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Elections to Craigavon Borough Council were held on 18 May 1977 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 25 councillors.
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulster Unionist | 10 | 1 | 1 |  0 | 40.0 | 31.4 | 8,827 |  5.5 | |
| SDLP | 6 | 4 | 0 |  4 | 24.0 | 23.4 | 6,595 | 16.7 | |
| DUP | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 16.0 | 17.3 | 4,871 | 5.7 | |
| Alliance | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12.0 | 11.3 | 3,173 | 4.7 | |
| UUUP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4.0 | 6.8 | 1,907 | New | |
| Republican Clubs | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4.0 | 5.6 | 1,578 | 0.4 | |
| Vanguard | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 2.1 | 599 | 13.9 | |
| Unionist Party NI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 426 | New | |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 167 | 0.6 | |
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
| Ward | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | % | Cllrs | Total Cllrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UUP | SDLP | DUP | Alliance | UUUP | RC | Others | |||||||||
| Area A | 14.5 | 1 | 45.9 | 3 | 12.8 | 0 | 10.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 16.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 5 |
| Area B | 38.2 | 3 | 17.3 | 1 | 19.1 | 1 | 17.9 | 2 | 3.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 3.7 | 0 | 7 |
| Area C | 21.5 | 2 | 28.5 | 2 | 9.7 | 1 | 10.8 | 1 | 7.8 | 0 | 9.5 | 0 | 12.2 | 0 | 6 |
| Area D | 46.0 | 4 | 8.9 | 0 | 26.0 | 2 | 5.9 | 0 | 13.2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 7 |
| Total | 31.4 | 10 | 23.4 | 6 | 17.3 | 4 | 11.3 | 3 | 6.8 | 1 | 5.6 | 1 | 4.2 | 0 | 25 |
1973: 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1977: 3 x SDLP, 1 x Republican Clubs, 1 x UUP
1973-1977 Change: SDLP and Republican Clubs gain from Alliance and DUP, Independent Nationalist joins SDLP
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| SDLP | James McDonald * | 18.68% | 1,013 | ||||||
| SDLP | Sean McCavanagh | 16.56% | 898 | 964.4 | |||||
| Republican Clubs | Malachy McGurran | 16.00% | 868 | 875.5 | 877.5 | 882.72 | 1,072.72 | ||
| SDLP | Patrick Crilly* | 10.71% | 581 | 595.6 | 596.7 | 646.83 | 916.83 | ||
| Ulster Unionist | James Gillespie | 8.19% | 444 | 444.5 | 723.6 | 723.6 | 751.69 | 767.69 | |
| DUP | Frederick Baird* | 12.83% | 696 | 696.2 | 737.6 | 737.6 | 740.97 | 742.97 | |
| Alliance | Donnell Deeny* | 10.75% | 583 | 591.3 | 601.4 | 605.27 | |||
| Ulster Unionist | Eric McKeown | 6.29% | 341 | 341.8 | |||||
| Electorate: 8,541 Valid: 5,424 (63.51%) Spoilt: 321 Quota: 905 Turnout: 5,745 (67.26%) | |||||||||
1973: 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 2 x Vanguard, 1 x Independent Unionist
1977: 3 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1973-1977 Change: DUP and SDLP gain from Vanguard (two seats), Independent Unionist joins UUP
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||
| Ulster Unionist | Herbert Whitten * | 25.60% | 1,863 | ||||||||||||
| Ulster Unionist | John Wright* | 6.28% | 457 | 919.57 | |||||||||||
| Ulster Unionist | Alan Locke* | 6.32% | 460 | 779.66 | 808.21 | 812.76 | 834.33 | 931.33 | |||||||
| DUP | Gladys McCullough | 7.50% | 546 | 562.83 | 565.83 | 593.34 | 682.91 | 712.03 | 910.03 | ||||||
| SDLP | Daniel Murphy | 11.05% | 804 | 804 | 804 | 804 | 804 | 804 | 804 | 1,203 | |||||
| Alliance | Sean Hagan* | 11.31% | 823 | 827.08 | 834.08 | 835.08 | 841.08 | 850.08 | 854.08 | 900.08 | 1,130.63 | ||||
| Alliance | William Ramsay* | 6.64% | 483 | 511.56 | 511.56 | 516.56 | 525.56 | 559.17 | 570.25 | 577.25 | 637.28 | 788.66 | 797.66 | 800.42 | |
| DUP | James Forsythe | 6.84% | 498 | 508.71 | 510.22 | 519.73 | 561.81 | 605.95 | 782.21 | 783.21 | 784.08 | 784.08 | 795.96 | 798.19 | |
| SDLP | Mary Mackle | 6.28% | 457 | 457 | 457 | 458 | 458 | 458 | 459 | ||||||
| DUP | William Stothers | 4.75% | 346 | 364.36 | 364.36 | 376.87 | 400.91 | 424.48 | |||||||
| Vanguard | Samuel McCammick* | 2.90% | 211 | 245.68 | 274.7 | 279.21 | 292.74 | ||||||||
| UUUP | John Lyttle | 1.98% | 144 | 159.3 | 163.81 | 231.34 | |||||||||
| UUUP | James McBratney | 1.80% | 131 | 137.12 | 139.12 | ||||||||||
| Vanguard | William Lappin | 0.74% | 54 | 58.59 | |||||||||||
| Electorate: 12,358 Valid: 7,277 (58.88%) Spoilt: 390 Quota: 910 Turnout: 7,667 (62.04%) | |||||||||||||||
1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Vanguard
1977: 2 x UUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x DUP
1973-1977 Change: SDLP and DUP gain from UUP and Vanguard
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||
| SDLP | Hugh News * | 15.90% | 1,194 | ||||||||||||
| SDLP | Robert McEvoy | 8.99% | 675 | 735.5 | 741.2 | 790 | 790 | 792 | 807.5 | 817.1 | 1,082.9 | ||||
| Ulster Unionist | Frank Dale* | 11.37% | 854 | 854 | 854 | 854 | 870 | 966 | 966 | 974 | 974 | 1,088 | |||
| DUP | Ronald Williamson | 9.67% | 726 | 726 | 726 | 726 | 741 | 747 | 747 | 748 | 748 | 798 | 832 | 1,175 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Mary Simpson | 7.07% | 531 | 531 | 538 | 538 | 539.1 | 634.1 | 634.1 | 634.1 | 634.1 | 719.1 | 946.1 | 1,069.1 | |
| Alliance | Brian English | 6.01% | 451 | 453.6 | 519.7 | 530.8 | 534.8 | 543.8 | 543.8 | 773.1 | 787.3 | 802.3 | 965.5 | 974.5 | |
| Republican Clubs | Patrick O'Malley | 6.02% | 452 | 464.3 | 465.5 | 490.1 | 490.1 | 490.1 | 738 | 746.4 | 796 | 796 | 796 | 798 | |
| UUUP | William Cooper | 5.10% | 383 | 383 | 385 | 387 | 512 | 518 | 518 | 521 | 521 | 563 | 592 | ||
| Unionist Party NI | Florence Woodman | 5.67% | 426 | 426.3 | 438.3 | 438.3 | 445.3 | 454.3 | 454.3 | 456.4 | 456.4 | 491.4 | |||
| Vanguard | Frederick Crowe* | 4.45% | 334 | 334 | 336 | 336 | 355 | 358 | 358 | 360 | 360 | ||||
| SDLP | Virginia King | 3.58% | 269 | 300.2 | 301.3 | 336.9 | 336.9 | 336.9 | 341.6 | 357 | |||||
| Alliance | William Blanton | 3.26% | 245 | 246.5 | 263.6 | 281.2 | 287.2 | 290.2 | 293.2 | ||||||
| Republican Clubs | Roger Monteith | 3.44% | 258 | 260.2 | 260.4 | 280.8 | 281.8 | 282.8 | |||||||
| Ulster Unionist | James Glenn | 3.01% | 226 | 226 | 227 | 228 | 235 | ||||||||
| UUUP | Robert Anderson | 2.69% | 202 | 202.1 | 203.1 | 203.1 | |||||||||
| Independent | Hugh Casey | 2.22% | 167 | 172.2 | 172.3 | ||||||||||
| Alliance | Michael Stevenson | 1.56% | 117 | 118.5 | |||||||||||
| Electorate: 13,624 Valid: 7,510 (55.12%) Spoilt: 325 Quota: 1,073 Turnout: 7,835 (57.51%) | |||||||||||||||
1973: 4 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Vanguard
1977: 4 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUUP
1973-1977 Change: Vanguard joins UUUP
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| DUP | David Calvert * | 13.63% | 1,081 | |||||||
| UUUP | Philip Black* | 10.68% | 847 | 969 | 1,011 | |||||
| Ulster Unionist | James Baird* | 11.54% | 915 | 928 | 933 | 937 | 1,016 | |||
| DUP | Thomas Willey* | 8.55% | 678 | 703 | 922 | 989.76 | 994.76 | |||
| Ulster Unionist | Sydney Cairns* | 10.55% | 837 | 849 | 874 | 880.64 | 927.64 | 1,197.64 | ||
| Ulster Unionist | Eric Crozier | 8.94% | 709 | 715 | 720 | 723.12 | 791.28 | 917.6 | 998.94 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Thomas Creith* | 8.62% | 684 | 687 | 689 | 690.76 | 765.76 | 876 | 997.52 | |
| SDLP | Brid Rodgers | 8.88% | 704 | 704 | 704 | 704.08 | 802.16 | 808.16 | 810.12 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Thomas Megarrell* | 6.38% | 506 | 511 | 520 | 521.52 | 565.52 | |||
| Alliance | Charles Phillips | 5.94% | 471 | 472 | 472 | 472.32 | ||||
| DUP | Harold Glass | 3.78% | 300 | 313 | ||||||
| UUUP | John Dummigan | 2.52% | 200 | |||||||
| Electorate: 13,004 Valid: 7,932 (61.00%) Spoilt: 366 Quota: 992 Turnout: 8,298 (63.81%) | ||||||||||
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Craigavon Area A was one of the four district electoral areas in Craigavon, Northern Ireland which existed from 1973 to 1985. The district elected five members to Craigavon Borough Council, and formed part of the Armagh constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
Craigavon Area B was one of the four district electoral areas in Craigavon, Northern Ireland which existed from 1973 to 1985. The district elected seven members to Craigavon Borough Council, and formed part of the Armagh constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
Craigavon Area C was one of the four district electoral areas in Craigavon, Northern Ireland which existed from 1973 to 1985. The district elected six members to Craigavon Borough Council, and formed part of the Armagh constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
