North Antrim

Details of each count in 2003 election

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Map by Conal Kelly

This constituency is the rural north-eastern corner of Northern Ireland. It takes in the whole of Ballymena, Ballymoney and Moyle district councils. The member of parliament has been Rev Ian Paisley (DUP leader) since he first won the seat, defeating the UUP incumbent, in 1970. The constituency shrank considerably in the 1983 boundary review, losing territory to East and South Antrim, but was untouched in the latest round of changes.

			Surplus Paisley		Surplus Paisley jr		Surplus Storey		Exclude McCaughey
Ian Paisley	DUP	8732	-2432	6300	0	6300	0	6300	0	6300
Ian Paisley Jnr	DUP	7898	0	7898	-1598	6300	0	6300	0	6300
Robert Coulter	UUP	6385	0	6385	0	6385	0	6385	0	6385
Mervyn Storey	DUP	3605	2182.6	5787.6	1364.6	7152.2	-852.2	6300	0	6300
Philip McGuigan	SF	6195	0	6195	0.2	6195.2	0	6195.2	3	6198.2
Sean Farren	SDLP	3648	1.68	3649.68	2.4	3652.08	2.8	3654.88	11.4	3666.28
James Currie	UUP	3153	94.08	3247.08	73.6	3320.68	278	3598.68	77.68	3676.36
Declan O'Loan	SDLP	2361	1.68	2362.68	1	2363.68	1.4	2365.08	9.28	2374.36
Nathaniel Small	UKUP	402	42	444	61	505	274.4	779.4	45.56	824.96
Jayne Dunlop	Alliance	867	6.44	873.44	10.2	883.64	13	896.64	17.76	914.4
Gardiner Kane	Ind	623	54.6	677.6	25.6	703.2	85	788.2	31.68	819.88
Billy McCaughey	PUP	230	14.84	244.84	9.2	254.04	43.6	297.64	-297.64	-
			34.08	34.08	50.2	84.28	154	238.28	101.28	339.56

Stage 2: Of Paisley's 8732 votes, 7795 (93.1%) transferred to Storey (DUP); 336 (4.0%) to Currie (UUP); 195 (2.3%) to Kane; 150 (1.8%) to Small (UKUP); 53 (0.6%) to McCaughey (PUP); 23 (0.3%) to Dunlop (Alliance); 6 to Farren and also 6 to O'Loan, thus 12 (0.1%) to the SDLP; and none to McGuigan (SF) with 168 (2.0%) non-transferable.

Stage 3: Of Paisley jr's 7898 votes, 6823 (86.4%) transferred to Storey (DUP); 368 (4.7%) to Currie (UUP); 305 (3.9%) to Small (UKUP); 128 (1.6%) to Kane; 51 (0.6%) to Dunlop (Alliance); 46 (0.6%) to McCaughey (PUP); 12 to Farren and 5 to O'Loan, thus 17 (0.2%) to the SDLP; and 1 (0.01%) to McGuigan (SF) with 159 (2.0%) non-transferable.

Stage 4: Of the 6823 votes transferred from Paisley jr to Storey, 1390 (20.4%) went on to Currie (UUP); 1372 (20.1%) to Small (UKUP); 425 (6.2%) to Kane; 218 (3.2%) to McCaughey (PUP); 65 (1.0%) to Dunlop (Alliance); 14 to Farren and 7 to O'Loan, thus 21 (0.3%) to the SDLP; and none to McGuigan (SF) with 3332 (48.8%) non-transferable.

			Surplus Coulter		Exclude Kane		Exclude Dunlop, Small		Exclude O'Loan
Ian Paisley	DUP	6300	0	6300	0	6300	0	6300	0	6300
Ian Paisley Jnr	DUP	6300	0	6300	0	6300	0	6300	0	6300
Robert Coulter	UUP	6385	-85	6300	0	6300	0	6300	0	6300
Mervyn Storey	DUP	6300	0	6300	0	6300	0	6300	0	6300
Philip McGuigan	SF	6198.2	0.06	6198.26	1.2	6199.46	8.48	6207.94	289	6496.94
Sean Farren	SDLP	3666.28	0.33	3666.61	22.99	3689.6	231.22	3920.82	2059.61	5980.43
James Currie	UUP	3676.36	59.62	3735.98	305.26	4041.24	933.8	4975.04	74.93	5049.97
Declan O'Loan	SDLP	2374.36	0.12	2374.48	7.21	2381.69	133.67	2515.36	-2515.36	-
Nathaniel Small	UKUP	824.96	0.64	825.6	171.6	997.2	-997.2	-		-
Jayne Dunlop	Alliance	914.4	0.8	915.2	37,94	953.14	-953.14	-		-
Gardiner Kane	Ind	819.88	0.86	820.74	-820,74	-		-		-
		339.56	22.57	362.13	274.54	636.67	643.17	1279.84	91.82	1371.66

Of Coulter's 6385 votes, 5962 (93.4%) transferred to Currie (UUP); 86 (1.3%) to Kane; 80 (1.3%) to Dunlop (Alliance); 64 (1.0%) to Small (UKUP); 33 to Farren and 12 to O'Loan, thus 45 (0.7%) to the SDLP; and 6 (0.1%) to McGuigan with 142 (2.2%) non-transferable. (These votes transferred at 0.01 of their original value!)

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Nicholas Whyte, 4 January 2004.

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