Lisburn and Castlereagh
{{short description|Local government district in Northern Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2017}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Lisburn and Castlereagh
| native_name = {{langx|ga|Lios na gCearrbhach agus an Caisleán Riabhach}}
| settlement_type = District, city and borough
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| motto = {{langx |la|Ex Igne Resurgam |translation=I will arise out of fire}}
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| subdivision_type = Sovereign state
| subdivision_name = United Kingdom
| subdivision_type1 = Country
| subdivision_name1 = Northern Ireland
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| established_title = Incorporated
| established_date = 1 April 2015
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| named_for = City of Lisburn and Borough of Castlereagh
| seat_type = Administrative HQ
| seat = Lagan Valley Island
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| government_footnotes = {{cite web |url=https://www.lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk/council-and-performance |title=Council and performance |website=Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council |access-date=27 July 2024}}
| government_type = District council
| governing_body = Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council
| leader_title = Executive
| leader_name = Committee system
| leader_title1 = Control
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| postal_code_type = Postcode areas
| postal_code = BT
| area_code_type = Dialling codes
| area_code = 028
| iso_code = GB-LBC
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| website = {{URL|lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk}}
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Lisburn and Castlereagh is a local government district in Northern Ireland. The district was created on 1 April 2015. It consists of the combined area of the City of Lisburn with the Borough of Castlereagh, but not including "the localities of Gilnahirk, Tullycarnet, Braniel, Castlereagh, Merok, Cregagh, Wynchurch, Glencregagh and Belvoir, Collin Glen, Poleglass, Lagmore, Twinbrook, Kilwee and Dunmurry" which transferred to Belfast. The local authority is Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council.
Geography
The district takes in many of the outer suburbs of Belfast and had an electorate of 83,369 prior to its formation.{{cite web|title=Provisional Recommendations of the Local Government Boundaries Commissioner for Northern Ireland |work=LGBC |url=http://www.lgbc-ni.org/index/provisional_recommendations.htm |access-date=2008-09-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920060547/http://www.lgbc-ni.org/index/provisional_recommendations.htm |archive-date=2008-09-20 }} The name of the new district was recommended on 17 September 2008. The area covered by the new Council had an estimated population of {{UK subdivision population|GSS=N09000007}} residents in {{UK subdivision statistics year}}.{{UK subdivision statistics citation}}
Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council
{{Infobox legislature
| name = Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council
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| coa_pic = Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council logo.svg
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| foundation = 1 April 2015
| house_type = City council
| jurisdiction = Lisburn and Castlereagh
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| preceded_by = Castlereagh Borough Council
Lisburn City Council
| leader1_type = Mayor
| leader1 = Amanda Grehan
| party1 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
| leader2_type = Deputy Mayor
| leader2 = Hazel Legge
| party2 = Ulster Unionist Party
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| members = 40
| structure1 = LisburnAndCastlereagh2023.svg
| structure1_res = 260px
| political_groups1 = {{Color box|{{party color|Democratic Unionist Party}}|border=darkgray}} DUP (14)
{{Color box|{{party color|Alliance Party of Northern Ireland}}|border=darkgray}} Alliance (13)
{{Color box|{{party color|Ulster Unionist Party}}|border=darkgray}} UUP (6)
{{Color box|{{party color|Sinn Féin}}|border=darkgray}} Sinn Féin (4)
{{Color box|{{party color|Social Democratic and Labour Party}}|border=darkgray}} SDLP (2)
{{Color box|{{party color|Independent politician}}|border=darkgray}} Independent (1)
| last_election1 = 18 May 2023
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| website = http://lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk/
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Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council replaces Lisburn City Council and Castlereagh Borough Council. The first election for the new district council was originally 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 2011.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7367253.stm Northern Ireland elections are postponed, BBC News, 25 April 2008, accessed 27 April 2008] The first elections took place on 22 May 2014 and the council acted as a shadow authority until 1 April 2015, at which date the council proper was created.{{cite web|url=http://lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk/council-announces-new-name-and-website/ |title=Council Announces New Name and Website | Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council |access-date=2015-01-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103134656/http://lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk/council-announces-new-name-and-website/ |archive-date= 3 January 2015 }}
=Mayor=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| From
!To !scope="col" width="200" | Name ! colspan="2"|Party |
|---|
| 2015
|2016 |Thomas Beckett | {{Party name with colour|Democratic Unionist Party}} |
| 2016
|2017 |Brian Bloomfield | {{Party name with colour|Ulster Unionist Party}} |
| 2017
|2018 |Tim Morrow | {{Party name with colour|Alliance Party of Northern Ireland}} |
| 2018
|2019 |Uel Mackin | {{Party name with colour|Democratic Unionist Party}} |
| 2019
|2020 |Alan Givan | {{Party name with colour|Democratic Unionist Party}} |
| 2020
|2021 |Nicholas Trimble | {{Party name with colour|Ulster Unionist Party}} |
| 2021
|2022 |Stephen Martin | {{Party name with colour|Alliance Party of Northern Ireland}} |
| 2022
|2023 |Scott Carson | {{Party name with colour|Democratic Unionist Party}} |
| 2023
|2024 |Andrew Gowan | {{Party name with colour|Democratic Unionist Party}} |
| 2024
|2025 |Kurtis Dickson | {{Party name with colour|Alliance Party of Northern Ireland}} |
| 2025
|Present |Amanda Grehan | {{Party name with colour|Alliance Party of Northern Ireland}} |
=Deputy Mayor=
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| From
!To !scope="col" width="200" | Name ! colspan="2"|Party |
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| 2015
|2016 |Alexander Redpath | {{Party name with colour|Ulster Unionist Party}} |
| 2016
|2017 |Stephen Martin | {{Party name with colour|Alliance Party of Northern Ireland}} |
| 2017
|2018 |Hazel Legge | {{Party name with colour|Ulster Unionist Party}} |
| 2018
|2019 |Amanda Grehan | {{Party name with colour|Alliance Party of Northern Ireland}} |
| 2019
|2020 |Johnny McCarthy | {{Party name with colour|Social Democratic and Labour Party}} |
| 2020
|2021 |Jenny Palmer | {{Party name with colour|Ulster Unionist Party}} |
| 2021
|2022 |Tim Mitchell | {{Party name with colour|Ulster Unionist Party}} |
| 2022
|2023 |Michelle Guy | {{Party name with colour|Alliance Party of Northern Ireland}} |
| 2023
|2024 |Gary McCleave | {{Party name with colour|Sinn Féin}} |
| 2024
|2025 |Ryan Carlin | {{Party name with colour|Sinn Féin}} |
| 2025
|Present |Hazel Legge | {{Party name with colour|Ulster Unionist Party}} |
Councillors
For the purpose of elections the council is divided into seven district electoral areas (DEA):{{cite web |url=http://www.deac-ni.org/index/current-review-of-district-electoral-areas/final_ni_overview__300dpi_a1_.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-09-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/11112/20150929020745/http://www.deac-ni.org/index/current%2Dreview%2Dof%2Ddistrict%2Delectoral%2Dareas/final_ni_overview__300dpi_a1_.pdf |archive-date=29 September 2015 |df=dmy-all }}
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| Area
!Seats |
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| Castlereagh East
|6 |
| Castlereagh South
|7 |
| Downshire East
|5 |
| Downshire West
|5 |
| Killultagh
|5 |
| Lisburn North
|6 |
| Lisburn South
|6 |
=Seat summary=
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| colspan=2|Party
!Elected !Elected !Elected |
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| style="background-color: {{party color|Democratic Unionist Party}}" |
|DUP |align="right"|20 |align="right"|15 |align="right"|14 |
| style="background-color: {{party color|Ulster Unionist Party}}" |
|UUP |align="right"|8 |align="right"|11 |align="right"|6 |
| style="background-color: {{party color|Alliance Party of Northern Ireland}}" |
|align="right"|7 |align="right"|9 |align="right"|13 |
| style="background-color: {{party color|Social Democratic and Labour Party}}" |
|SDLP |align="right"|3 |align="right"|2 |align="right"|2 |
| style="background-color: {{party color|Sinn Féin}}" |
|align="right"|0 |align="right"|2 |align="right"|4 |
| style="background-color: {{party color|Green Party of Northern Ireland}}" |
|align="right"|0 |align="right"|1 |align="right"|0 |
| style="background-color: {{party color|Traditional Unionist Voice}}" |
|TUV |align="right"|1 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |
| style="background-color: {{party color|NI21}}" |
|NI21 |align="right"|1 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |
| style="background-color: {{party color|Independent politician}}" |
|align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|1 |
=Councillors by electoral area=
{{further|2023 Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council election}}
File:Lisburn and Castlereagh blank.svg
{{Multi seat members begin
|constituency = District electoral area
|title = Current council members
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{{Multi seat constituency
|name = Castlereagh East
|seats = 6
|member1 = {{sortname|Sharon|Skillen|nolink=1}}
|party1 = Democratic Unionist Party
|member2 = {{sortname|Martin|Gregg|nolink=1}}
|party2 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
|member3 = {{sortname|Samantha|Burns|nolink=1}}
|party3 = Democratic Unionist Party
|member4 = {{sortname|Sharon|Lowry|nolink=1}}
|party4 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
|member5 = {{sortname|John|Laverty|nolink=1}}
|party5 = Democratic Unionist Party
|member6 = {{sortname|Hazel|Legge|nolink=1}}
|party6 = Ulster Unionist Party
}}
{{Multi seat constituency
|name = Castlereagh South
|seats = 7
|member1 = {{sortname|Jamie|Harpur|nolink=1}} †
|party1 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
|member2 = {{sortname|Brian|Higginson|nolink=1}}
|party2 = Democratic Unionist Party
|member3 = {{sortname|Bronagh|Magee|nolink=1}}†
|party3 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
|member4 = {{sortname|John|Gallen|nolink=1}}
|party4 = Social Democratic and Labour Party
|member5 = {{sortname|Ryan|Carlin|nolink=1}}
|party5 = Sinn Féin
|member6 = {{sortname|Martin|McKeever|nolink=1}}
|party6 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
|member7 = {{sortname|Daniel|Bassett|nolink=1}}
|party7 = Sinn Féin
}}
{{Multi seat constituency
|name = Downshire East
|seats = 5
|member1 = {{sortname|Andrew|Gowan|nolink=1}}
|party1 = Democratic Unionist Party
|member2 = {{sortname|Uel|Mackin|nolink=1}}
|party2 = Democratic Unionist Party
|member3 = {{sortname|Aaron|McIntyre|nolink=1}}
|party3 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
|member4 = {{sortname|Kurtis|Dickson|nolink=1}}
|party4 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
|member5 = {{sortname|James|Baird|nolink=1}}
|party5 = Ulster Unionist Party
}}
{{Multi seat constituency
|name = Downshire West
|seats = 5
|member1 = {{sortname|Owen|Gawith|nolink=1}}
|party1 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
|member2 = {{sortname|Gretta|Thompson|nolink=1}}
|party2 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
|member3 = {{sortname|Alan|Martin|nolink=1}}
|party3 = Ulster Unionist Party
|member4 = {{sortname|Allan|Ewart|nolink=1}}
|party4 = Democratic Unionist Party
|member5 = {{sortname|Caleb|McCready|nolink=1}}
|party5 = Democratic Unionist Party
}}
{{Multi seat constituency
|name = Killultagh
|seats = 5
|member1 = {{sortname|Gary|McCleave|nolink=1}}
|party1 = Sinn Féin
|member2 = {{sortname|Claire|Kemp|nolink=1}}
|party2 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
|member3 = {{sortname|Thomas|Beckett|nolink=1}}
|party3 = Democratic Unionist Party
|member4 = {{sortname|James|Tinsley|nolink=1}}
|party4 = Democratic Unionist Party
|member5 = {{sortname|Ross|McLernon|nolink=1}}
|party5 = Ulster Unionist Party
}}
{{Multi seat constituency
|name = Lisburn North
|seats = 6
|member1 = {{sortname|Declan|Lynch|nolink=1}} †
|party1 = Sinn Féin
|member2 = {{sortname|Jonathan|Craig}}
|party2 = Democratic Unionist Party
|member3 = {{sortname|Nicola|Parker|nolink=1}}
|party3 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
|member4 = {{sortname|Pat|Catney|nolink=1}}
|party4 = Social Democratic and Labour Party
|member5 = {{sortname|Nicholas|Trimble|nolink=1}}
|party5 = Ulster Unionist Party
|member6 = {{sortname|Gary|Hynds|nolink=1}}
|party6 = Independent politician
}}
{{Multi seat constituency
|name = Lisburn South
|seats = 6
|member1 = {{sortname|Andrew|Ewing|nolink=1}}
|party1 = Democratic Unionist Party
|member2 = {{sortname|Amanda|Grehan|nolink=1}}
|party2 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
|member3 = {{sortname|Alan|Givan|nolink=1}}
|party3 = Democratic Unionist Party
|member4 = {{sortname|Jessica|Bamford|nolink=1}} † {{cite web | url=https://nielects.com/news/2025/03/19/alliance-jessica-bamford-co-opted-as-new-lisburn-south-councillor/ | title=Alliance: Jessica Bamford co-opted as new Lisburn South councillor - Northern Ireland Elects | date=19 March 2025 }}
|party4 = Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
|member5 = {{sortname|Tim|Mitchell|nolink=1}}
|party5 = Ulster Unionist Party
|member6 = {{sortname|Paul|Porter|nolink=1}}
|party6 = Democratic Unionist Party
}}
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