	916
	UUP	Jim Brady	884
	Sinn Féin	Tony Gildernew	593
Turnout			5,847
No change

Clogher Valley[22][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Noel Mulligan	1,171
	UUP	Samuel Brush	1,117
	SDLP	Anthony McGonnell	1,061
	Sinn Féin	Raymond McMahon	982
	DUP	Johnston McIlwrath	919
	SDLP	John Monaghan	690
Turnout			6,082
No change

Dungannon Town[22][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Ken Maginnis	1,479
	UUP	William Brown	874
	DUP	Maurice Morrow	795
	Sinn Féin	Peter Corrigan	757
	Ind. Nationalist	Michael McLoughlin	600
	SDLP	Vincent Currie	570
	Workers' Party	Gerry Cullen	276
	SDLP	Peggie Devlin	156
Turnout			5,627
	Workers' Party gain from Sinn Fein

Torrent[22][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Ind. Nationalist	Jim Canning	1,626
	UUP	Thomas Kempton	1,333
	Sinn Féin	Brendan Doris	758
	Sinn Féin	Martin McCaughey	729
	SDLP	Jim Cavanagh	683
	Sinn Féin	Sean Corr	550
	SDLP	Angela Donnelly	357
	SDLP	Bridie O'Donnell	214
Turnout			6,472
No change

Fermanagh

Enniskillen[23][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Raymond Ferguson	1,639
	UUP	Samuel Foster	1,485
	Workers' Party	David Kettyles	1,150
	DUP	Roy Coulter	803
	UUP	William Hetherington	784
	SDLP	James Lunny	675
	Sinn Féin	Patrick Cox	656
	Sinn Féin	John McManus	639
	SDLP	James Donnelly	555
	Alliance	William Barbour	305
	UUP	Bertie Kerr	248
	DUP	John Connor	155
	Independent	John Bothwell	25
Turnout			9,341
	Workers' Party gain from Sinn Fein

Erne East[23][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Fergus McQuillan	1,547
	UUP	William Noble	1,268
	UUP	Albert Liddle	1,059
	Sinn Féin	Brian McCaffrey	745
	UUP	Jean McVitty	667
	Sinn Féin	Vincent McCaffrey	659
	Sinn Féin	Plunket O'Neill	611
	Independent	John Joe McCusker	473
	Sinn Féin	Ciaran Leonard	431
	DUP	Paul Robinson	264
	Independent	Seamus Mullan	170
	DUP	Caroline Madill	128
Turnout			8,177
	UUP gain from Sinn Fein

Erne North[23][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Caldwell McClaughry	1,516
	DUP	Bert Johnston	1,114
	SDLP	John O'Kane	931
	UUP	Simon Loane	812
	SDLP	Tommy Gallagher	793
	Sinn Féin	Brian McSorley	648
	UUP	Gladys Nixon	297
	DUP	Victor Milligan	118
Turnout			6,339
	SDLP gain from Sinn Fein

Erne West[23][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Independent	Patrick McCaffrey	1,604
	UUP	Wilson Elliott	1,397
	Sinn Féin	Paul Corrigan	1,186
	SDLP	Gerard Gallagher	889
	UUP	Derrick Nixon	871
	Sinn Féin	Vincent Martin	595
	SDLP	Patrick McGovern	256
Turnout			7,001
	UUP gain from Sinn Fein
	Patrick McCaffrey leaves IIP

Larne

Coast Road[24][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Thomas Robinson	777
	Ind. Nationalist	William Cunning	700
	DUP	John Fulton	478
	Alliance	Amelia Kelly	439
	UUP	Joan Drummond	429
	DUP	Rachel Rea	413
	DUP	Hill Taggart	115
Turnout			3,441
	UUP gain from DUP

Larne Lough[24][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Roy Beggs	1,387
	UUP	Thomas Baxter	492
	DUP	Bobby McKee	489
	Alliance	Thomas Caldwell	411
	UUP	Samuel Steele	296
	DUP	Andrew Haggan	244
	DUP	William Sloan	243
Turnout			3,678
No change

Larne Town[24][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Jack McKee	979
	Independent	Pat Buckley	855
	UUP	Robert Robinson	580
	UUP	Rosalie Armstrong	541
	Alliance	Patricia Kay	228
	Independent	Roy Craig	215
	Alliance	William Geddis	136
	DUP	Leonard Sluman	85
Turnout			3,710
	Independent gain from DUP

Limavady

Bellarena[25][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Stanley Gault	797
	SDLP	John McKinney	785
	UUP	Robert Grant	696
	SDLP	Arthur Doherty	676
	SDLP	Thomas Mullan	618
	DUP	Ernest Murray	471
Turnout			4,116
	SDLP gain from DUP

Benbradagh[25][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Lawrence Hegarty	987
	UUP	David Robinson	939
	Sinn Féin	Thomas Donaghy	793
	UUP	Max Gault	446
	Sinn Féin	Michael Hasson	343
	SDLP	John Lynch	182
Turnout			3,794
	SDLP gain from Sinn Fein

Limavady Town[25][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Ronald Cartwright	961
	DUP	George Robinson	915
	SDLP	Barry Doherty	686
	UUP	Jackie Dolan	482
	SDLP	Brian McWilliams	378
	UUP	Norman Reynolds	374
	Alliance	Joseph McGuigan	241
Turnout			4,112
No change

Lisburn

Downshire[26][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	William Bleakes	2,297
	UUP	Thomas Lilburn	1,084
	DUP	Charles Poots	1,042
	DUP	Anne Blake	998
	Alliance	Kenneth Hull	872
	UUP	Thomas Davis	666
	DUP	James McCann	574
	UUP	John Curry	320
	UUP	Wilfred Corfield-McClung	171
	Workers' Party	Patrick Pollock	63
Turnout			8,262
	Thomas Davis leaves DUP

Dunmurry Cross[26][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Sinn Féin	Patrick Rice	1,498
	UUP	William McAllister	1,159
	Sinn Féin	Michael Ferguson	1,075
	DUP	William Beattie	964
	UUP	Billy Bell	957
	SDLP	William McDonnell	819
	SDLP	Hugh Lewsley	808
	Workers' Party	John Lowry	761
	Alliance	Patrick Bell	684
	UUP	Richard Scott	252
Turnout			9,314
	SDLP gain from Alliance

Killultagh[26][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Robert Campbell	2,072
	UUP	William Dillon	1,211
	DUP	Cecil Calvert	1,202
	SDLP	Peter O'Hagan	1,058
	UUP	William Lewis	926
	UUP	Ronnie Crawford	917
	Ind. Conservative	David Greene	752
	Alliance	Eileen Drayne	740
	DUP	William Stevenson	504
	Ulster Democratic	Richard Haggan	235
	Workers' Party	Anne-Marie Lowry	72
Turnout			9,830
	Independent Conservative gain from DUP

Lisburn Town[26][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Ivan Davis	2,530
	Alliance	Seamus Close	1,307
	UUP	William Belshaw	1,049
	UUP	Samuel Semple	684
	DUP	Robin McMaster	422
	DUP	James Mulholland	290
	UUP	William Gardiner-Watson	195
	UUP	George Morrison	177
	Workers' Party	Paul McDonald	141
	UUP	Andrew Park	119
Turnout			7,059
	Ivan Davis leaves DUP

Magherafelt

Magherafelt Town[27][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	William McCrea	2,162
	SDLP	Patrick Kilpatrick	1,270
	UUP	Ernest Caldwell	1,168
	Sinn Féin	John Hurl	1,003
	SDLP	Margaret O'Hagan	458
	DUP	Paul McLean	150
	Workers' Party	Marian Donnelly	87
Turnout			6,421
No change

Moyola[27][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	John Junkin	1,109
	Sinn Féin	Pauline Davey-Kennedy	931
	SDLP	Henry McErlean	877
	DUP	Thomas Catherwood	694
	UUP	Norman Montgomery	611
	DUP	Thomas Milligan	559
	Sinn Féin	Margaret McKenna	479
	SDLP	Francis Madden	367
	Workers' Party	Hugh Scullion	200
Turnout			6,009
	UUP gain from DUP

Sperrin[27][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Robert Montgomery	842
	Sinn Féin	Bernard O'Hagan	801
	Sinn Féin	Patrick Groogan	751
	Ind. Nationalist	Mary McSorley	691
	SDLP	Ghislaine O'Keeney	674
	DUP	John Linton	632
	SDLP	Patrick Sweeney	614
	SDLP	Frank McKendry	530
	Workers' Party	Francis Donnelly	300
Turnout			5,969
	Mary McSorley leaves SDLP
	SDLP gain from Sinn Fein

Moyle

Ballycastle[28][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Gardiner Kane	385
	SDLP	Michael O'Cleary	379
	Independent	Seamus Blaney	221
	Independent	Archie McAuley	218
	UUP	Robert McPherson	218
	Independent	James McShane	202
	Independent	Christopher McCaughan	160
	SDLP	Noel McCurdy	93
Turnout			1,876
	Independent gain from Sinn Féin

Giant's Causeway[28][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Ind. Unionist	Robert McIlroy	554
	DUP	James Rodgers	370
	Ind. Unionist	Price McConaghy	319
	UUP	Robert Getty	304
	DUP	Glenda Rodgers	137
	Ind. Unionist	Ronnie McIlvar	46
Turnout			1,730
No change

The Glens[28][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Malachy McSparran	468
	SDLP	Patrick McBride	344
	Sinn Féin	James McCarry	331
	Ind. Nationalist	Randal McDonnell	297
	SDLP	Joseph Mitchell	284
	DUP	Elizabeth White	251
	SDLP	Daniel Anderson	188
	Independent	Michael Brogan	168
Turnout			2,331
No change

Newry and Mourne

Crotlieve[29][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	P. J. Bradley	1,488
	UUP	Violet Cromie	1,378
	SDLP	Hugh Carr	1,081
	SDLP	Brian Mulligan	998
	SDLP	Jim McCart	993
	Ind. Nationalist	Ciaran Mussen	954
	SDLP	Patrick Maginn	766
	SDLP	Felix O'Hare	557
	UUP	John Fisher	515
	Sinn Féin	Anne Marie Willis	389
Turnout			9,375
	SDLP gain from UUP

Newry Town[29][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Ind. Nationalist	Eugene Markey	973
	SDLP	Frank Feely	957
	SDLP	Arthur Ruddy	892
	UUP	William McCaigue	865
	SDLP	Sean Gallogly	818
	Sinn Féin	Brendan Curran	741
	SDLP	Patrick McElroy	614
	Independent	Louis Morgan	535
	Sinn Féin	Eileen Morgan	470
	SDLP	John McArdle	440
	Workers' Party	Kevin Morgan	264
	Ind. Nationalist	James McKevitt	215
	SDLP	Teddy McLoughlin	202
	Independent	Peter McKevitt	215
	Independent	Noel Sloan	134
	Independent	Patrick Ruddy	36
Turnout			8,630
	Eugene Markey leaves IIP

Slieve Gullion[29][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	John Fee	1,207
	SDLP	Pat Toner	1,174
	Sinn Féin	Jim McAllister	1,035
	SDLP	Michael O'Neill	995
	Sinn Féin	James McCreesh	756
	Sinn Féin	Patrick McDonald	540
	Ind. Republican	Brian Woods	208
Turnout			6,207
No change

The Fews[29][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Danny Kennedy	1,406
	SDLP	Stephen McGinn	1,158
	SDLP	James Savage	1,103
	SDLP	Charles Smyth	1,103
	UUP	William Moffett	1,056
	Sinn Féin	Conor Murphy	705
	DUP	Gordon Heslip	554
	Sinn Féin	Patrick Quinn	487
	Workers' Party	Brian Mulligan	96
Turnout			7,951
	SDLP gain from DUP

The Mournes[29][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Protestant Unionist	George Graham	1,754
	SDLP	Desmond Haughian	1,309
	UUP	Henry Reilly	1,178
	SDLP	Austin Crawford	950
	UUP	William Coulter	634
	DUP	George McConnell	589
	Independent	Mark Brennan	339
	Sinn Féin	Gabriel Curran	213
Turnout			7,150
	George Graham leaves DUP

Newtownabbey

Antrim Line[30][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Alliance	James Rooney	908
	DUP	Tommy Kirkham	800
	UUP	James Smith	775
	UUP	William Green	718
	SDLP	Thomas McTeague	684
	UUP	Ivan Hunter	414
	DUP	Billy McDonnell	235
	Workers' Party	Brendan Harrison	142
	Labour Party NI[31]	Thomas Davidson	111
Turnout			4,893
	SDLP gain from DUP

Ballyclare[30][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Stephen Turkington	969
	Ind. Unionist	Arthur Templeton	863
	UUP	Thomas Downes	721
	Ind. Unionist	Sidney Cameron	565
	DUP	Samuel Cameron	431
	DUP	Samuel Gardiner	359
	Alliance	Trevor Strain	323
	Independent	Leonard Hardy	281
Turnout			4,618
	UUP gain from Independent

Doagh Road[30][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Fraser Agnew	761
	Labour Party NI[31]	Bob Kidd	712
	DUP	Billy Snoddy	604
	UUP	Andrew Beattie	526
	Alliance	John Blair	334
	Independent Democratic Unionist	David Hollis	246
	UUP	Winifred Wright	109
	Sinn Féin	Liam Collins	96
	Workers' Party	James Magee	78
	National Front	David Kerr	41
Turnout			3,625
	Alliance gain from DUP

Manse Road[30][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	George Herron	1,762
	UUP	James Robinson	914
	Alliance	Gordon Mawhinney	725
	DUP	Samuel Neill	713
	UUP	Joseph Kell	303
	Workers' Party	Brendan Heaney	175
	Independent Democratic Unionist	Thomas Buchanan	99
Turnout			4,825
	Alliance gain from DUP

Shore Road[30][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Barbara Gilliland	1,008
	UUP	Ken Robinson	973
	DUP	Billy Boyd	950
	Alliance	William McKimmon	769
	Independent Democratic Unionist	William Ball	240
	Labour Party NI[31]	David Lowrie	164
	DUP	Jean Boyd	150
Turnout			4,402
No change

North Down

Main article: North Down Borough Council election, 1989

Abbey[32][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UPUP	Valerie Kinghan	745
	NI Conservatives	George Green	536
	UPUP	Cecil Braniff	478
	DUP	Denny Vitty	429
	UUP	Irene Cree	349
	DUP	Ivy Cooling	323
	Alliance	James Magee	299
	DUP	George McMurtry	298
	NI Conservatives	Shirley McCann	250
	Alliance	Miriam Judge	228
	UUP	Edward Johnston	119
	UUP	Robert Todd	42
Turnout			4,284
	George Green leaves UUP
	UPUP gain from DUP

Ballyholme and Groomsport[32][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Robin Cree	864
	Alliance	Jane Copeland	711
	NI Conservatives	Bruce Mulligan	611
	Ind. Unionist	Edmund Mills	578
	NI Conservatives	Ivan Thompson	573
	Alliance	Donald Hayes	484
	DUP	Alan Leslie	429
	UUP	Samuel Mellon	356
	NI Conservatives	Bill McLean	319
	DUP	Robert Gordon	250
	UUP	Ian Henry	166
	Alliance	William Johnston	123
Turnout			5,614
	Bruce Mulligan leaves UUP
	NI Conservatives gain from Alliance

Bangor West[32][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Hazel Bradford	698
	Alliance	Brian Wilson	697
	NI Conservatives	Thomas Miskelly	626
	NI Conservatives	James O'Fee	573
	NI Conservatives	Jack Preston	537
	Independent	Ann-Marie Hillen	537
	DUP	William Baxter	462
	Alliance	William Baillie	414
	UUP	Roy Bradford	403
	UUP	Terence McKeag	396
	DUP	Alan Graham	347
	PUP	Thomas O'Brien	316
	Independent	Colin Simpson	211
	Alliance	Eileen Bell	145
	DUP	Elizabeth McMurtry	135
	PUP	Samuel Meneely	9
Turnout			6,653
NI Conservatives gain from DUP and UPUP
Independent gain from Alliance

Holywood[32][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	NI Conservatives	Laurence Kennedy	775
	Independent	Dennis Ogborn	695
	Alliance	Susan O'Brien	660
	UUP	Ellie McKay	589
	DUP	Gordon Dunne	561
	Alliance	Paul de Haan	552
	UUP	McConnell Auld	473
	NI Conservatives	Alice Kennedy	269
	NI Conservatives	Michael Weir	135
	UUP	Ian Sinclair	93
Turnout			4,918
NI Conservatives gain from UUP
Independent gain from Alliance

Omagh

Mid Tyrone[33][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Sinn Féin	Patrick McMahon	1,186
	UUP	Desmond Anderson	906
	Independent	Brian McGrath	872
	Sinn Féin	Barney McAleer	788
	SDLP	Seamus Shields	735
	Sinn Féin	Sean Clarke	700
	UUP	William Thompson	685
	SDLP	Nuala McSherry	601
	DUP	Willis Cooke	486
	DUP	Tommy Armstrong	324
	Workers' Party	Patrick McClean	244
	Alliance	Ethne McClelland	167
Turnout			7,967
	Brian McGrath leaves IIP
	UUP gain from DUP

Omagh Town[33][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Oliver Gibson	1,058
	SDLP	Johnny McLaughlin	820
	SDLP	Paddy McGowan	754
	UUP	Wilfred Breen	736
	Sinn Féin	Francis Mackey	696
	Workers' Party	James Doody	335
	SDLP	Stephen McKenna	330
	SDLP	Arthur Breen	325
	Alliance	Patrick Bogan	305
	DUP	Stanley Johnston	260
	UUP	Rachel Hussey	208
	Sinn Féin	Colm Grimes	143
	Alliance	Eric Bullick	115
Turnout			6,264
	Johnny McLaughlin joins SDLP

West Tyrone[33][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Arthur McFarland	1,314
	SDLP	Liam McQuaid	1,112
	Sinn Féin	Gerry McMenamin	838
	DUP	Harry Cairns	832
	UUP	George Rainey	830
	Sinn Féin	Cecilia Quinn	762
	SDLP	James Connolly	489
	SDLP	Gregory McMullan	421
	Workers' Party	Tommy Owens	316
	Sinn Féin	William McLaughlin	218
	Alliance	Ann Gormley	213
	DUP	Raymond Farrell	136
	DUP	Raymond Little	136
Turnout			7,845
No change

Strabane

Derg[34][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Edward Turner	1,050
	DUP	Thomas Kerrigan	970
	Sinn Féin	Charles McHugh	928
	Ind. Unionist	Derek Hussey	827
	SDLP	Laurence McNamee	589
	Independent	Denis McCrory	443
	DUP	Desmond Monteith	426
	Sinn Féin	Tomas MacNamee	240
	Alliance	James Smyth	63
Turnout			5,711
	Independent Unionist gain from DUP
	SDLP gain from Independent

Glenelly[34][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	James Emery	1,359
	DUP	John Donnell	1,118
	SDLP	John Gallagher	1,035
	DUP	Samuel Rogers	737
	Sinn Féin	Martin Forbes	526
	SDLP	Brian Logue	225
	Alliance	Hughes Colhoun	124
Turnout			5,280
	Alliance gain from Sinn Fein

Mourne[34][8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Sinn Féin	Ivan Barr	1,327
	Ind. Nationalist	Margaret McManus	1,123
	UUP	John Cummings	949
	Ind. Nationalist	James O'Kane	879
	SDLP	Joseph McElroy	641
	Sinn Féin	Ultan McNulty	463
	SDLP	Bernard Mullen	254
	SDLP	Bernard McDermott	211
Turnout			6,058
	Margaret McManus leaves SDLP

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11. Ballymena District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
12. Ballymoney District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
13. Banbridge District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
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15. Carrickfergus District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
16. Castlereagh Council Elections 1985–1989, Northern Ireland Elections
17. Coleraine District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
18. Cookstown District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
19. Craigavon District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
20. Derry District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
21. Down District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
22. Dungannon District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
23. Fermanagh District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
24. Larne District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
25. Limavady District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
26. Lisburn District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
27. Magherafelt District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
28. Moyle Council Elections 1985–1989, Northern Ireland Elections
29. Newry & Mourne District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
30. Newtownabbey Council Elections 1985–1989, Northern Ireland Elections
31. Stood as "Labour '87"
32. North Down District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
33. Omagh District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections
34. Strabane District Council Elections 1985-1989, Northern Ireland Elections