| Castlereagh South | |
| Type: | Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council DEA |
| Year: | 1985 |
| Seats: | 7 (1985-1993) 5 (1993-2014) 7 (2014-) |
| Members Label: | Councillors |
Castlereagh South is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Lisburn and Castlereagh, Northern Ireland.[1] The district elects five members to Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council and contains the wards of Beechill, Cairnshill, Carryduff East, Carryduff West, Galwally, Knockbracken and Newtownbreda.[2] Castlereagh South forms part of the Belfast South constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing Castlereagh Area A which had existed since 1973, and originally contained seven wards (Beechill, Carryduff, Four Winds, Knockbracken, Minnowburn, Moneyreagh and Newtownbreda). For the 1993 local elections, it was reduced to five wards, with Carryduff splitting into East and West and gaining Cairnshill but losing Beechill, Minnowburn and Newtownbreda to the new Castlereagh West DEA. For the 2014 local elections, it was increased to seven wards, regaining the areas which had previously gone to Castlereagh West.
| Election | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 Co-Option | Jamie Harpur (Alliance) | Nancy Eaton (Alliance) | Martin McKeever (Alliance) | John Gallen (SDLP) | Daniel Bassett (Sinn Féin) | Ryan Carlin (Sinn Féin) | Brian Higginson (DUP) | |||||||
| 2023 | Michelle Guy (Alliance) | |||||||||||||
| August 2022 Defection | Fiona Cole (Alliance) | Simon Lee (SDLP)/ (Green Party) | Michael Henderson (UUP) | Nathan Anderson (DUP)/ (Independent) | ||||||||||
| May 2022 Co-Option | ||||||||||||||
| September 2021 Defection | Sorcha Eastwood (Alliance) | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | ||||||||||||||
| November 2017 Defection | Geraldine Rice (Alliance)/ (Independent) | Vasundhara Kamble (Alliance)/ (Independent)/ (DUP) | Brian Hanvey (SDLP) | Ben Mallon (DUP) | ||||||||||
| February 2017 Defections | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | James Spratt (DUP) | John Beattie (DUP)/ (UUP) | 5 seats 1993–2014 | 5 seats 1993–2014 | ||||||||||
| 2005 | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Barbara McBurney (UUP) | |||||||||||||
| 1997 | Myreve Chambers (DUP) | Arthur Hegney (SDLP) | ||||||||||||
| 1993 | Margaret Marshall (Alliance) | Marie Luney (UUP) | ||||||||||||
| 1989 | David Andrews (Alliance) | Frederick Kane (UUP) | Jean Clarke (UUP) | John Taylor (UUP) | Ernest Harper (DUP) | |||||||||
| 1985 | William Clulow (DUP) | James Clarke (UUP) | John Glass (UUP) | |||||||||||
2019: 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green
2023: 3 x Alliance, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
2019–2023 Change: Alliance and Sinn Féin gain from Green and UUP
2014: 2 x Alliance, 2 x DUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP
2019: 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Green
2014-2019 Change: Sinn Féin and Green gain from DUP and SDLP
This election was carried out under new ward boundaries, as a result of local government reform.
2011: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP
2014: 2 x Alliance, 2 x SDLP, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP
2011-2014 Change: Alliance and SDLP gain due to the addition of two seats
2005: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP
2011: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP
2005-2011 Change: No change
2001: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance
2005: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance
2001-2005 Change: DUP gain from UUP
1997: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance
2001: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance
1997-2001 Change: No change
1993: 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP
1997: 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
1993-1997 Change: SDLP gain from Alliance
1989: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance
1993: 2 x Alliance, 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP
1989-1993 Change: UUP and DUP loss due to the reduction of two seats
1985: 3 x DUP, 3 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
1989: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance
1985-1989 Change: Alliance gain from DUP
1985: 3 x DUP, 3 x UUP, 1 x Alliance