Elections to Omagh District Council were held on 21 May 1997 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 21 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 ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2|TotalCllrs |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Labour !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Mid Tyrone |bgcolor="#008800"|47.1 |bgcolor="#008800"|3 |18.9 |2 |14.6 |1 |10.1 |1 |0.7 |0 |0.0 |0 |8.6 |0 |7 |- |align="left"|Omagh Town |20.0 |1 |bgcolor="#99FF66"|26.9 |bgcolor="#99FF66"|2 |16.2 |1 |20.3 |1 |7.2 |1 |8.8 |1 |0.6 |0 |7 |- |align="left"|West Tyrone |24.3 |2 |24.7 |2 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|25.8 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|2 |14.6 |1 |2.8 |0 |1.8 |0 |6.0 |0 |7 |- |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |31.4 |6 |23.2 |6 |18.9 |4 |14.6 |3 |3.3 |1 |3.2 |1 |5.4 |0 |21 |- |}
District results
Mid Tyrone
1993: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist
1997: 3 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x DUP
1993-1997 Change: SDLP gain from Independent Nationalist
Omagh Town
1993: 2 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Labour Coalition 1997: 2 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent Labour 1993-1997 Change: Independent Labour joins Labour Coalition