Carrickfergus Borough Council
Coordinates: 54°43′16″N 5°47′28″W / 54.721°N 5.791°W
| Carrickfergus Borough Comhairle Baile Charraig Fheargais |
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| Geography | |
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| Area - Total |
Ranked 25th of 26 82 km² |
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| Admin HQ | Carrickfergus |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-CKF |
| ONS code | 95V |
| Demographics | |
| Population - Total (2010) - Density |
Ranked 20th 40,200 491 / km² |
| Community | Catholic: 8.7% Protestant: 85.1% |
| Politics | |
| Control | No overall control DUP: 8 UUP: 4 Alliance Party: 3 Independent: 2 |
| MLAs | East Antrim DUP: 3 Alliance Party: 1 Sinn Féin: 1 UUP: 1 |
| MPs | Sammy Wilson (DUP) |
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| Website | |
| http://www.carrickfergus.org | |
Carrickfergus Borough Council is a district council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. The council headquarters are in Carrickfergus and the council administers the town, on the north shore of Belfast Lough, and surrounding area, which extends from Greenisland in the south-west to Whitehead in the east. The borough is 32 square miles (83 km2), with a population of nearly 38,000.
The Carrickfergus Borough Council area consists of 3 electoral areas: Carrick Castle, Kilroot and Knockagh Monument. In the last elections in 2005 17 representatives for the area were elected from the following political parties: 8 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 4 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 3 Alliance Party and 2 Independents. The Mayor of Carrickfergus is Alderman Jim McClurg (DUP). The next election was due to take place in May 2009, but on April 25, 2008, Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until the introduction of the eleven new councils in 2011.[1] The proposed reforms were abandoned in 2010, and the next district council elections will take place in 2011[2]
There is no other council in Ireland which is more Protestant in population. There are no nationalist parties, such as the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) or Sinn Féin on the council.Along with North Down Borough Council these are the only two councils in Northern Ireland that have no Nationalist political representation.
Carrickfergus Borough Council owes its origin to the 1973 local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland. At that time the original Carrickfergus Borough Council, Whitehead Urban District Council and part of the Larne Rural District Council area were amalgamated to create the present Carrickfergus Borough Council area.
Together with the neighbouring district of Larne and a small part of Newtownabbey, it forms the East Antrim constituency for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.
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