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]

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1987 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland

← 1983 11 June 1987 1992 →
17 seats in Northern Ireland of the 650 seats in the House of Commons
Turnout	67.4% ()
First party Second party   Leader James Molyneaux John Hume Party Ulster Unionist Party Social Democratic and Labour Party Leader since 1979 6 May 1979 Leader's seat Lagan Valley Foyle Seats won 9 3 Seat change 2 2 Popular vote 276,230 154,087 Percentage 37.8% 21.1%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Ian Paisley Gerry Adams Party Democratic Unionist Party Sinn Féin Leader since 1971 1983 Leader's seat Antrim North Belfast West Seats won 3 1 Seat change Popular vote 85,642 83,389 Percentage 11.7% 11.4%

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The Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher as prime minister won another term in government.

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Results^[2][3][4]

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

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