Craigavon Borough Council

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Craigavon Borough
Geography
Area - Total - % Water	Ranked 19th 378 km² ? %
Admin HQ	Craigavon
ISO 3166-2	GB-CGV
ONS code	95N
Demographics
Population - Total (2005) - Density	Ranked 5th 84,679 224 / km²
Community	Protestant: 52.9% Catholic: 44.7%
Politics
Craigavon Borough Council http://www.craigavon.gov.uk
MPs	David Simpson

Craigavon Borough Council is a local council in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The headquarters of the council is in Craigavon, on the shores of Lough Neagh, a new town built between Lurgan and Portadown. The council area includes the large towns of Lurgan and Portadown, as well as smaller ones including Waringstown and Donaghcloney. The council budget of £15.5 million provides a wide range of services to over 84,000 people living in the area.

The council area consists of four electoral areas - Central, Loughside, Lurgan and Portadown - in which 26 councillors are elected every four years. The council holds an annual meeting in June, at which a new Mayor and Deputy Mayor are elected. Parties elected in 2005 were Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) nine seats, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) six, Sinn Féin six, Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) four, and Independent one. The current Mayor is UUP Councilor Ken Twyble, and his Deputy is Mary McAlinden of the SDLP.

Together with part of the district of Banbridge, it forms the Upper Bann constituency for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.

See Also: Local Councils in Northern Ireland

Districts of Northern Ireland
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