| Braid | |
| Type: | Mid and East Antrim Borough Council DEA |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Seats: | 5 (1993-2014) 7 (2014-) |
| Members Label: | Councillors |
Braid is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland.[1] The district elects seven members to Mid and East Antrim District Council and contains the wards of Ballee and Harryville, Broughshane, Glenravel, Glenwhirry, Kells, Kirkinriola and Slemish.[2] Braid forms part of the North Antrim constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
It was created for the 1993 local elections, where it contained five wards (Broughshane, Craigywarren, Glenravel, Glenwhirry and Slemish), replacing the Braid Valley DEA which had existed since 1985. For the 2014 local elections it gained two additional wards, gaining Ballee and Harryville and Kells from the abolished Ballymena South DEA.
| Election | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Chelsea Harwood (Alliance) | Alan Barr (UUP) | Archie Rae (Sinn Féin) | Beth Adger (DUP) | Christopher Jamieson (TUV) | William McCaughey (DUP) | Matthew Warwick (TUV) | |||||||
| October 2020 Co-Option | David Reid (Alliance) | Robin Cherry (UUP) | Julie Frew (DUP) | Brian Collins (TUV) | ||||||||||
| 2019 | Muriel Burnside (Alliance) | |||||||||||||
| August 2016 Defection | Paul Maguire (Sinn Féin)/ (Independent) | Beth Clyde (DUP) | Samuel Hanna (DUP) | |||||||||||
| 2014 | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Paul Frew (DUP) | 5 seats 1993–2014 | 5 seats 1993–2014 | |||||||||||
| 2005 | Margaret Gribben (SDLP) | Robin Stirling (DUP) | ||||||||||||
| 2001 | Lexie Scott (UUP) | David Clyde (UUP) | ||||||||||||
| 1997 | Desmond Armstrong (UUP) | |||||||||||||
| 1993 | David McClintock (DUP) | Robert Forsythe (UUP) | ||||||||||||
2019: 3 x DUP, 2 x TUV, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x TUV, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Alliance
2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin gain from DUP
2014: 4 x DUP, 1 x TUV, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin
2019: 3 x DUP, 2 x TUV, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2014-2019 Change: TUV and Alliance gain from DUP and Sinn Féin
2011: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin
2014: 4 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x TUV, 1 x Sinn Féin
2011-2014 Change: DUP and TUV gain due to the addition of two seats
2005: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP
2011: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin
2005-2011 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP
2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP
2005: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP
2001-2005 Change: DUP gain from UUP
1997: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP
1997-2001 Change: DUP gain from UUP
1993: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP
1997: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1993-1997 Change: SDLP gain from DUP
1993: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP