Black Mountain (District Electoral Area)

Black Mountain
Black Mountain
Belfast City Council DEA constituency
	Black Mountain DEA marked on a map of Belfast City Council and its wards
Current constituency
Created	2014
Seats	7 (2014–)
Councillors	Ciarán Beattie (SF); Arder Carson (SF); Paul Doherty (SDLP); Micheal Donnelly (SF); Róis-Máire Donnelly (SF); Áine McCabe (SF); Ronan McLaughlin (SF);

Black Mountain is a District Electoral Area used to elect 7 councillors to Belfast City Council.

Quick facts Current constituency, Created ...

It is named after the Black Mountain.

The district was created for the 2014 election. It combined 4 of the 6 wards from the abolished Upper Falls DEA with 3 of the 5 wards from the abolished Lower Falls DEA.

In the 2014 election it elected 5 Sinn Féin councillors, 1 Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor, and Gerry Carroll of the People Before Profit Alliance. In the 2019 election Sinn Fein gained a sixth seat from the SDLP. In the 2023 election, the SDLP regained a seat at the expense of People Before Profit.

Election
2023	Ciarán Beattie (Sinn Féin)	Arder Carson (Sinn Féin)	Róis-Máire Donnelly (Sinn Féin)	Áine McCabe (Sinn Féin)	Micheal Donnelly (Sinn Féin)	Ronan McLaughlin (Sinn Féin)	Paul Doherty (SDLP)
November 2022 Co-Option			Róis-Máire Donnelly (Sinn Féin)				Matt Collins (PBP)
November 2020 Co-Option			Steven Corr (Sinn Féin)
2019				Emma Groves (Sinn Féin)
October 2017 Co-Option					Orla Nic Biorna (Sinn Féin)	Tim Attwood (SDLP)
May 2016 Co-Option					Janice Austin (Sinn Féin)
2014					Janice Austin (Sinn Féin)	Gerry Carroll (PBP)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Sinn Féin	Ciarán Beattie*	14.63%	2,336
	Sinn Féin	Michael Donnelly*	13.51%	2,158
	Sinn Féin	Arder Carson*	12.98%	2,073
	Sinn Féin	Ronan McLaughlin*	10.27%	1,641	1,867.24	1,983.65	1,986.65	2,037.59
	SDLP	Paul Doherty	10.55%	1,685	1,700.96	1,706.77	1,718.05	1,720.72	1,838.15	2,029.15
	Sinn Féin	Áine McCabe*	11.51%	1,838	1,848.50	1,853.12	1,860.40	1,862.65	1,897.79	2,005.79
	Sinn Féin	Róis-Máire Donnelly*	9.62%	1,536	1,575.06	1,589.29	1,594.27	1,597.66	1,643.84	1,730.09	1,762.61
	People Before Profit	Matt Collins*	8.24%	1,316	1,330.14	1,334.13	1,353.13	1,354.57	1,446.13	1,660.80	1,661.40
	Aontú	Gerard Herdman	3.40%	543	544.96	545.66	547.66	547.90	563.18
	Irish Republican Socialist	Dan Murphy	2.67%	426	429.78	431.53	432.53	432.71	454.51
	Workers' Party	Ursula Meighan	1.16%	185	186.82	188.36	188.36	188.54
	Alliance	Ryan Brown	1.04%	166	171.04	171.39	185.53	185.86
	Green (NI)	Stevie Maginn	0.43%	68	68.70	68.77
Electorate: 27,143 Valid: 15,971 (58.84%) Spoilt: 309 Quota: 1,997 Turnout: 16,280 (59.98%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	People Before Profit	Matt Collins*	16.14%	2,268
	Sinn Féin	Ciarán Beattie*	13.47%	1,893
	Sinn Féin	Steven Corr*	13.26%	1,864
	Sinn Féin	Arder Carson*	11.63%	1,634	1,686.78	1,710.65	1,715.95	1,773.95
	Sinn Féin	Micheal Donnelly	10.92%	1,535	1,569.32	1,572.82	1,583.57	1,623.65	1,667.66
	Sinn Féin	Ronan McLaughlin	9.36%	1,316	1,354.22	1,444.87	1,510.07	1,567.35	1,614.95
	Sinn Féin	Emma Groves*	10.18%	1,431	1,465.32	1,470.43	1,473.98	1,520.58	1,590.64
	SDLP	Paul Doherty	5.57%	783	903.9	906.35	908.05	1,175.18	1,432.89
	Aontú	Eoin Geraghty	5.34%	750	796.02	797	797.9	861.98
	Green (NI)	Stevie Maginn	1.45%	204	282	283.05	283.8
	Alliance	Liam Norris	1.52%	213	256.16	256.93	257.43
	Workers' Party	Conor Campbell	1.15%	162	210.88	213.05	214.45
Electorate: 26,022 Valid: 14,053 (54.00%) Spoilt: 345 Quota: 1,757 Turnout: 14,398 (55.33%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Sinn Féin	Steven Corr*	12.86%	1,793
	Sinn Féin	Janice Austin*	12.80%	1,784
	People Before Profit	Gerry Carroll	12.13%	1,691	1,789
	Sinn Féin	Emma Groves*	11.68%	1,628	1,637	1,757
	Sinn Féin	Arder Carson*	10.82%	1,509	1,527	1,628	1,629.68	1,634.18	1,636.12	1,641.44
	SDLP	Tim Attwood*	9.02%	1,258	1,452	1,596	1,597.18	1,631.68	1,632.72	1,634.26
	Sinn Féin	Ciarán Beattie*	9.61%	1,340	1,369	1,472	1,501.46	1,504.46	1,534.22	1,538.14
	Sinn Féin	Caoimhín Mhic Giolla Mhin*	10.24%	1,428	1,450	1,521	1,522.3	1,526.05	1,527.19	1,529.71
	éirígí	Pádraic MacCoitir	7.36%	1,026	1,040
	Workers' Party	Joanne Lowry	1.14%	159
	SDLP	Gerard McDonald	0.95%	133
	Alliance	Lauren Gray	0.79%	110
	NI21	Chris Valente	0.60%	83
Electorate: 25,146 Valid: 13,942 (55.44%) Spoilt: 369 Quota: 1,743 Turnout: 14,311 (56.91%)

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