| Lisburn City Council | |
| Geography | |
| Area - Total |
Ranked 16th of 26 447 km² |
|---|---|
| Admin HQ | Lisburn |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-LSB |
| ONS code | 95S |
| Demographics | |
| Population - Total (2010) - Density |
Ranked / km² |
| Community | Catholic: 33.4% Protestant: 62.8% |
| Politics | |
| Control | No overall control DUP: 14 Sinn Féin: 5 UUP: 5 Alliance Party: 3 SDLP: 3 |
| MLAs | Belfast West & Lagan Valley Sinn Féin: 5 DUP: 4 Alliance Party: 1 SDLP: 1 UUP: 1 |
| MPs | Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP) Paul Maskey (Belfast West) |
| Meeting place | |
| Website | |
| http://www.lisburncity.gov.uk | |
Lisburn City Council is a district council covering an area partly in County Antrim and partly in County Down in Northern Ireland. The council is the second largest in the Belfast Metropolitan Area. Council headquarters are in the city of Lisburn, upon which 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 (450 km2) of south-west Antrim and north-west Down. It 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 council area consists of five electoral areas: Downshire, Dunmurry Cross, Killultagh, Lisburn Town North and Lisburn Town South. It has 30 councillors, last elected in 2005. The current composition is: 12 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 7 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 4 Sinn Féin, 3 Alliance Party, 3 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and 1 Independent Unionist. The current Mayor is Councillor Alderman Paul Porter (DUP), and the Deputy Mayor is Councillor Brian Heading (SDLP). An election was due to take place in May 2009, but was postponed due to an ongoing review of local government.
For elections to the Westminster Parliament, the council area is currently split between the Lagan Valley constituency and the West Belfast constituency. In the 2010 Westminster election, the Glenavy area was placed in the South Antrim constituency, and the Dunmurry area was placed in the West Belfast constituency.[1]
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2011 saw the continued advancement of the DUP and Sinn Fein within the council Area. In Downshire, the DUP picked up a seat from the UUP, and in Dunmurray Cross, Sinn Fein gained from the SDLP. However the SDLP loss was compensated by changing demographics in the North Lisburn DEA, where the SDLP took a seat for the first time. There were no changes in the Killutagh or Lisburn Town South DEAs. The election was a notable success for the DUP who succeeded in returning all their candidates with the exception of Ben Mallon a local student standing in Lisburn North.
| Party | seats | change +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|
| • | Democratic Unionist Party | 14 | +1 |
| • | Ulster Unionist Party | 5 | -2 |
| • | Sinn Féin | 5 | +1 |
| • | Social Democratic and Labour Party | 3 | = |
| • | Alliance Party of Northern Ireland | 3 | = |
| • | Independent | 0 | = |
Under the Review of Public Administration (RPA) the Council is due to merge with Castlereagh Borough Council in 2011 to form a single council for the enlarged area totalling 540 km² and a population of 175,182.[2] The next election was due to take place in May 2009, but on 25 April 2008, Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until the introduction of the eleven new councils in 2011.[3]
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