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)   Micheal Donnelly (SF)   Róis-Máire 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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