Northern Ireland local elections, 2011

5 May 2011

All 583 council seats

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Peter Robinson	Gerry Adams	Tom Elliott
Party	DUP	Sinn Féin	UUP
Seats won	175	138	99
Seat change	3	9	16
Popular vote	179,436	163,712	100,643
Percentage	27.2%	24.8%	15.2%
Swing	2.4%	1.6%	2.8%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Margaret Ritchie	David Ford	None
Party	SDLP	Alliance	Independent
Seats won	87	44	27
Seat change	14	14	6
Popular vote	99,325	48,859
Percentage	15.0%	7.4%
Swing	2.4%	2.4%

Colours denote the winning party with outright control

Colours denote the party with the most seats

Elections for local government were held in Northern Ireland on Thursday 5 May 2011, contesting 582 seats in all.

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 elections was midnight on Thursday 14 April 2011.

All voters were required to 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.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3]

In June 2010, the proposed reforms were abandoned, and it was confirmed that the 2011 elections would be to the existing 26 councils.^[4] There was also an election to the Northern Ireland Assembly and a referendum on voting reform on the same day.^[5] The reforms have since been adopted and the Northern Ireland local elections, 2014 were for the 11 new districts.

Results

Party		Councillors		Votes^[6]
Party		Change	Total	% share	Total
	DUP	-3	175	27.2	179,436
	Sinn Féin	+9	138	24.8	163,712
	UUP	-16	99	15.2	100,643
	SDLP	-14	87	15.0	99,325
	Alliance	+14	44	7.4	48,859
	Independent	+6	27	5.1	32,023
	TUV	+6	6	2.0	13,079
	Green (NI)	0	3	1.0	6,317
	PUP	0	2	0.6	3,858
	UKIP	+1	1	0.4	2,550
	Irish Republican Socialist	0	0	0.3	2,133
	Éirígí	0	0	0.3	2,062
	People Before Profit	0	0	0.3	1,721
	NI Conservatives	0	0	0.2	1,321
	Independent Republican Party	0	0	0.1	850
	Community Partnership	0	0	0.1	800
	Workers' Party	0	0	0.1	760
	Socialist Party	0	0	0.1	682
	BNP	0	0	0.1	491
	Procapitalism	0	0	0.0	9

By council

Council	TUV	DUP	UUP	Alliance	SDLP	Sinn Féin	Green (NI)	Independent	Others	Total
Antrim	0	5	5	2	3	4	0	0	0	19
Ards	0	11	6	4	1	0	0	1	0	23
Armagh	0	4	6	0	5	6	0	1	0	22
Ballymena	2	12	4	1	2	2	0	1	0	24
Ballymoney	1	8	2	0	1	3	0	1	0	16
Banbridge	0	5	7	1	2	1	0	0	0	17
Belfast	0	15	3	6	8	16	0	1	2 PUP	51
Carrickfergus	0	8	4	3	0	0	0	2	0	17
Castlereagh	0	11	3	6	2	0	1	0	0	23
Coleraine	0	9	5	2	3	1	0	2	0	22
Cookstown	0	3	3	0	4	6	0	0	0	16
Craigavon	0	9	6	1	2	8	0	0	0	26
Derry	0	5	1	0	14	10	0	0	0	30
Down	0	3	3	1	9	5	1	1	0	23
Dungannon	0	6	4	0	3	8	0	1	0	22
Fermanagh	0	4	6	0	3	9	0	1	0	23
Larne	1	4	3	3	1	1	0	2	0	15
Limavady	1	2	2	0	3	6	0	0	0	16
Lisburn	0	14	5	3	3	5	0	0	0	30
Magherafelt	0	3	2	0	2	9	0	0	0	16
Moyle	1	2	3	0	2	3	0	4	0	15
Newry and Mourne	0	1	3	0	9	14	0	2	1 UKIP	30
Newtownabbey	0	12	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	25
North Down	0	11	3	7	0	0	1	3	0	25
Omagh	0	3	3	0	3	10	0	2	0	21
Strabane	0	4	1	0	1	8	0	2	0	16

Councils

Belfast

Main article: Belfast City Council election, 2011

Balmoral^[7]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Alliance	Tom Ekin	1,762
	DUP	Ruth Patterson	1,553
	Sinn Féin	Máirtín Ó Muilleoir	1,465
	SDLP	Claire Hanna	1,443
	UUP	Bob Stoker	922
	SDLP	Niall Kelly	743
	SDLP	Bernie Kelly	706
	UUP	Jim Kirkpatrick	578
	DUP	Sharon Simpson	396
	Green (NI)	Mark Simpson	282
	People Before Profit	Andrew King	107
Turnout			9,957
	Sinn Féin gain from Democratic Unionist

Castle^[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Lydia Patterson	1,489
	Sinn Féin	Tierna Cunningham	1,377
	SDLP	Pat Convery	1,367
	Sinn Féin	Mary Campbell	1,293
	UUP	David Browne	1,181
	DUP	Guy Spence	946
	SDLP	Cathal Mullaghan	883
	Alliance	David McKechnie	689
	DUP	Lee Reynolds	629
	Workers' Party	John Lavery	170
Turnout			10,024
	Sinn Féin gain from Social Democratic and Labour

Court^[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	William Humphrey	2,643
	DUP	Brian Kingston	1,371
	Independent	Frank McCoubrey	754
	PUP	Hugh Smyth	640
	UUP	Bobby McConnell	395
	DUP	Naomi Thompson	237
	Independent	Raymond McCord	199
	Sinn Féin	Karol McKee	184
	SDLP	Conor McNeill	99
	Alliance	Mark Long	78
Turnout			6,600
	No change

Laganbank^[10]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Alliance	Catherine Curran	1,518
	Sinn Féin	Deirdre Hargey	1,383
	SDLP	Patrick McCarthy	1,361
	DUP	Christopher Stalford	1,126
	UUP	Michelle Bostock	921
	SDLP	Kate Mullan	833
	Green (NI)	Claire Bailey	500
	People Before Profit	Mark Hewitt	144
	Socialist Party	Paddy Meehan	136
	Workers' Party	Patrick Lynn	88
Turnout			8,010
	Alliance gain from Ulster Unionist

Lower Falls^[11]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Sinn Féin	Janice Austin	1,920
	Sinn Féin	Steven Corr	1,572
	Sinn Féin	Tom Hartley	1,561
	Sinn Féin	Jim McVeigh	1,497
	SDLP	Colin Keenan	1,000
	Sinn Féin	Breige Brownlee	813
	Éirígí	John McCusker	647
	Workers' Party	John Lowry	398
	Irish Republican Socialist	Jim Gorman	209
	Socialist Party	Pat Lawlor	148
Turnout			9,765
	Social Democratic and Labour gain from Sinn Féin

Oldpark^[12]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Ian Crozier	1,770
	Sinn Féin	Conor Maskey	1,573
	Sinn Féin	Gerard McCabe	1,492
	Sinn Féin	Daniel Lavery	1,370
	SDLP	Nichola Mallon	1,184
	Sinn Féin	Mary Clarke	1,180
	DUP	Gareth McKee	917
	UUP	Fred Rodgers	540
	Irish Republican Socialist	Paul Little	379
	Alliance	James McClure	303
	Independent	Martin McAuley	146
Turnout			10,584
	Democratic Unionist gain from Ulster Unionist

Pottinger^[13]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Alliance	Máire Hendron	1,895
	DUP	Gavin Robinson	1,523
	Sinn Féin	Niall Ó Donnghaile	1,077
	DUP	May Campbell	1,051
	PUP	John Kyle	1,022
	DUP	Adam Newton	936
	UUP	Philip Robinson	786
	SDLP	Séamas de Faoite	456
	Green (NI)	David Newman	223
	TUV	John Hiddleston	191
	Socialist Party	Thomas Black	150
	Workers' Party	Kevin McNally	104
	People Before Profit	Donna McCusker	70
	Independent	Karl Hedley	33
	Procapitalism	Samuel Smyth	9
Turnout			9,526
	Sinn Féin gain from Ulster Unionist

Upper Falls^[14]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Sinn Féin	Matt Garrett	2,250
	Sinn Féin	Gerard O'Neill	2,184
	Sinn Féin	Emma Groves	2,133
	SDLP	Tim Attwood	2,015
	Sinn Féin	Caoimhin Mac Giolla Mhín	1,910
	Éirígí	Pádraic Mac Coitir	1,415
	SDLP	Helen Walsh	250
	DUP	Eileen Kingston	179
	Alliance	Dan McGuinness	162
Turnout			12,498
	No change

Victoria^[15]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Robin Newton	2,338
	Alliance	Mervyn Jones	2,319
	Alliance	Laura McNamee	1,677
	DUP	Tom Haire	1,437
	UUP	Jim Rodgers	1,355
	Alliance	Andrew Webb	1,137
	UUP	Ian Adamson	942
	PUP	Robert McCartney	908
	DUP	John Hussey	812
	Green (NI)	Ross Campbell	315
	UUP	Stephen Warke	216
	SDLP	Magdalena Wolska	207
	TUV	Sammy Morrison	158
	Independent	Roy Hobson	142
	NI Conservatives	Garry Crosbie	103
Turnout			14,066
	Alliance gain from Ulster Unionist

Derry

Cityside
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Jim Clifford	1,243
	Sinn Féin	Kevin Campbell	1,199
	Sinn Féin	Patricia Logue	937
	Sinn Féin	Colin Kelly	631
	Independent (32 County Sovereignty)	Gary Donnelly	612
	Sinn Féin	Liam Friel	391
	SDLP	Ann Donnelly	311
	People Before Profit	Conor Kelly	265
	SDLP	Dermott Henderson	214
Turnout			5,798
	No change

Northland
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	John Tierney	1,736
	Sinn Féin	Maeve McLaughlin	1,260
	SDLP	John Boyle	1,099
	Sinn Féin	Gerry MacLochlainn	936
	SDLP	Sean Carr	824
	Sinn Féin	Michael Cooper	783
	SDLP	Eamon McAuley	429
	SDLP	Fiona Hamilton	366
	Alliance	Colm Cavanagh	217
	Sinn Féin	Patrick McGinley	704
	People Before Profit	Colm Bryce	564
	Irish Republican Socialist	Lucy Callaghan	340
Turnout
	No change

Rural
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	Sinn Féin	Paul Fleming	1,693
	SDLP	Thomas Conway	1,616
	DUP	Maurice Devenney	1,433
	DUP	Gary Middleton	1,219
	UUP	Ronald McKeegan	698
	SDLP	Hugh Hastings	624
	SDLP	Brenda Stevenson	615
	People Before Profit	Diane Greer	256
	Sinn Féin	Catherine Nelis	631
	SDLP	Ashleen Schenning	423
Turnout
	No change

Shantallow
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Colum Eastwood	2,109
	Sinn Féin	Tony Hassan	1,405
	SDLP	Shaun Gallagher	1,151
	Sinn Féin	Elisha McLaughlin	1,117
	Sinn Féin	Sandra Duffy	833
	SDLP	James Carr	766
	SDLP	Angela Dobbins	603
	Irish Republican Socialist	Martin McGonagle	539
	Independent	Pauline Mellon	477
Turnout
	No change

Waterside^[16]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Joe Miller	1,564
	SDLP	Gerard Diver	1,198
	Sinn Féin	Lynn Fleming	1,137
	DUP	April Garfield-Kidd	1,006
	UUP	Mary Hamilton	944
	DUP	Drew Thompson	859
	SDLP	Martin Reilly	478
	Sinn Féin	Geraldine O'Donnell	354
	People Before Profit	David McAuley	222
	PUP	Nigel Gardiner	204
	Alliance	Karen Scrivens	142
Turnout			8,108
	No change

References

↑ "Electoral Office for Northern Ireland: Electoral Identity Card" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-01-05.
↑ "Northern Ireland next Local Government Elections will be held in 2011", Northern Ireland Office
↑ "The Postponement of Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 2009". Opsi.gov.uk. 2010-07-16. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
↑ Local Elections in 2011 will be held to existing 26 Councils", Northern Ireland Office
↑ "Referendum on same day as NI Assembly election". BBC News. 2011-02-17. Retrieved 2011-02-19.
↑ Vote 2011: Northern Ireland Council Elections, BBC News, 11 May 2011
↑ Elections 2011: Balmoral, Belfast City Council
↑ Elections 2011: Castle, Belfast City Council
↑ Elections 2011: Court, Belfast City Council
↑ Elections 2011: Laganbank, Belfast City Council
↑ Elections 2011: Lower Falls, Belfast City Council
↑ Elections 2011: Oldpark, Belfast City Council
↑ Elections 2011: Pottinger, Belfast City Council
↑ Elections 2011: Upper Falls, Belfast City Council
↑ Elections 2011: Victoria, Belfast City Council
↑ "No change in Waterside as count continues in Derry's Guildhall ", Derry Journal, 10 May 2011

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