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.
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All 22 seats to Dungannon District Council 12 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Election results edit
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulster Unionist | 8 | 0 | 0 |  0
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36.4 | 32.1 | 7,848 |  1.1
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| SDLP | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2
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13.6 | 17.6 | 4,293 |  2.9
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| Sinn Féin | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4
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18.2 | 22.9 | 5,592 | New | |
| DUP | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0
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13.6 | 17.2 | 4,202 | 0.5
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| Independent Nationalist | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1
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9.1 | 9.7 | 2,363 | 5.9
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| Independent Republican | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2
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0.0 | 0.6 | 140 | 6.2
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Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
Districts summary edit
| Ward | % |
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% |
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Total Cllrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| DUP | James Ewing* | 16.86% | 979 | |||||
| Ulster Unionist | Derek Irwin* | 13.85% | 804 | 1,143 | ||||
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Brady* | 10.73% | 623 | 688 | 736.76 | 1,019.29 | ||
| Ulster Unionist | 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 | |||
| Ulster Unionist | 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Seamus Cassidy* | 20.98% | 1,280 | ||||
| SDLP | Anthony McGonnell* | 17.13% | 1,045 | ||||
| Ulster Unionist | Samuel Brush* | 16.40% | 1,001 | ||||
| DUP | William McIlwrath* | 10.96% | 669 | 669.84 | 1,144.26 | ||
| Ulster Unionist | 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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Ulster Unionist | Ken Maginnis* | 21.99% | 1,329 | ||||||
| DUP | Maurice Morrow* | 17.97% | 1,086 | ||||||
| Independent Nationalist | Michael McLoughlin* | 15.87% | 959 | ||||||
| Ulster Unionist | 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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Ulster Unionist | Thomas Kempton* | 17.27% | 1,120 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | Francie Molloy | 16.64% | 1,079 | ||||||
| Independent 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 | |
| Independent 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 | |||
| Independent 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.