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The 1987 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 11 June with 17 MPs elected in single-seat constituencies using first-past-the-post as part of the wider general election in the United Kingdom. 1,090,389 people were eligible to vote, up 40,253 from the 1983 general election. 67.41% of eligible voters turned out, down 5.9 percentage points from the last general election. [1]
The Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher as prime minister won another term in government.
| Party | MPs | Votes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Change | No. | % | Change | ||
| Ulster Unionist | 9 | 2 | 276,230 | 38.0% |  4.0 | |
| SDLP | 3 | 2 | 154,087 | 21.2% | 3.3 | |
| DUP | 3 |  | 85,642 | 11.8% | 8.2 | |
| Sinn Féin | 1 | | 83,389 | 11.5% | 3.9 | |
| UPUP | 1 | | 18,420 | 2.5% | 0.5 | |
| Alliance | 0 | | 72,761 | 10.0% | 2.0 | |
| Workers' Party | 0 | | 19,294 | 2.6% | 0.7 | |
| Real Unionist | 0 | New | 14,467 | 2.0% | 2.0 | |
| Protestant Unionist | 0 | New | 2,147 | 0.3% | 0.3 | |
| Ecology | 0 | New | 281 | 0.04% | 0.04 | |
| Total | 17 | | 726,718 | 100 | | |
| Constituency | Date | Incumbent | Party | Winner | Party | Cause | ||
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| Upper Bann | 17 May 1990 | Harold McCusker | Ulster Unionist | David Trimble | Ulster Unionist | Death | ||
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