# 2001 Cookstown District Council election

Elections to Cookstown District Council were held on 7 June 2001 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

Cookstown District Council Election Result 2001 :
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− |
| Sinn Féin | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 37.5 | 33.2 | 6,216 | 5.2 |
| SDLP | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25.0 | 23.6 | 4,416 | 1.8 |
| UUP | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 18.8 | 21.1 | 3,959 | 2.6 |
| DUP | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.5 | 18.4 | 3,446 | 0.0 |
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 3.7 | 689 | 3.7 |
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

## Districts summary

Results of the Cookstown District Council election, 2001 by district :
| Ward | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | Total Cllrs |
| Ward | Sinn Féin | Sinn Féin | SDLP | SDLP | UUP | UUP | DUP | DUP | Others | Others | | Total Cllrs |
| Ballinderry | 30.0 | 2 | 32.5 | 2 | 17.2 | 1 | 20.3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 6 |
| Cookstown Central | 31.7 | 2 | 19.8 | 1 | 27.6 | 1 | 20.9 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 5 |
| Drum Manor | 39.0 | 2 | 15.6 | 1 | 19.8 | 1 | 13.4 | 0 | 12.2 | 1 | 5 |
| Total | 33.2 | 6 | 23.6 | 4 | 21.1 | 3 | 18.4 | 2 | 3.7 | 1 | 16 |

## District results
### Ballinderry

1997: 2 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP 2001: 2 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP 1997-2001 Change: No change
Ballinderry - 6 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| | SDLP | Patsy McGlone* | 23.86% | 1,771 | | | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Patrick McAleer* | 21.12% | 1,567 | | | | |
| | SDLP | Mary Baker* | 8.64% | 641 | 1,187.92 | | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Michael McIvor | 8.84% | 656 | 805.6 | 1,300.85 | | |
| | UUP | Thomas Greer* | 12.75% | 946 | 949.08 | 949.43 | 963.08 | 1,220.08 |
| | DUP | Anne McCrea* | 13.06% | 969 | 970.76 | 972.16 | 973.21 | 1,015.79 |
| | DUP | Samuel McCartney | 7.24% | 537 | 537.88 | 538.93 | 540.33 | 566.26 |
| | UUP | James McCollum | 4.50% | 334 | 337.52 | 337.87 | 341.02 | |
| Electorate: 8,938 Valid: 7,421 (83.03%) Spoilt: 155 Quota: 1,061 Turnout: 7,576 (84.76%) |||||||||

### Cookstown Central

1997: 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP 2001: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP 1997-2001 Change: Sinn Féin gain from UUP
Cookstown Central - 5 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | Sinn Féin | John McNamee* | 25.23% | 1,427 | | | | | |
| | UUP | Trevor Wilson* | 23.39% | 1,323 | | | | | |
| | DUP | Ian McCrea | 18.81% | 1,064 | | | | | |
| | SDLP | Peter Cassidy | 14.00% | 792 | 828.4 | 835.36 | 838.1 | 1,118.1 | |
| | Sinn Féin | Seamus Campbell | 6.44% | 364 | 796.6 | 796.89 | 797.89 | 832.63 | 956.63 |
| | UUP | Albert Crawford | 4.21% | 238 | 238 | 547.72 | 672.03 | 687.67 | |
| | SDLP | Eddie Espie | 5.80% | 328 | 340.95 | 347.62 | 351.78 | | |
| | DUP | Hugh Davidson | 2.12% | 120 | 120 | 174.81 | | | |
| Electorate: 7,503 Valid: 5,656 (75.38%) Spoilt: 118 Quota: 943 Turnout: 5,774 (76.96%) ||||||||||

### Drum Manor

1997: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Unionist 2001: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent 1997-2001 Change: Independent Unionist becomes Independent
Drum Manor - 5 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| | Sinn Féin | Desmond Grimes | 21.83% | 1,233 | | | | |
| | UUP | Samuel Glasgow* | 19.79% | 1,118 | | | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Oliver Molloy | 17.15% | 969 | | | | |
| | SDLP | James McGarvey* | 15.65% | 884 | 1,170.2 | | | |
| | Independent | Samuel Parke* | 12.20% | 689 | 692 | 723.2 | 827.04 | 845.04 |
| | DUP | Maureen Lees | 13.38% | 756 | 757.8 | 765.6 | 829.6 | 838.6 |
| Electorate: 6,624 Valid: 5,649 (85.28%) Spoilt: 87 Quota: 942 Turnout: 5,736 (86.59%) |||||||||