Ormiston (District Electoral Area)

Ormiston has been one of the ten district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland since 2014.[1] Located in the east of the city, the district elects seven members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Belmont, Garnerville, Gilnahirk, Sandown, Shandon, Knock and Stormont.[2] Ormiston, along with wards from the neighbouring Titanic and Lisnasharragh DEAs, together with parts of Lisburn and Castlereagh District Council, form the Belfast East constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.

The district was created for the 2014 local elections, replacing the Victoria District Electoral Area,[3] which had existed since 1985. Nineteen candidates contested the first election in 2014, the most of any DEA in Northern Ireland.[4]

Councillors
Election Councillor
(Party)		 Councillor
(Party)		 Councillor
(Party)		 Councillor
(Party)		 Councillor
(Party)		 Councillor
(Party)		 Councillor
(Party)
2014 Mervyn Jones
(Alliance)		 Laura McNamee
(Alliance)		 Ross Brown
(Green)		 John Hussey
(DUP)		 Tom Haire
(DUP)		 Jim Rodgers
(UUP)		 Peter Johnston
(UUP)
2015 Sian O'Neill
(Alliance)
2016 Georgina Milne
(Green)
2017 Peter McReynolds
(Alliance)
2019 Anthony Flynn
(Green)		 Ross McMullan
(Alliance)

2014 elections
Belfast City Council elections, 2014[5]
Party Candidate 1st Pref
UUP Jim Rodgers 1,899
Alliance Mervyn Jones 1,184
DUP Tom Haire 1,072
Alliance Ross McMullan 899
Alliance Laura McNamee 898
Green (NI) Ross Brown 831
DUP John Hussey 821
DUP Denny Vitty 809
DUP Brian Kennedy 750
PUP Ian Shanks 720
TUV John Hiddleston 640
UUP Peter Johnston 622
UKIP Stephen Crosby 618
Alliance Andrew Webb 561
NI21 Ian Dickson 245
NI21 Jayne Olorunda 192
NI Conservatives Ian Reid 162
SDLP Michael McMillan 95
Sinn Féin Laura Keenan 56
Turnout 13,074

References
  1. Final Northern Ireland super council recommendations, BBC News, 13 December 2013, accessed 24 May 2014
  2. Belfast City Election results, 2014
  3. Map Archived 2016-05-05 at the Wayback Machine from the District Electoral Areas Commissioner Maps page Archived 2016-05-05 at the Wayback Machine. See District Electoral Areas Commissioner page Archived 2016-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ‘Incredible mistake’ almost halted election, The News Letter, 1 May 2014
  5. Elections 2014: Ormiston, Belfast City Council


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