2014 Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council election explained

Election Name:	2014 Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council election
Flag Image:	Flag placeholder.svg
Type:	parliamentary
Ongoing:	no
Next Year:	2019
Seats For Election:	All 41 council seats
Majority Seats:	21
Election Date:	22 May 2014
Leader1:	Peter Robinson
Party1:	Democratic Unionist Party
Seats1:	13
Seat Change1:	New council
Leader2:	Mike Nesbitt
Party2:	Ulster Unionist Party
Seats2:	12
Seat Change2:	New council
Leader3:	Martin McGuinness
Party3:	Sinn Féin
Seats3:	8
Seat Change3:	New council
Leader4:	Alasdair McDonnell
Party4:	Social Democratic and Labour Party
Seats4:	6
Seat Change4:	New council
Leader5:	David McNarry
Party5:	UKIP
Seats5:	1
Seat Change5:	New council
Party6:	Independent Unionist
Seats6:	1
Seat Change6:	New council
Map Size:	400

The first election to Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council,^[1] part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 22 May 2014,^{[2] [3]} returned 41 members to the newly-formed council via Single Transferable Vote. The Democratic Unionist Party won a plurality of seats, although the Ulster Unionist Party attracted the most first-preference votes.

Election results

Party	valign=top	Seats	valign=top	First Pref. votes	valign=top	FPv%
	13	17,734	24.56
	12	18,882	26.14
	8	15,160	20.99
	6	10,083	13.96
	1	2,590	3.59
	1	1,322	1.83
	0	2,440	3.38
	0	1,852	2.56
	0	1,274	1.76
	0	884	1.22
Totals	align=right	41	align=right	72,221	100.00

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Districts summary

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|- class="unsortable" align="center"!colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP!colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP!colspan=2 bgcolor=""| Sinn Féin!colspan=2 bgcolor=""| SDLP!colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UKIP!colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance!colspan=2 bgcolor="white"|

Others|-|align="left"|Armagh|9.6|1|19.3|1|bgcolor="#008800"|41.0|bgcolor="#008800"|2|26.8|2|2.1|0|1.2|0|0.0|0|6|-|align="left"|Banbridge|23.8|2|bgcolor="40BFF5"|41.0|bgcolor="40BFF5"|3|12.3|0|14.5|1|0.0|0|5.1|0|3.3|0|7|-|align="left"|Craigavon|bgcolor="#D46A4C"|25.4|bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2|21.7|1|22.5|1|15.1|1|0.0|0|4.7|0|10.6|0|5|-|align="left"|Cusher|22.0|1|bgcolor="40BFF5"|38.4|bgcolor="40BFF5"|2|9.7|0|11.4|1|0.0|0|0.0|0|18.5|1|5|-|align="left"|Lagan River|bgcolor="#D46A4C"|40.7|bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3|31.4|2|3.2|0|3.8|0|0.0|0|6.2|0|14.7|0|5|-|align="left"|Lurgan|22.6|2|12.5|1|bgcolor="#008800"|35.8|bgcolor="#008800"|3|14.4|1|0.0|0|5.1|0|9.6|0|7|-|align="left"|Portadown|bgcolor="#D46A4C"|32.7|bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2|19.4|2|16.7|1|8.7|0|7.8|1|2.0|0|12.7|0|5|- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9"|align="left"| Total|24.6|13|26.1|12|21.0|8|14.0|6|1.8|1|3.4|0|9.1|1|41|-|}

District results

Armagh

2014: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x DUP

Banbridge

2014: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin

Portadown

• Incumbent

Changes during the term

† Co-options

Co-option date	Electoral Area	Party		Outgoing	Co-optee	Reason
12 August 2016	Banbridge		Brendan Curran	Kevin Savage	Curran resigned his seat for health reasons.^[5]
2 February 2017	Portadown		Gemma McKenna	Paul Duffy	McKenna resigned her seat for personal reasons.^[6]
26 May 2016	Portadown		Doug Beattie	Julie Flaherty	Beattie was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly.^[7]
8 June 2016	Lurgan		Carla Lockhart	Terry McWilliams	Lockhart was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly.^[8]
8 June 2016	Lurgan		Catherine Seeley	Liam Mackle	Seeley was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly.^[9]
4 Apr 2017	Portadown		Jonathan Buckley	Louise Templeton	Buckley was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly.^[10] ^[11]
18 June 2018	Lurgan		Máire Cairns	Catherine Nelson (Catherine Seeley)	Cairns resigned.^[12]
17 December 2018	Lurgan		Philip Moutray	Stephen Moutray	Moutray resigned.

‡ Changes of affiliation

Date	Electoral Area	Name	Previous affiliation		New affiliation
6 Nov 2015	Lagan River	Carol Black^[13]
11 May 2018	Portadown	David Jones ^[14]
26 Feb 2018	Craigavon	Fergal Lennon^[15]

Current composition: see Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Northern Ireland council results . 23 May 2014 . BBC News.
2. Web site: UTV local election results, Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon. 22 June 2014. UTV.
3. Web site: Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council Results, 2014 . 22 June 2014 . Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140609184250/http://www.armagh.gov.uk/your-council/local-election . 9 June 2014 .
4. Web site: Local Council Elections 2014 - Results by Stage. 23 January 2022.
5. Web site: Sinn Féin's Brendan Curran steps down from council. Lurgan Mail. en. 2018-02-27.
6. Web site: Sinn Féin councillor stands down. Portadown Times. en. 2018-02-27.
7. Web site: Julie takes place on council. UUP website. en. 2018-02-27.
8. Web site: McWilliams takes place on council. Lurgan Mail. en. 2018-02-27.
9. Web site: Mackle takes place on council. Lurgan Mail. en. 2018-02-27.
10. Web site: Louise takes place on council. Portadown Times. en. 2017-08-01.
11. Web site: The Electoral Office of Northern Ireland - EONI. www.eoni.org.uk. 2017-05-13.
12. Web site: Nelson co-opted onto ABC council. www.sinnfein.ie. 2019-03-24.
13. News: UUP councillor resigns over Mike Nesbitt's SDLP second vote pledge. Belfast Telegraph. 2017-05-12. en.
14. News: Northern Ireland's Ukip spokesman quits over Farage snub. Belfast Telegraph. 2018-05-11. en.
15. Web site: Co Armagh Sinn Féin councillor Fergal Lennon defects to Aontú. Young. Connla. 2019-02-27. The Irish News. en. 2019-03-24.