2005 Ballymena Borough Council election

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5 May 2005 (2005-05-5)

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All 24 seats to Ballymena Borough Council
13 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	DUP	UUP	SDLP
Seats won	14	5	3
Seat change	3	2	1

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Sinn Féin	Independent
Seats won	1	1
Seat change	1	1

Party with the most votes by district.

Elections to Ballymena Borough Council were held on 5 May 2005 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 24 councillors.

Ballymena Borough Council Election Result 2005^[1]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
DUP	14	3	0	3	58.3	55.2	14,611	10.3
UUP	5	0	2	2	20.8	21.6	5,707	5.9
SDLP	3	0	1	1	12.5	10.4	2,744	6.1
Sinn Féin	1	1	0	1	4.2	7.6	2,009	6.3
Independent	1	0	1	1	4.2	3.4	906	3.9
Alliance	0	0	0		0.0	1.5	404	0.4
PUP	0	0	0		0.0	0.4	94	0.4

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

Districts summary

Results of the Ballymena Borough Council election, 2005
by district
Ward	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	Total Cllrs
DUP	UUP	SDLP	Sinn Féin	Others
Ballymena North	43.7	3	21.2	2	11.0	1	5.0	0	19.1	1	7
Ballymena South	61.3	5	19.1	1	12.2	1	5.9	0	1.5	0	7
Bannside	62.3	3	18.9	1	8.6	0	10.1	1	0.0	0	5
Braid	53.8	3	27.1	1	10.0	1	9.1	0	0.0	0	5
Total	55.2	14	21.6	5	10.4	3	7.6	1	5.2	1	24

Districts results

Ballymena North

2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 2 x Independent, 1 x SDLP
2005: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent
2001-2005 Change: DUP gain from Independent

Ballymena North - 7 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	DUP	James Alexander*	21.90%	1,503
	DUP	Maurice Mills*	13.55%	930
	Independent	James Henry*	13.20%	906
	DUP	John Carson	8.25%	566	1,125
	UUP	Neil Armstrong*	9.56%	656	693.41	839.56	875.83
	SDLP	Patrick McAvoy*	11.00%	755	756.29	762.95	764.51	1,025.51
	UUP	Joseph McKernan*	6.28%	431	445.62	499.27	512.66	512.66	520.66	536.86	878.51
	Alliance	Jayne Dunlop	5.89%	404	413.03	427.09	430.08	449.08	574.08	584.34	631.34
	UUP	Peter Brown	5.39%	370	388.92	432.58	449.22	453.22	456.22	475.9
	Sinn Féin	Padraig McShane	4.97%	341	341	341	341.26
Electorate: 11,822 Valid: 6,862 (58.04%) Spoilt: 101 Quota: 858 Turnout: 6,963 (58.90%)

Ballymena South

2001: 4 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP
2005: 5 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP
2001-2005 Change: DUP gain from UUP

Ballymena South - 7 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	DUP	Beth Adger*	16.25%	960
	DUP	David Tweed*	13.41%	792
	DUP	Martin Clarke*	13.15%	777
	DUP	Hubert Nicholl*	12.61%	745
	UUP	James Currie*	11.41%	674	699.2	714.68	719.09	721.99	823.99
	SDLP	Declan O'Loan*	12.16%	718	719.2	721.2	721.34	721.34	723.39	726.21	1,034.21
	DUP	Deirdre Nelson	5.86%	346	519.52	552.16	594.37	624.47	652.13	661.53	661.53	669.53
	UUP	Robin Swann	4.16%	246	250.8	256.8	257.71	258.26	336.93	409.31	410.31	477.31
	Sinn Féin	Daniel O'Connell	5.86%	346	346.24	346.24	346.24	346.29	347.29	347.29
	UUP	Colette Gilmour	3.54%	209	218.36	234.32	237.33	240.13
	PUP	William McCaughey	1.59%	94	99.76
Electorate: 10,637 Valid: 5,907 (55.53%) Spoilt: 139 Quota: 739 Turnout: 6,046 (56.84%)

Bannside

2001: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP
2005: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin
2001-2005 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP

Bannside - 5 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	DUP	Roy Gillespie*	22.95%	1,664
	UUP	William McNeilly*	18.93%	1,373
	DUP	Samuel Gaston*	13.49%	978	1,147.02	1,187.2	1,195.71
	Sinn Féin	Monica Digney	11.65%	733	733.54	733.68	1,152.07
	DUP	Tommy Nicholl*	13.22%	959	1,065.38	1,121.24	1,150.11
	DUP	William Wilkinson	12.67%	919	1,079.38	1,105.98	1,108.8
	SDLP	Seamus Laverty*	8.63%	626	628.7	660.2
Electorate: 10,772 Valid: 7,252 (67.32%) Spoilt: 92 Quota: 1,209 Turnout: 7,344 (68.18%)

Braid

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

Braid - 5 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	DUP	Paul Frew	23.61%	1,524
	DUP	Samuel Hanna*	16.95%	1,094
	DUP	Robin Stirling*	13.23%	854	1,238.54
	SDLP	Margaret Gribben*	9.99%	645	647.03	647.87	686.87	1,176.87
	UUP	Robin Cherry	11.59%	748	761.63	808.39	1,045.73	1,047.01
	UUP	Lexie Scott	9.23%	596	619.49	686.13	847.27	849.27
	Sinn Féin	Laurence O'Neill	9.13%	589	589.29	589.29	589.57
	UUP	Robert Wilson	6.26%	404	418.5	466.38
Electorate: 9,694 Valid: 6,454 (66.58%) Spoilt: 83 Quota: 1,076 Turnout: 6,537 (67.43%)

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