2023 Mid and East Antrim District Council election

2023 Mid and East Antrim District Council election
	18 May 2023
All 40 council seats; 21 seats needed for a majority
Council control before election; No overall control;	Council control after election ; TBC;

The 2023 election to Mid and East Antrim District Council is scheduled to be held on 18 May 2023, alongside other local elections in Northern Ireland, two weeks after local elections in England.[1] The Northern Ireland elections were delayed by 2 weeks to avoid overlapping with the coronation of King Charles III.[2]

They will return 40 members to the council via Single Transferable Vote.

Controversies

Tyler Hoey was selected as a DUP candidate to contest the 2023 Mid and East Antrim Council elections. In 2020, Hoey 'liked' a social media post commemorating the Greysteel massacre, which stated, "On this day 27 years ago, An Ulster Freedom Fighters Active Service Unit from North Antrim-Londonderry Brigade 'Trick or Treated' its way into the republican Rising Sun bar in Greysteel in order to gain revenge for the Shankill Bombing. Spirit of '93".[3] Following this revelation, DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said that Hoey "deeply regrets some of the things that he said in the past" and that he is "entitled to a second chance."[4]

Election results

Mid and East Antrim District Council Election Result 2023
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	DUP
	Ulster Unionist
	Alliance
	TUV
	Independent
	Sinn Féin
	SDLP
	PUP
	Green (NI)

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

Districts summary

Results of the 2023 Mid and East Antrim District Council election
by district
District Electoral Area (DEA)	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	Total cllrs
District Electoral Area (DEA)	DUP	Alliance	UUP	TUV	Sinn Féin	SDLP	Independents and others	Total cllrs
Ballymena								7
Bannside								6
Braid								7
Carrick Castle								5
Coast Road								5
Knockagh								5
Larne Lough								5
Total								40

District results

Ballymena

2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x Independent, 1 x TUV, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance

2023:

2019–2023 Change:

Ballymena - 7 seats[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1
	TUV	Matthew Armstrong*
	Ulster Unionist	Colin Crawford
	DUP	Reuben Glover
	Alliance	John Hyland*
	Sinn Féin	Bréanainn Lyness
	DUP	Lawrie Philpott
	Independent	Rodney Quigley*
	SDLP	Eugene Reid*
	DUP	Andrew Wright
Valid: Quota:

Bannside

2019: 2 x TUV, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin

2023:

2019–2023 Change:

Bannside - 6 seats[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1
	Sinn Féin	Ian Friary*
	TUV	Timothy Gaston*
	Alliance	Jack Gibson
	DUP	Thomas Gordon*
	TUV	Anna Henry
	DUP	Tyler Hoey
	TUV	Stewart McDonald*
	Ulster Unionist	Jackson Minford
	SDLP	Morgan Murphy
Valid: Quota:

Braid

2019: 2 x TUV, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin

2023:

2019–2023 Change:

Braid - 7 seats[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1
	DUP	Beth Adger*
	Ulster Unionist	Alan Barr
	Alliance	Chelsea Harwood
	TUV	Christopher Jamieson*
	DUP	William McCaughey*
	DUP	Julie Philpott
	Sinn Féin	Archie Rae
	Ulster Unionist	Keith Turner*
	TUV	Matthew Warwick
Valid: Quota:

Carrick Castle

2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance

2023:

2019–2023 Change:

Carrick Castle - 5 seats[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1
	DUP	Billy Ashe*
	DUP	Cheryl Brownlee*
	Ulster Unionist	Bethany Ferris
	Alliance	Lauren Gray*
	TUV	Frances Henderson
	Green (NI)	Jenny Hutchinson
	PUP	Jim McCaw
	DUP	John McDermott*
	Ulster Unionist	Robin Stewart*
Valid: Quota:

Coast Road

2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP

2023:

2019–2023 Change:

Coast Road - 5 seats[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1
	Green (NI)	Eddie Alcorn
	DUP	Andrew Clarke*
	Sinn Féin	James McKeown*
	Ulster Unionist	Maureen Morrow*
	Alliance	Gerardine Mulvenna*
	DUP	Angela Smyth*
	Alliance	Niamh Spurle
	TUV	Wesley Stevenson
	Ulster Unionist	Olivia Swan
Valid: Quota:

Knockagh

2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent

2023:

2019–2023 Change:

Knockagh - 5 seats[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1
	DUP	Marc Collins*
	Independent	Bobby Hadden*
	DUP	Peter Johnston*
	Ulster Unionist	Gary McCabe
	Alliance	Aaron Skinner
	TUV	James Strange
	Alliance	Noel Williams*
	Ulster Unionist	Andrew Wilson*
Valid: Quota:

Larne Lough

2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP

2023:

2019–2023 Change:

Larne Lough - 5 seats[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1
	Ulster Unionist	Roy Beggs Jr
	Ulster Unionist	James Carson
	TUV	Ronnie Donnell
	Alliance	Maeve Donnelly*
	Alliance	Robert Logan*
	DUP	Gregg McKeen*
	Green (NI)	Philip Randle
	DUP	Paul Reid*
Valid: Quota:

Notes

The leader of Sinn Féin is Mary Lou McDonald, who sits as a TD in the Irish Dáil Éireann for Dublin Central. O'Neill is the leader of the party in Northern Ireland.

References

"Local government elections in Northern Ireland". www.electoralcommission.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
"NI council election moved to avoid coronation clash". BBC News. 21 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
Patricia Devlin [@trishdevlin] (March 18, 2023). "I wrote about DUP candidate Tyler Hoey almost three years ago. The only thing that is new is the fact he's been selected to run for the DUP in the council elections" (Tweet). Retrieved April 27, 2023 – via Twitter.
"DUP candidate's social media posts 'indefensible but in the past' – Donaldson– BelfastTelegraph.co.uk". BelfastTelegraph. 20 March 2023. Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
"Northern Ireland council election: List of all the candidates in the May 2023 poll". Belfast Live. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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[SFnote-1] The leader of Sinn Féin is Mary Lou McDonald, who sits as a TD in the Irish Dáil Éireann for Dublin Central. O'Neill is the leader of the party in Northern Ireland.

[2] "Local government elections in Northern Ireland". www.electoralcommission.org.uk. Retrieved 2022-05-19.

[3] "NI council election moved to avoid coronation clash". BBC News. 21 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.

[4] Patricia Devlin [@trishdevlin] (March 18, 2023). "I wrote about DUP candidate Tyler Hoey almost three years ago. The only thing that is new is the fact he's been selected to run for the DUP in the council elections" (Tweet). Retrieved April 27, 2023 – via Twitter.

[5] "DUP candidate's social media posts 'indefensible but in the past' – Donaldson– BelfastTelegraph.co.uk". BelfastTelegraph. 20 March 2023. Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.

[Candidates-6] "Northern Ireland council election: List of all the candidates in the May 2023 poll". Belfast Live. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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