The 2011 Local Government Elections in Northern Ireland

Map by Conal Kelly

The Elections

The elections for Northern Ireland's 26 local councils took place on 5 May, 2011, simultaneously with the Assembly election. This was the tenth set of elections since the local councils were reorganised in 1973, and the fifth on the boundaries set up for the 1993 elections. Councillors are elected for a four-year term by Single Transferable Vote from local electoral areas returning five, six or seven councillors. You can look at all the local election results since 1973 here, and compare specifically with the 2005 elections here, the 2001 elections here, the 1997 elections here and the 1993 elections here.

The Results

These elections saw further advances for Sinn Féin and Alliance, with minor setbacks for the DUP and much worse for the UUP and SDLP.

More details to come in due course.

Democratic Unionist Party 175 -3 179,436
 27.2% -2.4%
Sinn Fein 138 +9 163,712
 24.8% +1.5%
Ulster Unionist Party 99 -16 100,643
 15.2% -2.7%
Social Democratic & Labour Party 87 -14 99,325
 15.0% -2.4%
Alliance Party 44 +14 48,859
 7.4% +2.5%
Traditional Unionist Voice 6 +6 13,079
 2.0%
Green Party
 3 0 6,317
 1.0% +0.1%
Progressive Unionist Party
 2 0 3,858
 0.6% -0.1%
UK Independence Party 1 +1 2,550
 0.4%
Irish Republican Socialist Party 0 0 2,133
 0.3%
Eirigi
 0
 0
 2,062
 0.3%
People Before Profit Alliance 0 0 1,721
 0.3%
Conservative 0 0 1,321
 0.2% +0.0%
Independent Republican Party
 0
 0
 850
 0.1%
Community Partnership (Northern Ireland) 0 0 800
 0.1%
Workers Party 0
 0
 760
 0.1%
 +0.0%
Socialist Party 0
 0
 682
 0.1%
 +0.0%
British National Party 0 0 491
 0.1%
Procapitalism
 0 0 9
 0.001%
Independents 27 6 32,023
 4.8% +1.3%

It'll be a while before I can update individual council pages properly.

Details of distribution of seats on the 26 District Councils

Council DUP UUP Alliance Others SDLP SF Total Seats
Antrim 5- 5 2 0 3 4+
 19
Ards 11- 6-
 4+
 1 Ind 1 0 23
Armagh 4--
 6+ 0 1 Ind 5-
 6+ 22
Ballymena 12-- 4- 1+
 2 TUV, 1 Ind 2-
 2+
 24
Ballymoney 8 2 0 1 TUV, 1 Ind 1-
 3 16
Banbridge 5--
 7++
 1 0 2- 2+ 17
Belfast 15 3---- 6++
 2 PUP, 1 Ind 8 16++ 51
Carrickfergus 8 4 3 2 Inds 0 0 17
Castlereagh 11-- 3- 6++
 1 Green 2 0 23
Coleraine 9 5---
 2++
 2 Inds 3 1 22
Cookstown 3 3 0 0 4-
 6+ 16
Craigavon 9 6 1+
 0 2-- 8++ 26
Derry 5 1 0 0 14 10 30
Down 3 3-
 1+
 1 Green, 1 Ind 9-
 5 23
Dungannon 6+
 4 0 1 Ind
 3-
 8-
 22
Fermanagh 4 6+
 0 1 Ind 3--
 9 23
Larne 4- 3-
 3+
 1 TUV, 2 Inds 1-
 1+
 15
Limavady 3 2 0 1 TUV 3 6 15
Lisburn 14+ 5-- 3 0 3 5+
 30
Magherafelt 3-
 2 0 0 2 9+ 16
Moyle 2 3 0 1 TUV, 4 Inds 2-
 3- 15
Newry and Mourne 1-
 3 0 3 Inds 9 14+ 30
Newtownabbey 12 5-
 5+++
 0 1 2+ 25
North Down 11+++ 4----
 6 3 Inds, 1 Green 0 0 25
Omagh 3 3 0 2 Inds 3 10 21
Strabane 4+
 1-
 0 2 Inds 1- 8 16
Total 175 99 44
 39
 87
 138 582

It'll be a while before I can update individual council pages properly.

Parliamentary constituencies

See also:

Other sites based at ARK: ORB (Online Research Bank) | CAIN (Conflict Archive on the INternet) | Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey

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Nicholas Whyte, 12 May 2011.


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