On 7 June 2001, the 2001 United Kingdom general election was held in Northern Ireland, to elect all 659 members of the House of Commons, including the 18 Northern Ireland seats. 1,191,009 people were eligible to vote, up 13,040 from the 1997 general election. 68.63% of eligible voters turned out (when including spoiled and excluded ballots), up 1.2 percentage points from the last general election.
The election resulted in a reduction in the share of vote and the number of seats won by the Ulster Unionist Party, though the UUP did remain the largest political party in Northern Ireland, and even managed to regain the seats of South Antrim after it was lost in a by-election in 2000 to the Democratic Unionist Party and North Down from the UK Unionist Party. The Social Democratic and Labour Party also suffered from a reduction in their share of the vote – ending in fourth place from second place at the last general election – though the SDLP did not lose any seats. Both the DUP and Sinn Féin increased their share of the vote as well as their number of seats.
Results
Below is a table summarising the results of the UK general election in Northern Ireland.
+PartySeatsAggregate Votes Total Gains LossesNetOf all (%)Total Of all (%)Difference 6 1 5 4 33.3 216,839 26.8 5.9 5 3 0 3 27.8 181,999 22.5 8.9 4 2 0 2 22.2 175,933 21.7 5.6 3 0 0 16.7 169,865 21.0 3.1 0 0 0 0.0 28,999 3.6 4.4 0 0 1 1 0.0 13,509 1.7 0.1 0 0 0 0.0 4,781 0.6 0.8 0 0 0 0.0 2,968 0.4 0 0 0 0.0 2,422 0.3 0.9 0 0 0 0.0 2,352 0.3 0 colspan="3" 0.0 1,794 0.2 0 0 0 0.0 418 0.1 Others 0 0 0 0.0 8,495 0.8 0.5 Total 18 810,374 68.0 0.9
See also 2001 United Kingdom general election in England 2001 United Kingdom general election in Scotland 2001 United Kingdom general election in Wales
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