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North Down Borough

Geography
Area - Total - % Water	Ranked 26th 81 km² ? %
Admin HQ	Bangor
ISO 3166-2	GB-NDN
ONS code	95W
Demographics
Population - Total (2008) - Density	Ranked 7th 78,900 968 / km²
Community	Protestant: 80.5% Catholic: 12.6%
Politics
North Down Borough Council http://www.northdown.gov.uk
MPs	Sylvia Hermon

North Down border

North Down Borough Council is a Local Council in County Down in Northern Ireland with an overall population of around 80,000. Its main town is Bangor, 20 km east of Belfast with a population of approximately 55,000. The Council is headquartered in Bangor. Its secondary centre is the former Urban District of Holywood, 8 km northeast of Belfast with a population of approximately 10,000. Most of the remainder of a total population is in suburban villages along the southern shore of Belfast Lough. The Borough is heavily suburbanised, railway links with Belfast are good and the area has been the domain of Belfast commuters since the mid-19th century. The Borough is often held to be the wealthiest area in Northern Ireland, although there are pockets of deprivation in a string of overspill public housing estates along the Bangor Ring Road.

The borough consists of 4 electoral areas: Abbey, Ballyholme and Groomsport, Bangor West and Holywood. In the 2005 election 25 members were elected from the following political parties: 8 Democratic Unionist Party, 8 Ulster Unionists, 6 Alliance, 1 Green, and 2 Independents. The current mayor is Alderman Leslie Cree (Ulster Unionist) and the Deputy Mayor is Councillor Ian Parsley (until September 2009 Alliance).^[1]

The Borough of North Down was formed in 1973 in the local government reorganisation from the old Bangor Urban District, Holywood Urban District, North Down Rural District and part of Castlereagh Rural District.

In elections for the Westminster Parliament it is part of the slightly larger North Down constituency

[edit] 2005 Election results

Party		seats	change +/-
•	Democratic Unionist Party	8	+3
•	Ulster Unionist Party	8	-
•	Alliance Party of Northern Ireland	6	+1
•	Green Party in Northern Ireland	1	+1
•	Northern Ireland Women's Coalition	0	-1
•	United Kingdom Unionist Party	0	-2
•	Independent	2	-2

[edit] Mayor

1981/2: Mary O'Fee, Ulster Popular Unionist

1985/6: Hazel Bradford, Ulster Unionist

1990/2: Denny Vitty, Democratic Unionist

1992/3: Leslie Cree, Ulster Unionist

1993/4: Brian Wilson, Alliance

1994/5: Roy Bradford, Ulster Unionist

1995/6: Susan O'Brien, Alliance

1996/7: Irene Cree, Ulster Unionist

1997/8: Ruby Cooling, Democratic Unionist

1998/9: Marsden Fitzsimons, Alliance

1999/0: Marion Smith, Ulster Unionist

2000/1: Alan Chambers, Independent

2001/2: Ian Henry, Ulster Unionist

2002/3: Alan Graham, Democratic Unionist

2003/4: Anne Wilson, Alliance

2004/5: Valerie Kinghan, UK Unionist Party

2005/6: Roberta Dunlop, Ulster Unionist

2006/7: Alan Leslie, Democratic Unionist

2007/8: Stephen Farry, Alliance

2008/9: Leslie Cree, Ulster Unionist

2009/0: Tony Hill, Alliance

[edit] Review of Public Administration

Under the Review of Public Administration (RPA) the Council is due to merge with Ards Borough Council in 2011 to form a single council for the enlarged area totalling 451 km² and a population of 149,567.^[2] The next election was due to take place in May 2009, but on 25 April 2008, Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until the introduction of the eleven new councils in 2011.^[3]

[edit] References

^ "mayor & Councillors". North Down Borough Council. http://www.northdown.gov.uk/councillor_area.asp?pid=127&area=5. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
^ "Minister Foster announces decisions on Local Government Reform". DoE. http://www.doeni.gov.uk/index/local_government/minister_foster_announces_decisions_on_local_government_reform.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
^ Northern Ireland elections are postponed, BBC News, April 25, 2008, accessed April 27, 2008

[edit] External links

[0] "mayor & Councillors". North Down Borough Council. http://www.northdown.gov.uk/councillor_area.asp?pid=127&area=5. Retrieved 2008-05-31.

[1] "Minister Foster announces decisions on Local Government Reform". DoE. http://www.doeni.gov.uk/index/local_government/minister_foster_announces_decisions_on_local_government_reform.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-31.

[2] Northern Ireland elections are postponed, BBC News, April 25, 2008, accessed April 27, 2008

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Contents

[edit] 2005 Election results

[edit] Mayor

[edit] Review of Public Administration

[edit] References

[edit] External links