Elections to Larne Borough Council were held on 7 June 2001 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 15 councillors.
Election results
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
Districts summary
|- class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left"|Ward ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2|TotalCllrs |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Coast Road |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|28.7 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |24.2 |1 |13.7 |1 |17.4 |1 |16.0 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Larne Lough |35.6 |2 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|38.4 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|2 |23.1 |1 |0.0 |0 |2.9 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Larne Town |21.3 |1 |22.3 |1 |5.4 |0 |12.8 |1 |bgcolor="#DDDDDD"|38.2 |bgcolor="#DDDDDD"|2 |5 |- |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |28.8 |5 |28.8 |4 |14.5 |2 |9.6 |2 |18.3 |2 |15
Districts results
Coast Road
1997: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Nationalist 2001: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance 1997-2001 Change: DUP and Alliance gain from UUP and Independent Nationalist
Larne Lough
1997: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance 2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance 1997-2001 Change: DUP gain from UUP
Larne Town
1997: 2 x Independent, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Unionist 2001: 2 x Independent, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP 1997-2001 Change: SDLP gain from Independent, Independent Unionist becomes Independent
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