2011 Ards Borough Council election

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5 May 2011 (2011-05-05)

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All 23 seats to Ards Borough Council
12 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	DUP	UUP	Alliance
Seats won	11	6	4
Seat change	1	1	1

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	SDLP	Independent
Seats won	1	1
Seat change		1

Elections to Ards Borough Council were held on 5 May 2011 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 23 councillors.

Election results

Ards Borough Council Election Result 2011^[1]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
DUP	11	0	1	1	47.8	47.4	11,732	5.0
UUP	6	0	1	1	26.1	17.5	4,337	7.0
Alliance	4	1	0	1	17.4	18.2	4,512	4.1
SDLP	1	0	0		4.3	6.8	1,685	3.4
Independent	1	1	0	1	4.3	5.4	1,328	1.6
TUV	0	0	0		0.0	3.4	830	New
Green (NI)	0	0	0		0.0	0.8	191	0.1
NI Conservatives	0	0	0		0.0	0.5	129	0.5

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

Districts summary

Results of the Ards Borough Council election, 2011
by district^[1]
Ward	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	Total Cllrs
Ward	DUP		UUP		Alliance		SDLP		Others		Total Cllrs
Ards East	57.6	4	17.0	1	16.2	1	1.8	0	7.4	0	6
Ards West	52.4	3	20.6	2	19.8	1	0.0	0	7.2	0	6
Newtownards	40.9	2	20.9	2	16.5	1	1.7	0	20.0	1	6
Peninsula	36.4	2	11.8	1	20.2	1	24.2	1	7.4	0	5
Total	47.4	11	17.5	6	18.2	4	6.8	1	10.1	1	23

Districts results

Ards East

2005: 4 x DUP, 2 x UUP
2011: 4 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2005-2011 Change: Alliance gain from UUP

Ards East - 6 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	DUP	Colville Elliott*	20.05%	1,353
	Alliance	Linda Cleland	16.21%	1,094
	DUP	Hamilton Gregory*	14.11%	952	1,168.92
	DUP	Tom Smith	14.26%	962	1,082.93
	DUP	Eddie Thompson	9.19%	620	633.92	818.94	831.12	946.25	953.67	978.67
	UUP	Ronald Ferguson*	9.23%	623	632.57	636.34	649.64	649.93	654.91	675.39	765.23
	UUP	Katherine Ferguson	7.78%	525	540.95	543.85	572.69	572.98	580.36	620.45	694.57
	TUV	Terence Williams*	4.51%	304	306.61	310.38	318.22	318.8	321.08	347
	Green (NI)	Emer Hopkins	2.83%	191	193.03	193.9	236.18	236.18	311.26
	SDLP	Moira Ritchie	1.82%	123	123.87	125.61	147.45	147.74
Electorate: 16,004 Valid: 6,747 (42.16%) Spoilt: 165 Quota: 965 Turnout: 6,912 (43.19%)

Ards West

2005: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2011: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2005-2011 Change: No change

Ards West - 6 seats^[3]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	DUP	Robert Gibson*	23.10%	1,519
	DUP	Trevor Cummings	16.13%	1,061
	DUP	Mervyn Oswald*	13.20%	868	1,300.12
	UUP	James Fletcher*	13.40%	881	929.75	1,063.31
	UUP	Philip Smith	7.16%	471	497.91	615.72	663.56	767.51	935.53
	Alliance	Deborah Girvan	11.60%	763	775.87	804.22	832.61	833.24	872.75
	Alliance	Jim McBriar*	8.24%	542	572.03	600.38	619.77	623.55	661.78
	TUV	Jack Allister	5.22%	343	358.21	400.42	412.81	414.07
	NI Conservatives	Bill McKendry	1.96%	129	133.68	138.72
Electorate: 13,199 Valid: 6,577 (49.83%) Spoilt: 115 Quota: 941 Turnout: 6,692 (50.70%)

Newtownards

2005: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2011: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent
2005-2011 Change: Independent gain from DUP

Newtownards - 6 seats^[4]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	DUP	Naomi Armstrong	18.31%	979
	Alliance	Alan McDowell*	16.51%	883
	DUP	Stephen McIlveen	14.72%	787
	Independent	Jimmy Menagh	14.29%	764	772.14
	UUP	Thomas Hamilton*	10.45%	559	573.96	671.06	713.78
	UUP	David Smyth*	10.53%	563	567.84	654.94	711.1
	DUP	Charlie Simmons	7.82%	418	589.16	639.24	657.96
	TUV	Hamilton Lawther	3.42%	183	186.96
	Independent	Ken Richardson	2.30%	123	124.54
	SDLP	Gerard Lennon	1.66%	89	90.32
Electorate: 12,092 Valid: 5,348 (44.23%) Spoilt: 119 Quota: 765 Turnout: 5,467 (45.21%)

Peninsula

2005: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP
2011: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP
2005-2011 Change: No change

Peninsula - 5 seats^[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	SDLP	Joe Boyle*	24.24%	1,473
	DUP	Robert Adair	17.56%	1,067
	Alliance	Kieran McCarthy*	15.50%	942	1,271.3
	DUP	Colin Kennedy	11.95%	726	728.59	732.37	770.53	823.53	1,140.53
	UUP	Angus Carson*	11.83%	719	731.21	746.33	803.28	879.02	954.44
	Alliance	Kellie Armstrong	4.74%	288	366.44	568.04	587.31	628.05	646.74
	DUP	John Prentice	6.91%	420	423.33	429.21	442.58	507.79
	Independent	Joe Hagan	4.30%	261	269.14	280.48	314.22
	Independent	Robert Drysdale*	2.96%	180	197.76	215.4
Electorate: 12,879 Valid: 6,076 (47.18%) Spoilt: 132 Quota: 1,014 Turnout: 6,208 (48.20%)

References

^ ^a ^b "Ards Council Elections 1993-2011". www.ark.ac.uk.
^ "Ards East Result Sheet" (PDF). EONI. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
^ "Ards West Result Sheet" (PDF). EONI. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
^ "Newtownards Result Sheet" (PDF). EONI. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
^ "Peninsula Result Sheet" (PDF). EONI. Retrieved 8 July 2021.

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