1993 Armagh District Council election explained

See main article: 1993 Northern Ireland local elections.

Election Name:	1993 Armagh District Council election
Type:	parliamentary
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1989 Armagh District Council election
Previous Year:	1989
Next Election:	1997 Armagh City and District Council election
Next Year:	1997
Seats For Election:	All 22 seats to Armagh District Council
Majority Seats:	12
Party1:	Ulster Unionist Party
Seats1:	10
Seat Change1:	1
Party2:	Social Democratic and Labour Party
Seats2:	9
Seat Change2:	1
Party3:	Democratic Unionist Party
Seats3:	2
Party4:	Sinn Féin
Seats4:	1

Elections to Armagh District Council were held on 19 May 1993 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

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

Districts summary

|- class="unsortable" align="centre"!rowspan=2 align="left"|Ward! %
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|- class="unsortable" align="center"!colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP!colspan=2 bgcolor="" | SDLP!colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP!colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin!colspan=2 bgcolor="white"|

Others|-|align="left"|Armagh City|26.5|2|bgcolor="#99FF66"|46.7|bgcolor="#99FF66"|3|11.2|0|15.6|1|0.0|0|6|-|align="left"|Crossmore|31.0|1|bgcolor="#99FF66"|59.7|bgcolor="#99FF66"|4|0.0|0|9.3|0|0.0|0|5|-|align="left"|Cusher|bgcolor="40BFF5"|66.5|bgcolor="40BFF5"|4|15.8|1|14.3|1|3.4|0|0.0|0|6|-|align="left"|The Orchard|bgcolor="40BFF5"|49.9|bgcolor="40BFF5"|3|24.1|1|20.1|1|5.9|0|0.0|0|5|- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9"|align="left"| Total|44.5|10|35.6|9|11.5|2|8.4|1|0.0|0|22|-|}

District results

Armagh City

1989: 3 x SDLP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin
1993: 3 x SDLP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin
1989-1993 Change: No change

Crossmore

1989: 3 x SDLP, 2 x UUP
1993: 4 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
1989-1993 Change: SDLP gain from UUP

Cusher

1989: 4 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP
1993: 4 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP
1989-1993 Change: No change

The Orchard

1989: 3 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP
1993: 3 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP
1989-1993 Change: No change