Elections to Newtownabbey 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="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Antrim Line |bgcolor="#40BFF5"|27.2 |bgcolor="#40BFF5"|2 |22.2 |2 |19.2 |2 |5.2 |0 |13.4 |1 |12.8 |0 |7 |- |align="left"|Ballyclare |bgcolor="#40BFF5"|42.8 |bgcolor="#40BFF5"|3 |38.3 |2 |0.0 |0 |10.1 |0 |0.0 |0 |8.8 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Macedon |11.2 |1 |27.3 |2 |0.0 |0 |2.4 |0 |5.0 |0 |bgcolor="#DDDDDD"|54.1 |bgcolor="#DDDDDD"|3 |6 |- |align="left"|University |bgcolor="#40BFF5"|33.6 |bgcolor="#40BFF5"|3 |22.7 |2 |0.0 |0 |13.1 |1 |0.0 |0 |30.6 |1 |7 |- |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |29.2 |9 |26.8 |8 |5.7 |2 |8.0 |1 |5.0 |1 |25.3 |4 |25
Districts results
Antrim Line
1997: 3 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x Newtownabbey Ratepayers 2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin 1997-2001 Change: DUP, SDLP and Sinn Féin gain from UUP, Alliance and Newtownabbey Ratepayers
Ballyclare
1997: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance 2001: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP 1997-2001 Change: DUP gain from Alliance
Macedon
1997: 2 x Newtownabbey Labour, 1 x UUP, 1 x UDP, 1 x Newtownabbey Ratepayers, 1 x Independent Unionist 2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x Independent, 1 x UUP, 1 x Newtownabbey Ratepayers 1997-2001 Change: DUP (two seats) gain from Newtownabbey Labour and Independent Unionist, Newtownabbey Labour and UDP become Independent
University
1997: 3 x UUP, 2 x Independent Unionist, 1 x Alliance, 1 x PUP 2001: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x United Unionist 1997-2001 Change: DUP (two seats) gain from PUP and Independent Unionist, Independent Unionist joins United Unionist
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