Elections to Strabane District Council were held on 5 May 2005 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 16 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 !rowspan=2|TotalCllrs |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Derg |bgcolor="#008800"|43.5 |bgcolor="#008800"|3 |28.4 |1 |8.7 |0 |18.3 |1 |1.1 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Glenelly |28.0 |1 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|42.4 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |14.2 |1 |15.3 |1 |0.0 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Mourne |bgcolor="#008800"|50.3 |bgcolor="#008800"|4 |0.0 |0 |23.6 |1 |9.4 |0 |16.7 |1 |6 |- |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |41.8 |8 |22.2 |3 |15.9 |2 |14.1 |2 |6.0 |1 |16
District results
Derg
2001: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP 2005: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP 2001-2005 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP
Glenelly
2001: 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP 2005: 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP 2001-2005 Change: No change
Mourne
2001: 4 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP 2005: 4 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent 2001-2005 Change: Independent gain from SDLP
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