2011 Northern Ireland local elections
Colours denote the party with the most seats
Elections for local government were held in Northern Ireland on Thursday 5 May 2011, contesting 582 seats in all.
European Union and Commonwealth citizens aged 18 or over on election day were entitled to vote. The deadline for voters to register to vote in the elections was midnight on Thursday 14 April 2011. A total of 1,210,009 were eligible to vote, and 55.7% of the electorate turned out.[ 1]
All voters were required to present one piece of photographic ID in order to cast a vote at the polling station – accepted forms of ID are an electoral identity card , a photographic NI or GB driving licence , a European Union member-state passport , a Translink 60+ SmartPass, a Translink Senior SmartPass, a Translink Blind Person's SmartPass or a Translink War Disabled SmartPass.[ 2] Voters who didn't have an accepted type of photographic ID had until Friday 22 April 2011 to apply for an electoral identity card from the Electoral Office .
The elections were originally scheduled to take place in 2009. In 2008, Minister of the Environment Arlene Foster requested that they be postponed until 2011 to allow the implementation of a proposed reform of local government in Northern Ireland , which would have reduced the number of local councils from 26 to 11.[ 3] In February 2009, an order was made, postponing the election, and councillors' terms of office were extended until the fourth day after the election day in 2011.[ 4]
In June 2010, the proposed reforms were abandoned, and it was confirmed that the 2011 elections would be to the existing 26 councils.[ 5] There was also an election to the Northern Ireland Assembly and a referendum on voting reform on the same day.[ 6] The reforms have since been adopted and the 2014 Northern Ireland local elections were for the 11 new districts.
Results
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0C3A6A;" data-sort-value="Traditional Unionist Voice" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #8dc63f;" data-sort-value="Green Party in Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2B45A2;" data-sort-value="Progressive Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6D3177;" data-sort-value="UK Independence Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #004400;" data-sort-value="Irish Republican Socialist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E91D50;" data-sort-value="People Before Profit Alliance" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Northern Ireland Conservatives" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F8F9FA;" data-sort-value="Workers' Party of Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF3300;" data-sort-value="Socialist Party (Northern Ireland)" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2e3b74;" data-sort-value="British National Party" |
Party
Councillors
Votes[ 7]
Change
Total
% share
Total
DUP
-3
175
27.2
179,436
Sinn Féin
+9
138
24.8
163,712
UUP
-16
99
15.2
100,643
SDLP
-14
87
15.0
99,325
Alliance
+14
44
7.4
48,859
Independent
+6
27
5.1
32,023
TUV
+6
6
2.0
13,079
Green (NI)
0
3
1.0
6,317
PUP
0
2
0.6
3,858
UKIP
+1
1
0.4
2,550
Irish Republican Socialist
0
0
0.3
2,133
Éirígí
0
0
0.3
2,062
People Before Profit
0
0
0.3
1,721
NI Conservatives
0
0
0.2
1,321
Independent Republican Party
0
0
0.1
850
Community Partnership
0
0
0.1
800
Workers' Party of Ireland
0
0
0.1
760
Socialist Party
0
0
0.1
682
BNP
0
0
0.1
491
Procapitalism
0
0
0.0
9
By council
Councils
Belfast
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #8dc63f;" data-sort-value="Green Party in Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E91D50;" data-sort-value="People Before Profit Alliance" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F8F9FA;" data-sort-value="Workers' Party of Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2B45A2;" data-sort-value="Progressive Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #8dc63f;" data-sort-value="Green Party in Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E91D50;" data-sort-value="People Before Profit Alliance" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF3300;" data-sort-value="Socialist Party (Ireland)" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F8F9FA;" data-sort-value="Workers' Party of Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F8F9FA;" data-sort-value="éirígí" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F8F9FA;" data-sort-value="Workers' Party of Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #004400;" data-sort-value="Irish Republican Socialist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF3300;" data-sort-value="Socialist Party (Ireland)" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #004400;" data-sort-value="Irish Republican Socialist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2B45A2;" data-sort-value="Progressive Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #8dc63f;" data-sort-value="Green Party in Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0C3A6A;" data-sort-value="Traditional Unionist Voice" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF3300;" data-sort-value="Socialist Party (Ireland)" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F8F9FA;" data-sort-value="Workers' Party of Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E91D50;" data-sort-value="People Before Profit Alliance" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F8F9FA;" data-sort-value="éirígí" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2B45A2;" data-sort-value="Progressive Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #8dc63f;" data-sort-value="Green Party in Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0C3A6A;" data-sort-value="Traditional Unionist Voice" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #0087DC;" data-sort-value="Northern Ireland Conservatives" |
Derry
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E91D50;" data-sort-value="People Before Profit Alliance" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E91D50;" data-sort-value="People Before Profit Alliance" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #004400;" data-sort-value="Irish Republican Socialist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E91D50;" data-sort-value="People Before Profit Alliance" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #004400;" data-sort-value="Irish Republican Socialist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #E91D50;" data-sort-value="People Before Profit Alliance" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2B45A2;" data-sort-value="Progressive Unionist Party" |
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F6CB2F;" data-sort-value="Alliance Party of Northern Ireland" |
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^ Elections 2011: Court Archived 11 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine , Belfast City Council
^ Elections 2011: Laganbank Archived 12 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Belfast City Council
^ Elections 2011: Lower Falls Archived 13 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Belfast City Council
^ Elections 2011: Oldpark Archived 12 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Belfast City Council
^ Elections 2011: Pottinger [permanent dead link ] , Belfast City Council
^ Elections 2011: Upper Falls , Belfast City Council
^ Elections 2011: Victoria , Belfast City Council
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