2023 Ards and North Down Borough Council election

The 2023 election to Ards and North Down Borough Council was held on 18 May 2023, alongside other local elections in Northern Ireland, two weeks after local elections in England. The Northern Ireland elections were delayed by 2 weeks to avoid overlapping with the coronation of King Charles III.

They returned 40 members to the council via Single Transferable Vote.

Background
Ards and North Down is the only council in Northern Ireland on which Sinn Féin have never won a seat.

Election results

 * colspan="2" style="background-color:#f2f2f2;text-align:center;margin-bottom:-1px;border:1px solid #aaa;padding:.2em .4em" | 
 * style="text-align:right;" | 40
 * style="text-align:right;" | 56,929
 * style="text-align:right;" | 56,929
 * style="text-align:right;" | 56,929
 * style="text-align:right;" | 56,929
 * style="text-align:right;" | 56,929
 * style="text-align:right;" | 56,929
 * style="text-align:right;" | 56,929

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

District 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="" | TUV !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Independents and others
 * - class="unsortable" align="center"
 * align="left"|Ards Peninsula
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|44.71
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3
 * 13.78
 * 1
 * 8.05
 * 1
 * 1.62
 * 0
 * 13.93
 * 1
 * 6.45
 * 0
 * 10.29
 * 0
 * 1.18
 * 0
 * 6
 * align="left"|Bangor Central
 * 16.73
 * 1 1
 * bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|28.75
 * bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|2 1
 * 14.55
 * 1
 * 6.90
 * 0 1
 * 0.00
 * 0
 * 5.37
 * 0
 * 0.00
 * 0
 * 27.69
 * 2 1
 * 6
 * align="left"|Bangor East and Donaghadee
 * 23.39
 * 2
 * 23.90
 * 2 1
 * bgcolor="40BFF5"|34.18
 * bgcolor="40BFF5"|2
 * 4.18
 * 0
 * 0.00
 * 0
 * 0.00
 * 0
 * 0.00
 * 0
 * 14.35
 * 0 1
 * 6
 * align="left"|Bangor West
 * 25.72
 * 2 1
 * bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|30.09
 * bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|1 1
 * 13.33
 * 1
 * 11.33
 * 1
 * 4.57
 * 0
 * 5.09
 * 0
 * 0.00
 * 0
 * 9.87
 * 0
 * 5
 * align="left"|Comber
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|38.48
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2
 * 28.83
 * 2 1
 * 19.31
 * 1
 * 2.72
 * 0
 * 0.0
 * 0
 * 5.61
 * 0 1
 * 0.00
 * 0
 * 5.00
 * 0
 * 5
 * align="left"|Holywood and Clandeboye
 * 19.81
 * 1
 * bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|41.03
 * bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|2
 * 12.80
 * 1
 * 14.67
 * 1
 * 6.97
 * 0
 * 4.71
 * 0
 * 0.00
 * 0
 * 0.00
 * 0
 * 5
 * align="left"|Newtownards
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|32.38
 * bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3
 * 23.51
 * 2
 * 13.54
 * 1
 * 2.43
 * 0
 * 0.00
 * 0
 * 6.44
 * 0
 * 0.00
 * 0
 * 21.70
 * 1
 * 7
 * - class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9"
 * align="left"| Total
 * 29.02
 * 14
 * 26.59
 * 12 2
 * 16.50
 * 8
 * 5.94
 * 2 1
 * 3.72
 * 1
 * 4.83
 * 0 1
 * 1.66
 * 0
 * 11.75
 * 3
 * 40
 * }
 * 0 1
 * 1.66
 * 0
 * 11.75
 * 3
 * 40
 * }
 * }

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

2023: 3 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance

2019–2023 Change: No change

Bangor Central
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green, 1 x Independent

2023: 2 x Alliance, 2 x Independent, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP

2019–2023 Change: Alliance and Independent gain from DUP and Green

Bangor East and Donaghadee
2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent

2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance

2019–2023 Change: Alliance gain from Independent

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

2023: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green

2019–2023 Change: DUP gain from Alliance

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

2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP

2019–2023 Change: Alliance gain from TUV

Holywood and Clandeboye
2019: 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x Green, 1 x UUP

2023: 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x Green, 1 x UUP

2019–2023 Change: No change

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

2023: 3 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent

2019–2023 Change: No change