2019 Ards and North Down Borough Council election

The second election to Ards and North Down Borough Council, part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 2 May 2019, returned 40 members to the council via Single Transferable Vote. The Democratic Unionist Party once again won a plurality of seats.

Election results
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

The overall turnout was 43.80% with a total of 50,206 valid votes cast. A total of 660 ballots were rejected.

Districts summary
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!rowspan=2|Total Cllrs

!colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Green !colspan=2 bgcolor=""| SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others
 * - class="unsortable" align="center"
 * align="left"|Ards Peninsula
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|47.8
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3
 * 10.6
 * 1
 * 10.6
 * 1
 * 4.1
 * 0
 * 20.7
 * 1
 * 2.5
 * 0
 * 3.7
 * 0
 * 6
 * align="left"|Bangor Central
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|26.1
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2
 * 18.3
 * 1
 * 17.7
 * 1
 * 14.2
 * 1
 * 0.0
 * 0
 * 0.0
 * 0
 * 23.8
 * 1
 * 6
 * align="left"|Bangor East and Donaghadee
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|31.2
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2
 * 17.1
 * 1
 * 30.1
 * 2
 * 9.7
 * 0
 * 0.0
 * 0
 * 0.0
 * 0
 * 11.9
 * 0
 * 6
 * align="left"|Bangor West
 * 30.5
 * 1
 * bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|32.5
 * bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|2
 * 17.2
 * 1
 * 16.6
 * 1
 * 0.0
 * 0
 * 1.2
 * 0
 * 2.0
 * 0
 * 5
 * align="left"|Comber
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|37.9
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2
 * 23.2
 * 1
 * 21.4
 * 1
 * 5.7
 * 0
 * 0.0
 * 0
 * 0.0
 * 0
 * 11.7
 * 0
 * 5
 * align="left"|Holywood and Clandeboye
 * 26.6
 * 1
 * bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|38.7
 * bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|2
 * 13.5
 * 1
 * 19.2
 * 1
 * 0.0
 * 0
 * 0.0
 * 0
 * 2.1
 * 0
 * 5
 * align="left"|Newtownards
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|32.4
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3
 * 20.0
 * 2
 * 14.6
 * 1
 * 4.5
 * 0
 * 0.0
 * 0
 * 0.0
 * 0
 * 28.6
 * 1
 * 7
 * - class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9"
 * align="left"| Total
 * 33.4
 * 14
 * 22.2
 * 10
 * 17.8
 * 8
 * 10.2
 * 3
 * 3.2
 * 1
 * 0.5
 * 0
 * 12.6
 * 4
 * 40
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 * 3.2
 * 1
 * 0.5
 * 0
 * 12.6
 * 4
 * 40
 * }
 * }

Ards Peninsula
2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance

2019: 3 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance

2014-2019 Change: No change

Bangor Central
2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Greens

2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Greens, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent

2014-2019 Change: Independent gain from UUP

Bangor East and Donaghadee
2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent

2019: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent

2014-2019 Change: UUP gain from Independent, Independent leaves DUP

Bangor West
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green

2019: 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green

2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain from DUP

Comber
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x TUV

2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x TUV

2014-2019 Change: No change

Holywood and Clandeboye
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Green, 1 x UUP

2019: 2 x Alliance, 1 x Green, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP

2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain from DUP

Newtownards
2014: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent

2019: 3 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent

2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain from UUP

– Suspensions
Colin Kennedy (DUP) was suspended from the council for six weeks from Friday 18 June 2021.

'' Last update 8 February 2023. ''

Current composition: see Ards and North Down Borough Council.