Upper Bann

Details of each count in 1998 election

Map by Conal Kelly

This constituency contains all of Craigavon District Council and much of Banbridge District Council. The MP is David Trimble (UUP leader) who won the 1990 by-election caused by the death of his party's deputy leader, Harold McCusker. Upper Bann was created in 1983 and was barely changed in the 1995 revision.

See also results of all Upper Bann elections 1993-2003.

Stage 2: Of Trimble's 12338 votes, 4076 went to Savage, 3220 to Gardiner and 1894 to Neale, thus 9190 (74.49%) to the other UUP candidates; 1215 (9.85%) to Watson (Ind U); 570 (4.62%) to McQuaid (Alliance); 317 to Carrick and 242 to Allen, thus 559 (4.53%) to the DUP candidates; 250 (2.03%) to Vance (UKUP); 106 (0.86%) to Byrne (SDLP); 99 (0.80%) to Silcock (Ind); 73 (0.59%) to Evans (Lab); 62 (0.50%) to French (WP); 31 (0.25%) to McClinton (Ind U); 13 to O'Hagan and 10 to Murray, thus 23 (0.19%) to the SF candidates; and 7 (0.06%) to Lyons (NLP) with 153 (0.19%) non-transferable.

Stage 3: Of Rodgers' 9260 votes, 6523 (70.44%) went to Byrne (SDLP); 1235 to O'Hagan and 444 to Murray, thus 1679 (18.13%) to the SF candidates; 355 (3.83%) to French (WP); 317 (3.42%) to McQuaid (Alliance); 165 (1.78%) to Evans (Labour); 10 to Savage, 8 to Gardiner and also 8 to Neale, thus 26 (0.28%) to the UUP candidates; 17 (0.18%) to Lyons (NLP); 16 (0.17%) to Silcock (Ind); 9 to Allen and 3 to Carrick, thus 12 (0.13%) to the DUP candidates; 2 to McClinton (Ind U); and none to either Vance (UKUP) or Watson (Ind U) with 148 (1.20%) non-transferable.

Stage 11: Of the 2640 votes transferred to O'Hagan from Murray, 1363 (51.63%) transferred to Byrne (SDLP); 11 to Carrick (DUP) and 10 to Allen, thus 21 (0.80%) to the DUP candidates; 8 to Gardiner and 5 to Savage, thus 13 (0.49%) to the UUP candidates; and 2 (0.08%) to Watson (Ind U) with 1241 (47.01%) non-transferable.

Stage 14: 3062 votes transferred to Carrick from Allen. It is likely that 2648 of these transferred further (though mathematically the number could also have been 1324). In that case, 2072 (67.67%) went to Watson (Ind U); 560 (18.29%) to Savage (UUP); and 16 (0.52%) to Byrne (SDLP) with 514 (16.79%) non-transferable.

Denis Watson succeeded in breaking through here as a dissident Unionist candidate. There were not quite enough votes for three Nationalist seats; if there had been, the loser would have been David Trimble's running-mate George Savage, leaving the party leader holding his party's only seat in his own constituency.

Full 1998 results for each seat: East Belfast | North Belfast | South Belfast | West Belfast | East Antrim | North Antrim | South Antrim | North Down | South Down | Fermanagh and South Tyrone | Foyle | Lagan Valley | East Londonderry | Mid Ulster | Newry and Armagh | Strangford | West Tyrone | Upper Bann

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Nicholas Whyte, 15 October 2000; modified 16 February 2002.