1989 Dungannon District Council election

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17 May 1989 (1989-05-17)

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All 22 seats to Dungannon District Council
12 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Ulster Unionist	SDLP	Sinn Féin
Seats won	8	5	3
Seat change			1

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Party	DUP	Independent Nationalist	Workers' Party
Seats won	3	2	1
Seat change			1

Elections to Dungannon District Council were held on 17 May 1989 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

Dungannon District Council Election Result 1989^[1]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Ulster Unionist	8	0	0	0	36.4	37.5	8,775	5.4
SDLP	5	0	0	0	22.7	20.1	4,711	2.5
Sinn Féin	3	0	1	1	13.6	18.7	4,369	4.2
DUP	3	0	0	0	13.6	13.1	3,059	4.1
Independent Nationalist	2	0	0	0	9.1	9.5	2,226	0.7
Workers' Party	1	1	0	1	4.5	1.1	276	1.1

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

Districts summary

Results of the Dungannon District Council election, 1989
by district^[1]
Ward	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	Total Cllrs
Ward	UUP		SDLP		Sinn Féin		DUP		Workers' Party		Others		Total Cllrs
Blackwater	49.0	3	17.1	1	10.4	0	23.5	1	0.0	0	0.0	0	5
Clogher Valley	38.5	2	29.5	1	16.5	1	15.5	1	0.0	0	0.0	0	5
Dungannon Town	42.7	2	13.2	1	13.7	0	14.4	1	5.1	1	10.9	1	6
Torrent	21.3	1	20.1	2	32.6	2	0.0	0	0.0	0	26.0	1	6
Total	37.5	8	20.1	5	18.7	3	13.1	3	1.1	1	9.5	2	22

District results

Blackwater

1985: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1989: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1985-1989 Change: No change

Blackwater - 5 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2
	DUP	James Ewing*	23.52%	1,345
	Ulster Unionist	Derek Irwin*	17.50%	1,001
	SDLP	Patrick Daly*	17.14%	980
	Ulster Unionist	Jim Hamilton	16.02%	916	1,107.89
	Ulster Unionist	Jim Brady*	15.46%	884	1,078.37
	Sinn Féin	Tony Gildernew	10.37%	593	594.55
Electorate: 7,203 Valid: 5,719 (79.40%) Spoilt: 128 Quota: 954 Turnout: 5,847 (81.17%)

Clogher Valley

1985: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP
1989: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP
1985-1989 Change: No change

Clogher Valley - 5 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3
	Ulster Unionist	Noel Mulligan*	19.71%	1,171
	Ulster Unionist	Samuel Brush*	18.80%	1,117
	SDLP	Anthony McGonnell*	17.86%	1,061
	DUP	William McIlwrath*	15.47%	919	1,082.2
	Sinn Féin	Raymond McMahon	16.53%	982	983.28	991.32
	SDLP	John Monaghan	11.62%	690	696.08	813.33
Electorate: 7,065 Valid: 5,940 (84.08%) Spoilt: 142 Quota: 991 Turnout: 6,082 (86.09%)

Dungannon Town

1985: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1989: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Workers' Party, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1985-1989 Change: Workers' Party gain from Sinn Féin

Dungannon Town - 6 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Ulster Unionist	Ken Maginnis*	26.86%	1,479
	Ulster Unionist	William Brown*	15.87%	874
	DUP	Maurice Morrow*	14.44%	795
	SDLP	Vincent Currie*	10.35%	570	747	880
	Independent Nationalist	Michael McLoughlin*	10.90%	600	738	750	827.6
	Workers' Party	Gerry Cullen	5.01%	276	595	626	640.4	725.52	765.84	771.16
	Sinn Féin	Peter Corrigan	13.75%	757	759	760	760.8	761.94	761.94	762
	SDLP	Peggy Devlin	2.83%	156	197
Electorate: 8,169 Valid: 5,507 (67.41%) Spoilt: 120 Quota: 787 Turnout: 5,627 (68.88%)

Torrent

1985: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1989: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1985-1989 Change: No change

Torrent - 6 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent Nationalist	Jim Canning*	26.02%	1,626
	Ulster Unionist	Thomas Kempton*	21.33%	1,333
	SDLP	Jim Cavanagh*	10.93%	683	1,148.01
	SDLP	Angela Donnelly	5.71%	357	383.95	733.11	835.48	984.48
	Sinn Féin	Brendan Doris	12.13%	758	835.91	836.77	848.66	878.44	884.44
	Sinn Féin	Martin McCaughey	11.66%	729	737.33	740.77	743.09	752.53	753.53
	Sinn Féin	John Corr	8.80%	550	617.62	624.5	656.4	688.57	697.57
	SDLP	Bridie O'Donnell	3.42%	214	294.85	373.11	476.64
Electorate: 8,643 Valid: 6,250 (72.31%) Spoilt: 222 Quota: 893 Turnout: 6,472 (74.88%)

References

^ ^a ^b "Local Government Elections 1985-1989: Dungannon". www.ark.ac.uk.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Local Government Results 1989". EONI. Retrieved 8 August 2021.

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