South Down

UUP hold / Enoch Powell

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Percent	Change
	UUP	Powell, Enoch	20,693	40.3%	-9.7%
	SDLP	McGrady, Eddie	20,145	39.2%	+1.9%
	Sinn Féin	Fitzsimmons, Patrick	4,074	7.9%	N/A
	DUP	Harvey, Cecil	3,743	7.3%	N/A
	Alliance	Forde, Patrick	1,823	3.6%	-3.4%
	Workers' Party	Magee, Margaret	851	1.7%	N/A
Majority			548	1.1%	-11.6%
Turnout			51,329	76.6%	4.7%
Swing				-5.8%

By-election held due to the MP's resignation to seek re-election with opposition to the Anglo-Irish Agreement

	Party	Candidate	Votes	Percent	Change
	UUP	Powell, Enoch	24,963	48.4%	+8.1%
	SDLP	McGrady, Eddie	23,121	44.8%	+5.6%
	Sinn Féin	McDowell, Hugh	2,963	5.7%	N/A
	Workers' Party	Magee, Sean	522	1%	-0.7%
Majority			1,842	3.6%	+2.5%
Turnout			51,569	INF%	0%
Swing				+1.25%
Note: These results are in comparison to the previous General Election