Elections to Armagh District Council were held on 20 May 1981 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 20 councillors.
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All 20 seats to Armagh District Council 11 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Election results
edit| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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| UUP | 8 | 0 | 1 |  1
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40.0 | 38.7 | 9,267 | 0.1
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| SDLP | 7 | 0 | 0 |  0
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35.0 | 30.8 | 7,363 |  0.5
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| DUP | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1
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15.0 | 18.5 | 4,417 | 5.7
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| Ind. Nationalist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0
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5.0 | 4.2 | 1,011 | 0.2
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| UUUP | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0
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5.0 | 3.6 | 865 | 0.9
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| Irish Independence | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
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0.0 | 2.1 | 493 | New | |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
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0.0 | 1.5 | 370 | 0.7
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| Independent Labour | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
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0.0 | 0.6 | 134 | 0.6
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Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
Districts summary
edit| Ward | % |
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Total Cllrs |
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| UUP | SDLP | DUP | UUUP | Others | |||||||
| Area A | 37.6 | 2 | 33.3 | 1 | 27.2 | 1 | 1.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 4 |
| Area B | 52.2 | 3 | 16.2 | 1 | 22.5 | 1 | 9.2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 6 |
| Area C | 25.3 | 1 | 46.6 | 3 | 12.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 15.5 | 0 | 5 |
| Area D | 32.3 | 2 | 35.6 | 2 | 11.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 20.4 | 1 | 5 |
| Total | 38.7 | 8 | 30.8 | 7 | 18.5 | 3 | 3.6 | 1 | 8.4 | 1 | 20 |
Districts results
editArea A
edit1977: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP
1981: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP
1977-1981 Change: No change
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| UUP | Ronald Allen | 22.78% | 938 | |||
| DUP | Douglas Hutchinson* | 21.32% | 878 | |||
| UUP | Samuel Foster* | 14.81% | 610 | 844 | ||
| SDLP | Francis McIlvanna* | 18.97% | 781 | 784 | 804 | |
| SDLP | Francis Kernan | 14.40% | 593 | 599 | 676 | |
| DUP | Norman Kerr | 5.93% | 244 | |||
| UUUP | Robert Cummings | 1.80% | 74 | |||
| Electorate: 5,833 Valid: 4,118 (70.60%) Spoilt: 178 Quota: 824 Turnout: 4,296 (73.65%) | ||||||
Area B
edit1977: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUUP
1981: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUUP
1977-1981 Change: No change
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| UUP | Jim Speers* | 22.40% | 1,931 | |||||||
| SDLP | Seamus Mallon* | 16.17% | 1,394 | |||||||
| UUP | William McClelland* | 12.67% | 1,092 | 1,264.8 | ||||||
| DUP | Thomas Black* | 10.64% | 917 | 955.16 | 959.88 | 963.38 | 1,170.16 | 1,843.16 | ||
| UUUP | Francis Little* | 8.49% | 732 | 768.72 | 808.08 | 819.98 | 867.52 | 895.84 | 1,189.84 | |
| UUP | Robert Turner | 8.61% | 742 | 967 | 968.72 | 1,033.12 | 1,054.48 | 1,087.38 | 1,178.38 | |
| UUP | Thomas Johnston | 8.50% | 733 | 891.4 | 902.2 | 970.8 | 994.04 | 1,026.44 | 1,143.44 | |
| DUP | John Alexander | 6.51% | 561 | 573.96 | 576.4 | 582 | 787.96 | |||
| DUP | Mervyn Spratt | 5.32% | 459 | 498.96 | 503.96 | 511.66 | ||||
| UUUP | Frederick Hamilton | 0.68% | 59 | 65.48 | ||||||
| Electorate: 10,993 Valid: 8,620 (78.41%) Spoilt: 160 Quota: 1,232 Turnout: 8,780 (79.87%) | ||||||||||
Area C
edit1977: 3 x SDLP, 2 x UUP
1981: 3 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x DUP
1977-1981 Change: DUP gain from UUP
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| SDLP | Patrick Fegan* | 17.55% | 980 | ||||
| UUP | Jim Nicholson* | 17.23% | 962 | ||||
| SDLP | James McKernan* | 16.71% | 933 | ||||
| DUP | Joseph McBride | 12.63% | 705 | 705.35 | 709.4 | 1,041.4 | |
| SDLP | Joseph Dunleavy | 12.36% | 690 | 729.35 | 853.9 | 867.9 | |
| Irish Independence | Patrick Agnew | 8.83% | 493 | 495.6 | 629.9 | 633.95 | |
| UUP | Eleanor Boyd* | 8.06% | 450 | 450.35 | 462.35 | ||
| Independent | Peter McSorley | 6.63% | 370 | 373.9 | |||
| Electorate: 7,281 Valid: 5,583 (76.68%) Spoilt: 207 Quota: 931 Turnout: 5,790 (79.52%) | |||||||
Area D
edit1977: 2 x SDLP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1981: 2 x SDLP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1977-1981 Change: No change
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| UUP | Frederick Armstrong* | 20.95% | 1,173 | ||||||||
| Ind. Nationalist | Bernard McManus* | 18.06% | 1,011 | ||||||||
| SDLP | Pat Brannigan* | 14.41% | 807 | 808.4 | 832.8 | 854.22 | 857.22 | 1,224.22 | |||
| SDLP | John Agnew | 11.02% | 617 | 617.4 | 646.6 | 672.59 | 675.59 | 887.39 | 1,174.49 | ||
| UUP | George Macartney | 7.02% | 393 | 457.8 | 469 | 469.18 | 820.58 | 822.87 | 823.74 | 855.93 | |
| DUP | Letitia McClenaghan | 11.66% | 653 | 667.6 | 671.6 | 671.78 | 713.78 | 716.07 | 716.07 | 719.55 | |
| SDLP | Gerald Grimley | 10.14% | 568 | 568.2 | 593.4 | 619.41 | 620.61 | ||||
| UUP | Norman Creswell* | 4.34% | 243 | 394.4 | 405.4 | 405.58 | |||||
| Independent Labour | Carson Greer | 2.39% | 134 | 134.8 | |||||||
| Electorate: 8,699 Valid: 5,599 (64.36%) Spoilt: 228 Quota: 934 Turnout: 5,827 (66.98%) | |||||||||||
References
edit- ^ a b "Local Government Election 1973-1981: Armagh". www.ark.ac.uk.
- ^ a b c d "Local Government Results 1981". EONI. Retrieved 25 July 2021.