Elections to Omagh District Council were held on 17 May 1989 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 21 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="" | SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Mid Tyrone |17.4 |1 |bgcolor="#008800"|34.8 |bgcolor="#008800"|3 |20.7 |2 |10.5 |0 |16.6 |1 |7 |- |align="left"|Omagh Town |bgcolor="#99FF66"|36.6 |bgcolor="#99FF66"|3 |13.8 |1 |15.5 |1 |21.7 |2 |12.4 |1 |7 |- |align="left"|West Tyrone |26.6 |2 |23.9 |2 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|28.2 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|2 |14.3 |1 |7.0 |0 |7 |- |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |26.1 |6 |24.9 |6 |21.9 |5 |15.1 |3 |12.0 |1 |21
District results
Mid Tyrone
1985: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x IIP 1989: 3 x Sinn Féin, 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Nationalist 1985-1989 Change: UUP gain from DUP, Independent Nationalist leaves IIP
Omagh Town
1985: 2 x SDLP, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Independent Labour 1989: 3 x SDLP, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin 1985-1989 Change: Independent Labour joins SDLP
West Tyrone
1985: 2 x UUP, 2 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP 1989: 2 x UUP, 2 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP 1985-1989 Change: No change
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