Victoria (District Electoral Area)

Victoria
District Electoral Area
Victoria ; District Electoral Area
	Map showing Victoria wards within Belfast
Area	20.2 km2 (7.8 sq mi)
Population	36,607 (2008 Estimate)
• Density	1,812/km2 (4,690/sq mi)
District	Belfast City Council;
County	County Down;
Country	Northern Ireland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
UK Parliament	Belfast East;
NI Assembly	Belfast East;
	List of places UK Northern Ireland Down

Victoria was one of the nine district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1985 to 2014, when it was mostly replaced by the Ormiston district.^[1]

Located in the east of the city, the district elected seven members to Belfast City Council and contained the wards of Ballyhackamore; Belmont; Cherryvalley; Island; Knock; Stormont; and Sydenham. Victoria, along with wards from the neighbouring Pottinger district and Castlereagh Borough Council, formed the Belfast East constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.

The district was bounded to the west by the Victoria Channel, to the north by Belfast Lough, to the northeast by North Down Borough Council, to the south and east by Castlereagh Borough Council and to the southwest by the Newtownards Road.

History

The DEA was created for the 1985 local elections as the successor to the former Area B, which all seven wards in the new Victoria had been part of. An eighth ward, Bloomfield, which had been in Area B, was placed in the new Pottinger electoral area. It will be abolished in 2015, having made way for the new DEAs that were used for the 2014 local elections. It will largely be replaced by the new Ormiston District Electoral Area. Five of Victoria's wards joined Ormiston, with the Sydenham ward and the areas which had been part of the abolished Island ward becoming part of the new Titanic District Electoral Area.

The district contained many key pieces of Belfast's transport infrastructure, including George Best Belfast City Airport and the eastern portion of Belfast Harbour. The area is served by the Bridge End and Sydenham railway stations and the A2 and A20 major road routes. The district is also home to Parliament Buildings, the meeting place of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Victoria was once the site of much of Belfast's heavy industrial manufacturing facilities, however these have suffered a significant decline since the mid-twentieth century, although companies such as Short Brothers and Harland and Wolff continue to have significant operations in the area.

The wards were redrawn for the 2014 elections and Victoria was replaced with the Ormiston district.^[2]

Former BCDR mainline

The Belfast and County Down Railway had a mainline through Knock railway station which linked Belfast direct to Downpatrick railway station as well as to Newcastle, County Down, there was also the branch from Comber railway station to Newtownards and Donaghadee. The minline opened in 1850 was closed in 1950 by the Ulster Transport Authority.

Titanic Quarter

The Titanic Quarter is a major economic and cultural regeneration programme that is centred on Queen's Island and the former Harland and Wolff shipyard. The project has seen the construction of new hotels, apartment blocks and business facilities, with a number of high-profile relocations, including the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. The area has also become a centre for learning and research with the opening of the Northern Ireland Science Park, in addition to Belfast Metropolitan College moving one of its key city centre campuses to the Quarter, while Queen's University Belfast have also located their Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) within the Science Park. The Quarter's name comes from the RMS Titanic which was constructed in the old shipyard, with a number of projects aimed at exploiting the tourism value of the Titanic's connection to Belfast, including the Samson and Goliath cranes used to construct the ship and the Paint Hall.

Other Amenities

Other amenities in the Victoria district electoral area include:

Ashfield Boys' High School
Campbell College
The Comber Greenway, a 7-mile (11 km) traffic-free section of the National Cycle Network, along the old Belfast-Comber railway line
HMS Caroline
Holywood Exchange, a major retail development
Odyssey Arena, a major entertainment complex
Our Lady and St. Patrick's College, Knock
The Oval Stadium, home ground of Glentoran F.C.
Stormont Estate

Strandtown Primary School
Strathearn School
Wilgar Park, the home ground of Dundela F.C.

Wards

Map	Ward	Population (2011 Census)	Catholic	Protestant	Other	No Religion	Area	Density	NI Assembly	UK Parliament	Ref
1	Ballyhackamore	5,939	17.2%	68.2%	1.9%	12.7%	1.15 km²	5,164 /km²	Belfast East	Belfast East	^[3]
2	Belmont	6,165	8.6%	80.6%	1%	9.8%	1.79 km²	3,444 /km²	Belfast East	Belfast East	^[4]
3	Cherryvalley	5,920	14.5%	75.3%	0.8%	9.4%	1.99 km²	2,975 /km²	Belfast East	Belfast East	^[5]
4	Island	5,014	13.9%	69.8%	4.6%	11.8%	3.81 km²	1,316 /km²	Belfast East	Belfast East	^[6]
5	Knock	4,827	9.1%	79.7%	1.2%	10%	1.12 km²	4,310 /km²	Belfast East	Belfast East	^[7]
6	Stormont	5,548	12.9%	75.6%	1.3%	10.2%	7.04 km²	788 /km²	Belfast East	Belfast East	^[8]
7	Sydenham	4,874	9.9%	76%	1.8%	12.3%	6.24 km²	781 /km²	Belfast East	Belfast East	^[9]
Victoria		38,287	12.4%	75%	1.7%	10.8%	23.14 km²	1,655 /km²

Councillors

Election	Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)
2011	rowspan = "2" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color" \|	Mervyn Jones (Alliance)	rowspan = "1" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color" \|	Laura McNamee (Alliance)	rowspan = "7" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	Robin Newton (DUP)	rowspan = "1" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	John Hussey (DUP)	rowspan = "1" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color" \|	Andrew Webb (Alliance)	rowspan = "5" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	Jim Rodgers (UUP)	rowspan = "1" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	Tom Haire (DUP)
2005	rowspan = "2" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color" \|	Mervyn Jones (Alliance)	Naomi Long (Alliance)	rowspan = "6" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	Wallace Browne (DUP)		rowspan = "5" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	Ian Adamson (UUP)	rowspan = "1" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	David Rodway (DUP)
2001	rowspan = "2" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color" \|	David Alderdice (Alliance)	Naomi Long (Alliance)	rowspan = "1" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|			Alan Crowe (UUP)
1997	rowspan = "3" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color" \|	David Alderdice (Alliance)	Danny Dow (Alliance)	rowspan = "1" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Independent Unionist/meta/color" \|			Alan Crowe (Independent Unionist)
1993	rowspan = "2" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color" \|	John Alderdice (Alliance)		rowspan = "3" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|			Tommy Patton (UUP)
1989	rowspan = "1" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	John Alderdice (Alliance)		A F H Montgomery (UUP)
1985	rowspan = "1" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color" \|	Oliver Napier (Alliance)	rowspan = "1" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color" \|	G P C Thompson (Alliance)				rowspan = "1" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	William Corry (UUP)	rowspan = "1" width="1" style="background-color: Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" \|	Dorothy Dunlop (UUP)

2011 Elections

See also: Results of elections in 2011; 2005; 2001; 1997; 1993; 1989 and 1985.

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Belfast City Council elections, 2011^[10]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
DUP	Robin Newton	2,338
Alliance	Mervyn Jones	2,319
Alliance	Laura McNamee	1,677
DUP	Tom Haire	1,437
UUP	Jim Rodgers	1,355
Alliance	Andrew Webb	1,137
UUP	Ian Adamson	942
PUP	Robert McCartney	908
DUP	John Hussey	812
Green (NI)	Ross Campbell	315
UUP	Stephen Warke	216
SDLP	Magdalena Wolska	207
TUV	Sammy Morrison	158
Independent	Roy Hobson	142
NI Conservatives	Garry Crosbie	103
Turnout			14,066
bgcolor=Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color\|	Alliance gain from Ulster Unionist

References

^ Final Northern Ireland super council recommendations, BBC News, 13 December 2013, accessed 24 May 2014
^ Map from the District Electoral Areas Commissioner Maps page. See District Electoral Areas Commissioner page
^ "Ward Information for Ballyhackamore ward 95GG03". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
^ "Ward Information for Belmont ward 95GG09". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
^ "Ward Information for Cherryvalley ward 95GG15". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
^ "Ward Information for Island ward 95GG29". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
^ "Ward Information for Knock ward 95GG30". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
^ "Ward Information for Stormont ward 95GG41". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
^ "Ward Information for Sydenham ward 95GG43". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
^ Elections 2011: Victoria, Belfast City Council

[1] Final Northern Ireland super council recommendations, BBC News, 13 December 2013, accessed 24 May 2014

[2] Map from the District Electoral Areas Commissioner Maps page. See District Electoral Areas Commissioner page

[3] "Ward Information for Ballyhackamore ward 95GG03". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.

[4] "Ward Information for Belmont ward 95GG09". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.

[5] "Ward Information for Cherryvalley ward 95GG15". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.

[6] "Ward Information for Island ward 95GG29". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.

[7] "Ward Information for Knock ward 95GG30". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.

[8] "Ward Information for Stormont ward 95GG41". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.

[9] "Ward Information for Sydenham ward 95GG43". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.

[10] Elections 2011: Victoria, Belfast City Council

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