2005 Coleraine Borough Council election

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5 May 2005 (2005-05-5)

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All 22 seats to Coleraine Borough Council
12 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	DUP	UUP	SDLP
Seats won	9	8	3
Seat change	2	2	1

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Sinn Féin	Independent
Seats won	1	1
Seat change	1	0

Party with the most votes by district.

Elections to Coleraine 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 22 councillors.

Coleraine Borough Council Election Result 2005^[1]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
DUP	9	2	0	2	40.9	36.9	8,142	9.4
UUP	8	0	2	2	36.4	32.0	7,061	4.0
SDLP	3	0	1	1	13.6	12.3	2,710	7.4
Sinn Féin	1	1	0	1	4.5	7.9	1,734	7.9
Independent	1	0	0	0	4.5	6.3	1,388	3.4
Alliance	0	0	0	0	0.0	4.7	1,026	1.7

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

Districts summary

Results of the Coleraine Borough Council election, 2005
by district
Ward	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	Total Cllrs
DUP	UUP	SDLP	Sinn Féin	Alliance	Others
Bann	34.0	2	33.6	2	19.6	1	12.8	1	0.0	0	0.0	0	6
Coleraine Central	33.8	2	37.6	3	10.9	1	5.7	0	6.1	0	5.9	0	6
Coleraine East	57.5	3	29.2	2	5.7	0	3.0	0	4.6	0	0.0	0	5
The Skerries	28.1	2	24.4	1	8.9	1	7.5	0	9.7	0	21.4	1	5
Total	36.9	9	32.0	8	12.3	3	7.9	1	4.7	0	6.2	1	22

District results

Bann

2001: 3 x UUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x DUP
2005: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP
2001-2005 Change: DUP and Sinn Féin gain from UUP and SDLP

Bann - 6 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	SDLP	John Dallat*	12.88%	901	1,326
	Sinn Féin	Billy Leonard	12.79%	895	925	1,161
	DUP	Sam Cole*	11.68%	817	817	817	818	1,175
	DUP	Adrian McQuillan*	14.10%	986	986	988	990	1,139
	UUP	William King*	12.77%	893	896	907	912	949
	UUP	Olive Church*	13.12%	918	920	924	933	947
	UUP	William Watt*	7.75%	542	544	570	601	609
	DUP	Mark Fielding	8.19%	573	573	574	574
	SDLP	Eamon Mullan*	6.72%	470
Electorate: 10,299 Valid: 6,995 (67.92%) Spoilt: 121 Quota: 1,000 Turnout: 7,116 (69.09%)

Coleraine Central

2001: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
2005: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP
2001-2005 Change: No change

Coleraine Central - 6 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	UUP	David McClarty*	23.18%	1,478
	DUP	James McClure*	16.68%	1,064
	DUP	Timothy Deans*	14.36%	916
	SDLP	Gerry McLaughlin*	10.88%	694	716.23	719.23	722.27	1,013.27
	UUP	Elizabeth Johnston*	7.39%	471	781.05	828.46	884.89	889.28	890.2	1,014.2
	UUP	David Barbour*	7.04%	449	608.9	649.14	697.21	702.21	704.51	850.08
	Alliance	Eamon O'Hara	6.05%	386	415.25	422.03	425.26	442.65	538.33	555.68
	Independent	Russell Watton	5.96%	380	395.21	418.99	455.09	455.67	456.13
	Sinn Féin	Kevin Darragh	5.74%	366	367.56	367.56	367.75
	DUP	Adrian Parke	2.71%	173	193.28
Electorate: 11,309 Valid: 6,377 (56.39%) Spoilt: 101 Quota: 912 Turnout: 6,478 (57.28%)

Coleraine East

2001: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP
2005: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP
2001-2005 Change: No change

Coleraine East - 6 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	DUP	Maurice Bradley*	34.99%	1,395
	DUP	William Creelman*	15.78%	629	1,217.3
	DUP	Phyllis Fielding*	6.70%	267	338.55	862.05
	UUP	Elizabeth Black*	10.46%	417	437.14	443.14	506.04	507.04	560.02	623.29
	UUP	Robert McPherson*	10.43%	416	441.44	451.44	494.73	495.73	523.1	573
	UUP	David Harding	8.28%	330	342.19	350.69	431.72	432.72	464.83	507.26
	SDLP	John Montgomery	5.69%	227	229.12	229.12	232.82	333.82	396.72
	Alliance	Yvonne Boyle	4.64%	185	186.06	188.06	193.24	199.24
	Sinn Féin	Maria O'Neill	3.03%	121	121	121.5	121.5
Electorate: 7,735 Valid: 3,987 (51.54%) Spoilt: 89 Quota: 65 Turnout: 4,076 (52.70%)

The Skerries

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

The Skerries - 5 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	Christine Alexander*	17.99%	846
	DUP	Robert Stewart*	16.44%	773	778	779	786.92
	UUP	Norman Hillis*	14.82%	697	733	737	749.72	1,065.72
	SDLP	Maura Hickey	8.89%	418	441	698	706.08	718.56	734.56
	DUP	Sandy Gilkinson	11.68%	549	557	557	561.72	634.2	733.2
	Alliance	Barney Fitzpatrick	9.68%	455	500	540	560.16	613.88	706.88
	UUP	Stephen Barr	9.57%	450	477	479	486.76
	Sinn Féin	Valerie Leonard	7.49%	352	356
	Independent	Barbara Dempsey	3.45%	162
Electorate: 8,162 Valid: 4,702 (57.61%) Spoilt: 65 Quota: 784 Turnout: 4,767 (58.40%)

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