2014 Northern Ireland local elections

Local elections were held in Northern Ireland on Thursday 22 May 2014, contesting 462 seats in all, as part of the wider local elections across the United Kingdom. The election took place on the same day as the European Parliament election.[1] 1,243,649 people aged 18 and over were eligible to vote, and 51.3% of the electorate turned out.[2]

2014 Northern Ireland local elections
22 May 2014
All 462 council seats
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Peter Robinson Martin McGuinness Mike Nesbitt
Party DUP Sinn Féin UUP
Seats won 130 105 88
Seat change 15 10 11
Popular vote 144,928 151,137 101,385
Percentage 23.1% 24.1% 16.1%
Swing 4.1% 0.7% 0.9%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Alasdair McDonnell David Ford Jim Allister
Party SDLP Alliance TUV
Seats won 66 32 13
Seat change 1 2 10
Popular vote 85,237 41,769 28,310
Percentage 13.6% 6.7% 4.5%
Swing 1.4% 0.7% 2.5%
Colours denote which party won the most seats in each council

Voter eligibility

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 were an electoral identity card, an EEA photographic 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.[3] Voters lacking an accepted type of photographic ID had until 9 May 2014 to apply for an electoral identity card from the Electoral Office.[4]

Background

The elections represented a milestone in the reform of local government in Northern Ireland, as councillors were elected to 11 new councils.[5] These operated in shadow form until Wednesday 1 April 2015, with the current 26 councils existing in parallel until then.[1]

The 11 new councils, with links to the official lists of candidates standing ("statements of persons nominated"),[6] are:

  1. Belfast City Council (Candidates)
  2. North Down and Ards District Council (Candidates)
  3. Antrim and Newtownabbey District Council (Candidates)
  4. Lisburn and Castlereagh District Council (Candidates)
  5. Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (Candidates)
  6. Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council (Candidates)
  7. Mid and East Antrim District Council (Candidates)
  8. Causeway Coast and Glens District Council (Candidates)
  9. Mid-Ulster District Council (Candidates)
  10. Derry and Strabane District Council (Candidates)
  11. Fermanagh and Omagh District Council (Candidates)

The local government reorganisation and electoral administration was mandated by the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014. Nominations of election candidates closed on 29 April 2014.[7]

The 2014 election heralds 26 councils being reduced to 11 in April 2015.
The 26 old local government districts
The 11 new local government districts

Results

Because these elections were contested with new electoral boundaries, the results are not directly comparable with those of the last election. However, psephologist Nicholas Whyte has calculated a baseline by which to judge the parties' relative performance.[8] This baseline is used in the following tables.

Results by council
Map showing the party that received the most votes by district electoral area.
Council 1st party 2011 (notional)[9] 2nd party 2011 (notional)[9] 1st party 2014 2nd party 2014 Councillors
Belfast City[10] Sinn Féin (19) DUP (17) Sinn Féin (19) DUP (13) 60
North Down & Ards[11] DUP (19) Alliance (8) DUP (17) UUP (9) 40
Antrim & Newtownabbey[12] DUP (17) UUP (9) DUP (15) UUP (12) 40
Lisburn & Castlereagh[13] DUP (20) UUP (7) DUP (20) UUP (8) 40
Newry, Mourne & Down[14] Sinn Féin (16) SDLP (14) Sinn Féin (14) SDLP (14) 41
Armagh, Banbridge & Craigavon[15] DUP (13) UUP (12) DUP (13) UUP (12) 41
Mid & East Antrim[16] DUP (19) UUP (8) DUP (16) UUP (9) 40
Causeway Coast & Glens[17] DUP (15) Sinn Féin (9) DUP (11) UUP (10) 40
Mid-Ulster[18] Sinn Féin (17) DUP (9) Sinn Féin (18) DUP (8) 40
Derry & Strabane[19] Sinn Féin (16) SDLP (13) Sinn Féin (16) SDLP (10) 40
Fermanagh & Omagh[20] Sinn Féin (18) UUP (9) Sinn Féin (17) UUP (9) 40
All eleven councils[21] DUP (145) Sinn Féin (115) DUP (130) Sinn Féin (105) 462
Council Councillors Women[22] Alliance DUP Green NI21 PUP Sinn Féin SDLP TUV UKIP UUP Independents Other
Antrim & Newtownabbey40841500034201200
Armagh, Banbridge & Craigavon411101300086011210
Belfast City602081310319710701
Causeway Coast & Glens401111100176301010
Derry & Strabane40908000161000240
Fermanagh & Omagh40100500017800910
Lisburn & Castlereagh4097200100310800
Mid & East Antrim40123160003151920
Mid-Ulster40100800018600710
Newry, Mourne & Down41924000141401330
North Down & Ards4077173000110920
All eleven councils462116321304141056613388151
% of total10025.16.9328.140.870.220.8722.7314.292.810.6519.053.250.22

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PartyCandidatesElected
Alliance 17 8
Democratic Unionist Party 21 13
Éirígí 2 0
Green Party (Northern Ireland) 5 1
Independents 4 0
Northern Ireland Conservatives 3 0
NI21 13 0
People before Profit Alliance 1 1
Progressive Unionist Party 9 3
Republican Network for Unity 2 0
Sinn Féin 24 19
Social Democratic & Labour Party 15 7
Socialist Party (Northern Ireland) 2 0
Traditional Unionist Voice 5 1
UK Independence Party 2 0
Ulster Unionist Party 10 7
The Workers Party 6 0

Results by party
Party Councillors % of councillors First preference votes % of FP votes
2011 (notional)[9] 2014 +/- 2011 (notional) 2014 +/- 2011[23] 2014[24] +/- 2011 2014 +/-
DUP 145 130 15 31.4% 28.1% 3.3% 179,436 144,928 27.2% 23.1% 4.1%
Sinn Féin 115 105 10 24.9% 22.7% 2.2% 163,712 151,137 24.8% 24.1% 0.7%
UUP 77 88 11 16.7% 19.0% 2.3% 100,643 101,385 15.2% 16.1% 0.9%
SDLP 67 66 1 14.5% 14.2% 0.3% 99,325 85,237 15.0% 13.6% 1.4%
Alliance 34 32 2 7.4% 6.9% 0.5% 48,859 41,769 7.4% 6.7% 0.7%
TUV 3 13 10 0.6% 2.8% 2.2% 13,079 28,310 2.0% 4.5% 2.5%
PUP 1 4 3 0.2% 0.8% 0.6% 3,858 12,753 0.6% 2.0% 1.4%
Green (NI) 1 4 3 0.2% 0.8% 0.6% 6,317 5,515 1.0% 0.8% 0.2%
UKIP 1 3 2 0.2% 0.6% 0.4% 2,550 9,311 0.4% 1.4% 1.0%
NI21 0 1 1 0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0 11,495 0.0% 1.8% 1.8%
People Before Profit 0 1 1 0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 1,721 1,923 0.3% 0.3% 0.0%
NI Conservatives 0 0 0.0% 0.0% 1,321 2,527 0.2% 0.4% 0.2%
Éirígí 0 0 0.0% 0.0% 2,062 1,756 0.3% 0.3% 0.0%
Workers' Party 0 0 0.0% 0.0% 760 985 0.1 0.2% 0.1%
Fermanagh Against Fracking 0 0 0.0% 0.0% 0 555 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
Republican Network for Unity 0 0 0.0% 0.0% 0 502 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
Community Partnership 0 0 0.0% 0.0% 800 388 0.1 0.1% 0.0%
Socialist Party 0 0 0.0% 0.0% 682 272 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
BNP 0 0 0.0% 0.0% 491 174 0.1% 0.0% 0.1%
Democracy First 0 0 0.0% 0.0% 0 173 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Others 0 0 0.0% 0.0% 2,142 0 0.3% 0.0% 0.3%
Independent 18 15 3 3.9% 3.2% 0.7% 32,151 26,682 4.9% 4.2% 0.7%
Total 462 462 100% 100% 660,631 627,777 100% 100%

References
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  11. "Vote 2014: North Down and Ards council candidates". 15 May 2014 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  12. "Vote 2014: Antrim and Newtownabbey council candidates". 15 May 2014 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  13. "Vote 2014: Lisburn and Castlereagh Council candidates". 15 May 2014 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  14. "Vote 2014: Newry, Mourne and Down council candidates". 15 May 2014 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  15. "Vote 2014: Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon council candidates". 15 May 2014 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  16. "Vote 2014: Mid and East Antrim council candidates". 15 May 2014 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  17. "Vote 2014: Causeway Coast and Glens council candidates". 15 May 2014 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  18. "Vote 2014: Mid Ulster council candidates". 15 May 2014 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  19. "Vote 2014: Derry and Strabane council candidates". 15 May 2014 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  20. "Vote 2014: Fermanagh and Omagh council candidates". 15 May 2014 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
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