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Ballymoney Borough Council
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| Ballymoney Borough | |
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| Geography | |
| Area - Total - % Water |
Ranked 17th 418 km² ? % |
|---|---|
| Admin HQ | Ballymoney |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-BLY |
| ONS code | 95D |
| Demographics | |
| Population - Total (2005) - Density |
Ranked 25th 28,730 69 / km² |
| Community | Protestant: 66.2% Catholic: 31.9% |
| Politics | |
| Ballymoney Borough Council http://www.ballymoney.gov.uk |
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| MPs | Ian Paisley |
Ballymoney Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. It is based in Ballymoney. Other towns in the Council area include Dervock, Dunloy, Cloughmills and Rasharkin. The area has a population of nearly 27,000.
In the last local government elections on 5 May 2005, 16 members were elected from the following political parties: 8 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 3 Sinn Féin, 2 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 2 Social Democratic and Labour Party and 1 Independent. The Mayor is Councillor Cecil J Cousley (DUP) and Deputy Mayor is Ian R Stevenson (DUP).
The next election is due to take place in May 2009.
The present Council boundaries, which upon the granting of a charter in 1977 became the Borough of Ballymoney, were established in the 1973 reorganisation of local government.
In 2000 Ballymoney Borough Council twinned with the French town of Vanves. Since 2001, the Council has been a sister city of Benbrook in Texas and building on its motorcycling history, is also linked to the Borough of Douglas, Isle of Man.
Together with the neighbouring districts of Ballymena and Moyle, it forms the North Antrim constituency for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.
Ballymoney is Northern Ireland's fastest growing town in terms of population. It is thought this is because it is one of the most central places in Northern Ireland, being one hour from Belfast and one hour from Derry. Another reason is as a result of high house prices in the Coleraine/Portstewart/Portrush 'Triangle' areas shifting first-time buyers to the less expensive Ballymoney area.
The Ballymoney Borough Council area has the highest life expectancy of any area in Northern Ireland, with the average male life expectancy at birth being 78.0 years and 82.6 years for females [1].
See Also: Local Councils in Northern Ireland
Subdivisions created by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971
Antrim • Ards • Armagh • Ballymena • Ballymoney • Banbridge • Belfast • Carrickfergus • Castlereagh • Coleraine • Cookstown • Craigavon • Derry • Down • Dungannon and South Tyrone • Fermanagh • Larne • Limavady • Lisburn • Magherafelt • Moyle • Newry and Mourne • Newtownabbey • North Down • Omagh • Strabane