Black Mountain (District Electoral Area)
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Black Mountain is a District Electoral Area used to elect 7 councillors to Belfast City Council.
Created2014
Seats7 (2014–)
| Black Mountain | |
|---|---|
| Belfast City Council DEA constituency | |
 Black Mountain DEA marked on a map of Belfast City Council and its wards | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2014 |
| Seats | 7 (2014–) |
| Councillors | |
It is named after the Black Mountain.
The district was created for the 2014 election. It combined 4 of the 6 wards from the abolished Upper Falls DEA with 3 of the 5 wards from the abolished Lower Falls DEA.
In the 2014 election it elected 5 Sinn Féin councillors, 1 Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor, and Gerry Carroll of the People Before Profit Alliance. In the 2019 election Sinn Fein gained a sixth seat from the SDLP. In the 2023 election, the SDLP regained a seat at the expense of People Before Profit.
| Election | Councillor (Party) |
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| 2023 | Ciarán Beattie (Sinn Féin) |
Arder Carson (Sinn Féin) |
Róis-Máire Donnelly (Sinn Féin) |
Áine McCabe (Sinn Féin) |
Micheal Donnelly (Sinn Féin) |
Ronan McLaughlin (Sinn Féin) |
Paul Doherty (SDLP) | |||||||
| November 2022 Co-Option | Matt Collins (PBP) | |||||||||||||
| November 2020 Co-Option | Steven Corr (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | Emma Groves (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||||
| October 2017 Co-Option | Orla Nic Biorna (Sinn Féin) |
Tim Attwood (SDLP) | ||||||||||||
| May 2016 Co-Option | Janice Austin (Sinn Féin) | |||||||||||||
| 2014 | Gerry Carroll (PBP) | |||||||||||||
