Black Mountain (District Electoral Area)

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

Black Mountain
Belfast City Council DEA constituency
Black Mountain DEA marked on a map of Belfast City Council and its wards
Current constituency
Created	2014
Seats	7 (2014–)
Councillors	Ciarán Beattie (SF   Arder Carson (SF)   Matt Collins (PBP)   Steven Corr (SF)   Micheal Donnelly (SF)   Áine McCabe (SF)   Ronan McLaughlin (SF)

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 Electoral Area with 3 of the 5 wards from the abolished Lower Falls Electoral Area

At the election in May 2014 it elected 5 Sinn Féin councillors, 1 Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor, and Gerry Carroll of the People Before Profit Alliance. At the election in May 2019 it elected 6 Sinn Féin councillors and 1 People Before Profit Alliance councillor.

Councillors

Election	Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)
Nov 2022 Co-Option		Róis-Máire Donnelly (Sinn Féin)		Micheal Donnelly (Sinn Féin)		Áine McCabe (Sinn Féin)		Arder Carson (Sinn Féin)		Ciarán Beattie (Sinn Féin)		Ronan McLaughlin (Sinn Féin)		Matt Collins (PBPA)
Nov 2020 Co-Option		Steven Corr (Sinn Féin)
2019						Emma Groves (Sinn Féin)
October 2017 co-option				Orla Nic Biorna (Sinn Féin)								Tim Attwood (SDLP)
May 2016 co-option				Janice Austin (Sinn Féin)
2014													Gerry Carroll (PBPA)

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

Black Mountain - 7 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	People Before Profit	Matt Collins*	16.14%	2,268
	Sinn Féin	Ciarán Beattie*	13.47%	1,893
	Sinn Féin	Steven Corr*	13.26%	1,864
	Sinn Féin	Arder Carson*	11.63%	1,634	1,686.78	1,710.65	1,715.95	1,773.95
	Sinn Féin	Micheal Donnelly	10.92%	1,535	1,569.32	1,572.82	1,583.57	1,623.65	1,667.66
	Sinn Féin	Ronan McLaughlin	9.36%	1,316	1,354.22	1,444.87	1,510.07	1,567.35	1,614.95
	Sinn Féin	Emma Groves*	10.18%	1,431	1,465.32	1,470.43	1,473.98	1,520.58	1,590.64
	SDLP	Paul Doherty	5.57%	783	903.9	906.35	908.05	1,175.18	1,432.89
	Aontú	Eoin Geraghty	5.34%	750	796.02	797	797.9	861.98
	Green (NI)	Stevie Maginn	1.45%	204	282	283.05	283.8
	Alliance	Liam Norris	1.52%	213	256.16	256.93	257.43
	Workers' Party	Conor Campbell	1.15%	162	210.88	213.05	214.45
Electorate: 26,022   Valid: 14,053 (54.00%)   Spoilt: 345   Quota: 1,757   Turnout: 14,398 (55.33%)

2014 results

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

Black Mountain - 7 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Sinn Féin	Steven Corr*	12.86%	1,793
	Sinn Féin	Janice Austin*	12.80%	1,784
	People Before Profit	Gerry Carroll	12.13%	1,691	1,789
	Sinn Féin	Emma Groves*	11.68%	1,628	1,637	1,757
	Sinn Féin	Arder Carson*	10.82%	1,509	1,527	1,628	1,629.68	1,634.18	1,636.12	1,641.44
	SDLP	Tim Attwood*	9.02%	1,258	1,452	1,596	1,597.18	1,631.68	1,632.72	1,634.26
	Sinn Féin	Ciarán Beattie*	9.61%	1,340	1,369	1,472	1,501.46	1,504.46	1,534.22	1,538.14
	Sinn Féin	Caoimhín Mhic Giolla Mhin*	10.24%	1,428	1,450	1,521	1,522.3	1,526.05	1,527.19	1,529.71
	éirígí	Pádraic MacCoitir	7.36%	1,026	1,040
	Workers' Party	Joanne Lowry	1.14%	159
	SDLP	Gerard McDonald	0.95%	133
	Alliance	Lauren Gray	0.79%	110
	NI21	Chris Valente	0.60%	83
Electorate: 25,146   Valid: 13,942 (55.44%)   Spoilt: 369   Quota: 1,743   Turnout: 14,311 (56.91%)

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