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All 23 seats to Ards Borough Council 12 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 2001 Ards Borough Council Election Results, shaded by plurality of First Preference Votes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elections to Ards Borough Council were held on 7 June 2001 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.
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DUP | 9 | 4 | 0 |  4 | 39.1 | 37.0 | 8,133 | 14.4 | |
| UUP | 8 | 0 | 2 |  2 | 34.8 | 31.7 | 6,968 | 7.9 | |
| Alliance | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 17.4 | 16.7 | 3,668 | 4.4 | |
| Independent | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4.3 | 9.8 | 2,135 | 8.2 | |
| SDLP | 1 | 0 | 0 |  0 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 860 | 0.7 | |
| NI Conservatives | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 190 | 0.9 | |
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
| Ward | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | Total Cllrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DUP | UUP | Alliance | SDLP | Others | |||||||
| Ards East | N/A | 2 | N/A | 3 | N/A | 1 | N/A | 0 | N/A | 0 | 6 |
| Ards West | 36.9 | 3 | 42.2 | 2 | 18.5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 2.4 | 0 | 6 |
| Newtownards | 37.5 | 2 | 33.3 | 2 | 12.2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 17.0 | 0 | 6 |
| Peninsula | 36.8 | 2 | 17.9 | 1 | 19.2 | 1 | 12.5 | 1 | 13.6 | 0 | 5 |
| Total | 37.0 | 9 | 31.7 | 8 | 16.7 | 4 | 3.9 | 1 | 10.7 | 0 | 23 |
1997: 4 x UUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2001: 3 x DUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance
1997-2001 Change: DUP gain from UUP
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Alliance | Linda Cleland* | N/A | N/A | |
| UUP | Ronald Ferguson* | N/A | N/A | |
| DUP | Hamilton Gregory* | N/A | N/A | |
| UUP | Jeffrey Magill* | N/A | N/A | |
| UUP | John Shields* | N/A | N/A | |
| DUP | Terence Williams | N/A | N/A | |
| Electorate: N/A Valid: N/A Spoilt: N/A Quota: N/A Turnout: N/A | ||||
1997: 3 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP
2001: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
1997-2001 Change: DUP (two seats) gain from UUP and Alliance
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| UUP | Robert Gibson* | 30.56% | 2,454 | ||||||
| DUP | Margaret Craig* | 15.32% | 1,230 | ||||||
| UUP | Philip Smith | 7.78% | 625 | 1,516.55 | |||||
| DUP | William Montgomery | 12.94% | 1,039 | 1,098.95 | 1,100.56 | 1,117.89 | 1,124.49 | 1,175.49 | |
| Alliance | Jim McBriar* | 9.41% | 756 | 835.75 | 840.35 | 866.23 | 867.07 | 1,023.47 | |
| DUP | David Gilmore* | 8.63% | 693 | 789.25 | 794.08 | 810.63 | 873.15 | 1,001.09 | |
| Alliance | Kathleen Coulter* | 9.12% | 732 | 791.4 | 795.08 | 842.96 | 843.92 | 965.11 | |
| UUP | Arthur Spence | 3.87% | 311 | 412.75 | 762.35 | 829.73 | 830.93 | ||
| NI Conservatives | Christopher Connolly | 2.37% | 190 | 205.4 | 207.01 | ||||
| Electorate: 13,602 Valid: 8,030 (59.04%) Spoilt: 223 Quota: 1,148 Turnout: 8,253 (60.67%) | |||||||||
1997: 2 x UUP, 2 x Independent Unionist, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance
2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent Unionist
1997-2001 Change: DUP gain from Independent Unionist, Independent Unionist becomes Independent
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| DUP | George Ennis * | 22.81% | 1,608 | |||||
| UUP | Thomas Hamilton * | 18.27% | 1,288 | |||||
| UUP | David Smyth* | 15.04% | 1,060 | |||||
| Independent | Wilbert Magill* | 12.61% | 889 | 923.2 | 1,043.2 | |||
| Alliance | Alan McDowell* | 12.18% | 859 | 863.94 | 915.32 | 1,075.9 | ||
| DUP | Hamilton Lawther | 5.15% | 363 | 838 | 877.14 | 944.41 | 967.66 | |
| DUP | Bobby McBride* | 9.52% | 671 | 734.46 | 779.5 | 830.96 | 852.04 | |
| Independent | Nancy Orr | 4.43% | 312 | 322.66 | ||||
| Electorate: 12,965 Valid: 7,050 (54.38%) Spoilt: 218 Quota: 1,008 Turnout: 7,268 (56.06%) | ||||||||
1997: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP
2001: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP
1997-2001 Change: No change
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| DUP | Jim Shannon * | 26.53% | 1,824 | ||||||||
| Alliance | Kieran McCarthy * | 18.71% | 1,286 | ||||||||
| DUP | Robert Drysdale* | 10.25% | 705 | 1,222.92 | |||||||
| SDLP | Daniel McCarthy* | 12.51% | 860 | 865.85 | 899.51 | 918.84 | 1,025.08 | 1,025.88 | 1,430.88 | ||
| UUP | Angus Carson | 10.33% | 710 | 748.22 | 755.81 | 766.28 | 864.5 | 894.8 | 944.8 | 1,008.8 | |
| UUP | Paul Carson* | 7.56% | 520 | 583.96 | 593.97 | 603.82 | 671.15 | 710.75 | 731.42 | 765.42 | |
| Independent | Joe Boyle | 7.65% | 526 | 528.73 | 543.58 | 553.75 | 646.87 | 648.67 | |||
| Independent | Robert Ambrose | 3.71% | 255 | 289.32 | 298.01 | 307.13 | |||||
| Independent | James McMullan | 2.23% | 153 | 155.73 | 162.99 | 166.58 | |||||
| Alliance | Stephen McSherry | 0.51% | 35 | 38.12 | 85.2 | ||||||
| Electorate: 11,849 Valid: 6,874 (58.01%) Spoilt: 211 Quota: 1,146 Turnout: 7,085 (59.79%) | |||||||||||
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