Black Mountain (District Electoral Area)

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

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.

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

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

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