# 1989 Dungannon District Council election

Elections to Dungannon District Council were held on 17 May 1989 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 22 councillors.

## Election results

Dungannon District Council Election Result 1989 :
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− |
| UUP | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36.4 | 37.5 | 8,775 | 5.4 |
| SDLP | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.7 | 20.1 | 4,711 | 2.5 |
| Sinn Féin | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13.6 | 18.7 | 4,369 | 4.2 |
| DUP | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.6 | 13.1 | 3,059 | 4.1 |
| Ind. Nationalist | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.1 | 9.5 | 2,226 | 0.7 |
| Workers' Party | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4.5 | 1.1 | 276 | 1.1 |
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

## Districts summary

Results of the Dungannon District Council election, 1989 by district :
| Ward | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | Total Cllrs |
| Ward | UUP | UUP | SDLP | SDLP | Sinn Féin | Sinn Féin | DUP | DUP | Workers' Party | Workers' Party | Others | Others | | Total Cllrs |
| Blackwater | 49.0 | 3 | 17.1 | 1 | 10.4 | 0 | 23.5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 5 |
| Clogher Valley | 38.5 | 2 | 29.5 | 1 | 16.5 | 1 | 15.5 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 5 |
| Dungannon Town | 42.7 | 2 | 13.2 | 1 | 13.7 | 0 | 14.4 | 1 | 5.1 | 1 | 10.9 | 1 | 6 |
| Torrent | 21.3 | 1 | 20.1 | 2 | 32.6 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 26.0 | 1 | 6 |
| Total | 37.5 | 8 | 20.1 | 5 | 18.7 | 3 | 13.1 | 3 | 1.1 | 1 | 9.5 | 2 | 22 |

## District results
### Blackwater

1985: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 1989: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 1985-1989 Change: No change
Blackwater - 5 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 |
| | DUP | James Ewing* | 23.52% | 1,345 | |
| | UUP | Derek Irwin* | 17.50% | 1,001 | |
| | SDLP | Patrick Daly* | 17.14% | 980 | |
| | UUP | Jim Hamilton | 16.02% | 916 | 1,107.89 |
| | UUP | Jim Brady* | 15.46% | 884 | 1,078.37 |
| | Sinn Féin | Tony Gildernew | 10.37% | 593 | 594.55 |
| Electorate: 7,203 Valid: 5,719 (79.40%) Spoilt: 128 Quota: 954 Turnout: 5,847 (81.17%) ||||||

### Clogher Valley

1985: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP 1989: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP 1985-1989 Change: No change
Clogher Valley - 5 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| | UUP | Noel Mulligan* | 19.71% | 1,171 | | |
| | UUP | Samuel Brush* | 18.80% | 1,117 | | |
| | SDLP | Anthony McGonnell* | 17.86% | 1,061 | | |
| | DUP | William McIlwrath* | 15.47% | 919 | 1,082.2 | |
| | Sinn Féin | Raymond McMahon | 16.53% | 982 | 983.28 | 991.32 |
| | SDLP | John Monaghan | 11.62% | 690 | 696.08 | 813.33 |
| Electorate: 7,065 Valid: 5,940 (84.08%) Spoilt: 142 Quota: 991 Turnout: 6,082 (86.09%) |||||||

### Dungannon Town

1985: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Independent Nationalist 1989: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Workers' Party, 1 x Independent Nationalist 1985-1989 Change: Workers' Party gain from Sinn Féin
Dungannon Town - 6 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| | UUP | Ken Maginnis* | 26.86% | 1,479 | | | | | | |
| | UUP | William Brown* | 15.87% | 874 | | | | | | |
| | DUP | Maurice Morrow* | 14.44% | 795 | | | | | | |
| | SDLP | Vincent Currie* | 10.35% | 570 | 747 | 880 | | | | |
| | Ind. Nationalist | Michael McLoughlin* | 10.90% | 600 | 738 | 750 | 827.6 | | | |
| | Workers' Party | Gerry Cullen | 5.01% | 276 | 595 | 626 | 640.4 | 725.52 | 765.84 | 771.16 |
| | Sinn Féin | Peter Corrigan | 13.75% | 757 | 759 | 760 | 760.8 | 761.94 | 761.94 | 762 |
| | SDLP | Peggy Devlin | 2.83% | 156 | 197 | | | | | |
| Electorate: 8,169 Valid: 5,507 (67.41%) Spoilt: 120 Quota: 787 Turnout: 5,627 (68.88%) |||||||||||

### Torrent

1985: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist 1989: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist 1985-1989 Change: No change
Torrent - 6 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | Ind. Nationalist | Jim Canning* | 26.02% | 1,626 | | | | | |
| | UUP | Thomas Kempton* | 21.33% | 1,333 | | | | | |
| | SDLP | Jim Cavanagh* | 10.93% | 683 | 1,148.01 | | | | |
| | SDLP | Angela Donnelly | 5.71% | 357 | 383.95 | 733.11 | 835.48 | 984.48 | |
| | Sinn Féin | Brendan Doris | 12.13% | 758 | 835.91 | 836.77 | 848.66 | 878.44 | 884.44 |
| | Sinn Féin | Martin McCaughey | 11.66% | 729 | 737.33 | 740.77 | 743.09 | 752.53 | 753.53 |
| | Sinn Féin | John Corr | 8.80% | 550 | 617.62 | 624.5 | 656.4 | 688.57 | 697.57 |
| | SDLP | Bridie O'Donnell | 3.42% | 214 | 294.85 | 373.11 | 476.64 | | |
| Electorate: 8,643 Valid: 6,250 (72.31%) Spoilt: 222 Quota: 893 Turnout: 6,472 (74.88%) ||||||||||