Black Mountain (District Electoral Area)

Black Mountain is a District Electoral Area used to elect 7 councillors to Belfast City Council.

Black Mountain
Belfast City Council DEA constituency
Black Mountain DEA marked on a map of Belfast City Council and its wards
Current constituency
Created	2014
Seats	7 (2014–)
Councillors	Ciarán Beattie (SF)   Arder Carson (SF)   Paul Doherty (SDLP)   Micheal Donnelly (SF)   Róis-Máire Donnelly (SF)   Áine McCabe (SF)   Ronan McLaughlin (SF)

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.

Councillors

Election	Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)
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)

2023 results

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

Black Mountain - 7 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				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%)

2019 results

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

Black Mountain - 7 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				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 results

2014: 5 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit, 1 x SDLP

Black Mountain - 7 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				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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