32-525: Elections for local government were held in Northern Ireland on 19 May 1993. Local government in Northern Ireland Lowercase "d" per here . Local government in Northern Ireland is divided among 11 single-tier districts known as 'Local Government Districts' (abbreviated LGDs) and formerly known as district council areas (DCAs). Councils in Northern Ireland do not carry out
64-495: A DEA has one councillor for each ward it has. Likewise, parliamentary constituencies (and thus, Assembly constituencies) are always made up of combinations of electoral wards. Electoral wards are also used in allocating funding, such as for urban regeneration programmes under the Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy. [REDACTED] This table shows number of councillors by party, election, and district, based on
96-536: A four-year term of office under the single transferable vote (STV) system. Elections were last held on 18 May 2023 . To qualify for election, a councillor candidate must be: In addition, they must either: The results of the three elections held since the introduction of the 11 new districts in 2014-15 are as follows. The districts are combined for various purposes. In the Eurostat Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), Northern Ireland
128-481: A more localised indicator of voting preferences than the results in the larger parliamentary constituencies. Under STV , each DEA is a multi-member district, electing 5, 6 or 7 councillors, with all councillors representing the entire DEA. Wards do not have elected representation in their own right, and no election results at ward level are officially recorded or published, besides turnout levels at individual polling stations. The below map shows each DEA numbered, with
160-424: A new party affiliation. Changes are dated in the header row: either a general election (four-figure year, bold, link) or by-election or change in affiliation (two-figure year, italic, link or details appear on hover). Tory Whig Tory Whig * Sir George Hill, 2nd Baronet , was elected to sit as MP for both Coleraine and Londonderry City in
192-3316: A petition. Tory Conservative Whig Peelite Liberal Conservative Whig Liberal *unseated on petition Conservative Peelite Liberal Conservative Whig Peelite Liberal Conservative Whig Peelite Liberal Conservative Conservative Party Irish Unionist Russellite Unionist Independent Unionist Conservative Party Irish Unionist Irish Parliamentary Party (1885-90, 1900-22) / Irish National League (1890-1900) Irish National Federation Healyite Nationalist Nationalist Party Conservative Party Irish Unionist Independent Unionist Liberal Unionist Irish Parliamentary Party (1885-90, 1900-22) / Irish National League (1890-1900) Irish National Federation Nationalist Party Labour Unionist Conservative Party Irish Unionist Russellite Unionist Irish Parliamentary Party (1885-90, 1900-22) / Irish National League (1890-1900) Irish National Federation Nationalist Party Irish Unionist Russellite Unionist Irish Parliamentary Party (1885-90, 1900-22) / Irish National League (1890-1900) Irish National Federation Conservative Party Irish Unionist Liberal Unionist Liberal Party Irish Parliamentary Party (1885-90, 1900-22) / Irish National League (1890-1900) Irish National Federation Conservative Party Irish Unionist Russellite Unionist Liberal Unionist Liberal Party Irish Parliamentary Party (1885-90, 1900-22) / Irish National League (1890-1900) Irish National Federation Nationalist Party Irish Unionist Independent Unionist Labour Unionist Sinn Féin Ulster Unionist Ulster Progressive Unionist Independent Unionist New Party Northern Ireland Labour Independent Labour Federation of Labour Irish Labour Nationalist Party Periodic boundary reviews commenced in 1947. The elections at which these were implemented are tagged with diamond suit characters, ♦. The 1st Periodic Review boundary map can be viewed on
224-575: A regional-level authority. From 1921 to 1973, Northern Ireland was divided into six administrative counties (subdivided into urban and rural districts ) and two county boroughs . The counties and county boroughs continue to exist for the purposes of lieutenancy and shrievalty . This system, with the abolition of rural districts, remains the model for local government in the Republic of Ireland . (See also List of rural and urban districts in Northern Ireland for more details) Councillors are elected for
256-536: A single Health and Social Care Board in April 2009. The former health and social services boards were as follows: In June 2002, the Northern Ireland Executive established a Review of Public Administration to review the arrangements for the accountability, development, administration and delivery of public services. Among its recommendations were a reduction in the number of districts. In 2005 Peter Hain ,
288-724: Is a new constituency, replacing the former Belfast South constituency which had a much smaller area. All of the others have undergone boundary changes, primarily to bring the electorate within the range of 69,724 to 77,062 as required by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (as amended in 2020). Under the Fifth Periodic Review , the following configuration of constituencies was adopted in 2008. They were used in four general elections: 2010 , 2015 , 2017 and 2019 , and also in four Assembly elections: 2011 , 2016 , 2017 and 2022 . [REDACTED] Under
320-650: Is divided into 18 parliamentary constituencies : 4 borough constituencies in Belfast and 14 county constituencies elsewhere. Section 33 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 provides that the constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly are the same as the constituencies that are used for the United Kingdom Parliament. Parliamentary constituencies are not used for local government , which
352-721: Is divided into five parts at level 3 There were five education and library boards (ELBs) in Northern Ireland. As part of the Review of Public Administration process, the library functions of the ELBs were taken over by a new body, the Northern Ireland Library Authority (branded Libraries NI ) in April 2009. The education and skills functions were centralised into a single Education Authority for Northern Ireland in April 2015. The boards were as follows: There were four health and social services boards which were replaced by
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#1733093020149384-469: Is handled centrally by the Land and Property Services agency of the Northern Ireland Executive . The 11 districts first had their boundaries determined in 2012. Elections were held to the new councils in 2014, and they assumed the powers of the previous councils in 2015. Basic geographical statistics are shown below. Previously (between 1972 and 2015) the country was divided into 26 smaller districts . Each of
416-599: Is instead carried out by 11 district councils ; these often have different boundaries. Each constituency returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons at Westminster and five Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) to the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont . Six MLAs were returned per constituency until the Assembly Members (Reduction of Numbers) Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 reduced
448-516: The 1806 general election and chose to continue to sit for Londonderry City, hence the 1807 by-election , in which Walter Jones was restored to his seat. Tory Whig Independent * At both the 1802 and 1806 elections, George Knox was returned for both Dungannon and Dublin University and chose to sit for the university seat . Tory Whig * Charles Brownlow
480-489: The 1993 election was the last time local government boundaries had been redrawn - between 1993 and 2011, there were 102 DEAs across the old 26 councils, with each council having between 3 and 9 DEAs each. By definition, DEAs nest exactly within the 11 Local Government Districts. However, they do not nest within the parliamentary constituencies - for example, the DEAs of Newry , Slieve Gullion and Cusher all fall entirely within
512-921: The ARK elections website . Changes in the 2nd review were relatively minor. Ulster Unionist Protestant Unionist (pre-1971) / Democratic Unionist (post-1971) Vanguard Unionist / United Ulster Unionist (Mid Ulster, 1975-83) Conservative Party Independent Unionist Ulster Popular Unionist Independent Republican Unity Nationalist Party Anti H-Block (pre-1982) / Sinn Féin (post-1982) Republican Labour Social Democratic and Labour Alliance Independent Independent Socialist Irish Labour Notes: 3rd and 4th Review boundary maps can be viewed on
544-630: The Fourth Periodic Review , the following configuration of constituencies was adopted in 1995. They were used in three general elections: 1997 , 2001 and 2005 , and also in four Northern Ireland-wide elections: the Forum election in 1996 , and the Assembly elections in 1998 , 2003 and 2007 . [REDACTED] Under the Third Periodic Review , the following configuration of constituencies
576-566: The Newry and Armagh constituency , but the Armagh DEA does not - one of its wards, Blackwatertown , falls within the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency instead. This means there is no exact comparison of local government election results with Assembly/Westminster results. However, comparisons are possible between combinations of 2012 DEAs, and combinations of DEAs/LGDs from before 2014. For example,
608-558: The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , announced proposals to reduce the number of councils to seven. The names and boundaries of the seven districts were announced in March 2007. In March 2008 the restored Northern Executive agreed to create eleven new councils instead of the original seven. The first elections were due to take place in May 2011. However, by May 2010 disagreements among parties in
640-458: The 11 councils is divided into 7 District Electoral Areas (DEAs), with the exception of Belfast, which has 10 DEAs. Each DEA, in turn, is made up of 5, 6 or 7 wards, with the number of councillors for each DEA equal to the number of wards. There are 80 DEAs in Northern Ireland in total, and the current DEA boundaries were finalised in 2012 , and first used in the 2014 election , with the new councils coming into operation in May 2015. Prior to this,
672-429: The 2012 Local Government Districts in bold. The inset map shows DEAs in the districts of Antrim and Newtownabbey, Ards and North Down, Belfast, and Lisburn and Castlereagh. [REDACTED] Electoral wards are the basic unit of Northern Ireland's political geography. Since at least 1973, every local government boundary commission has involved the drawing of ward boundaries, then the grouping of wards into DEAs, such that
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#1733093020149704-459: The ARK elections website: 1983 , 1997 . Alliance Party Democratic Unionist Independent Sinn Féin Social Democratic and Labour Traditional Unionist Voice UK Unionist Party Ulster Popular Unionist Ulster Unionist Paisley Jr was suspended from
736-570: The DUP between July and November 2018. [REDACTED] See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details. Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021. In accordance with the provisions of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 2020 ,
768-404: The current set of 11 councils, are shown on the below map. They had 583 wards in total - meaning 583 councillors, representing 102 District Electoral Areas. [REDACTED] The current pattern of 11 local government districts was established on 1 April 2015, as a result of the reform process that started in 2005. The previous pattern of local government in Northern Ireland, with 26 councils,
800-634: The executive over district boundaries were expected to delay the reforms until 2015. In June 2010 the proposed reforms were abandoned following the failure of the Northern Ireland Executive to reach agreement. However, on 12 March 2012, the Northern Ireland Executive published its programme for government, which included a commitment to reduce the number of councils in Northern Ireland to 11. List of parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland
832-451: The number of constituencies allocated to Northern Ireland was unchanged, at 18. Initial proposals were published on 20 October 2021 and, following two periods of public consultation, revised proposals were published on 17 November 2022. Final recommendations were published on 28 June 2023. Under the recommendations, the following constituencies for Northern Ireland came into effect at the 2024 general election : Belfast South and Mid Down
864-433: The number to five, effective from the 2017 Assembly election . Democratic Unionist Sinn Féin Social Democratic and Labour Ulster Unionist Alliance Party Traditional Unionist Voice Where a cell is marked → (with a different colour of frame to the preceding cell) it indicates that the previous MP continued to sit under
896-485: The same range of functions as those in the rest of the United Kingdom ; for example they have no responsibility for education, road-building or housing (although they do nominate members to the advisory Northern Ireland Housing Council ). Their functions include planning , waste and recycling services , leisure and community services, building control and local economic and cultural development. The collection of rates
928-505: The three local elections that have occurred since local government reform in 2014-15. 'S.' denotes seats. '14', '19' and '23' denote the years 2014, 2019 and 2023. This table does not reflect any notional changes between the 2011 election and the 2014 election. 'Minor Nat.' includes independent nationalists and Aontú . 'Minor Un.' includes independent unionists, NI21 and UKIP . 'Minor Other' includes other independents and Labour Alternative . The previous set of 26 councils, which preceded
960-469: The total election results in the Limavady and Benbradagh DEAs from 2014 can be compared with the results of the whole Limavady borough from 2011, as both cover the same area. Similar comparisons are as follows: Note that Erne West is the only DEA in Northern Ireland whose boundaries were completely unchanged between 1993 and 2012. The 80 DEAs are the most granular unit of elected representation, thus providing
992-636: Was established in 1973 by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 and the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 to replace the previous system established by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 . The system was based on the recommendations of the Macrory Report, of June 1970, which presupposed the continued existence of the Government of Northern Ireland to act as
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1024-592: Was initially elected as a Tory but at some point changed his affiliation to sit with the Whigs. Tory Whig * The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith suggests that after the 1806 election there was a petition , which led to Edward Southwell Ruthven (Whig) being unseated and John Wilson Croker (Tory) being declared duly elected. Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922 , edited by BM Walker, does not make any reference to such
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