Belfast City Council election, 2011

Main article: Northern Ireland local elections, 2011

May 5, 2011 (2011-05-05)

All 51 seats to Belfast City Council 26 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Sinn Féin	DUP	SDLP
Seats won	16	15	8
Seat change	2	-	-

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Party	Alliance	UUP	PUP
Seats won	6	3	2
Seat change	2	4	-

	Seventh party

Party	Independent
Seats won	1
Seat change	-

Party with the most votes by district.

Lord Mayor before election

Pat Convery
SDLP

Lord Mayor

Niall Ó Donnghaile
Sinn Féin

Elections to Belfast City Council were held on 5 May 2011 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used nine district electoral areas to elect a total of 51 councillors, most representing the more heavily populated north and west.

Sinn Féin emerged as the largest party, and Niall Ó Donnghaile became Lord Mayor.^[1]

Election Results

Belfast Local Election Result 2011^[2]
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Sinn Féin	16	3	1	2	31.4	30.9	28,234	+0.1
	DUP	15	1	1	0	29.4	23.4	21,353	-2.3
	SDLP	8	1	1	0	15.7	13.8	12,547	-3.3
	Alliance	6	2	0	2	11.8	12.6	11,540	+5.8
	UUP	3	0	4	4	5.9	8.6	7,836	-5.2
	PUP	2	0	0	0	3.9	2.8	2,570	+0.1
	Éirígí	0	0	0	0	0	2.3	2,062	+2.3
	Green (NI)	0	0	0	0	0	1.4	1,320	+0.6
	Workers' Party	0	0	0	0	0	0.8	760	+0.1
	Irish Republican Socialist	0	0	0	0	0	0.6	588	+0.6
	Socialist Party	0	0	0	0	0	0.5	434	+0.1
	People Before Profit	0	0	0	0	0	0.4	321	+0.4
	TUV	0	0	0	0	0	0.4	349	+0.4
	NI Conservatives	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	103	-0.1
	Procapitalism	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

Districts summary

Results of the Belfast City Council election, 2011
by district
Ward	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	Total Cllrs
Ward	SF		DUP		SDLP		Alliance		UUP		Others		Total Cllrs
Balmoral	14.7	1	19.6	1	29.0	2	17.6	1	15.1	1	3.9	0	6
Castle	26.6	2	30.5	2	22.4	1	6.9	0	11.8	1	1.7	0	6
Court	2.8	0	64.4	3	1.5	0	1.2	0	6.0	0	24.1	2	5
Laganbank	17.3	1	14.1	1	27.4	2	19.0	1	11.5	0	10.8	0	5
Lower Falls	75.4	4	0.0	0	10.2	1	0.0	0	0.0	0	14.4	0	5
Oldpark	53.1	3	25.4	2	11.2	1	2.9	0	5.1	0	5.0	0	6
Pottinger	11.3	1	36.8	3	4.8	0	19.9	1	8.3	0	8.2	0	6
Upper Falls	67.8	4	1.4	0	18.1	1	1.3	0	0.0	0	11.3	0	5
Victoria	0.0	0	32.6	3	1.5	0	36.5	3	17.9	1	11.6	0	7
Total	30.9	16	23.4	15	13.8	8	12.6	6	8.6	3		0	51

District results

Balmoral^[3]
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^[4]
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^[5]
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^[6]
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)	Clare 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^[7]
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^[8]
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^[9]
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^[10]
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^[11]
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

References

↑ "Niall Ó Donnghaile's year in mayoral chains". 3 November 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
↑ "Belfast Council results". 11 May 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
↑ 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

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