Craigavon Borough Council was a local council in counties Armagh,Down and Antrim,in Northern Ireland. It merged with Armagh City and District Council and Banbridge District Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Armagh,Banbridge and Craigavon District Council.
Thomas David Simpson is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician in Northern Ireland,who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Upper Bann from 2005 to 2019. On 6 November 2019 Simpson announced that he would not be standing for re-election in the 2019 general election.
John Fitzgerald O'Dowd is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Upper Bann since 2003. He has served as Minister for Infrastructure from May to October 2022,and again since 2024. He served as Minister for Education in the Stormont Executive from 2011 to 2016. He briefly took on the duties of deputy First Minister in 2011 while Martin McGuinness ran in the 2011 Irish presidential election.
James Harold McCusker was a Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Party politician who served as the Deputy Leader of the UUP Assembly Group from 1982 to 1986.
Aghalee is a village,townland and civil parish in County Antrim,Northern Ireland. It is three miles from the southeast corner of Lough Neagh on the main road between Lurgan and Antrim and about 13 kilometres west of Lisburn. The village lies on the steep wooded slopes of Friar's Glen and is beside the now disused Lagan Navigational Canal. In the 2001 Census,Aghalee had a population of 774.
Alderman Stephen William Moutray is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician,serving as an Armagah,Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Councillor for the Lurgan DEA since 2019. He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann from 2003 to 2016. Moutray was also a Lurgan councillor on Craigavon Borough Council,from 2001 to 2014,where he served as Mayor from 2010 to 2011.
Alderman Samuel Gardiner MBE JP was a Northern Irish Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician who was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann from 2003 to 2016.
Hugh Casey MBE was a politician in Northern Ireland.
Tom French was a Northern Irish politician who served as president of the Workers' Party from 1994 to 1998,as well as a Craigavon Borough Councillor from 1978 to 1993
Hugh News was an Irish nationalist politician.
Alderman Sydney Alexander Anderson is a former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician who was an Armagh,Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Councillor for the Portadown DEA from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann from 2010 to 2017.
James McDonald was a nationalist politician in Northern Ireland.
The first election to Armagh City,Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 22 May 2014,returned 41 members to the newly-formed council via Single Transferable Vote. The Democratic Unionist Party won a plurality of seats,although the Ulster Unionist Party attracted the most first-preference votes.
Catherine Nelson is a Sinn Féin politician from Northern Ireland. She was an MLA for Upper Bann from the 2016 election until 2017.
Carla Rebecca Lockhart is a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician,who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Upper Bann since the 2019 general election,currently serving as the DUP Spokesperson for Environment,Food &Rural Affairs. She was previously a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Upper Bann,elected at the 2016 election,until 2019.
Local elections were held in Northern Ireland on Thursday 2 May 2019. The last elections were held in 2014. 819 candidates contested 462 seats across Northern Ireland's 11 local government districts. 1,305,384 people aged 18 and over were eligible to vote,and 52.7% of the electorate turned out.
Eóin Tennyson is a Northern Irish Alliance Party politician who has served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Upper Bann since the 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election.
Craigavon is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Armagh City,Banbridge and Craigavon,Northern Ireland. The district elects five members to Armagh City,Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council and contains the wards of Bleary,Brownlow,Craigavon Centre,Derrytrasna and Kernan. Craigavon forms part of the Upper Bann constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
Lurgan is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Armagh City,Banbridge and Craigavon,Northern Ireland. The district elects seven members to Armagh City,Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council and contains the wards of Aghagallon,Knocknashane,Lough Road,Magheralin,Mourneview,Parklake and Shankill. Lurgan forms part of the Upper Bann constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
Loughside was one of the four district electoral areas in Craigavon,Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014. The district elected five members to Craigavon Borough Council,and formed part of the Upper Bann constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
