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All 20 seats toNorth Down Borough Council 11 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||
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Elections toNorth Down Borough Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the otherNorthern Irish local governmentelections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 20councillors.
The elections were the first following the reorganisation of local government in Northern Ireland, brought about by theLocal Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 &Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972, which replaced the previous FPTP ward system with a new system of proportional representation using multi-member district electoral areas.
| Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UUP | 9 | 11,977 | 46.0 | |||
| Alliance | 7 | 7,691 | 29.5 | |||
| Loyalist | 4 | 4,638 | 17.8 | |||
| Independent | 0 | 1,282 | 4.9 | |||
| Ind. Unionist | 0 | 315 | 1.2 | |||
| NI Labour | 0 | 148 | 0.6 | |||
| Totals | 20 | 26,393 | 100.0 | — | ||
| Ward | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | Total Cllrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UUP | Alliance | Others | |||||
| Area A | 57.5 | 3 | 31.0 | 2 | 11.5 | 0 | 5 |
| Area B | 44.5 | 2 | 21.5 | 1 | 34.0 | 2 | 5 |
| Area C | 38.2 | 2 | 28.8 | 2 | 33.0 | 1 | 5 |
| Area D | 42.6 | 2 | 36.9 | 2 | 20.5 | 1 | 5 |
| Total | 46.0 | 9 | 29.5 | 7 | 24.5 | 4 | 20 |
1973: 3 x UUP, 2 x Alliance
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| UUP | Robert Topping | 25.99% | 1,786 | ||||||||
| UUP | Maurice Butler | 14.20% | 976 | 1,180.8 | |||||||
| Alliance | Bertie McConnell | 15.35% | 1,055 | 1,090.35 | 1,102.55 | 1,103.99 | 1,109.49 | 1,248.49 | |||
| UUP | Edmund Mills | 8.08% | 555 | 686.95 | 800.25 | 804.09 | 832.96 | 845.8 | 848.96 | 1,279.96 | |
| Alliance | James Hamilton | 10.26% | 705 | 727.05 | 731.1 | 731.48 | 740.58 | 926.39 | 1,052 | 1,166.93 | |
| Loyalist | Thomas Barkley | 6.46% | 444 | 452.4 | 460.45 | 460.63 | 740.92 | 744.97 | 744.97 | 837.39 | |
| UUP | Robert McCready | 7.19% | 494 | 615.1 | 693.05 | 698.13 | 729.98 | 741.12 | 743.49 | ||
| Alliance | Anne Mayne | 5.43% | 373 | 377.9 | 385.35 | 385.49 | 388.86 | ||||
| Loyalist | Campbell McCormick | 4.17% | 344 | 365.7 | 372.45 | 372.69 | |||||
| UUP | James Warden | 2.02% | 139 | 232.1 | |||||||
| Electorate: 9,818 Valid: 6,871 (69.99%) Spoilt: 64 Quota: 1,146 Turnout: 6,935 (70.64%) | |||||||||||
1973: 2 x UUP, 2 x Loyalist, 1 x Alliance
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| UUP | John Preston | 19.24% | 1,276 | |||||||||
| Loyalist | George Green | 14.09% | 934 | 962 | 969.02 | 973.28 | 990.49 | 1,316.49 | ||||
| Alliance | James Magee | 8.16% | 541 | 543 | 546.64 | 783.68 | 804.02 | 821.41 | 824.76 | 1,415.76 | ||
| UUP | Amy Corry | 10.83% | 718 | 722 | 760.22 | 765.48 | 892.35 | 930.38 | 941.77 | 956.42 | 1,121.22 | |
| Loyalist | Thomas Braniff | 10.33% | 685 | 754 | 757.9 | 762.03 | 771.55 | 898.37 | 1,080.61 | 1,090.06 | 1,114.86 | |
| UUP | Arminella McMullan | 8.34% | 553 | 553 | 586.28 | 591.93 | 869.78 | 907.77 | 919.16 | 929.81 | 1,047.41 | |
| Alliance | Clifford Creighton | 8.20% | 544 | 544 | 545.69 | 624.21 | 629.47 | 635.99 | 636.66 | |||
| Loyalist | Bruce Mulligan | 7.51% | 498 | 526 | 532.89 | 535.89 | 561.92 | |||||
| UUP | Mary Norman | 6.09% | 404 | 407 | 474.21 | 483.47 | ||||||
| Alliance | Denis Mayne | 5.16% | 342 | 344 | 347.12 | |||||||
| Loyalist | Thomas O'Brien | 2.05% | 136 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 10,509 Valid: 6,631 (63.10%) Spoilt: 112 Quota: 1,106 Turnout: 6,743 (64.16%) | ||||||||||||
1973: 2 x Alliance, 2 x UUP, 1 x Loyalist
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| UUP | Robert Campbell | 21.86% | 1,352 | ||||||||
| UUP | David Belshaw | 11.95% | 739 | 853.17 | 864.23 | 868.69 | 879.92 | 887.84 | 1,040.65 | ||
| Alliance | John Calvert | 12.76% | 789 | 797.05 | 808.05 | 844.05 | 844.05 | 975.43 | 988.58 | 1,080.58 | |
| Loyalist | Mary O'Fee | 10.32% | 638 | 655.94 | 672.4 | 677.63 | 941.7 | 943.93 | 966.46 | 1,071.46 | |
| Alliance | Jean Foster | 11.06% | 684 | 695.73 | 726.73 | 793.96 | 799.42 | 974.88 | 989.41 | 1,044.82 | |
| Independent | James Stark | 8.18% | 506 | 522.56 | 546.79 | 573.79 | 577.02 | 588.71 | 614.7 | 735.76 | |
| Ind. Unionist | Henry Garner | 5.09% | 315 | 376.64 | 380.87 | 383.87 | 390.56 | 397.56 | 534.55 | ||
| UUP | Henry Patton | 4.43% | 274 | 342.08 | 347.77 | 347.77 | 351.23 | 356.46 | |||
| Alliance | Thomas Rollins | 5.01% | 310 | 313.91 | 328.91 | 341.91 | 341.91 | ||||
| Loyalist | Christopher Millar | 4.62% | 286 | 290.14 | 294.14 | 296.14 | |||||
| NI Labour | Harold Parkhill | 2.39% | 148 | 148.92 | 170.92 | ||||||
| Independent | Brian Wilson | 2.31% | 143 | 145.3 | |||||||
| Electorate: 9,067 Valid: 6,184 (68.20%) Spoilt: 53 Quota: 1,031 Turnout: 6,237 (68.79%) | |||||||||||
1973: 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x Loyalist
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| UUP | John Auld | 14.89% | 948 | 959 | 967 | 1,022 | 1,152 | ||||||
| Alliance | Keith Jones | 16.09% | 1,024 | 1,030 | 1,031 | 1,033 | 1,046 | 1,261 | |||||
| Alliance | James Shannon | 14.49% | 922 | 937 | 940 | 953 | 972 | 1,122 | |||||
| UUP | Kathleen McClure | 12.24% | 779 | 785 | 792 | 866 | 942 | 951 | 995 | 1,049.76 | 1,066.76 | ||
| Loyalist | Ian Kerr | 7.24% | 461 | 467 | 652 | 659 | 671 | 677 | 683 | 690.4 | 692.9 | 894.54 | |
| Independent | Henry McCourt | 8.48% | 540 | 573 | 575 | 576 | 578 | 599 | 695 | 696.48 | 729.48 | 881.18 | |
| UUP | David McCormick | 7.53% | 479 | 482 | 491 | 549 | 586 | 599 | 627 | 653.64 | 661.14 | ||
| Alliance | John Marks | 6.32% | 402 | 405 | 406 | 411 | 416 | ||||||
| UUP | Maurice Davison | 4.27% | 272 | 272 | 275 | 294 | |||||||
| UUP | Richard Thompson | 3.66% | 233 | 233 | 235 | ||||||||
| Loyalist | Arthur Millar | 3.33% | 212 | 222 | |||||||||
| Independent | Francis McKeag | 1.46% | 93 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 9,077 Valid: 6,365 (70.12%) Spoilt: 113 Quota: 1,061 Turnout: 6,478 (71.37%) | |||||||||||||