2011 Northern Ireland local elections

2011 Northern Ireland local elections
All 583 council seats
Turnout	55.7%
	Colours denote the party with the most seats
	Colours denote the party with a plurality of first preference votes in each District Electoral Area (darker colours indicate the party has a majority of first preference votes)

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

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European Union and Commonwealth citizens 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. A total of 1,210,009 were eligible to vote, and 55.7% of the electorate turned out.^[1]

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.^[2] 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.^[3] 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.^[4]

In June 2010, the proposed reforms were abandoned, and it was confirmed that the 2011 elections would be to the existing 26 councils.^[5] There was also an election to the Northern Ireland Assembly and a referendum on voting reform on the same day.^[6] The reforms have since been adopted and the 2014 Northern Ireland local elections were for the 11 new districts.

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Party		Councillors		Votes^[7]
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

Antrim North West^[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Trevor Clarke	1,172
	Sinn Féin	Anthony Brady	738
	Sinn Féin	Henry Cushinan	670
	SDLP	Robert Loughran	634
	SDLP	Brian Duffin	563
	UUP	Roderick Swann	506
	DUP	Wilson Clyde	329
	Alliance	Pauline Savage	248
Turnout			4,942
No change

Antrim South East^[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Thomas Burns	992
	Sinn Féin	Annemarie Logue	885
	DUP	Samuel Dunlop	873
	UUP	Mervyn Rea	853
	Alliance	Alan Lawther	817
	DUP	Roy Thompson	771
	UUP	Paul Michael	679
	DUP	John Smyth	381
	TUV	Mel Lucas	363
	SDLP	Roisin Nugent	247
	Independent	Martin Nelson	154
	Independent	Gerard Fox	49
Turnout			7,165
No change

Antrim Town^[8]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Adrian Cochrane-Watson	884
	DUP	Pam Lewis	734
	Sinn Féin	Noel Maguire	638
	DUP	Brian Graham	511
	Alliance	Neil Kelly	501
	DUP	John Smyth	439
	UUP	Drew Ritchie	400
	SDLP	Grainne Teggart	370
	Alliance	Oran Keenan	353
	Independent	Donovan McClelland	118
	PUP	Kenneth Wilkinson	109
	UUP	Amanda Johnston	69
Turnout			5,228
	Sinn Féin gain from DUP

Ards East^[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Colville Elliott	1,353
	Alliance	Linda Cleland	1,094
	DUP	Tom Smith	962
	DUP	Hamilton Gregory	952
	UUP	Ronnie Ferguson	623
	DUP	Eddie Thompson	620
	UUP	Katherine Ferguson	525
	TUV	Terry Williams	304
	Green (NI)	Emer Hopkins	191
	SDLP	Moira Ritchie	123
Turnout			6,912
	Alliance gain from UUP

2011 Northern Ireland local elections

Results

By council

Councils

Antrim

Ards

Armagh

Ballymena

Ballymoney

Banbridge

Belfast

Carrickfergus

Castlereagh

Coleraine

Cookstown

Craigavon

Derry

Down

Dungannon and South Tyrone

Fermanagh

Larne

Limavady

Lisburn

Magherafelt

Moyle

Newry and Mourne

Newtownabbey

North Down

Omagh

Strabane

References

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Ards Peninsula^[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Joe Boyle	1,473
	DUP	Robert Adair	1,067
	Alliance	Kieran McCarthy	942
	DUP	Colin Kennedy	726
	UUP	Angus Carson	719
	DUP	John Prentice	420
	Alliance	Kellie Armstrong	288
	Independent	Joe Hagan	261
	Independent	Robin Drysdale	180
Turnout			6,313
No change

Ards West^[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Robert Gibson	1,519
	DUP	Trevor Cummings	1,061
	UUP	Jim Fletcher	881
	DUP	Mervyn Oswald	868
	Alliance	Deborah Girvan	763
	Alliance	James McBriar	542
	UUP	Philip Smith	471
	TUV	Jack Allister	343
	NI Conservatives	Bill McKendry	129
Turnout			6,692
	Robert Gibson leaves UUP
No change

Newtownards^[9]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	Naomi Armstrong	979
	Alliance	Alan McDowell	883
	DUP	Stephen McIlveen	787
	Independent	Jimmy Menagh	764
	UUP	David Smyth	563
	UUP	Tom Hamilton	555
	DUP	Charlie Simmons	418
	TUV	Hammy Lawther	183
	Independent	Ken Richardson	123
	SDLP	Gerard Lennon	89
Turnout			5,467
	Independent gain from DUP

Crossmore^[10]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	SDLP	Thomas O'Hanlon	1,620
	Sinn Féin	Mary Doyle	1,160
	Sinn Féin	Darren McNally	868
	UUP	Mavis Eagle	844
	DUP	Noel Donnelly	744
	SDLP	Gerald Mallon	645
Turnout			6,010
	UUP gain from DUP