Causeway Coast and Glens District Council

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council

Type
Type	District council of Causeway Coast and Glens
History
Founded	1 April 2015
Preceded by	Ballymoney Borough Council Coleraine Borough Council Limavady Borough Council Moyle District Council
Leadership
Mayor	Joan Baird, UUP
Structure
Seats	40

Political groups	DUP (11) UUP (10) Sinn Féin (7) SDLP (6) TUV (3) Alliance (1) PUP (1) NI Conservatives (1) Independents (1)
Elections
Last election	22 May 2014
Website
http://www.causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk/

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council is a local authority in Northern Ireland that was established on 1 April 2015. It covers most of the northern coast of Northern Ireland and replaced Ballymoney Borough Council, Coleraine Borough Council, Limavady Borough Council and Moyle District Council. The first elections to the authority were on 22 May 2014 and it acted as a shadow authority, prior to the creation of the Causeway Coast and Glens district on 1 April 2015.

Mayoralty

From	To	Name	Party
2015	2016	Michelle Knight-McQuillan	DUP
2016	2017	Maura Hickey	SDLP
2017	2018	Joan Baird	UUP

From	To	Name	Party
2015	2016	Darryl Wilson	UUP
2016	2017	James McCorkell	DUP
2017	2018	Cathal McLaughlin	Sinn Féin

For the purpose of elections the council is divided into seven district electoral areas (DEA):^[1]

Council members from 2014 election
District electoral area	Name	Party
Ballymoney	John Finlay		DUP
	Philip McGuigan		Sinn Féin
	William Blair		TUV
	Ian Stevenson		DUP
	Darryl Wilson		UUP
	Tom McKeown		UUP
	Alan McLean		DUP
Bann	William King		UUP
	Michelle Knight-McQuillan		DUP
	Richard Holmes		UUP
	Sam Cole		DUP
	Róisín Loftus		SDLP
Benbradagh	Seán McGlinchey		Sinn Féin
	Boyd Douglas		TUV
	Tony McCaul		Sinn Féin
	Orla Beattie		SDLP
	Dermott Nicholl		Sinn Féin
Causeway	Frank Campbell		DUP
	Mark Fielding		DUP
	Barney Fitzpatrick		Alliance
	Sandra Hunter		UUP
	Norman Hillis		UUP
	Sharon McKillop		TUV
	Maura Hickey		SDLP
Coleraine	Russell Watton		PUP
	Stephanie Quigley		SDLP
	George Duddy		DUP
	Trevor Clarke		DUP
	William McCandless		UUP
	David Harding		Conservative
Limavady	Alan Robinson		DUP
	James McCorkell		DUP
	Brenda Chivers		Sinn Féin
	John Deighan		SDLP
	Aaron Callan		DUP
The Glens	Joan Baird		UUP
	Cara McShane		Sinn Féin
	Margaret McKillop		SDLP
	Padraig McShane		Independent
	Kieran Mulholland		Sinn Féin

Councillor David Harding left the UUP on 24 February 2015 sat as an Independent Unionist,^[2] and later joined NI Conservatives.^[3]

Councillor Aaron Callan left the UUP on 26 October 2016 and joined the DUP.

The area covered by the new Council has a population of 140,877 residents according to the 2011 Northern Ireland census.^[4]

Local government in Northern Ireland
Councils	Antrim and Newtownabbey Ards and North Down Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Belfast Causeway Coast and Glens Derry and Strabane Fermanagh and Omagh Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid-Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down
Districts	Antrim and Newtownabbey Ards and North Down Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Belfast Causeway Coast and Glens Derry and Strabane Fermanagh and Omagh Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Mid-Ulster Newry, Mourne and Down

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