Elections in The 1990s
| General Election 1997: Lagan Valley | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Ulster Unionist | Jeffrey Donaldson | 24,560 | 55.4 | −5.4 | |
| Alliance | Seamus Close | 7,635 | 17.2 | +4.5 | |
| Democratic Unionist | Edwin Poots | 6,005 | 13.6 | N/A | |
| SDLP | Dolores Kelly | 3,436 | 7.8 | −1.7 | |
| Conservative | Stuart Sexton | 1,212 | 2.7 | −6.3 | |
| Sinn Féin | Sue Ramsey | 1,110 | 2.5 | +0.4 | |
| Workers' Party | Frances McCarthy | 203 | 0.5 | −0.7 | |
| Natural Law | Hugh Finlay | 149 | 0.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 16,925 | 38.2 | |||
| Turnout | 44,310 | 62.2 | |||
| Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | −5.0 | |||
| General Election 1992: Lagan Valley | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Molyneaux | 29,772 | 60.8 | −9.2 | |
| Alliance | Seamus Close | 6,207 | 12.7 | −1.1 | |
| SDLP | Hugh Lewsley | 4,626 | 9.5 | +2.6 | |
| Conservative | Timothy Coleridge | 4,423 | 9.0 | N/A | |
| Sinn Féin | Patrick Rice | 3,346 | 6.8 | +0.4 | |
| Workers' Party | Ann Marie Lowry | 582 | 1.2 | −1.7 | |
| Majority | 23,565 | 48.1 | |||
| Turnout | 48,956 | 67.3 | |||
| Ulster Unionist hold | Swing | ||||
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