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17 seats in Northern Ireland of the 650 seats in theHouse of Commons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
| Party | Seats | Aggregate Votes | |||||||
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| 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 | ||||||
| Constituency | Date | Incumbent | Party | Winner | Party | Cause | ||
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| Upper Bann | 17 May 1990 | Harold McCusker | UUP | David Trimble | UUP | Death | ||
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