Elections to Strabane District Council were held on 7 June 2001 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="" | SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Derg |bgcolor="#008800"|42.5 |bgcolor="#008800"|2 |11.3 |1 |21.5 |1 |24.7 |1 |0.0 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Glenelly |24.4 |1 |17.9 |1 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|34.6 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |23.1 |1 |0.0 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Mourne |bgcolor="#008800"|50.3 |bgcolor="#008800"|4 |27.1 |2 |4.9 |0 |5.3 |0 |12.4 |0 |6 |- |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |40.2 |7 |19.4 |4 |18.9 |3 |16.7 |2 |4.8 |0 |16

District results

Derg

1997: 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 2001: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 1997-2001 Change: Sinn Féin gain from UUP

Glenelly

1997: 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP 2001: 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP 1997-2001 Change: No change

Mourne

1997: 3 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Independent Nationalist 2001: 4 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP 1997-2001 Change: Sinn Féin (two seats) gain from SDLP and Independent Nationalist

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