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17 seats in Northern Ireland of the 650 seats in the House of Commons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 67.4% (![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1987 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 11 June with 17 MPs elected in single-seat constituencies using first-past-the-post as part of the wider general election in the United Kingdom. 1,090,389 people were eligible to vote, up 40,253 from the 1983 general election. 67.41% of eligible voters turned out, down 5.9 percentage points from the last general election. [1]
The Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher as prime minister won another term in government.
Party | Seats | Aggregate Votes | |||||||
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Total | Gains | Losses | Net +/- | Of all (%) | Total | of all (%) | Difference | ||
UUP | 9 | 0 | 2 | ![]() | 52.9 | 276,230 | 38.0 | ![]() | |
SDLP | 3 | 2 | 0 | ![]() | 13.1 | 154,087 | 21.2 | ![]() | |
DUP | 3 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | 13.1 | 85,642 | 11.8 | ![]() | |
Sinn Féin | 1 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | 5.9 | 83,389 | 11.5 | ![]() | |
UPUP | 1 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | 5.9 | 18,420 | 2.5 | ![]() | |
Alliance | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | 0.0 | 72,761 | 10.0 | ![]() | |
Workers' Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | 0.0 | 19,294 | 2.6 | ![]() | |
Real Unionist | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | 0.0 | 14,467 | 2.0 | ![]() | |
Protestant Unionist | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | 0.0 | 2,147 | 0.3 | ![]() | |
Ecology | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | 0.0 | 281 | 0.04 | ![]() | |
Total | 17 | 726,718 | 67.4 |
Constituency | Date | Incumbent | Party | Winner | Party | Cause | ||
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Upper Bann | 17 May 1990 | Harold McCusker | UUP | David Trimble | UUP | Death |