2005 Ards Borough Council election

Local government election in Northern Ireland

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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	12	7	3
Seat change	3	1	1

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	SDLP	Independent
Seats won	1	0
Seat change		1

Elections to Ards 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 23 councillors.

Election results

Ards Borough Council Election Result 2005^[1]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
DUP	12	3	0	3	52.2	52.4	13,897	15.4
UUP	7	0	1	1	30.4	24.5	6,493	7.2
Alliance	3	0	1	1	13.0	14.1	3,733	2.6
SDLP	1	0	0		4.3	3.4	913	0.5
Independent	0	0	1	1	0.0	3.8	1,006	6.0
Sinn Féin	0	0	0		0.0	1.1	292	1.1
Green (NI)	0	0	0		0.0	0.7	182	0.7

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

Districts summary

Results of the Ards Borough Council election, 2005
by district^[1]
Ward	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	Total Cllrs
Ward	DUP		UUP		Alliance		SDLP		Others		Total Cllrs
Ards East	56.1	4	28.6	2	11.2	0	0.0	0	4.1	0	6
Ards West	53.0	3	31.8	2	15.3	1	0.0	0	0.0	0	6
Newtownards	50.8	2	24.3	2	14.4	1	0.0	0	10.5	0	6
Peninsula	48.8	2	11.4	1	16.0	1	14.8	1	9.0	0	5
Total	52.4	12	24.5	7	14.1	3	3.4	1	5.6	0	23

Districts results

Ards East

2001: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance
2005: 4 x DUP, 2 x UUP
2001-2005 Change: DUP gain (two seats) from UUP and Alliance

Ards East - 6 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	DUP	Jonathan Bell	19.92%	1,515
	DUP	Terence Williams*	13.07%	994	1,097.6
	DUP	John Elliott*	10.70%	814	1,060.68	1,081.52	1,099.52
	UUP	Ronald Ferguson*	13.05%	993	1,006.72	1,056.56	1,247.56
	DUP	Hamilton Gregory*	12.40%	943	977.16	1,000.44	1,038.52	1,054.36	1,063.96
	UUP	Jeffrey Magill*	8.20%	624	628.2	650.2	942.88	1,062.67	1,063.63
	Alliance	Linda Cleland*	11.17%	850	858.68	959.96	1,012.08	1,036.83	1,038.75
	UUP	Tom Smith	7.36%	560	566.72	633.28
	Green (NI)	John McCullough	2.39%	182	183.4
	Independent	Thomas Sheridan	1.74%	132	134.8
Electorate: 15,367 Valid: 7,607 (49.50%) Spoilt: 181 Quota: 1,087 Turnout: 7,788 (50.68%)

Ards West

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

Ards West - 6 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	DUP	Margaret Craig*	17.51%	1,227
	Alliance	Jim McBriar*	15.27%	1,070
	UUP	Robert Gibson*	14.04%	984	1,003.26
	UUP	James Fletcher	11.36%	796	804.1	1,154.1
	DUP	William Montgomery*	13.69%	959	994.28	1,021.28
	DUP	Mervyn Oswald	12.56%	880	893.14	915.04	981.04
	DUP	David Gilmore*	9.21%	645	784.14	798.04	851.04
	UUP	Philip Smith*	6.37%	446	449.78
Electorate: 12,766 Valid: 7,007 (54.89%) Spoilt: 140 Quota: 1,002 Turnout: 7,147 (55.98%)

Newtownards

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

Newtownards - 6 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	DUP	George Ennis*	22.66%	1,296
	Alliance	Alan McDowell*	14.39%	823
	DUP	Simon Hamilton	8.57%	490	840.76
	DUP	Michelle McIlveen	10.89%	623	652.23	1,005.23
	UUP	Thomas Hamilton*	12.87%	736	766.34	820.7
	UUP	David Smyth*	11.38%	651	660.62	688.91	774.91
	Independent	Wilbert Magill*	10.56%	604	617.69	668.09	716.09
	DUP	Hamilton Lawther*	8.67%	496	536.33
Electorate: 11,945 Valid: 5,719 (47.88%) Spoilt: 130 Quota: 818 Turnout: 5,849 (48.97%)

Peninsula

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

Peninsula - 5 seats^[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	DUP	Jim Shannon*	31.44%	1,944
	Alliance	Kieran McCarthy*	16.01%	990	1,074.13
	SDLP	Joe Boyle	14.77%	913	918.17	1,303.17
	DUP	Robert Drysdale*	10.72%	663	1,024.43	1,034.43
	UUP	Angus Carson*	11.37%	703	801.7	854.93	937.93
	DUP	Colin Kennedy	6.60%	408	745.93	761.69	774.69
	Sinn Féin	Anthony Lacken	4.72%	292	293.88
	Independent	Daniel McCarthy*	4.37%	270	281.28
Electorate: 11,725 Valid: 6,183 (52.73%) Spoilt: 130 Quota: 1,031 Turnout: 6,313 (53.84%)

References

^ ^a ^b "Ards Council Elections 1993-2011". www.ark.ac.uk.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Local Government Results 2005". EONI. Retrieved 8 July 2021.

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