Northern Ireland local elections, 1973
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Local government in Northern Ireland
Local government in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is divided into 26 districts for local government purposes. In Northern Ireland local councils do not carry out the same range of functions as those in the rest of the United Kingdom, for example they have no responsibility for education, for road building or for housing...

 was reorganised in 1973 by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971
Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971
The Local Government Act 1971 was an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, passed in 1971 to replace the previous system of local authorities established by the Local Government Act 1898...

 and the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972
Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972
The Local Government Act 1972 was an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland that constituted district councils to administer the twenty-six local government districts created by the Local Government Act 1971, and abolished the existing local authorities in Northern Ireland.-District...

. The county council
County council
A county council is the elected administrative body governing an area known as a county. This term has slightly different meanings in different countries.-United Kingdom:...

s, county borough
County borough
County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control. They were abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales, but continue in use for lieutenancy and shrievalty in...

 and municipal borough
Municipal borough
Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002...

 corporations and urban
Urban district
In the England, Wales and Ireland, an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected Urban District Council , which shared local government responsibilities with a county council....

 and rural district
Rural district
Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the administrative counties.-England and Wales:In England...

 councils were replaced by twenty-six local government districts
Districts of Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is divided into 26 districts for local government purposes. In Northern Ireland local councils do not carry out the same range of functions as those in the rest of the United Kingdom, for example they have no responsibility for education, for road building or for housing...

.

Elections took place for all the seats on the district councils on 30 May 1973. Elections were by proportional representation
Proportional representation
Proportional representation is a concept in voting systems used to elect an assembly or council. PR means that the number of seats won by a party or group of candidates is proportionate to the number of votes received. For example, under a PR voting system if 30% of voters support a particular...

, using the single transferable vote
Single transferable vote
The single transferable vote is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through preferential voting. Under STV, an elector's vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate, and then, after candidates have been either elected or eliminated, any surplus or...

 system. The district councils came into their powers on 1 October.

Overall

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Party Councillors Votes
Total +/- % share Total
194 N/A 17.0 255,187
63 N/A 13.7 94,474
82 N/A 13.4 92,600
52 N/A 7.0 48,947
26 N/A 4.4 31,866
United Loyalist 20 N/A 4.2 28,906
21 N/A 4.1 28,811
8 N/A 3.0 20,680
4 N/A 2.5 17,422
16 N/A 1.4 17,360
10 N/A 1.6 13,305
6 N/A 1.5 10,281
Loyalist Coalition 3 N/A 1.0 7,495
4 N/A 0.5 3,784
3 N/A 0.4 3,036
0 N/A 0.4 2,594
3 N/A 0.2 1,911
0 N/A 0.1 704
1 N/A 0.1 841
1 N/A 0.1 533
0 N/A 0.1 363
0 N/A 0.0 290
0 N/A 0.0 147
0 N/A 0.0 91

Belfast

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Belfast A
Party Candidate 1st Pref
Grace Bannister
Grace Bannister
Grace Bannister, OBE, was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Bannister was elected to Belfast Corporation in 1965, representing the Ulster Unionist Party . She stood as an independent Unionist in Belfast South at the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973, after failing to secure an...

6,328
Ben Horan 2,768
T. Gildea 1,598
W. Blair 1,498
Erskine Holmes 1,337
W. H. Elliot 1,322
Cllr Carson 1,315
Ben Caraher 1,302
United Loyalist Dougherty 1,198
Thomas Wright 1,158
John McKeown 1,021
Greene 874
Sam Edgerton 702
Dunbar 546
Keenan 432
Hopkirk 430
Murray 421
Loyalist Coalition Lindsay Mason 271
Maguire 192
Moore 101
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

25,174

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Belfast B
Party Candidate 1st Pref
Joshua Cardwell
Joshua Cardwell
Joshua Cardwell was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Belfast and educated locally, Cardwell worked as the manager of a coal importing firm. In 1952 he was elected to Belfast City Council for Victoria Ward and later became an Alderman...

6,708
John Allen 3,910
United Loyalist H. K. Dickey 3,371
Michael Brown 2,549
Tommy Patton 1,833
William Corry 1,488
Dorothy Dunlop
Dorothy Dunlop
Dorothy Dunlop is a former Ulster Unionist and Conservative politician.Dunlop worked in the Arts Council in London and the for BBC Northern Ireland...

1,428
D. Wonnacott 1,205
H. Cranston 1,085
Coulson 878
W. J. Gunning 631
Miller 534
Conway 507
Kirkpatrick 332
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

26,788

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Belfast C
Party Candidate 1st Pref
J. Webster 2,770
John William Kennedy
John William Kennedy
John William Kennedy was an Ulster Unionist member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland. He represented Belfast Cromac from 1962-1973....

2,611
W. D. Gilmore 2,522
F. J. McGibben 2,247
David Cook
David Cook (politician)
David Cook is a former politician in Northern Ireland.Cook works as a solicitor, eventually becoming a senior partner at Sheldon and Stewart Solicitors....

2,241
United Loyalist McNarry 1,693
Preston 1,404
Muriel Pritchard 1,172
M. O. Scott 948
Brian Garrett 817
W. H. Jeffrey 731
McDonough 681
Donaghy 610
Callaghan 503
Copley 186
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

21,346

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Belfast D
Party Candidate 1st Pref
J. Gillespie 2,306
Desmond O'Donnell 1,332
P. D. Corrie 1,159
Wilson 1,080
Shaw 1,045
J. P. McCarron 871
Reginald Donnelly 822
John Brady 758
McAllister 684
Raymond O'Hagan 649
McGrogan 569
McKenna 530
O'Connor 524
Barnes 360
Bernard McDonagh 340
Slavin 332
Hannon 326
McElroy 276
McNamee 256
Flanigan 241
Watson 169
Moyna 109
Lavelle 90
McDermott 86
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

15,915

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Belfast E
Party Candidate 1st Pref
William Christie 7,875
Fred Proctor 2,156
Hugh Smyth
Hugh Smyth
Cllr Hugh Smyth is a former leader of the Progressive Unionist Party. He is a long-serving member of Belfast City Council and former Lord Mayor of Belfast. He is also the longest-serving member of the council, having represented the Upper Shankill areas since 1973...

2,145
Billy Boyd
Billy Boyd (politician)
Billy Boyd was a politician from Northern Ireland.Boyd worked in the shipyards of Belfast and became active in the Northern Ireland Labour Party and stood unsuccessfully in Belfast Woodvale in the Northern Ireland general election, 1953, then again in a 1955 by-election...

1,758
James Robinson 1,452
United Loyalist D. Smylie 1,210
Goan 1,012
Fleming 842
Hoy 514
Tanney 432
G. Chambers 264
Moore 88
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

20,015

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Belfast F
Party Candidate 1st Pref
H. Fletcher 3,441
James Stewart 3,320
Paddy Devlin
Paddy Devlin
Paddy Devlin was a Northern Irish social democrat and Labour activist, a former Stormont MP, a founder of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and a member of the 1974 Power Sharing Executive.-Early life:...

2,242
William Spence 1,190
T. G. Murphy 1,000
John Sullivan 735
S. O'Hare 700
Dornan 560
Sean Flynn 538
Owen Allen 475
Maureen Smyth 370
Magee 232
Desmond Gillespie
Desmond Gillespie
Desmond Gillespie was an Irish nationalist politician.Born in Kilnaleck, County Cavan, Gillespie worked as a publican in Belfast before joining the Social Democratic and Labour Party . He stood for Belfast City Council at the 1973 local elections, but was not elected...

230
Woods 230
W. Ritchie 165
Clarke 129
Betty Sinclair
Betty Sinclair
Betty Sinclair was an Irish communist activist.Born to a Protestant family in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, Sinclair became a mill worker and joined the Revolutionary Workers’ Group in 1932. In 1933, she was involved in the Outdoor Relief Strike...

110
McKenna 72
Marron 29
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

16,390

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Belfast G
Party Candidate 1st Pref
M. Laird 3,632
Herbert Ditty
Herbert Ditty
Herbert Ditty was a lifelong Ulster Unionist politician, representing the Shankill Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland.Ditty was a founding member of the Ulster Protestant Action executive in the 1950s....

3,556
Gerry Fitt
Gerry Fitt
Gerard Fitt, Baron Fitt was a politician in Northern Ireland. He was a founder and the first leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party , a social democratic and Irish nationalist party.-Early years:...

2,876
H. H. Kidd 2,651
Sammy Millar 2,291
M. J. V. McKeown 572
John McAlea 376
Boyle 368
McGlade 291
Kitty O'Kane 193
Pakenham 182
S. O'Hare 174
Jack Sharkey 132
Saunders 52
Scullion 19
Rigby 13
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

17,895

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Belfast H
Party Candidate 1st Pref
John Carson
John Carson (politician)
John Carson is a former Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politician.A draper who owned a shop in the interface area of the Duncairn Gardens in north Belfast, Carson was elected to Belfast City Council in 1973. The following year he was elected as a member of the United Ulster Unionist...

5,518
Frank Millar
Frank Millar
Frank Millar was a Northern Irish unionist politician.Millar worked in the shipyards, where he became a shop steward, before becoming a founder member of Ulster Protestant Action in 1956....

3,993
Thomas Donnelly 2,667
John Ferguson
John Ferguson (Northern Ireland politician)
John Ferguson was a politician in Northern Ireland.Ferguson was born in Belfast and studied at the Moravian School. He worked as a fruit merchant, becoming chairman of the Retail Fruit Federation of Northern Ireland, and also as a volunteer social workers within Toc H, then joined the Ulster...

2,271
Myles Humphreys
Myles Humphreys
Sir Myles Humphreys, JP, DL was a Northern Irish Ulster Unionist Party politician and activist, and an engineer and businessman....

1,935
Shannon 1,263
H. E. Smith 1,245
McManus 974
David M. Riddelsdell 967
Mary Creighton 730
Lantin 700
Lavery 689
Barbour 432
Simpson 407
Boyd 327
Loughran 277
R. A. Smith 172
McAuley 129
Daly 115
Turnout
Voter turnout
Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

25,144
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