Lisburn City Council
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| Lisburn City | |
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| Geography | |
| Area - Total - % Water |
Ranked 16th 447 km² ? % |
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| Admin HQ | Lisburn |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-LSB |
| ONS code | 95S |
| Demographics | |
| Population - Total (2005) - Density |
Ranked 2nd 111,521 250 / km² |
| Community | Protestant: 62.8% Catholic: 33.4% |
| Politics | |
Lisburn City Council http://www.lisburn.gov.uk |
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| MPs | Jeffrey Donaldson Gerry Adams |
Lisburn City Council is a Local Council partly in County Antrim and partly in County Down in Northern Ireland. despite it being a city in its own right it is classed as a Belfast Metropolitan Borough. Council headquarters are in the city of Lisburn. It was conferred city status in May 2002 as a result of the Council's success in the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee competition. It is the second largest Council area in Northern Ireland with over 108,000 residents and an area of 174 square miles of southwest Antrim and northwest Down and stretches from Glenavy and Dundrod in the north to Dromara and Hillsborough in the south and from Drumbo in the east to Moira and Aghalee in the west.
The Lisburn City Council area consists of 5 electoral areas: Downshire, Dunmurry Cross, Killultagh, Lisburn Town North and Lisburn Town South. It has 30 councillors last elected in 2005 and serving a four year term. The members elected were from the following political parties: 13 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 7 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 4 Sinn Fein, 3 Alliance Party and 3 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). The current Mayor is Councillor Jonathan Craig (DUP) and the Deputy Mayor is Councillor Trevor Lunn (APNI).
Recently the council decided to fly the Union Flag from all of its properties for 365 days of the year, a move which many nationalist residents considered unnecessary.
The next election is due to take place in May 2009.
In elections for the Westminster Parliament it is split between the Lagan Valley constituency and the West Belfast constituency.
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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 | |
