1993 Down District Council election

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1993 Down District Council election

19 May 1993 (1993-05-19)
All 23 seats to Down District Council 12 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party SDLP Ulster Unionist DUP Seats won 13 7 3 Seat change 1 1 1   Fourth party   Party Alliance Seats won 0 Seat change 1

Elections to Down District Council were held on 19 May 1993 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 23 councillors.

Election results

Down District Council Election Result 1993

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	SDLP	13	1	0	1	56.5	51.2	13,102	2.0
	Ulster Unionist	7	0	1	1	30.4	28.5	7,300	2.6
	DUP	3	1	0	1	13.0	9.9	2,545	1.4
	Alliance	0	0	1	1	0.0	3.8	971	1.6
	Sinn Féin	0	0	0	0	0.0	3.2	815	1.6
	Independent	0	0	0	0	0.0	2.7	694	2.7
	Workers' Party	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.6	151	1.0

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

Districts summary

Results of the Down District Council election, 1993
by district

Ward	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	Total Cllrs
	SDLP		UUP		DUP		Others
Ballynahinch	49.4	2	30.8	2	19.8	1	0.0	0	5
Downpatrick	65.3	6	13.4	1	0.0	0	21.3	0	7
Newcastle	56.4	4	20.9	1	6.7	1	16.0	0	6
Rowallane	29.0	1	54.4	3	16.6	1	0.0	0	5
Total	51.2	13	28.5	7	9.9	3	10.4	0	23

District results

Ballynahinch

1989: 2 x SDLP, 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP
1993: 2 x SDLP, 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP
1989-1993 Change: No change

Ballynahinch - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	SDLP	Patrick Toman*	25.41%	1,480
	SDLP	Anne Marie McAleenan	23.97%	1,396
	DUP	William Alexander	19.81%	1,154
	Ulster Unionist	James Cochrane*	16.12%	939	1,025
	Ulster Unionist	Walter Lyons*	8.38%	488	648	867
	Ulster Unionist	Janet Crothers	6.32%	368	450	583
Electorate: 8,953   Valid: 5,825 (65.06%)   Spoilt: 132   Quota: 971   Turnout: 5,957 (66.54%)

Downpatrick

1989: 5 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
1993: 6 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
1989-1993 Change: SDLP gain from Alliance

Downpatrick - 7 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	SDLP	Dermot Curran*	14.30%	1,075
	SDLP	John Doris*	13.79%	1,037
	SDLP	John Ritchie*	13.71%	1,031
	Ulster Unionist	Jack McIlheron	13.37%	1,005
	SDLP	Malachi Curran*	9.63%	724	800.18	829.28	858.26	859.69	874.21	912.37	957.37
	SDLP	Francis McCann	7.57%	569	582	625.4	643.4	643.62	657.8	662.06	694.44	729.72	781.35	787.83
	SDLP	Owen Adams	6.33%	476	489.52	506.72	539.39	540.27	543.56	552.95	585.08	634.5	714.13	724.39
	Alliance	Michael Healy*	5.89%	443	447.55	449.75	452.09	488.94	516.91	534.34	544.6	592.25	720.56	721.1
	Independent	Keith Bradford	3.87%	291	293.47	295.87	298.39	312.69	340.4	351.17	383.5	409.54
	Independent	Patrick O'Connor	3.14%	236	244.45	244.55	245.18	249.14	258.32	340.86	365.35
	Sinn Féin	Patrick McGreevy	4.18%	314	316.6	317.6	318.32	318.54	324.82	328.21
	Independent	James Masson	2.22%	167	175.84	176.14	176.23	178.87	180.87
	Workers' Party	Desmond O'Hagan	2.01%	151	151.65	152.65	154	155.87
Electorate: 12,290   Valid: 7,519 (61.18%)   Spoilt: 150   Quota: 940   Turnout: 7,669 (62.40%)

Newcastle

1989: 4 x SDLP, 2 x UUP
1993: 4 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x DUP
1989-1993 Change: DUP gain from UUP

Newcastle - 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SDLP	Michael Boyd*	21.83%	1,405
	SDLP	Eamon O'Neill*	17.87%	1,150
	Ulster Unionist	Gerald Douglas*	14.73%	948
	SDLP	Peter Fitzpatrick*	10.36%	667	723	724.98	870.98
	SDLP	Frances Flynn	6.39%	411	631.68	706.86	753.66	760.66	920.9
	DUP	John Finlay	6.68%	430	432.16	432.79	432.79	682.79	684.42	700.95
	Alliance	Anne Carr	8.20%	528	571.92	580.53	582.13	637.68	676.05	681.93
	Sinn Féin	Sean Fitzpatrick	7.78%	501	521.52	544.62	547.72	547.72
	Ulster Unionist	William Brown*	6.15%	396	401.04	401.67	401.77
Electorate: 10,170   Valid: 6,436 (63.28%)   Spoilt: 182   Quota: 920   Turnout: 6,618 (65.07%)

Rowallane

1989: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1993: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1989-1993 Change: No change

Rowallane - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2
	Ulster Unionist	Samuel Osborne*	22.80%	1,322
	SDLP	Margaret Ritchie*	20.20%	1,171
	Ulster Unionist	Albert Colmer*	15.21%	882	1,067.36
	Ulster Unionist	William Biggerstaff*	16.42%	952	1,058.12
	DUP	William Dick*	16.57%	961	1,017.56
	SDLP	Hugh Flynn	8.80%	510	514.76
Electorate: 9,320   Valid: 5,798 (62.21%)   Spoilt: 110   Quota: 967   Turnout: 5,908 (63.39%)