Elections to Craigavon 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 26 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="" | SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Craigavon Central |bgcolor="40BFF5"|29.5 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|2 |16.4 |2 |24.3 |2 |16.9 |1 |3.6 |0 |9.3 |0 |7 |- |align="left"|Loughside |4.9 |0 |bgcolor="#99FF66"|47.1 |bgcolor="#99FF66"|3 |2.9 |0 |45.1 |2 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Lurgan |bgcolor="40BFF5"|47.1 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|4 |7.7 |1 |33.3 |2 |6.8 |0 |0.0 |0 |5.1 |0 |7 |- |align="left"|Portadown |26.9 |2 |12.8 |1 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|27.2 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |20.2 |1 |2.8 |0 |10.1 |1 |7 |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |28.1 |8 |20.0 |7 |22.6 |6 |21.3 |4 |1.6 |0 |6.4 |1 |26
District results
Craigavon Central
1997: 3 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Alliance 2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin 1997-2001 Change: DUP and SDLP gain from UUP and Alliance
Loughside
1997: 4 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin 2001: 3 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin 1997-2001 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP
Lurgan
1997: 5 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 2001: 4 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 1997-2001 Change: DUP gain from UUP
Portadown
1997: 3 x UUP, 2 x Independent Nationalist, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent 1997-2001 Change: DUP, Sinn Féin and Independent gain from UUP and Independent Nationalist (two seats)
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