Northern Ireland local elections, 2011
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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. The deadline for voters to register to vote in the 5 May elections was midnight on Thursday 14 April 2011.
All voters had present one piece of photographic ID in order to cast a vote at the polling station – accepted forms of ID are an electoral identity card
, a photographic NI or GB driving licence
, a European Union member-state passport, a Translink 60+ SmartPass, a Translink Senior SmartPass, a Translink Blind Person’s SmartPass or a Translink War Disabled SmartPass. Voters who didn't have an accepted type of photographic ID had until Friday 22 April 2011 to apply for an electoral identity card from the Electoral Office
.
The elections were originally scheduled to take place in 2009. In 2008, Minister of the Environment
Arlene Foster
requested that they be postponed until 2011 to allow the implementation of a proposed reform of local government in Northern Ireland
, which would have reduced the number of local councils from 26 to 11. In February 2009, an order was made, postponing the election, and councillors' terms of office were extended until the fourth day after the election day in 2011.
In June 2010, the proposed reforms were abandoned, and it was confirmed that the 2011 elections would be to the existing 26 councils. There was also an election to the Northern Ireland Assembly and a referendum on voting reform on the same day.
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and Commonwealth
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citizens who were aged 18 or over on election day were entitled to vote. The deadline for voters to register to vote in the 5 May elections was midnight on Thursday 14 April 2011.
All voters had present one piece of photographic ID in order to cast a vote at the polling station – accepted forms of ID are an electoral identity card
Northern Ireland Electoral Identity Card
The Northern Ireland Electoral Identity Card is a photographic identity card issued by the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland, used primarily to prove the holder's identity when voting at a polling station in Northern Ireland...
, a photographic NI or GB driving licence
Driving licence in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, the driving licence is the official document which authorises its holder to operate various types of motor vehicle on public roads. In England, Scotland and Wales they are administered by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency and in Northern Ireland by the Driver & Vehicle...
, a European Union member-state passport, a Translink 60+ SmartPass, a Translink Senior SmartPass, a Translink Blind Person’s SmartPass or a Translink War Disabled SmartPass. Voters who didn't have an accepted type of photographic ID had until Friday 22 April 2011 to apply for an electoral identity card from the Electoral Office
Electoral Office for Northern Ireland
The Electoral Office for Northern Ireland is an independent, non-partisan body which assists the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland in running elections and compiling the electoral register....
.
The elections were originally scheduled to take place in 2009. In 2008, Minister of the Environment
Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland)
The Department of the Environment is a devolved Northern Ireland government department in the Northern Ireland Executive. The minister with overall responsibility for the department is the Minister for the Environment.-Aim:...
Arlene Foster
Arlene Foster
Arlene Isabel Foster is a politician in Northern Ireland. She is one of two Democratic Unionist Party MLAs representing the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. She became Minister of the Environment on 8 May 2009 and was subsequently reshuffled into the...
requested that they be postponed until 2011 to allow the implementation of a proposed reform of local government in Northern Ireland
Proposed reform of local government in Northern Ireland
The proposed reform of local government in Northern Ireland would have seen the replacement of the twenty-six districts created in 1973 with a smaller number of "super districts"...
, which would have reduced the number of local councils from 26 to 11. In February 2009, an order was made, postponing the election, and councillors' terms of office were extended until the fourth day after the election day in 2011.
In June 2010, the proposed reforms were abandoned, and it was confirmed that the 2011 elections would be to the existing 26 councils. There was also an election to the Northern Ireland Assembly and a referendum on voting reform on the same day.
Results
| Party | Councillors | Votes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change | Total | % share | Total | ||
| -7 | 175 | 27.2 | |||
| +12 | 138 | 24.8 | |||
| -17 | 98 | 15.2 | |||
| -15 | 86 | 15.0 | |||
| +14 | 44 | 7.4 | |||
| +7 | 27 | 5.1 | |||
| +6 | 6 | 2.0 | 13,079 | ||
| 0 | 3 | 1.0 | 5,598 | ||
| 0 | 2 | 0.6 | 3,858 | ||
| +1 | 1 | 0.4 | 2,550 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 2,146 | ||
| Éirígí Éirígí -External links:*... |
0 | 1 | 0.3 | 2,062 | |
| 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 1,628 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 1,321 | ||
| Independent Republican Party | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 850 | |
| Community Partnership | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 800 | |
| 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 760 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 682 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 491 | ||
| Procapitalism | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 9 | |
By council
| Council | Others | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antrim Antrim Borough Council Antrim is a local government district in Northern Ireland. It is one of twenty-six districts created in 1973, and was granted borough status on 9 May 1977. The borough covers an area of some with a population of nearly 50,000. It is situated about north-west of Belfast... |
0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| Ards Ards Borough Council Ards is a local government district in Northern Ireland with the status of borough. It is one of twenty-six districts formed on 1 October 1973, and has its headquarters in Newtownards... |
0 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 |
| Armagh Armagh City and District Council Armagh City and District Council is a district council in County Armagh in Northern Ireland. It includes the city of Armagh, as well as the surrounding area and its population is about 54,000. City status was officially conferred in 1995... |
0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 |
| Ballymena Ballymena Borough Council Ballymena is a local government district with borough status in Northern Ireland. It is one of twenty-six districts created on 1 October 1973 and covers the town of Ballymena and the surrounding area which includes small towns including Broughshane, Cullybackey, Galgorm, Ahoghill and Portglenone.... |
2 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24 |
| Ballymoney Ballymoney Borough Council Ballymoney is a local government district with borough status in Northern Ireland. It is headquartered in Ballymoney. Other towns in the borough include Dervock, Dunloy, Cloughmills and Rasharkin. The borough has a population of nearly 27,000.-Creation:... |
1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 |
| Banbridge Banbridge District Council Banbridge is a local government district in Northern Ireland. The district is one of 26 council areas formed on 1 October 1973, following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1972... |
0 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| Belfast Belfast City Council Belfast City Council is the local authority with responsibility for the city of Belfast, the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland. The Council serves an estimated population of , the largest of any district council in Northern Ireland, while also being the fourth smallest by area... |
0 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 2 PUP | 51 |
| Carrickfergus Carrickfergus Borough Council Carrickfergus Borough Council is a district council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. The council headquarters are in Carrickfergus and the council administers the town, on the north shore of Belfast Lough, and surrounding area, which extends from Greenisland in the south-west to Whitehead in... |
0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17 |
| Castlereagh Castlereagh Borough Council Castlereagh is a local government district with the status of borough in Northern Ireland. It is a largely urban borough bordering Belfast. Unusually, it has no natural borough centre, largely consisting of a series of suburbs of Belfast in the Castlereagh Hills to the south-east of the city with... |
0 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| Coleraine Coleraine Borough Council Coleraine Borough Council is a local council mainly in County Londonderry and partly in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Its headquarters are in the town of Coleraine. Small towns in the area include Garvagh, Portrush, Portstewart and Kilrea... |
0 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 22 |
| Cookstown Cookstown District Council Cookstown District Council is a district council covering an area largely in County Tyrone and partly in County Londonderry. Council headquarters are in Cookstown. Small towns in the council area include Pomeroy, Moneymore, Coagh and Stewartstown and in the east the area is bounded by Lough Neagh... |
0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Craigavon Craigavon Borough Council Craigavon Borough Council is a local council in counties Armagh, Down and Antrim, in Northern Ireland. The headquarters of the council is in Craigavon, on the shores of Lough Neagh, a new town built between Lurgan and Portadown. The council area includes the large towns of Lurgan and Portadown, as... |
0 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Derry Derry City Council Derry City Council is a district council in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. The Council is is responsible for the city of Derry and the immediate environ, providing services to an estimated population of , making it the third largest district council in Northern Ireland by population.The... |
0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Down Down District Council Down District Council is a Local Council in County Down in Northern Ireland. The Council is headquartered in Downpatrick. Other towns in the Council area are Ardglass, Ballynahinch, Castlewellan, Clough, Crossgar, Dundrum, Killough, Killyleagh, Newcastle, Saintfield, Seaforde and Strangford... |
0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 23 |
| Dungannon Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council is a local council in Northern Ireland. Its main town is Dungannon, where the council is headquartered. The council area covers the southern part of County Tyrone and has a population of nearly 48,000... |
0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 Eirigi | 22 |
| Fermanagh Fermanagh District Council Fermanagh District Council is a local council in Northern Ireland. The borders of the district are very similar to those of the traditional County Fermanagh, containing all of that county plus a small section of County Tyrone in the Dromore Road and Kilskeery Road areas. Council headquarters are... |
0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 |
| Larne Larne Borough Council Larne Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Its headquarters is in the town of Larne and the population of the area is nearly 31,000... |
1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 |
| Limavady Limavady Borough Council Limavady Borough Council is a Local Council in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. Its headquarters is in the town of Limavady. The Borough has a population of over 32,000 with 63% of the population living in a rural setting. It covers an area of 586 square kilometres and includes the valley... |
1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Lisburn Lisburn City Council Lisburn City Council is a district council covering an area partly in County Antrim and partly in County Down in Northern Ireland. The council is the second largest in the Belfast Metropolitan Area. Council headquarters are in the city of Lisburn, upon which was conferred city status in May 2002 as... |
0 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
| Magherafelt Magherafelt District Council Magherafelt District Council is a district council in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. Council headquarters are in Magherafelt. The Council area stretches from Lough Neagh and the River Bann in the east and into the Sperrin Mountains in the west and is divided by the Moyola River. It covers... |
0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Moyle Moyle District Council Moyle District Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in the north-east corner of Northern Ireland. It covers a largely rural area of approximately 190 square miles and has a population of 15,000... |
1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 15 |
| Newry and Mourne Newry and Mourne District Council Newry and Mourne District Council is a local council in Northern Ireland. It includes much of the south of County Armagh and the south of County Down and has a population of approximately 93,400. Council headquarters are in Newry, the largest settlement and only city in the area; it has a... |
0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 1 UKIP | 30 |
| Newtownabbey Newtownabbey Borough Council Newtownabbey Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Newtownabbey has a population of over 80,000 and is on the north shore of Belfast Lough just immediately north of Belfast. The Borough was founded in 1958 as a result of an Act of Parliament passed in 1957 and... |
0 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| North Down North Down Borough Council North Down Borough Council is a Local Council in County Down in Northern Ireland with an overall population of around 80,000. Its main town is Bangor, 20 km east of Belfast with a population of approximately 55,000. The Council is headquartered in Bangor. Its secondary centre is the former Urban... |
0 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 25 |
| Omagh Omagh District Council Omagh District Council is a local council in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. Its headquarters is in the town of Omagh, which is the traditional county town of Tyrone. The council area is about , making it the second largest local council area in Northern Ireland with a population of just over... |
0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 21 |
| Strabane Strabane District Council Strabane District Council is a Local Council in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. The headquarters of the Council is in the town of Strabane. Apart from Strabane the other smaller towns in the area include Plumbridge, Newtownstewart, Donemana, Sion Mills and Castlederg... |
0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 |
Belfast
| Balmoral Balmoral (District Electoral Area) Balmoral is the most southern of nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Blackstaff; Finaghy; Malone; Musgrave; Upper Malone and Windsor... |
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| Tom Ekin Tom Ekin Tom Ekin is a politician and business owner in Northern Ireland.Ekin joined the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland and was elected to Belfast City Council at the Northern Ireland local elections, 1997. From 2000 until 2002, he served as the Chairperson of Alliance.Ekin held his seat with an... |
1,762 | ||
| Ruth Patterson | 1,553 | ||
| Máirtín Ó Muilleoir | 1,465 | ||
| Claire Hanna | 1,443 | ||
| Bob Stoker Bob Stoker Bob Stoker is a Ulster Unionist Party politician and former Member of the Northern Ireland Forum for South Belfast.He was elected to Northern Ireland Forum for Belfast South in May 1996.... |
922 | ||
| Niall Kelly | 743 | ||
| Bernie Kelly | 706 | ||
| Jim Kirkpatrick Jim Kirkpatrick Jim Kirkpatrick is a Unionist politician who has represented the Ulster Unionist Party three times and the Democratic Unionist Party twice. He sat in the 1982 Assembly and is currently a Belfast City councillor for the UUP.... |
578 | ||
| Sharon Simpson | 396 | ||
| Mark Simpson | 282 | ||
| Andrew King | 107 | ||
| Turnout Voter turnout Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s... |
9,957 | ||
| 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... gain from Democratic Unionist 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... |
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| Castle Castle (District Electoral Area) Castle is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the north of the city, the district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Bellevue; Castleview; Cavehill; Chichester Park; Duncairn and Fortwilliam... |
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| Lydia Patterson | 1,489 | ||
| Tierna Cunningham | 1,377 | ||
| Pat Convery Pat Convery Patrick Convery , known as Pat Convery, is an Irish Nationalist politician who sits as a Social Democratic and Labour Party Councillor on Belfast City Council, County Antrim. Convery was elected Lord Mayor of Belfast on 1 June 2010 and his term will continue until June 2011... |
1,367 | ||
| Mary Campbell | 1,293 | ||
| David Browne | 1,181 | ||
| Guy Spence | 946 | ||
| Cathal Mullaghan | 883 | ||
| David McKechnie | 689 | ||
| Lee Reynolds | 629 | ||
| John Lavery | 170 | ||
| Turnout Voter turnout Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s... |
10,024 | ||
| 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... gain from Social Democratic and Labour 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... |
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| Court Court (District Electoral Area) Court is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the west of the city, the district elects five members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Crumlin; Glencairn; Highfield; Shankill and Woodvale... |
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| William Humphrey | 2,643 | ||
| Brian Kingston | 1,371 | ||
| Frank McCoubrey Frank McCoubrey Frank McCoubrey is a Unionist politician and loyalist in Northern Ireland, as well as a community activist and researcher. He is a leading member of the Ulster Political Research Group and a member of Belfast City Council, representing the Court area... |
754 | ||
| Hugh Smyth Hugh Smyth Cllr Hugh Smyth is a former leader of the Progressive Unionist Party. He is a long-serving member of Belfast City Council and former Lord Mayor of Belfast. He is also the longest-serving member of the council, having represented the Upper Shankill areas since 1973... |
640 | ||
| Bobby McConnell | 395 | ||
| Naomi Thompson | 237 | ||
| Raymond McCord | 199 | ||
| Karol McKee | 184 | ||
| Conor McNeill | 99 | ||
| Mark Long | 78 | ||
| Turnout Voter turnout Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s... |
6,600 | ||
| No change | |||
| Laganbank Laganbank (District Electoral Area) Laganbank is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the south of the city, the district elects five members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Ballynafeigh; Botanic; Shaftesbury; Stranmillis and Rosetta... |
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| Catherine Curran | 1,518 | ||
| Deirdre Hargey | 1,383 | ||
| Patrick McCarthy Patrick McCarthy (politician) Patrick McCarthy is a Northern Irish Social Democratic and Labour Party politician and member of Belfast City Council.First elected to the council in 2001 for Laganbank he was chosen as Lord Mayor of Belfast in 2006. McCarthy, the city's fourth nationalist mayor, was endorsed by all parties except... |
1,361 | ||
| Christopher Stalford | 1,126 | ||
| Michelle Bostock | 921 | ||
| Kate Mullan | 833 | ||
| Claire Bailey | 500 | ||
| Mark Hewitt | 144 | ||
| Paddy Meehan | 136 | ||
| Patrick Lynn | 88 | ||
| Turnout Voter turnout Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s... |
8,010 | ||
| 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.... gain from Ulster Unionist 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... |
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| Lower Falls Lower Falls (District Electoral Area) Lower Falls is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the west of the city, the district elects five members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Beechmount; Clonard; Falls; Upper Springfield; and Whiterock. Lower Falls forms part of the... |
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| Janice Austin | 1,920 | ||
| Steven Corr | 1,572 | ||
| Tom Hartley Tom Hartley Tom Hartley is a historian and Irish republican politician.Hartley grew up in the Falls Road area of Belfast and became a republican activist in the late 1960s. In 1970, he was imprisoned in the Crumlin Road gaol for ten months for riotous behaviour; he was again imprisoned in 1978... |
1,561 | ||
| Jim McVeigh | 1,497 | ||
| Colin Keenan | 1,000 | ||
| Breige Brownlee | 813 | ||
| Éirígí Éirígí -External links:*... |
John McCusker | 647 | |
| John Lowry John Lowry For the 19th-century baseball player, see John Lowry .John Lowry is the General Secretary of the Workers' Party in Ireland. He is a native of the Lower Falls area of Belfast.... |
398 | ||
| Jim Gorman | 209 | ||
| Pat Lawlor | 148 | ||
| Turnout Voter turnout Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s... |
9,765 | ||
| Social Democratic and Labour 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... gain from 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... |
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| Oldpark Oldpark (District Electoral Area) Oldpark is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the west of the city, the district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Ardoyne; Ballysillan; Cliftonville; Legoniel; New Lodge and Water Works... |
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| Ian Crozier | 1,770 | ||
| Conor Maskey | 1,573 | ||
| Gerard McCabe | 1,492 | ||
| Daniel Lavery | 1,370 | ||
| Nichola Mallon | 1,184 | ||
| Mary Clarke | 1,180 | ||
| Gareth McKee | 917 | ||
| Fred Rodgers | 540 | ||
| Paul Little | 379 | ||
| James McClure | 303 | ||
| Martin McAuley | 146 | ||
| Turnout Voter turnout Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s... |
10,584 | ||
| Democratic Unionist 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... gain from Ulster Unionist 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... |
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| Pottinger Pottinger (District Electoral Area) Pottinger is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the east of the city, the district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Ballymacarrett; Bloomfield; Orangefield; Ravenhill; The Mount and Woodstock.The wards of Ravenhill... |
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| Máire Hendron | 1,895 | ||
| Gavin Robinson | 1,523 | ||
| Niall Ó Donnghaile Niall Ó Donnghaile Niall Ó Donnghaile is the 56th and current Lord Mayor of Belfast. Ó Donnghaile is a Sinn Féin councillor for the pottinger ward in Belfast East. Ó Donnghaile was Educated through the Irish Medium Sector and is a Politics Graduate and fluent Irish speaker... |
1,077 | ||
| May Campbell | 1,051 | ||
| John Kyle John Kyle (unionist politician) John Kyle is a Councillor on Belfast City Council, and the interim leader of the centre-left loyalist Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland.-Background and entry into Politics:... |
1,022 | ||
| Adam Newton | 936 | ||
| Philip Robinson | 786 | ||
| Séamas de Faoite | 456 | ||
| David Newman | 223 | ||
| John Hiddleston | 191 | ||
| Thomas Black | 150 | ||
| Kevin McNally | 104 | ||
| Donna McCusker | 70 | ||
| Karl Hedley | 33 | ||
| Procapitalism | Samuel Smyth | 9 | |
| Turnout Voter turnout Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s... |
9,526 | ||
| 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... gain from Ulster Unionist 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... |
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| Upper Falls Upper Falls (District Electoral Area) Upper Falls is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the west of the city, the district elects five members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Andersonstown; Falls Park; Glen Road; Glencolin; and Ladybrook. Upper Falls forms part of the... |
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| Matt Garrett | 2,250 | ||
| Gerard O'Neill | 2,184 | ||
| Emma Groves | 2,133 | ||
| Tim Attwood | 2,015 | ||
| Caoimhin Mac Giolla Mhín | 1,910 | ||
| Éirígí Éirígí -External links:*... |
Pádraic Mac Coitir | 1,415 | |
| Helen Walsh | 250 | ||
| Eileen Kingston | 179 | ||
| Dan McGuinness | 162 | ||
| Turnout Voter turnout Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s... |
12,498 | ||
| No change | |||
| Victoria Victoria (District Electoral Area) Victoria is one of the nine district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the east of the city, the district elects seven members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Ballyhackamore; Belmont; Cherryvalley; Island; Knock; Stormont; and Sydenham... |
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| Robin Newton Robin Newton Robin Newton is a Unionist politician for the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland. He is an MLA for East Belfast. Newton was sworn in as a Junior Minister within the Office of First and deputy First Minister on 1 July 2009... |
2,338 | ||
| Mervyn Jones | 2,319 | ||
| Laura McNamee | 1,677 | ||
| Tom Haire | 1,437 | ||
| Jim Rodgers | 1,355 | ||
| Andrew Webb | 1,137 | ||
| Ian Adamson Ian Adamson Cllr Ian Adamson OBE is a former Lord Mayor of Belfast. He is a member of the Ulster Unionist Party and is a retired medical doctor.A serving Councillor on Belfast City Council from 1989 until 2011, Adamson was Lord Mayor in 1996.... |
942 | ||
| Robert McCartney | 908 | ||
| John Hussey | 812 | ||
| Ross Campbell | 315 | ||
| Stephen Warke | 216 | ||
| Magdalena Wolska | 207 | ||
| Sammy Morrison | 158 | ||
| Roy Hobson | 142 | ||
| Garry Crosbie | 103 | ||
| Turnout Voter turnout Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s... |
14,066 | ||
| 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.... gain from Ulster Unionist 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... |
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Derry
| Cityside | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| Jim Clifford | 1,243 | ||
| Kevin Campbell | 1,199 | ||
| Patricia Logue | 937 | ||
| Colin Kelly | 631 | ||
| Gary Donnelly | 612 | ||
| Liam Friel | 391 | ||
| Ann Donnelly | 311 | ||
| Conor Kelly | 265 | ||
| Dermott Henderson | 214 | ||
| Turnout Voter turnout Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s... |
5,798 | ||
| No change | |||
| Northland | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| John Tierney John Tierney (Irish politician) John Tierney is a nationalist politician in Ireland.Born in Derry, Tierney worked as a tool setter before joining the Social Democratic and Labour Party . He was elected to Derry City Council in 1981, and served as the Mayor of Derry in 1984... |
1,736 | ||
| Maeve McLaughlin | 1,260 | ||
| John Boyle | 1,099 | ||
| Gerry MacLochlainn | 936 | ||
| John Carr | 824 | ||
| Michael Cooper | 783 | ||
| Eamon McAuley | 429 | ||
| Fiona Hamilton | 366 | ||
| Colm Cavanagh | 217 | ||
| Patrick McGinley | 704 | ||
| Colm Bryce | 564 | ||
| Lucy Callaghan | 340 | ||
| Turnout Voter turnout Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s... |
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| Rural | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| Paul Fleming | 1,693 | ||
| Thomas Conway | 1,616 | ||
| Maurice Devenney | 1,433 | ||
| Gary Middleton | 1,219 | ||
| Ronald McKeegan | 698 | ||
| Hugh Hastings | 624 | ||
| Brenda Stevenson | 615 | ||
| Diane Greer | 256 | ||
| Catherine Nelis | 631 | ||
| Ashleen Schenning | 423 | ||
| Turnout Voter turnout Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s... |
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| Shantallow | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| Colum Eastwood Colum Eastwood Colum Eastwood is a Social Democratic and Labour Party politician in Northern Ireland who was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2011.... |
2,109 | ||
| Tony Hassan | 1,405 | ||
| Shaun Gallagher | 1,151 | ||
| Elisha McLaughlin | 1,117 | ||
| Sandra Duffy | 833 | ||
| James Carr | 766 | ||
| Angela Dobbins | 603 | ||
| Martin McGonagle | 539 | ||
| Pauline Mellon | 477 | ||
| Turnout Voter turnout Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s... |
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| No change | |||
| Waterside | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| Joe Miller Joe Miller Joe Miller was an English actor, who first appeared in the cast of Sir Robert Howard's Committee at Drury Lane in 1709 as Teague.... |
1,564 | ||
| Gerard Diver | 1,198 | ||
| Lynn Fleming | 1,137 | ||
| April Garfield-Kidd | 1,006 | ||
| Mary Hamilton | 944 | ||
| Robert Thompson | 859 | ||
| Martin Reilly | 478 | ||
| Geraldine O'Donnell | 354 | ||
| David McAuley | 222 | ||
| Nigel Gardiner | 204 | ||
| Karen Scrivens | 142 | ||
| Turnout Voter turnout Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s... |
8,108 | ||
| No change | |||