Craigavon Borough Council
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Craigavon Borough Council is a local council in counties Armagh
County Armagh
-History:Ancient Armagh was the territory of the Ulaid before the fourth century AD. It was ruled by the Red Branch, whose capital was Emain Macha near Armagh. The site, and subsequently the city, were named after the goddess Macha...

, Down
County Down
-Cities:*Belfast *Newry -Large towns:*Dundonald*Newtownards*Bangor-Medium towns:...

 and Antrim
County Antrim
County Antrim is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 2,844 km², with a population of approximately 616,000...

, in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

. The headquarters of the council is in Craigavon
Craigavon
Craigavon is a settlement in north County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It was a planned settlement that was begun in 1965 and named after Northern Ireland's first Prime Minister — James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon. It was intended to be a linear city incorporating Lurgan and Portadown, but this plan...

, on the shores of Lough Neagh
Lough Neagh
Lough Neagh, sometimes Loch Neagh, is a large freshwater lake in Northern Ireland. Its name comes .-Geography:With an area of , it is the largest lake in the British Isles and ranks among the forty largest lakes of Europe. Located twenty miles to the west of Belfast, it is approximately twenty...

, a new town
New town
A new town is a specific type of a planned community, or planned city, that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ad hoc fashion. Land use conflicts are uncommon in new...

 built between Lurgan
Lurgan
Lurgan is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The town is near the southern shore of Lough Neagh and in the north-eastern corner of the county. Part of the Craigavon Borough Council area, Lurgan is about 18 miles south-west of Belfast and is linked to the city by both the M1 motorway...

 and Portadown
Portadown
Portadown is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The town sits on the River Bann in the north of the county, about 23 miles south-west of Belfast...

. The council area includes the large towns of Lurgan and Portadown, as well as smaller ones including Waringstown
Waringstown
Waringstown is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland, two miles south-east of Lurgan. It lies within the parish of Donaghcloney, and in the barony of Iveagh Lower, Lower Half. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 2,523 people. It was built during the Plantation of Ulster and is typical of...

 and Donaghcloney
Donaghcloney
Donaghcloney or Donacloney is a small village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the River Lagan between Lurgan, Dromore and Banbridge. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 972.-Linen industry:...

. The council budget of £15.5 million provides a wide range of services to over 90,000 people living in the area.

The council area consists of four electoral areas - Central, Loughside, Lurgan and Portadown - in which 26 councillors are elected every four years. The council holds an annual meeting in June, at which a new Mayor and Deputy Mayor are elected. Parties elected in 2005 were Democratic Unionist Party
Democratic Unionist Party
The Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...

 (DUP) nine seats, Ulster Unionist Party
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...

 (UUP) six, Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...

 six, Social Democratic and Labour Party
Social Democratic and Labour Party
The Social Democratic and Labour Party is a social-democratic, Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. Its basic party platform advocates Irish reunification, and the further devolution of powers while Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom...

 (SDLP) four, and Independent one. 1 member has since defected to Traditional Unionist Voice
Traditional Unionist Voice
Traditional Unionist Voice is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland founded on 7 December 2007, as an anti-St Andrews Agreement splinter group from the Democratic Unionist Party . Its first and current leader is Jim Allister who, until 2009, sat as an independent Member of the European...

. The current Mayor is DUP Councilor Robert Smyth, and his Deputy is Ken Twyble of the UUP. The next election was due to take place in May 2009, but on April 25, 2008, Shaun Woodward
Shaun Woodward
Shaun Anthony Woodward is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for St Helens South since 2001. He served in the Cabinet from 28 June 2007 to 11 May 2010 as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland...

, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, informally the Northern Ireland Secretary, is the principal secretary of state in the government of the United Kingdom with responsibilities for Northern Ireland. The Secretary of State is a Minister of the Crown who is accountable to the Parliament of...

 announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until the introduction of the eleven new councils in 2011. The proposed reforms were abandoned in 2010, and the next district council elections will take place in 2011
Northern Ireland local elections, 2011
The most recent Northern Ireland local government elections took place on Thursday 5 May 2011.European Union and Commonwealth citizens who were aged 18 or over on election day were entitled to vote...



Together with part of the district of Banbridge
Banbridge
Banbridge is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the River Bann and the A1 road. It was named after a bridge built over the Bann in 1712. The town grew as a coaching stop on the road from Belfast to Dublin and thrived from Irish linen manufacturing...

, it forms the Upper Bann constituency
Upper Bann (UK Parliament constituency)
Upper Bann is a Parliamentary Constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The current Member of Parliament for Upper Bann is David Simpson.-Boundaries:...

 for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly
Northern Ireland Assembly
The Northern Ireland Assembly is the devolved legislature of Northern Ireland. It has power to legislate in a wide range of areas that are not explicitly reserved to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and to appoint the Northern Ireland Executive...

.

Summary of seats won 1973-2005

1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2011
Ulster Unionist Party
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...

 (UUP)
11 10 9 11 12 10 11 8 6 6
Alliance
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland is a liberal and nonsectarian political party in Northern Ireland. It is Northern Ireland's fifth-largest party overall, with eight seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly and one in the House of Commons....

 (APNI)
4 3 1 2 2 1 1
Vanguard
Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party
The Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party , informally known as Ulster Vanguard, was a unionist political party which existed in Northern Ireland between 1973 and 1978...

 (VUPP)
4
Democratic Unionist Party
Democratic Unionist Party
The Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...

 (DUP)
3 4 7 6 4 4 3 6 9 9
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Social Democratic and Labour Party
The Social Democratic and Labour Party is a social-democratic, Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. Its basic party platform advocates Irish reunification, and the further devolution of powers while Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom...

 (SDLP)
2 6 5 5 6 6 7 7 4 2
Independent Nationalist
Independent Nationalist
Independent Nationalist was a political title frequently used by Irish nationalists when contesting elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland not as members of the Irish Parliamentary Party, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.In the...

 (IN)
1 2
United Ulster Unionist Party
United Ulster Unionist Party
The United Ulster Unionist Party was a unionist political party which existed in Northern Ireland between 1975 and 1984.It emerged from a division in the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party in the late 1970s...

 (UUUP)
1 1
Workers' Party
Workers' Party of Ireland
The Workers' Party is a left-wing republican political party in Ireland. Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970 after a split within the party, adopting its current name in 1982....

 (WP)
1 2 2 1 1
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...

 (SF)
2 1 2 2 4 6 8
Independent Unionist
Independent Unionist
See also Independent .Independent Unionist has been a label sometimes used by candidates in elections in the United Kingdom, indicating a support for Unionism, retaining the unity of the British state....

 (IU)
1 1 1


Note: The Workers' Party were known as The Republican Clubs in 1977 and Workers Party Republican Clubs in 1981.

Source: http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/

Mayor of Craigavon

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Year Name Political affiliation Deputy Deputy's affiliation
1973 - 75 Joseph A. Johnston
James McCammick
1975 - 76 James McCammick
Tom Creith
1976 - 77 Tom Creith
Herbert Whitten
Herbert Whitten
Herbert Whitten was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Portadown, Whitten became the managing director of T. A. Shillington, a builders' merchants...


1977 - 78 Sydney Cairns
Brian T. English
1978 - 79 Herbert Whitten
Herbert Whitten
Herbert Whitten was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Portadown, Whitten became the managing director of T. A. Shillington, a builders' merchants...


David Calvert
David Calvert
David Calvert is a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Calvert worked as a director of a family shirt manufacturing company. He was a founder member of the Democratic Unionist Party in County Armagh. He was elected to Craigavon Borough Council in 1973, and held his seat until he stood down...


1979 - 80 Alan Locke
James McDonald
James McDonald (Irish politician)
James McDonald was a nationalist politician in Northern Ireland.At the Northern Ireland local elections, 1973, he won a seat on Craigavon Borough Council in the "A" area as an independent. He subsequently joined the Social Democratic and Labour Party, holding his seat in 1977 and 1981. In...


1980 - 81 Frank Dale
Sean Hagan
1981 - 82 Mary Simpson
David Calvert
David Calvert
David Calvert is a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Calvert worked as a director of a family shirt manufacturing company. He was a founder member of the Democratic Unionist Party in County Armagh. He was elected to Craigavon Borough Council in 1973, and held his seat until he stood down...


1982 - 83 Sam Gardiner
Sam Gardiner
Alderman Samuel Gardiner MBE JP MLA is a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland for the Ulster Unionist Party who is an MLA for Upper Bann...


James Gillespie
1983 - 84 James Gillespie
Frederick Baird
1984 - 85 Arnold Hatch
Patrick J. Crilly
1985 - 87 George Savage
George Savage (politician)
George Savage, is a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. A native of Donacloney, he served in the Northern Ireland Assembly as an Ulster Unionist Party member for Upper Bann from 1998 to 2003 and from 2007-11.-External links:...


James Gillespie
1987 - 88 Sydney Cairns
Arnold Hatch
1988 - 89 Sam Gardiner
Sam Gardiner
Alderman Samuel Gardiner MBE JP MLA is a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland for the Ulster Unionist Party who is an MLA for Upper Bann...


James McCammick
1989 - 91 James McCammick
Joy Savage, then
Joe Trueman
1991 - 92 Joe Trueman
Fred Crowe
1992 - 93 Fred Crowe
Sam Lutton
1993 - 94 Joy Savage
Ruth Allen
1994 - 95 Brian Maguinness
Sean McKavanagh
1995 - 96 Meta Crozier
Ulster Unionist Party
The Ulster Unionist Party – sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party – is the more moderate of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland...

Hugh Casey
Hugh Casey (politician)
Hugh Casey is a former politician in Northern Ireland.Casey worked as a community project manager in Lurgan before being elected to Craigavon Borough Council as a Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor in 1989. In 1994, he left the SDLP, after accepting an MBE, claiming that some in the...


1996 - Dec 96 Hugh Casey
Hugh Casey (politician)
Hugh Casey is a former politician in Northern Ireland.Casey worked as a community project manager in Lurgan before being elected to Craigavon Borough Council as a Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor in 1989. In 1994, he left the SDLP, after accepting an MBE, claiming that some in the...


Sam Lutton
Dec 1996 - 97 Sam Lutton
Hugh Casey
Hugh Casey (politician)
Hugh Casey is a former politician in Northern Ireland.Casey worked as a community project manager in Lurgan before being elected to Craigavon Borough Council as a Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor in 1989. In 1994, he left the SDLP, after accepting an MBE, claiming that some in the...


1998 - 99 Mervyn Carrick
Mervyn Carrick
William Mervyn Carrick, known as Mervyn Carrick is a former Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Portadown, Carrick studied at Portadown Technical College before becoming an accountant...


Dolores Kelly
Dolores Kelly
Cllr Dolores Kelly is a Social Democratic and Labour Party politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly for Upper Bann.Kelly attended the University of Ulster, Jordanstown....


1999 - 00 Dolores Kelly
Dolores Kelly
Cllr Dolores Kelly is a Social Democratic and Labour Party politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly for Upper Bann.Kelly attended the University of Ulster, Jordanstown....


Fred Crowe
2000 - 01 Fred Crowe
Mark Neale
2001 - 02 Sam Gardiner
Sam Gardiner
Alderman Samuel Gardiner MBE JP MLA is a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland for the Ulster Unionist Party who is an MLA for Upper Bann...


Jonathan Bell
Jonathan Bell (UK politician)
Jonathan Fergus Bell MLA is a Democratic Unionist Party politician in Northern Ireland. He was selected in 2010 to fill the vacancy for the Strangford constituency of the Northern Ireland Assembly following the resignation of Iris Robinson...


2002 - 03 Jonathan Bell
Jonathan Bell (UK politician)
Jonathan Fergus Bell MLA is a Democratic Unionist Party politician in Northern Ireland. He was selected in 2010 to fill the vacancy for the Strangford constituency of the Northern Ireland Assembly following the resignation of Iris Robinson...


Sidney Anderson
2003 - 04 Ignatius Fox
David Simpson
2004 - 05 David Simpson
Ignatius Fox
2005 - 06 George Savage
George Savage (politician)
George Savage, is a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. A native of Donacloney, he served in the Northern Ireland Assembly as an Ulster Unionist Party member for Upper Bann from 1998 to 2003 and from 2007-11.-External links:...


Robert Smith
2006 - 07 Kenneth Twyble
Mary McAlinden
2007 - 08 Robert Smith
Kenneth Twyble
2008 - 09 Sidney Anderson
Arnold Hatch
2009 - 10 Meta Crozier
Philip Weir
2010 - 11 Stephen Moutray
Stephen Moutray
Alderman Stephen Moutray MLA is a unionist politician from Northern Ireland. He is a member of the Democratic Unionist Party and is currently Mayor of Craigavon Borough Council....


Kieran Corr
2011 - 12 Alan Carson
George Savage
George Savage (politician)
George Savage, is a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. A native of Donacloney, he served in the Northern Ireland Assembly as an Ulster Unionist Party member for Upper Bann from 1998 to 2003 and from 2007-11.-External links:...




Source: Freedom of Information
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 request to Craigavon Borough Council

Current Council

Name Party
Jonathan McGibbon
Sidney Anderson MLA
Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)
Member of the Legislative Assembly is a representative elected by the voters to the Northern Ireland Assembly in Northern Ireland.- About :...


Stephen Moutray
Stephen Moutray
Alderman Stephen Moutray MLA is a unionist politician from Northern Ireland. He is a member of the Democratic Unionist Party and is currently Mayor of Craigavon Borough Council....

  MLA
Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)
Member of the Legislative Assembly is a representative elected by the voters to the Northern Ireland Assembly in Northern Ireland.- About :...


Robert Smith
Mark O'Dowd
Jo-Anne Dobson
Jo-Anne Dobson
Jo-Anne Elizabeth Dobson is an Ulster Unionist Party politician in Northern Ireland who was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2011.Jo-Anne is also a member of Craigavon Borough Council.-External links:***...

 MLA
Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)
Member of the Legislative Assembly is a representative elected by the voters to the Northern Ireland Assembly in Northern Ireland.- About :...


Meta Crozier
Kenneth Twyble
Declan McAlinden
Liam Mackle
George Savage
George Savage (politician)
George Savage, is a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. A native of Donacloney, he served in the Northern Ireland Assembly as an Ulster Unionist Party member for Upper Bann from 1998 to 2003 and from 2007-11.-External links:...

 (former MLA
Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland)
Member of the Legislative Assembly is a representative elected by the voters to the Northern Ireland Assembly in Northern Ireland.- About :...

)
Carla Lockhart
Arnold Hatch
MairEad O'Dowd
Paul Duffy
Gemma McKenna
Mark Baxter
Thomas O'Connor
Noel McGeown
Woolsey Smith MBE
MBE
MBE can stand for:* Mail Boxes Etc.* Management by exception* Master of Bioethics* Master of Bioscience Enterprise* Master of Business Engineering* Master of Business Economics* Mean Biased Error...


Joseph Nelson
Gladys McCullough
Ronald Harkness
Conrad Dixon
Alan Carson
Darryn Causby

Council services

  • Coney Island, Lough Neagh
    Coney Island, Lough Neagh
    Coney Island is an island in Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland. It is situated approximately 1 km from Maghery in County Armagh, is thickly wooded and of nearly in area. It lies between the mouths of the River Blackwater and the River Bann in the south-west corner of Lough Neagh. Boat trips to the...

     is owned by the National Trust
    National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty
    The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as the National Trust, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland...

    and managed on their behalf by Craigavon Borough Council.
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