Lagan Valley

Map by Conal Kelly

This constituency combined parts of the old South Antrim and North Down with bits and pieces from elsewhere.

In the 1995 revision, the old Lagan Valley constituency lost some areas to West Belfast and Strangford, but most of it formed the core of the new Lagan Valley constituency. The Member of Parliament throughout this period was Jim Molyneaux (UUP).

Election results, 1983-1992

9 April 1992

Jim Molyneaux MP (Ulster Unionist Party) 29,772 (60.9%)
Seamus Close (Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) 6,207 (12.7%)
Hugh Lewsley (Social Democratic and Labour Party) 4,626 (9.5%)
Timothy Coleridge (Conservative Party) 4,423 (9%)
Patrick Rice (Sinn Féin) 3,346 (6.8%)
Ann-Marie Lowry (Workers' Party) 582 (1.1%)

Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) majority: 23,565; Electorate: 72,708; Turnout: (67.3%)

11 June 1987

Jim Molyneaux MP (Ulster Unionist Party) 29,101 (70.0%)
Seamus Close (Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) 5,728 (13.8%)
Billy McDonnell (Social Democratic and Labour Party) 2,888 (6.9%)
Patrick Rice (Sinn Féin) 2,656 (6.4%)
John Lowry (Workers' Party) 1,215 (2.9%)

Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) majority: 23,373; Electorate: 64,937; Turnout: (64.4%)

23 January 1986

@Jim Molyneaux MP (Ulster Unionist Party) 32,514 (90.7%)
John Lowry (Workers' Party) 3328 (9.3%)

Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) majority 29,186; Electorate 63,369; Turnout 57.8%

9 June 1983

@Jim Molyneaux MP (Ulster Unionist Party) 24,017 (59.2%)
@Rev William Beattie (Democratic Unionist Party) 6,801 (16.8%)
@Seamus Close (Alliance Party of Northern Ireland) 4,593 (11.3%)
Cormac Boomer (Social Democratic and Labour Party) 2,603 (6.4%)
Richard McAuley (Sinn Féin) 1,751 (4.3%)
Gerry Loughlin (Workers' Party) 809 (2.0%)

Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) majority: 17,216; Electorate: 60,099; Turnout: (67.5%)

See also:

Results from 1983 to 1995 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 | Upper Bann

Other sites based at ARK: ORB (Online Research Bank) | CAIN (Conflict Archive on the INternet) | Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey

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Nicholas Whyte, 21 October 2000; modified 16 February 2002.