Black Mountain is a District Electoral Area used to elect 7 councillors to Belfast City Council.
Black Mountain | |
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Belfast City Council DEA constituency | |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2014 |
Seats | 7 (2014–) |
Councillors |
It is named after the Black Mountain.
The district was created for the 2014 election. It combined 4 of the 6 wards from the abolished Upper Falls DEA with 3 of the 5 wards from the abolished Lower Falls DEA.
In the 2014 election it elected 5 Sinn Féin councillors, 1 Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor, and Gerry Carroll of the People Before Profit Alliance. In the 2019 election Sinn Fein gained a sixth seat from the SDLP. In the 2023 election, the SDLP regained a seat at the expense of People Before Profit.
Election | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | |||||||
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2023 | Ciarán Beattie (Sinn Féin) | Arder Carson (Sinn Féin) | Róis-Máire Donnelly (Sinn Féin) | Áine McCabe (Sinn Féin) | Micheal Donnelly (Sinn Féin) | Ronan McLaughlin (Sinn Féin) | Paul Doherty (SDLP) | |||||||
November 2022 Co-Option | Matt Collins (PBP) | |||||||||||||
November 2020 Co-Option | Steven Corr (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||||
2019 | Emma Groves (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||||
October 2017 Co-Option | Orla Nic Biorna (Sinn Féin) | Tim Attwood (SDLP) | ||||||||||||
May 2016 Co-Option | Janice Austin (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||||
2014 | Gerry Carroll (PBP) |
2019: 6 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit
2023: 6 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP
2019–2023 Change: SDLP gain from People Before Profit
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Ciarán Beattie* | 14.63% | 2,336 | ||||||||
Sinn Féin | Michael Donnelly* | 13.51% | 2,158 | ||||||||
Sinn Féin | Arder Carson* | 12.98% | 2,073 | ||||||||
Sinn Féin | Ronan McLaughlin* | 10.27% | 1,641 | 1,867.24 | 1,983.65 | 1,986.65 | 2,037.59 | ||||
SDLP | Paul Doherty | 10.55% | 1,685 | 1,700.96 | 1,706.77 | 1,718.05 | 1,720.72 | 1,838.15 | 2,029.15 | ||
Sinn Féin | Áine McCabe* | 11.51% | 1,838 | 1,848.50 | 1,853.12 | 1,860.40 | 1,862.65 | 1,897.79 | 2,005.79 | ||
Sinn Féin | Róis-Máire Donnelly* | 9.62% | 1,536 | 1,575.06 | 1,589.29 | 1,594.27 | 1,597.66 | 1,643.84 | 1,730.09 | 1,762.61 | |
People Before Profit | Matt Collins* | 8.24% | 1,316 | 1,330.14 | 1,334.13 | 1,353.13 | 1,354.57 | 1,446.13 | 1,660.80 | 1,661.40 | |
Aontú | Gerard Herdman | 3.40% | 543 | 544.96 | 545.66 | 547.66 | 547.90 | 563.18 | |||
Irish Republican Socialist | Dan Murphy | 2.67% | 426 | 429.78 | 431.53 | 432.53 | 432.71 | 454.51 | |||
Workers' Party | Ursula Meighan | 1.16% | 185 | 186.82 | 188.36 | 188.36 | 188.54 | ||||
Alliance | Ryan Brown | 1.04% | 166 | 171.04 | 171.39 | 185.53 | 185.86 | ||||
Green (NI) | Stevie Maginn | 0.43% | 68 | 68.70 | 68.77 | ||||||
Electorate: 27,143 Valid: 15,971 (58.84%) Spoilt: 309 Quota: 1,997 Turnout: 16,280 (59.98%) |
2014: 5 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit, 1 x SDLP
2019: 6 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit
2014-2019 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
People Before Profit | Matt Collins* | 16.14% | 2,268 | ||||||
Sinn Féin | Ciarán Beattie* | 13.47% | 1,893 | ||||||
Sinn Féin | Steven Corr* | 13.26% | 1,864 | ||||||
Sinn Féin | Arder Carson* | 11.63% | 1,634 | 1,686.78 | 1,710.65 | 1,715.95 | 1,773.95 | ||
Sinn Féin | Micheal Donnelly | 10.92% | 1,535 | 1,569.32 | 1,572.82 | 1,583.57 | 1,623.65 | 1,667.66 | |
Sinn Féin | Ronan McLaughlin | 9.36% | 1,316 | 1,354.22 | 1,444.87 | 1,510.07 | 1,567.35 | 1,614.95 | |
Sinn Féin | Emma Groves* | 10.18% | 1,431 | 1,465.32 | 1,470.43 | 1,473.98 | 1,520.58 | 1,590.64 | |
SDLP | Paul Doherty | 5.57% | 783 | 903.9 | 906.35 | 908.05 | 1,175.18 | 1,432.89 | |
Aontú | Eoin Geraghty | 5.34% | 750 | 796.02 | 797 | 797.9 | 861.98 | ||
Green (NI) | Stevie Maginn | 1.45% | 204 | 282 | 283.05 | 283.8 | |||
Alliance | Liam Norris | 1.52% | 213 | 256.16 | 256.93 | 257.43 | |||
Workers' Party | Conor Campbell | 1.15% | 162 | 210.88 | 213.05 | 214.45 | |||
Electorate: 26,022 Valid: 14,053 (54.00%) Spoilt: 345 Quota: 1,757 Turnout: 14,398 (55.33%) |
2014: 5 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit, 1 x SDLP
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Steven Corr* | 12.86% | 1,793 | |||||||
Sinn Féin | Janice Austin* | 12.80% | 1,784 | |||||||
People Before Profit | Gerry Carroll | 12.13% | 1,691 | 1,789 | ||||||
Sinn Féin | Emma Groves* | 11.68% | 1,628 | 1,637 | 1,757 | |||||
Sinn Féin | Arder Carson* | 10.82% | 1,509 | 1,527 | 1,628 | 1,629.68 | 1,634.18 | 1,636.12 | 1,641.44 | |
SDLP | Tim Attwood* | 9.02% | 1,258 | 1,452 | 1,596 | 1,597.18 | 1,631.68 | 1,632.72 | 1,634.26 | |
Sinn Féin | Ciarán Beattie* | 9.61% | 1,340 | 1,369 | 1,472 | 1,501.46 | 1,504.46 | 1,534.22 | 1,538.14 | |
Sinn Féin | Caoimhín Mhic Giolla Mhin* | 10.24% | 1,428 | 1,450 | 1,521 | 1,522.3 | 1,526.05 | 1,527.19 | 1,529.71 | |
éirígí | Pádraic MacCoitir | 7.36% | 1,026 | 1,040 | ||||||
Workers' Party | Joanne Lowry | 1.14% | 159 | |||||||
SDLP | Gerard McDonald | 0.95% | 133 | |||||||
Alliance | Lauren Gray | 0.79% | 110 | |||||||
NI21 | Chris Valente | 0.60% | 83 | |||||||
Electorate: 25,146 Valid: 13,942 (55.44%) Spoilt: 369 Quota: 1,743 Turnout: 14,311 (56.91%) |
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