1987 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

← 1983 11 June 1987 1992 →
17 seats in Northern Ireland of the 650 seats in theHouse of Commons
Turnout	67.4% ()
First party Second party   Leader James Molyneaux John Hume Party Ulster Unionist Party Social Democratic and Labour Party Leader since 1979 6 May 1979 Leader's seat Lagan Valley Foyle Seats won 9 3 Seat change 2 2 Popular vote 276,230 154,087 Percentage 37.8% 21.1%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Ian Paisley Gerry Adams Party Democratic Unionist Party Sinn Féin Leader since 1971 1983 Leader's seat Antrim North Belfast West Seats won 3 1 Seat change Popular vote 85,642 83,389 Percentage 11.7% 11.4%

The1987 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 11 June with 17 MPs elected in single-seat constituencies usingfirst-past-the-post as part of the widergeneral election in the United Kingdom. 1,090,389 people were eligible to vote, up 40,253 from the 1983 general election. 67.41% of eligible voters turned out, down 5.9 percentage points from the last general election.^[1]

TheConservative Party led byMargaret Thatcher asprime minister won another term in government.

Results^[2][3][4]

Party		Seats					Aggregate Votes
		Total	Gains	Losses	Net +/-	Of all (%)	Total	of all (%)	Difference
	UUP	9	0	2	2	52.9	276,230	38.0	4.0
	SDLP	3	2	0	2	13.1	154,087	21.2	3.3
	DUP	3	0	0		13.1	85,642	11.8	8.2
	Sinn Féin	1	0	0		5.9	83,389	11.5	1.9
	UPUP	1	0	0		5.9	18,420	2.5	0.5
	Alliance	0	0	0		0.0	72,761	10.0	2.0
	Workers' Party	0	0	0		0.0	19,294	2.6	0.7
	Real Unionist	0	0	0		0.0	14,467	2.0	2.0
	Protestant Unionist	0	0	0		0.0	2,147	0.3	0.3
	Ecology	0	0	0		0.0	281	0.04	0.04
Total		17					726,718	67.4

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