1985 North Down Borough Council election
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All 24 seats to North Down Borough Council 13 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elections to North Down Borough 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 24 councillors.
Election results
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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Ulster Unionist | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 33.3 | 32.3 | 7,115 | 9.7 | |
Alliance | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 29.2 | 26.3 | 5,801 | 1.1 | |
DUP | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25.0 | 23.3 | 5,131 | 7.8 | |
UPUP | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8.3 | 9.7 | 2,140 | 7.9 | |
Ind. Unionist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 871 | 2.0 | |
Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 585 | 2.7 | |
PUP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 377 | 0.6 |
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
Districts summary
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UUP | Alliance | DUP | UPUP | Others | |||||||
Abbey | 28.2 | 2 | 17.2 | 1 | 36.3 | 2 | 16.3 | 1 | 2.0 | 0 | 6 |
Ballyholme and Groomsport | 36.8 | 2 | 28.5 | 2 | 22.8 | 2 | 7.8 | 1 | 4.1 | 0 | 6 |
Bangor West | 28.5 | 2 | 27.7 | 2 | 19.8 | 1 | 9.3 | 0 | 9.6 | 1 | 7 |
Holywood | 35.1 | 2 | 30.5 | 2 | 15.7 | 1 | 6.5 | 0 | 12.2 | 0 | 5 |
Total | 32.3 | 8 | 26.3 | 7 | 23.3 | 6 | 9.7 | 2 | 8.4 | 0 | 24 |
District results
Abbey
1985: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UPUP
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
DUP | John McCormick* | 23.64% | 1,104 | |||||||
Ulster Unionist | George Green* | 20.24% | 945 | |||||||
UPUP | Brian Meharg | 16.40% | 766 | |||||||
Alliance | James Magee* | 13.58% | 634 | 653.27 | 670.09 | |||||
Ulster Unionist | John Preston | 6.34% | 296 | 337.82 | 428.3 | 458.45 | 479.82 | 527.66 | 719.42 | |
DUP | Ivy Cooling | 9.79% | 457 | 591.48 | 609.46 | 625.51 | 645.35 | 645.95 | 675.2 | |
DUP | Raymond Trousdale* | 2.89% | 135 | 338.36 | 345.32 | 358.22 | 374.71 | 381.28 | 391.36 | |
Ulster Unionist | Ernest Jackson | 1.58% | 74 | 88.76 | 216.65 | 234.8 | 257.49 | 288.87 | ||
Alliance | James Pettis | 3.58% | 167 | 169.87 | 173.06 | 185.21 | 192.1 | |||
PUP | Kenneth McMullan | 3.58% | 92 | 106.76 | 111.69 | 118.29 | ||||
Electorate: 11,424 Valid: 4,670 (40.88%) Spoilt: 154 Quota: 668 Turnout: 4,824 (42.23%) |
Ballyholme and Groomsport
1985: 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent Unionist
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Ulster Unionist | Bruce Mulligan* | 14.81% | 893 | ||||||||
Ind. Unionist | Edmund Mills* | 14.44% | 871 | ||||||||
DUP | Alan Leslie | 13.18% | 795 | 809 | 1,181 | ||||||
Ulster Unionist | Samuel Hamilton | 10.11% | 610 | 722 | 728 | 870 | |||||
Alliance | Jane Copeland | 7.71% | 465 | 477 | 479 | 484 | 485.8 | 486.57 | 486.66 | 899.66 | |
Alliance | Donald Hayes* | 12.22% | 737 | 758 | 759 | 770 | 777.52 | 778.71 | 778.89 | 833.89 | |
UPUP | Valerie Kinghan | 9.27% | 559 | 583 | 610 | 710 | 725.2 | 728.98 | 736.63 | 744.63 | |
Alliance | Sylvia Anderson | 7.81% | 471 | 480 | 480 | 483 | 484.8 | 485.22 | 485.22 | ||
DUP | Elizabeth Loan | 6.62% | 399 | 417 | |||||||
DUP | Enid Stringer | 3.53% | 213 | ||||||||
PUP | Samuel Meneely | 0.30% | 18 | ||||||||
Electorate: 12,532 Valid: 6,031 (48.12%) Spoilt: 93 Quota: 862 Turnout: 6,124 (48.87%) |
Bangor West
1985: 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 2 x DUP, 1 x UPUP
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||||||||||||
Ulster Unionist | Hazel Bradford* | 26.01% | 1,695 | ||||||||||||||||||||
DUP | Alan Graham* | 14.89% | 970 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Alliance | William Bailie* | 14.01% | 913 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Ulster Unionist | Cecil Braniff* | 6.53% | 414 | 856.52 | |||||||||||||||||||
Alliance | Brian Wilson* | 10.53% | 686 | 719.28 | 721.04 | 742.44 | 743.76 | 744.56 | 760.63 | 778.88 | 1,008.88 | ||||||||||||
DUP | George McMurtry | 5.85% | 381 | 419.48 | 540.76 | 541.86 | 654.12 | 655.57 | 675.88 | 747.77 | 752.92 | 760.92 | |||||||||||
UPUP | Ian Sinclair | 7.75% | 505 | 551.8 | 555.48 | 558.58 | 564.1 | 565.2 | 539.84 | 630.43 | 663.09 | 695.09 | |||||||||||
Ulster Unionist | Edward Lindsay | 1.81% | 118 | 269.84 | 274 | 277.4 | 287.76 | 319.71 | 489.03 | 538.36 | 596.81 | 688.81 | |||||||||||
Alliance | Alfred Mairs | 4.01% | 261 | 298.96 | 299.76 | 358.96 | 364.28 | 365.03 | 386.66 | 392.98 | |||||||||||||
PUP | Thomas O'Brien | 4.10% | 267 | 282.6 | 284.68 | 284.88 | 292.52 | 292.97 | 297.01 | ||||||||||||||
Ulster Unionist | William Smiley | 2.64% | 172 | 262.48 | 264.08 | 265.08 | 278.2 | 283.05 | |||||||||||||||
DUP | William Swain | 2.06% | 134 | 145.96 | 164.68 | 164.78 | |||||||||||||||||
Electorate: 14,384 Valid: 6,516 (45.30%) Spoilt: 153 Quota: 815 Turnout: 6,669 (46.36%) |
Holywood
1985: 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Ulster Unionist | Ellie McKay* | 16.36% | 786 | 944 | |||
Ulster Unionist | John Auld* | 16.32% | 784 | 882 | |||
DUP | Gordon Dunne* | 13.62% | 654 | 813 | |||
Alliance | Susan O'Brien* | 15.93% | 765 | 793 | 819 | ||
Alliance | Michael Clarke* | 14.62% | 702 | 720 | 738 | 758 | |
Independent | Dennis Ogborn | 12.18% | 585 | 629 | 675 | 694 | |
UPUP | James White | 6.45% | 310 | ||||
Ulster Unionist | Roger Lomas | 2.39% | 115 | ||||
DUP | Elizabeth Graham | 2.12% | 102 | ||||
Electorate: 9,824 Valid: 4,803 (48.89%) Spoilt: 93 Quota: 801 Turnout: 4,896 (49.84%) |
References
- ^ a b "Local Government Elections 1985-1989: North Down". www.ark.ac.uk.
- ^ a b c d "Local Government Results 1985". EONI. Retrieved 8 July 2021.