Upper Bann

Details of each count in 1998 election

Map by Conal Kelly

See also results of all Upper Bann elections 1993-2010 and full counts from 2003 and 2007. Spreadsheet for 1998 here.

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.