Elections to North Down Borough Council were held on 7 June 2001 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 25 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 ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2|TotalCllrs |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UKUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | NIWC !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Abbey |bgcolor="40BFF5"|30.0 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|2 |17.1 |1 |22.4 |2 |13.1 |1 |0.0 |1 |17.4 |0 |6 |- |align="left"| Ballyholme and Groomsport |23.6 |2 |12.4 |1 |11.3 |1 |8.2 |0 |6.4 |1 |bgcolor="#DDDDDD"|38.1 |bgcolor="#DDDDDD"|2 |7 |- |align="left"|Bangor West |bgcolor="40BFF5"|27.8 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|2 |19.1 |2 |10.8 |1 |14.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |28.3 |1 |7 |- |align="left"|Holywood |bgcolor="40BFF5"|30.0 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|2 |24.6 |1 |15.0 |1 |0.0 |0 |8.3 |0 |22.1 |1 |5 |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |27.3 |8 |17.6 |5 |14.3 |5 |9.3 |2 |3.6 |1 |27.9 |4 |25
Districts results
Abbey
1997: 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UKUP, 1 x Conservative, 1 x DUP, 1 x PUP 2001: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UKUP 1997-2001 Change: UUP and DUP gain from Conservative and PUP
Ballyholme and Groomsport
1997: 2 x UUP, 2 x Independent Unionist, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Conservative, 1 x UKUP 2001: 2 x UUP, 2 x Independent, 1 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x Women's Coalition 1997-2001 Change: DUP and Women's Coalition gain from Conservative and UKUP, Independent Unionists (two seats) become Independent
Bangor West
1997: 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UKUP, 1 x PUP, 1 x Independent 2001: 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UKUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent 1997-2001 Change: DUP gain from PUP
Holywood
1997: 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent 2001: 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent 1997-2001 Change: UUP gain from Alliance
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