1993 Strabane District Council election explained

See main article: Northern Ireland local elections, 1993.

Election Name:	1993 Strabane District Council election
Type:	parliamentary
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1989 Strabane District Council election
Previous Year:	1989
Next Election:	1997 Strabane District Council election
Next Year:	1997
Seats For Election:	All 16 seats to Strabane District Council
Majority Seats:	9
Party1:	Social Democratic and Labour Party
Seats1:	5
Seat Change1:	2
Party2:	Ulster Unionist Party
Seats2:	4
Seat Change2:	1
Party3:	Democratic Unionist Party
Seats3:	3
Seat Change3:	0
Party4:	Sinn Féin
Seats4:	2
Seat Change4:	0
Party5:	Independent Nationalist
Seats5:	1
Seat Change5:	1
Party6:	Independent Unionist
Seats6:	1
Seat Change6:	0
Party7:	Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Seats7:	0
Seat Change7:	1

Elections to Strabane District Council were held on 19 May 1993 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 16 councillors.

Election results

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

Districts summary

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

Others|-|align="left"|Derg|20.0|1|19.0|1|bgcolor="#D46A4C"|26.2|bgcolor="#D46A4C"|1|24.3|1|10.5|1|5|-|align="left"|Glenelly|22.9|1|24.9|2|bgcolor="#D46A4C"|35.7|bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2|8.8|0|7.7|0|5|-|align="left"|Mourne|bgcolor="#99FF66"|38.3|bgcolor="#99FF66"|3|16.3|1|0.0|0|29.0|1|16.4|1|6|-|- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9"|align="left"| Total|27.3|5|19.9|4|19.9|3|21.1|3|11.8|1|16|-|}

District results

Derg

1989: 1 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Unionist
1993: 1 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Unionist
1989-1993 Change: No change

Glenelly

1989: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance
1993: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP
1989-1993 Change: UUP gain from Alliance

Mourne

1989: 2 x Independent Nationalist, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP
1993: 3 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1989-1993 Change: SDLP (two seats) gain from Independent Nationalist and due to the addition of one seat