# 1997 Strabane District Council election

Elections to Strabane District Council were held on 21 May 1997 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 16 councillors.

## Election results

Strabane District Council Election Result 1997 :
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− |
| SDLP | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31.3 | 22.9 | 4,406 | 4.4 |
| Sinn Féin | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 25.0 | 33.1 | 6,364 | 12.0 |
| UUP | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 18.8 | 23.6 | 4,547 | 3.7 |
| DUP | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.8 | 14.7 | 2,821 | 5.2 |
| Ind. Nationalist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 | 4.8 | 915 | 0.5 |
| Alliance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 182 | 1.3 |
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

## Districts summary

Results of the Strabane District Council election, 1997 by district :
| Ward | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | Total Cllrs |
| Ward | SDLP | SDLP | Sinn Féin | Sinn Féin | UUP | UUP | DUP | DUP | Others | Others | | Total Cllrs |
| Derg | 17.2 | 1 | 32.1 | 1 | 33.8 | 2 | 16.9 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 5 |
| Glenelly | 19.5 | 1 | 19.3 | 1 | 27.7 | 1 | 30.1 | 2 | 3.4 | 0 | 5 |
| Mourne | 30.6 | 3 | 45.3 | 2 | 11.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 12.5 | 1 | 6 |
| Total | 22.9 | 5 | 33.1 | 4 | 23.6 | 3 | 14.7 | 3 | 5.7 | 1 | 16 |

## District results
### Derg

1993: 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent Unionist 1997: 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP 1993-1997 Change: Independent Unionist joins UUP
Derg - 5 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| | Sinn Féin | Charles McHugh* | 23.32% | 1,440 | | | | |
| | UUP | Derek Hussey* | 20.19% | 1,247 | | | | |
| | UUP | Edward Turner* | 13.57% | 838 | 838.58 | 988.35 | 1,047.73 | |
| | DUP | Thomas Kerrigan* | 9.65% | 596 | 596.29 | 647.8 | 1,034.7 | |
| | SDLP | Tomás Murtagh | 8.91% | 550 | 583.06 | 584.08 | 584.08 | 1,022.08 |
| | Sinn Féin | Sean Elliott | 8.82% | 545 | 886.62 | 886.79 | 887.96 | 944.53 |
| | SDLP | Bernadette McNamee | 8.31% | 513 | 543.16 | 543.84 | 544.84 | |
| | DUP | Sarah Anderson | 7.24% | 447 | 447.29 | 454.94 | | |
| Electorate: 8,241 Valid: 6,176 (74.94%) Spoilt: 128 Quota: 1,030 Turnout: 6,304 (76.50%) |||||||||

### Glenelly

1993: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP 1997: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin 1993-1997 Change: Sinn Féin gain from UUP
Glenelly - 5 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | SDLP | Tom McBride | 19.53% | 1,155 | | | | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Martin Conway | 19.34% | 1,144 | | | | | |
| | DUP | Allan Bresland* | 18.61% | 1,101 | | | | | |
| | UUP | James Emery* | 13.84% | 1,021 | | | | | |
| | DUP | John Donnell* | 11.45% | 677 | 677.42 | 680.72 | 781.82 | 805.61 | 822.73 |
| | UUP | Wilfred Sinclair | 10.41% | 616 | 616.63 | 617.95 | 624.75 | 633.8 | 708.62 |
| | Alliance | Elizabeth McCaffrey | 1.47% | 87 | 196.62 | 281.76 | 281.76 | 350.45 | |
| | Ind. Nationalist | John Gallagher* | 1.93% | 114 | 166.92 | 230.61 | 231.91 | | |
| Electorate: 7,727 Valid: 5,915 (76.55%) Spoilt: 99 Quota: 986 Turnout: 6,014 (77.83%) ||||||||||

### Mourne

1993: 3 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist 1997: 3 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Independent Nationalist 1993-1997 Change: Sinn Féin gain from UUP
Mourne - 6 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | Sinn Féin | Ivan Barr* | 27.42% | 1,959 | | | | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Jarlath McNulty | 17.86% | 1,276 | | | | | |
| | SDLP | Thomas Mullen | 15.73% | 1,124 | | | | | |
| | Ind. Nationalist | James O'Kane* | 11.21% | 801 | 1,224.28 | | | | |
| | SDLP | Eugene McMenamin | 10.58% | 756 | 1,091.96 | | | | |
| | SDLP | Ann Bell* | 4.31% | 308 | 471.54 | 701.94 | 740.82 | 940.57 | 1,039.9 |
| | UUP | John Cummings* | 11.55% | 825 | 830.92 | 842.12 | 878.86 | 882.26 | 882.81 |
| | Alliance | Marie Wallace | 1.33% | 95 | 98.7 | 109.1 | | | |
| Electorate: 10,298 Valid: 7,144 (69.37%) Spoilt: 125 Quota: 1,021 Turnout: 7,269 (70.59%) ||||||||||