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Social Democratic and Labour Party leadership election, 2015

Social Democratic and Labour Party leadership election, 2015
← 2011 12–15 November 2015
  Colum Eastwood Alasdair McDonnell
Candidate Colum Eastwood Alasdair McDonnell
1st Pref 172 133
Percentage 56.4% 43.6%

Leader before election

Alasdair McDonnell

Elected Leader

Colum Eastwood


Alasdair McDonnell

Colum Eastwood

A leadership election was held for the Social Democratic and Labour Party of Northern Ireland between 12 and 15 November 2015. The result was a victory for Colum Eastwood.

Following poor election results in the 2014 local elections, the 2014 European Parliament election and the 2015 Westminster election McDonnell resisted calls to stand down. Initially no challenger came forward, though early in June it was rumoured that eventual challenger Colum Eastwood would stand. It was not until late September that Eastwood confirmed that he would stand against McDonnell.

Two SDLP members announced they would stand in the leadership election. These were:

Below is a table summarising the results of the leadership election. With just two candidates there was only one round of votes.


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