Bangor East and Donaghadee (District Electoral Area)
Bangor East and Donaghadee is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland.[1] The district elects six members to Ards and North Down Borough Council and contains the wards of Ballycrochan, Ballymagee, Donaghadee, Groomsport, Silverbirch and Warren.[2] Bangor East and Donaghadee forms part of the North Down constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
Bangor East and Donaghadee | |
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Ards and North Down Borough Council DEA constituency | |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2014 |
Seats | 6 (2014–) |
Councillors |
It was created for the 2014 local elections, largely replacing the Ballyholme and Groomsport DEA, and parts of the Ards East DEA, which had existed since 1985 and 1993 respectively.
Councillors
Election | Councillor (Party) |
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2023 | Hannah Irwin (Alliance) |
Gillian McCollum (Alliance) |
James Cochrane (DUP) |
Janice MacArthur (DUP) |
Mark Brooks (UUP) |
David Chambers (UUP) | ||||||
April 2021 Defection | Gavin Walker (Alliance) |
Tom Smith (DUP)/ (Independent) |
Bill Keery (DUP)/ (Independent) | |||||||||
May 2020 Co-Option | ||||||||||||
2019 | Peter Martin (DUP) | |||||||||||
May 2016 Co-Option | ||||||||||||
December 2015 Defection | Alan Chambers (UUP)/ (Independent) | |||||||||||
2014 | ||||||||||||
2023 Election
2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent
2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance
2019–2023 Change: Alliance gain from Independent
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Ulster Unionist | Mark Brooks* | 23.21% | 1,972 | ||||||||
Alliance | Hannah Irwin* | 17.01% | 1,445 | ||||||||
DUP | James Cochrane | 15.01% | 1,275 | ||||||||
Ulster Unionist | David Chambers* | 10.97% | 932 | 1,323.95 | |||||||
Alliance | Gillian McCollum | 6.89% | 585 | 630.63 | 839.59 | 864.14 | 1,110.04 | 1,128.24 | 1,208.73 | 1,208.85 | |
DUP | Janice MacArthur* | 8.38% | 712 | 816.52 | 817.64 | 837.20 | 853.25 | 901.13 | 1,062.63 | 1,110.67 | |
Independent | Bill Keery* | 7.54% | 641 | 668.30 | 671.66 | 697.22 | 731.42 | 751.58 | 1,019.71 | 1,021.15 | |
Independent | Tom Smith* | 5.41% | 460 | 590.26 | 592.34 | 612.46 | 646.29 | 669.67 | |||
Green (NI) | Ciara Henry | 4.18% | 355 | 394.30 | 408.25 | ||||||
NI Conservatives | Paul Leeman | 1.40% | 119 | 132.65 | 133.13 | ||||||
Electorate: 18,066 Valid: 8,496 (47.03%) Spoilt: 94 Quota: 1,214 Turnout: 8,590 (47.55%) |
2019 Election
2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent
2019: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent
2014-2019 Change: UUP gain from Independent, Independent leaves DUP
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Ulster Unionist | Mark Brooks* | 17.47% | 1,327 | ||||||||
Alliance | Gavin Walker* | 17.15% | 1,303 | ||||||||
Ulster Unionist | David Chambers* | 12.67% | 963 | 1,006 | 1,144.78 | ||||||
DUP | Peter Martin* † | 11.87% | 902 | 905 | 908.24 | 913.28 | 916.97 | 1,413.97 | |||
DUP | Bill Keery* ‡ | 10.06% | 764 | 775 | 784 | 787.6 | 799.12 | 965.2 | 1,280.72 | ||
Independent | Tom Smith* | 10.06% | 765 | 805 | 844.06 | 904.9 | 922.27 | 966.31 | 973.79 | 1,056.75 | |
Green (NI) | Hannah McNamara | 9.67% | 735 | 752 | 772.88 | 915.62 | 929.3 | 947.44 | 950.16 | 986.2 | |
DUP | Janice MacArthur | 9.24% | 702 | 711 | 733.14 | 737.28 | 746.82 | ||||
NI Conservatives | Paul Leeman | 1.80% | 137 | ||||||||
Electorate: 17,416 Valid: 7,598 (43.63%) Spoilt: 98 Quota: 1,086 Turnout: 7,696 (44.19%) |
2014 Election
2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||
Independent | Alan Chambers* ‡† | 19.15% | 1,311 | |||||||||||
Ulster Unionist | Mark Brooks | 15.65% | 1,071 | |||||||||||
Alliance | Gavin Walker | 9.82% | 672 | 724.92 | 731.58 | 804.68 | 839.66 | 1,001.66 | ||||||
DUP | Peter Martin* | 9.13% | 625 | 662.8 | 664.6 | 671.44 | 685.58 | 691.51 | 691.51 | 726.28 | 782.4 | 1,083.4 | ||
DUP | Bill Keery* | 8.15% | 558 | 594.68 | 600.98 | 607.98 | 619.31 | 627.71 | 627.71 | 653.88 | 755.77 | 905.81 | 945.33 | |
DUP | Tom Smith* | 7.90% | 541 | 556.96 | 572.17 | 575.73 | 590.41 | 597.51 | 597.51 | 640.36 | 680.13 | 737.56 | 801.78 | |
UKIP | Patrick Toms | 5.38% | 368 | 383.4 | 385.65 | 394.02 | 411.31 | 426.29 | 427.29 | 566.11 | 636.84 | 658.93 | 660.07 | |
DUP | Terence Malcolm* | 7.19% | 492 | 516.08 | 517.61 | 522.89 | 531.26 | 539 | 539 | 563.37 | 614 | |||
Ulster Unionist | Christopher Eisenstadt | 3.27% | 224 | 285.6 | 333.3 | 349.51 | 390.3 | 424.77 | 425.77 | 507.38 | ||||
TUV | Joseph Strutt | 5.29% | 362 | 379.92 | 382.98 | 387.54 | 404.54 | 411.4 | 411.4 | |||||
Green (NI) | Trana Gray | 3.87% | 265 | 288.52 | 291.4 | 330.08 | 347.59 | |||||||
NI Conservatives | Brian McBride | 2.56% | 175 | 204.96 | 208.83 | 218.39 | ||||||||
NI21 | William McKee | 2.64% | 181 | 192.48 | 192.93 | |||||||||
Electorate: 16,956 Valid: 6,845 (40.37%) Spoilt: 70 Quota: 978 Turnout: 6,915 (40.78%) |
References
- Final Northern Ireland super council recommendations, BBC News, 13 December 2013, accessed 24 May 2014
- , ARK, accessed 8 July 2023
- "Local Council Elections 2023 - Results". EONI. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
- "Local Council Elections 2019 - Results by Stage". 2 May 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- "Local Council Elections 2014 - Results by Stage". Retrieved 21 January 2022.