2001 Larne Borough Council election

Elections to Larne Borough Council were held on 7 June 2001 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 15 councillors.

Election results
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

Districts summary
!rowspan=2 align="left"|Ward ! %
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!rowspan=2|Total Cllrs

!colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others
 * - class="unsortable" align="center"
 * align="left"|Coast Road
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|28.7
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2
 * 24.2
 * 1
 * 13.7
 * 1
 * 17.4
 * 1
 * 16.0
 * 0
 * 5
 * align="left"|Larne Lough
 * 35.6
 * 2
 * bgcolor="40BFF5"|38.4
 * bgcolor="40BFF5"|2
 * 23.1
 * 1
 * 0.0
 * 0
 * 2.9
 * 0
 * 5
 * align="left"|Larne Town
 * 21.3
 * 1
 * 22.3
 * 1
 * 5.4
 * 0
 * 12.8
 * 1
 * bgcolor="#DDDDDD"|38.2
 * bgcolor="#DDDDDD"|2
 * 5
 * - class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9"
 * align="left"| Total
 * 28.8
 * 5
 * 28.8
 * 4
 * 14.5
 * 2
 * 9.6
 * 2
 * 18.3
 * 2
 * 15
 * }
 * 18.3
 * 2
 * 15
 * }
 * }

Coast Road
1997: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Nationalist

2001: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance

1997-2001 Change: DUP and Alliance gain from UUP and Independent Nationalist

Larne Lough
1997: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance

2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance

1997-2001 Change: DUP gain from UUP

Larne Town
1997: 2 x Independent, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Unionist

2001: 2 x Independent, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP

1997-2001 Change: SDLP gain from Independent, Independent Unionist becomes Independent