Ards Borough Council
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| Ards Borough | |
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| Geography | |
| Area - Total - % Water |
Ranked 20th 376 km² ? % |
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| Admin HQ | Newtownards |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-ARD |
| ONS code | 95X |
| Demographics | |
| Population - Total (2005) - Density |
Ranked 8th 75,279 200 / km² |
| Community | Protestant: 82.5% Catholic: 12.6% |
| Politics | |
Ards Borough Council http://www.ards-council.gov.uk |
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| MPs | Sylvia Hermon, Iris Robinson |
Ards Borough Council is a Local Council in County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. It is a Belfast Metropolitan Borough with its headquarters in Newtownards. Other towns include Portaferry, Comber, and Donaghadee and the population of the area is about 73,000.
Ards Borough Council area has four electoral areas: Newtownards, Ards West, Ards East and Ards peninsula from which 23 members are elected. At the 2005 election members were elected from the following political parties: 13 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 6 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 3 Alliance Party and 1 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). The current Mayor is Councillor Angus Carson (UUP) and the Deputy Mayor is Councillor Robin Drysdale(DUP).
The next election is due to take place in May 2009.
Strangford Lough is at the heart of the area, and is the largest inlet in the British Isles with internationally renowned wildlife. The Irish Sea coast stretches from Donaghadee to Portaferry. Mount Stewart, a National Trust property on the shore of Strangford Lough is in the area, as well as Northern Ireland’s only aquarium, Exploris, in Portaferry and Grace Neill's, holder of the Guinness Book of Records title of the oldest pub on Ireland.
In elections for the Westminster Parliament it is mostly in the Strangford constituency, with part in the North Down consituency.
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| Districts of Northern Ireland |  |
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| Subdivisions created by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 | |
| Antrim | Ards | Armagh | Ballymena | Ballymoney | Banbridge | Belfast | Carrickfergus | Castlereagh | Coleraine | Cookstown | Craigavon | Derry | Down | Dungannon and South Tyrone | Fermanagh | Larne | Limavady | Lisburn | Magherafelt | Moyle | Newry and Mourne | Newtownabbey | North Down | Omagh | Strabane | |
