2019 Newry, Mourne and Down District Council election

The 2019 election to the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, part of the Northern Ireland local elections that were held on 2 May 2019 returned 41 members to the council via Single Transferable Vote.^[1]

2019 Newry, Mourne and Down District Council election

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All 41 seats to Newry, Mourne and Down District Council
First party Second party Third party   Leader Michelle O'Neill[n 1] Colum Eastwood Party Sinn Féin SDLP Independent Seats before 14 14 3 Seats won 16 11 5 Seat change 2 3 2   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Robin Swann Arlene Foster Naomi Long Party UUP DUP Alliance Seats before 3 4 2 Seats won 4 3 2 Seat change 1 1 0   Seventh party   Leader Gerard Batten Party UKIP Seats before 1 Seats won 0 Seat change 1
Newry, Mourne and Down 2019 Council Election Results by DEA (Shaded by the plurality of FPVs)
Council control after election TBD

Election results

Newry, Mourne and Down Borough Council Election Result 2019^[2]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Sinn Féin	16	2	0	2	39.0	36.5	25,327	0.6
	SDLP	11	0	3	3	26.8	23.0	15,975	7.4
	Independent	5	2	0	2	12.2	12.5	8,661	7.5
	UUP	4	1	0	1	9.8	10.0	6,952	2.0
	DUP	3	0	1	1	7.3	8.5	5,897	0.9
	Alliance	2	0	0	0	4.9	7.4	5,162	5.0
	Aontú	0	0	0	0	0.0	1.5	1,055	New
	Green (NI)	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.4	310	0.4
	UKIP	0	0	1	1	0.0	0.0	0	3.9

^[3]

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

The overall turnout was 55.25% with a total of 69,339 valid votes cast. A total of 1,090 ballots were rejected.

Districts summary

Results of the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council election, 2019
by district

Ward	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	Total Cllrs
	Sinn Féin		SDLP		UUP		DUP		Alliance		Others
Crotlieve	29.8	2	27.0	2	6.2	0	3.2	0	4.2	0	29.5	2	6
Downpatrick	25.2	1	40.6	3	4.7	0	2.0	0	5.1	0	22.3	1	5
Newry	44.8	3	21.3	2	3.4	0	0.0	0	7.3	0	23.2	1	6
Rowallane	8.0	0	15.6	1	19.4	1	29.0	2	18.2	1	9.7	0	5
Slieve Croob	36.5	2	20.5	1	15.9	1	10.6	0	10.6	1	5.9	0	5
Slieve Gullion	62.7	5	21.6	1	10.3	1	2.5	0	2.9	0	0.0	0	7
The Mournes	34.2	3	18.0	1	12.0	1	16.1	1	7.8	0	12.0	1	7
Total	36.5	16	23.0	11	10.0	4	8.5	3	7.4	2	14.4	5	41

District results

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Crotlieve

2014: 3 × SDLP, 2 × Sinn Féin, 1 × Independent
2019: 2 × SDLP, 2 × Sinn Féin, 2 × Independent
2014-2019 Change: Independent gain from SDLP

Crotlieve - 6 seats^[2]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Independent	Jarlath Tinnelly*	12.30%	1,412	1,415	1,465	1,528	1,651
	Sinn Féin	Gerry O'Hare	11.20%	1,286	1,286	1,305	1,462	1,467	1,852
	SDLP	Declan McAteer*	10.24%	1,175	1,179	1,236	1,247	1,309	1,371	1,375.56	1,375.56	1,754.56
	Independent	Mark Gibbons	10.36%	1,189	1,191	1,257	1,269	1,586	1,599	1,600.71	1,607.71	1,703.71
	Sinn Féin	Mickey Ruane*	7.07%	812	812	822	963	1,039	1,396	1,590.94	1,593.64	1,687.64
	SDLP	Karen McKevitt	9.72%	1,116	1,117	1,203	1,232	1,259	1,337	1,340.42	1,340.42	1,641.42
	UUP	Joshua Lowry	6.20%	712	1,056	1,068	1,068	1,079	1,079	1,079	1,079	1,100.9
	SDLP	Michael Carr	7.00%	808	810	877	880	1,055	1,073	1,075.85	1,075.85
	Sinn Féin	Oksana McMahon*	7.04%	809	809	823	922	940
	Independent	Jim Boylan	6.86%	788	789	853	856
	Sinn Féin	Mary Tinnelly	4.52%	519	519	524
	Alliance	Lorcán McGreevy	4.21%	483	484
	DUP	Wilma McCullough	3.23%	371
Electorate: 19,863   Valid: 11,480 (57.80%)   Spoilt: 169   Quota: 1,641   Turnout: 11,649 (58.65%)

Downpatrick

2014: 3 × SDLP, 1 × Sinn Féin, 1 × Independent
2019: 3 × SDLP, 1 × Sinn Féin, 1 × Independent
2014-2019 Change: No change

Downpatrick - 5 seats^[2]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	SDLP	Gareth Sharvin*	19.01%	1,395
	Independent	Cadogan Enright* ‡	14.34%	1,052	1,093.36	1,216.46	1,327.46
	SDLP	Dermot Curran*	12.81%	940	969.59	976.59	1,059.02	1,222.24	1,317.24
	Sinn Féin	Oonagh Hanlon	14.06%	1,032	1,041.13	1,049.13	1,073.46	1,073.46	1,156.68	1,157.68
	SDLP	John Trainor*	9.05%	664	744.74	758.18	852.83	906.27	1,060.81	1,094.81
	Sinn Féin	Jordan Madden	11.35%	833	846.31	853.31	864.53	865.43	899.3	899.3
	Aontú	Macartán Digney	6.47%	475	478.19	486.19	517.74	524.74
	UUP	Alex Burgess	4.70%	345	345.66	479.66	508.66
	Alliance	Tiernan Laird	5.11%	375	380.5	434.05
	DUP	James Savage	2.03%	149	149
	Green (NI)	Jamie Kennedy	1.74%	128	129.32
Electorate: 14,620   Valid: 7,338 (50.19%)   Spoilt: 86   Quota: 1,232   Turnout: 7,474 (51.12%)

Newry

2014: 3 × Sinn Féin, 2 × SDLP, 1 × Independent
2019: 3 × Sinn Féin, 2 × SDLP, 1 × Independent
2014-2019 Change: No change

Newry - 6 seats^[2]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	Gavin Malone	23.19%	2,296
	Sinn Féin	Liz Kimmins* ††	13.88%	1,374	1,450.56
	SDLP	Michael Savage*	12.43%	1,231	1,417.56
	Sinn Féin	Charlie Casey* †	12.42%	1,230	1,345.28	1,347.16	1,843.16
	Sinn Féin	Valerie Harte*	10.56%	1,045	1,131.68	1,132.68	1,363.56	1,776.7
	SDLP	Gary Stokes*	8.87%	878	987.12	1,115.08	1,139.68	1,145.14	1,178.81
	Alliance	Helena Young	7.28%	721	924.72	1,049.44	1,084.36	1,093.46	1,137.14
	Sinn Féin	Sarah McAllister	7.92%	784	864.08	864.08
	UUP	Ricky McGaffin	3.44%	341	353.76
Electorate: 19,400   Valid: 9,900 (51.03%)   Spoilt: 198   Quota: 1,415   Turnout: 10,098 (52.05%)

Rowallane

2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
2014-2019 Change: No change

Rowallane - 5 seats^[2]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Alliance	Patrick Brown* †	18.60%	1,416
	SDLP	Terry Andrews*	15.57%	1,211	1,322
	DUP	Harry Harvey* ††	16.27%	1,265	1,270	1,275.28	1,329.28
	UUP	Robert Burgess*	10.81%	842	865	892.83	1,075.37	1,082.96	1,142.81
	DUP	William Walker* ࠠ	12.67%	985	989	994.5	1,037.04	1,058.43	1,073.65
	UUP	Walter Lyons	8.58%	667	682	692.89	746.95	751.78	772.54
	Sinn Féin	Marianne Cleary	8.00%	622	652	671.47	709.67	709.67
	Independent	Martyn Todd	6.13%	477	525	570.54
	Green (NI)	Emma Cairns	2.34%	182
	Aontú	Liam Mulhern	1.27%	99
Electorate: 14,896   Valid: 7,776 (52.20%)   Spoilt: 73   Quota: 1,296   Turnout: 7,839 (52.62%)

Slieve Croob

2014: 2 × Sinn Féin, 1 × Alliance, 1 × SDLP, 1 × DUP
2019: 2 × Sinn Féin, 1 × Alliance, 1 × SDLP, 1 × UUP
2014-2019 Change: UUP gain from DUP

Slieve Croob - 5 seats^[2]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	UUP	Alan Lewis ‡	15.93%	1,303	1,307	2,115
	Sinn Féin	Roisin Howell*	12.65%	1,035	1,086	1,088	1,090	1,611
	Sinn Féin	Cathy Mason †	13.07%	1,069	1,117	1,119	1,120	1,373
	Alliance	Gregory Bain †	10.55%	863	915	932	1,194	1,217	1,241.84
	SDLP	Hugh Gallagher	10.76%	880	969	986	1,041	1,086	1,222.16
	SDLP	Mark Murnin*	9.73%	796	894	907	1,017	1,071	1,154.72
	Sinn Féin	John Rice*	10.81%	884	907	907	908
	DUP	Maynard Hanna	10.61%	868	889
	Aontú	Tracy Harkin	5.88%	481
Electorate: 14,846   Valid: 8,179 (55.09%)   Spoilt: 111   Quota: 1,364   Turnout: 8,290 (55.84%)

Slieve Gullion

2014: 4 × Sinn Féin, 2 × SDLP, 1 × UUP
2019: 5 × Sinn Féin, 1 × SDLP, 1 × UUP
2014-2019 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP

Slieve Gullion - 7 seats^[2]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Sinn Féin	Terry Hearty* †	14.98%	1,876
	Sinn Féin	Mickey Larkin*	13.14%	1,646
	SDLP	Pete Byrne*	13.12%	1,643
	Sinn Féin	Oonagh Magennis	12.95%	1,622
	Sinn Féin	Barra Ó'Muirí*	10.79%	1,351	1,571.49
	UUP	David Taylor*	10.28%	1,287	1,287.34	1,577.34
	Sinn Féin	Roisin Mulgrew* †	10.88%	1,362	1,414.19	1,482.04	1,554.44
	SDLP	Kate Loughran*	8.46%	1,059	1,076.85	1,291.89	1,296.34
	Alliance	Gazdag Balázs	2.88%	361	365.08
	DUP	Linda Henry	2.52%	315	316.19
Electorate: 20,858   Valid: 12,522 (60.03%)   Spoilt: 295   Quota: 1,566   Turnout: 12,817 (61.45%)

The Mournes

2014: 2 × Sinn Féin, 2 × SDLP, 1 × DUP, 1 × UUP, 1 × UKIP
2019: 3 × Sinn Féin, 1 × SDLP, 1 × DUP, 1 × UUP, 1 × Independent
2014-2019 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP, Independent leaves UKIP

The Mournes - 7 seats^[2]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	DUP	Glyn Hanna* ‡‡	16.06%	1,944
	Sinn Féin	Sean Doran* †	15.57%	1,885
	SDLP	Laura Devlin*	12.99%	1,572
	UUP	Harold McKee ‡	12.02%	1,455	1,697
	Independent	Henry Reilly* ‡	11.95%	1,447	1,619.92
	Sinn Féin	Willie Clarke*	9.53%	1,154	1,154.44	1,283.64	1,283.86	1,426.54	1,426.98	1,445.42
	Sinn Féin	Leeanne McEvoy	9.06%	1,097	1,098.32	1,269.92	1,269.92	1,372.32	1,372.54	1,379.86
	Alliance	Andrew McMurray	7.79%	943	945.2	951	1,014.36	1,280.88	1,320.7	1,349.02
	SDLP	Brian Quinn*	5.01%	607	612.06	675.26	735.32
Electorate: 21,013   Valid: 12,104 (57.60%)   Spoilt: 158   Quota: 1,514   Turnout: 12,262 (58.35%)

Changes during the term

† Co-options

Date co-opted	Electoral Area	Party		Outgoing	Co-optee	Reason
3 October 2019	Slieve Croob		Alliance	Gregory Bain	Andrew McMurray	Bain resigned.
17 October 2019	Rowallane		DUP	Harry Harvey	Kathryn Owen	Harvey was co-opted to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
10 February 2020	Newry		Sinn Féin	Liz Kimmins	Roisin Mulgrew	Kimmins was co-opted to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
11 February 2020	Slieve Gullion		Sinn Féin	Roisin Mulgrew	Declan Murphy	Murphy filled the vacancy arising from Mulgrew's move from Slieve Gullion to Newry.
28 May 2020	Slieve Gullion		Sinn Féin	Terry Hearty	Aoife Finnegan	Hearty resigned.
23 December 2021	The Mournes		Sinn Féin	Sean Doran	Michael Rice	Doran died.
25 May 2022	Rowallane		Alliance	Patrick Brown	David Lee-Surginor	Brown was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
9 June 2022	Slieve Croob		Sinn Féin	Cathy Mason	Jim Brennan	Mason was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
24 October 2022	Rowallane		DUP	William Walker	Yvonne Moore	Walker resigned.
20 December 2022	Newry		Sinn Féin	Roisin Mulgrew	Geraldine Kearns	Mulgrew resigned.
20 December 2022	Newry		Sinn Féin	Charlie Casey	Cathal King	Casey resigned.
20 December 2022	Rowallane		DUP	Kathryn Owen	Jonathan Jackson	Owen resigned.
20 December 2022	Rowallane		DUP	Yvonne Moore	Callum Bowsie	Moore resigned.

‡ Changes in affiliation

Date	Electoral Area	Name	Previous affiliation		New affiliation		Circumstance
6 June 2021	The Mournes	Glyn Hanna		DUP		Independent	Resigned from the DUP over disagreements with the new party leadership.[5]
6 June 2021	Rowallane	Kathryn Owen		DUP		Independent	Resigned from the DUP over disagreements with the new party leadership.[5]
14 September 2021	The Mournes	Glyn Hanna		Independent		DUP	Rejoined the DUP over resolving their disagreements with the new party leadership.[6]
14 September 2021	Rowallane	Kathryn Owen		Independent		DUP	Rejoined the DUP over resolving their disagreements with the new party leadership.[6]
29 October 2021	The Mournes	Harold McKee		UUP		Independent	Resigned from the UUP over disagreements with the new party leadership on social issues.[7]
13 November 2021	The Mournes	Harold McKee		Independent		TUV	Joined the TUV having recently resigned from the UUP.[8]
28 February 2022	Rowallane	William Walker		DUP		Independent	Suspended by the DUP after being arrested.[9]
25 July 2022	Downpatrick	Cadogan Enright		Independent		Alliance	Joined Alliance.[10]
12 August 2022	Slieve Croob	Alan Lewis		UUP		DUP	Defected to the DUP.[11]
12 August 2022	The Mournes	Henry Reilly		Independent		DUP	Joined the DUP.[11]

– Suspensions

None

Last updated 26 October 2022.

Current composition: see Newry, Mourne and Down District Council

Notes

1. The leader of Sinn Féin is Mary Lou McDonald, who sits as a TD in the Irish Dáil Éireann for Dublin Central. O'Neill is the leader of the party in Northern Ireland.