Political Parties


Election of 23rd Feb, 1950
Party Votes Outcome
Irish Nationalist/Anti-Partitionist 32188 Elected
Conservative 29877

More information about the 1950 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 25th Oct, 1951
Party Votes Outcome
Irish Nationalist/Anti-Partitionist 32717 Elected
Conservative 30082

More information about the 1951 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 26th May, 1955
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 30529 Elected
Conservative 30268

More information about the 1955 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Oct, 1959
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 32080 Elected
Sinn Fein 7348

More information about the 1959 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 15th Oct, 1964
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 30010 Elected
Irish Republican 16138
Liberal 6006
Labour 2339

More information about the 1964 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 31st Mar, 1966
Party Votes Outcome
Conservative 29352 Elected
Opposition Unity 14645
Irish Republican 10370

More information about the 1966 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 18th Jun, 1970
Party Votes Outcome
Opposition Unity 32813 Elected
Conservative 31390

More information about the 1970 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 28th Feb, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
UUU Council 26858 Elected
Unity 16229
SDLP 15410
UU Pro Assembly 3157

More information about the 1974 Feb General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 10th Oct, 1974
Party Votes Outcome
Independent 32795 Elected
UUU Council 30285
Marxist-Leninist 185

More information about the 1974 Oct General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 3rd May, 1979
Party Votes Outcome
Independent 22398 Elected
Official Unionist 17411
SDLP 10685
United Ulster Unionist 10607
Alliance Party 1070

More information about the 1979 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1981
Party Votes Outcome
Anti H-Block 30492 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 20th Aug, 1981
Party Votes Outcome
Anti H-Block 31278 Elected
Ulster Unionist Party 29048
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 1930
Workers' Party/Republican Clubs 1132
Peace Lover 249
Amnesty 90

This was a by-election.

Election of 9th Sep, 1981
Party Votes Outcome
Ulster Unionist Party 29046 Elected

This was a by-election.

Election of 9th Jun, 1983
Party Votes Outcome
Ulster Unionist Party 28630 Elected
Sinn Fein 20954
Social Democratic & Labour Party 9923
The Workers' (NI) 649

More information about the 1983 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 23rd Jan, 1986
Party Votes Outcome
Ulster Unionist Party 27857 Elected
Sinn Fein 15278
Social Democratic & Labour Party 12081
Republican Clubs/Workers' Party 864

This was a by-election.

Election of 11th Jun, 1987
Party Votes Outcome
Ulster Unionist Party 27446 Elected
Sinn Fein 14623
Social Democratic & Labour Party 10581
The Workers' (NI) 1784
Alliance Party 941

More information about the 1987 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 9th Apr, 1992
Party Votes Outcome
Ulster Unionist Party 26923 Elected
Social Democratic & Labour Party 12810
Sinn Fein 12604
Independent Socialist 1094
Alliance Party 950
Independent 747

More information about the 1992 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 1st May, 1997
Party Votes Outcome
Ulster Unionist Party 24862 Elected
Sinn Fein 11174
Social Democratic & Labour Party 11060
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 977
Natural Law 217

More information about the 1997 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th Jun, 2001
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 17739 Elected
Ulster Unionist Party 17686
Social Democratic & Labour Party 9706
Independent 6843

More information about the 2001 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 5th May, 2005
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 18638 Elected
Democratic Unionist Party 14056
Ulster Unionist Party 8869
Social Democratic & Labour Party 7230

More information about the 2005 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 6th May, 2010
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 21304 Elected
Independent (1) 21300
Social Democratic & Labour Party 3574
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 437
Independent (2) 188

More information about the 2010 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 7th May, 2015
Party Votes Outcome
Ulster Unionist Party 23608 Elected
Sinn Fein 23078
Social Democratic & Labour Party 2732
Green 788
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 658

More information about the 2015 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 8th Jun, 2017
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 25230 Elected
Ulster Unionist Party 24355
Social Democratic & Labour Party 2587
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 886
Green 423

More information about the 2017 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election

Election of 12th Dec, 2019
Party Votes Outcome
Sinn Fein 21986 Elected
Ulster Unionist Party 21929
Social Democratic & Labour Party 3446
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland 2650
Independent 751

More information about the 2019 General Election is available here.

This was a General Election


The election result data we hold includes over three hundred party labels, so we have simplified them to these seven simple categories. Of course, most candidates in most elections, and almost every candidate who won, was standing for one of the main parties, but an enormous range of labels have been used by one or two candidates. These groupings have been defined based almost entirely on the party labels, rather than detailed research into party policies, but including words like 'Labour' or 'Conservative' in ...


your party label says a lot about where you stand, and even more about the people voting for you. 'Left' means broadly speaking candidates to the left of the Liberal or Labour parties, 'Right' candidates to the right of the Conservatives. 'Nationalist' means any kind of nationalist, even including Isle of Wight nationalists.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Fermanagh and South Tyrone CCon through time | Political Life Statistics | Political Parties, A Vision of Ireland through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofireland.org/unit/12748220/cube/POL_PARTY

Date accessed: 01st June 2024