Downshire West (District Electoral Area)
| Downshire West | |
|---|---|
| Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council DEA constituency | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2014 |
| Seats | 5 (2014-) |
| Councillors | |
Downshire West is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Lisburn and Castlereagh, Northern Ireland.[1] The district elects five members to Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council and contains the wards of Blaris, Hillsborough, Lagan, Maze and Moira.[2] Downshire West forms part of the Lagan Valley constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
It was created for the 2014 local elections, largely replacing the Downshire DEA which had existed since 1985, as well as gaining Moira from Killultagh DEA and Blaris from Lisburn South DEA.
Councillors[edit]
| Election | Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) |
Councillor (Party) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Owen Gawith (Alliance) |
Gretta Thompson (Alliance) |
Alan Martin (UUP) |
Caleb McCready (DUP) |
Allan Ewart (DUP) | |||||
| 2019 | Jim Dillon (UUP) |
John Palmer (UUP)/ (DUP) | ||||||||
| June 2016 Co-Option | Nicholas Trimble (UUP) | |||||||||
| September 2015 Defection | Alexander Redpath (UUP) | |||||||||
| 2014 | ||||||||||
2023 Election[edit]
2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP
2019–2023 Change: Alliance gain from UUP
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Alliance | Owen Gawith* | 23.58% | 1,693 | ||||||
| Alliance | Gretta Thompson | 13.04% | 936 | 1,353.02 | |||||
| Ulster Unionist | Alan Martin | 8.69% | 624 | 641.98 | 693.33 | 776.91 | 1,315.91 | ||
| DUP | Caleb McCready* | 13.87% | 996 | 1,014.56 | 1,020.85 | 1,032.40 | 1,059.86 | 1,093.46 | |
| DUP | Allan Ewart* | 13.53% | 971 | 975.06 | 987.35 | 992.81 | 1,039.51 | 1,082.56 | |
| DUP | William Leathem | 12.79% | 918 | 921.48 | 925.48 | 928.21 | 947.26 | 988.56 | |
| Ulster Unionist | Liz McCord | 8.57% | 615 | 621.38 | 691.12 | 739.42 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Siobhán Murphy | 4.21% | 302 | 310.70 | |||||
| Green (NI) | Luke Robinson | 1.73% | 124 | 135.02 | |||||
| Electorate: 13,284 Valid: 7,179 (54.04%) Spoilt: 72 Quota: 1,197 Turnout: 7,251 (54.58%) | |||||||||
2019 Election[edit]
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
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Alliance | Owen Gawith* | 25.92% | 1,616 | |||||||
| DUP | Caleb McCready | 16.23% | 1,012 | 1,029.76 | 1,060.76 | |||||
| Ulster Unionist | John Palmer* | 14.68% | 915 | 988.26 | 1,038.95 | 1,039.74 | 1,081.74 | |||
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Dillon* | 10.70% | 667 | 722.87 | 767.97 | 771.92 | 842.03 | 871.03 | 1,071.06 | |
| DUP | Allan Ewart* | 10.75% | 670 | 678.51 | 686.62 | 693.73 | 706.58 | 710.58 | 715.8 | |
| DUP | Vince Curry | 10.38% | 647 | 652.92 | 657.66 | 663.98 | 669.09 | 670.09 | 682.53 | |
| SDLP | Morgan Crone | 4.94% | 308 | 458.96 | 473.62 | 474.41 | 664.58 | 669.58 | ||
| Green (NI) | Luke Robinson | 3.69% | 230 | 416.11 | 471.79 | 473.37 | ||||
| NI Conservatives | Neil Johnston | 2.71% | 169 | 234.86 | ||||||
| Electorate: 12,385 Valid: 6,234 (50.34%) Spoilt: 67 Quota: 1,040 Turnout: 6,301 (50.88%) | ||||||||||
2014 Election[edit]
2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Ulster Unionist | Jim Dillon* | 15.80% | 912 | 914 | 921 | 936 | 975 | ||||||
| DUP | Allan Ewart* | 15.25% | 880 | 883 | 883 | 886 | 914 | 915.32 | 1,049.32 | ||||
| DUP | John Palmer* ‡ | 13.31% | 768 | 771 | 773 | 775 | 808 | 809.32 | 972.32 | ||||
| Ulster Unionist | Alexander Redpath*† | 11.63% | 671 | 678 | 687 | 687 | 706 | 711.28 | 738.61 | 805.25 | 859.58 | 1,079.58 | |
| Alliance | Owen Gawith | 8.54% | 493 | 535 | 554 | 701 | 717 | 717.33 | 721.33 | 722.31 | 904.64 | 918.64 | |
| NI Conservatives | Neil Johnston | 6.51% | 376 | 383 | 392 | 400 | 432 | 432.66 | 434.66 | 434.66 | 475.3 | 551.47 | |
| TUV | Jonny Miller | 5.80% | 335 | 338 | 339 | 340 | 418 | 419.32 | 432.32 | 448.98 | 461.98 | ||
| NI21 | Roger Duncan | 3.57% | 206 | 221 | 320 | 347 | 362 | 363.32 | 366.32 | 368.28 | |||
| DUP | Colin Preen | 6.01% | 347 | 348 | 349 | 349 | 354 | 354.33 | |||||
| UKIP | Rebecca McBride | 4.95% | 286 | 290 | 291 | 297 | |||||||
| SDLP | Dee French | 4.00% | 231 | 237 | 240 | ||||||||
| NI21 | Neil McNickle | 2.56% | 148 | 158 | |||||||||
| Green (NI) | Luke Robinson | 2.06% | 119 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 11,673 Valid: 5,772 (49.45%) Spoilt: 60 Quota: 963 Turnout: 5,832 (49.96%) | |||||||||||||
References[edit]
- ^ Final Northern Ireland super council recommendations, BBC News, 13 December 2013, accessed 24 May 2014
- ^ [1], 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.