Botanic (District Electoral Area)
Botanic is one of the ten district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland.[1] The district elects five members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Blackstaff; Central; Ormeau; Stranmillis and Windsor.[2] Botanic, along with neighbouring Balmoral, forms the greater part of the Belfast South constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
It was created for the 2014 local elections, largely replacing the Laganbank District Electoral Area, which had existed since 1985. The DEA is named after Belfast's Botanic Gardens.
2014 election
| Belfast City Council elections, 2014[3] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | |
| Sinn Féin | Deirdre Hargey | 1,326 | |
| DUP | Ruth Patterson | 1,268 | |
| SDLP | Declan Boyle | 971 | |
| Alliance | Emmet McDonough-Brown | 843 | |
| Green (NI) | Claire Bailey | 772 | |
| Alliance | Duncan Morrow | 769 | |
| UUP | Graham Craig | 766 | |
| SDLP | Patrick McCarthy | 530 | |
| TUV | Billy Dickson | 509 | |
| PUP | Ewan Suttie | 351 | |
| NI21 | Eileen Chan-Hu | 261 | |
| NI21 | Ben Matthews | 233 | |
| Socialist Party | Paddy Meehan | 164 | |
| Conservative | Ben Manton | 125 | |
| Workers' Party | Paddy Lynn | 106 | |
| Turnout | 8,994 | ||
References
- ↑ Final Northern Ireland super council recommendations, BBC News, 13 December 2013, accessed 24 May 2014
- ↑ Belfast City Council Elections, 2014, ARK, accessed 24 May 2014
- ↑ Elections 2014: Botanic, Belfast City Council
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