1998 Assembly Election
Electorate: 69,426. Poll: 64.24 per cent Total valid poll: 43,991. Quota: 6,285. Six seats.
First preference voting:
Jim Wilson (UUP) Pro-Agreement, elected: 6,691 votes. Wilson Clyde (DUP) elected: 6,034. Norman Boyd (UKUP) Anti-Agreement, elected: 4,360. Donovan McClelland (SDLP), elected: 4,309. Duncan Shipley-Dalton (UUP) ProAgreement, elected: 4,147. David Ford (Alliance) elected: 3,778. Tommy Burns (SDLP): 3,474. Martin Meehan (Sinn Fein): 3,226. Stuart Deignan (DUP): 2,816. John Hunter (UUP) Anti-Agreement: 2,337. Ken Wilkinson (PUP) Pro-Agreement: 1,546. Joan Cosgrove (Women's Coalition) Pro-Agreement: 1,108. Oliver Frawley (NI Labour): 137. George Stidolph (Natural Law Party): 28
1997 Westminster General Election
Electorate: 69,512. Poll: 57.8 per cent.
Clifford Forsythe (UUP) elected: 23,108. Donovan McClelland (SDLP): 6,497. David Ford (Alliance): 4,668. Hugh Smyth (PUP): 3,490. Henry Cushnihan (Sinn Fein): 2,229. Barbara Briggs (NLP): 203.