The 2019 Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council election was the second election to
Lisburn and Castlereagh city Council
Lisburn ( ; ) is a city in Northern Ireland. It is southwest of Belfast city centre, on the River Lagan, which forms the boundary between County Antrim and County Down. First laid out in the 17th century by English and Welsh settlers, with t ...
, part of the
Northern Ireland local elections on 2 May 2019, which returned 40 members to the Lisburn and Castlereagh city Council via
Single Transferable Vote
The single transferable vote (STV) or proportional-ranked choice voting (P-RCV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vot ...
.
Election results
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
The overall turnout was 49.21% with a total of 50,268 valid votes cast. A total of 479 ballots were rejected.
Districts summary
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Cllrs
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DUP
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UUP
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Alliance
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SDLP
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Sinn Féin
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Others
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, align="left", Castlereagh East
, bgcolor="#D46A4C", 49.8
, bgcolor="#D46A4C", 3
, 10.4
, 1
, 30.8
, 2
, 0.0
, 0
, 0.0
, 0
, 9.1
, 0
, 6
, -
, align="left", Castlereagh South
, 22.5
, 1
, 6.9
, 1
, bgcolor="#F6CB2F", 31.6
, bgcolor="#F6CB2F", 2
, 15.8
, 1
, 11.8
, 1
, 11.3
, 1
, 7
, -
, align="left", Downshire East
, bgcolor="#D46A4C", 44.7
, bgcolor="#D46A4C", 2
, 27.1
, 2
, 21.3
, 1
, 6.8
, 0
, 0.0
, 0
, 0.0
, 0
, 5
, -
, align="left", Downshire West
, bgcolor="#D46A4C", 37.4
, bgcolor="#D46A4C", 2
, 25.4
, 2
, 25.9
, 1
, 4.9
, 0
, 0.0
, 0
, 6.4
, 0
, 5
, -
, align="left", Killultagh
, bgcolor="#D46A4C", 38.0
, bgcolor="#D46A4C", 2
, 17.8
, 1
, 20.3
, 1
, 9.2
, 0
, 13.2
, 1
, 1.4
, 0
, 5
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, align="left", Lisburn North
, bgcolor="#D46A4C", 33.6
, bgcolor="#D46A4C", 2
, 17.7
, 2
, 20.3
, 1
, 11.6
, 1
, 8.9
, 0
, 7.9
, 0
, 6
, -
, align="left", Lisburn South
, bgcolor="#D46A4C", 36.4
, bgcolor="#D46A4C", 3
, 22.9
, 2
, 13.3
, 1
, 9.3
, 0
, 0.0
, 0
, 18.1
, 0
, 6
, -
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, align="left", Total
, 36.7
, 15
, 17.6
, 11
, 23.6
, 9
, 8.7
, 2
, 5.4
, 2
, 7.9
, 1
, 40
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District results
Castlereagh East
2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x TUV
2019: 3 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP
2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain from TUV
Castlereagh South
2014: 2 x Alliance, 2 x DUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
2019: 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Green
2014-2019 Change: Sinn Féin and Green gain from DUP and SDLP
Downshire East
2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2014-2019 Change: UUP gain from DUP
Downshire West
2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2014-2019 Change: No change
Killultagh
2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Sinn Féin
2014-2019 Change: Alliance and Sinn Féin gain from DUP and SDLP
Lisburn North
2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x NI21
2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP
2014-2019 Change: UUP gain from DUP, NI21 joins SDLP
Lisburn South
2014: 4 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2019: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2014-2019 Change: UUP gain from DUP
Changes during the term
† Co-options
‡ Changes in affiliation
– Suspensions
None
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Last update 5 August 2022.''
''Current composition: see
Lisburn and Castlereagh
Lisburn and Castlereagh is a local government district in Northern Ireland. The district was created on 1 April 2015. It consists of the combined area of the City of Lisburn with the Borough of Castlereagh, but not including "the localities of ...
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Notes
References
{{United Kingdom local elections, 2019
2019 Northern Ireland local elections
Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council elections