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Lisburn City Council
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| Lisburn City | |
| Comhairle Cathrach Lios na gCearrbhach | |
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| Geography | |
| Area - Total - % Water |
Ranked 16th 447 km² ? % |
| Admin HQ | Lisburn |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-LSB |
| ONS code | 95S |
| Demographics | |
| Population - Total (2006) - Density |
Ranked 2nd 112,900 253 / km² |
| Community | Protestant: 62.8% Catholic: 33.4% |
| Politics | |
| Lisburn City Council http://www.lisburn.gov.uk |
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| MPs | Jeffrey Donaldson, Gerry Adams |
Lisburn City Council is a Local Council partly in County Antrim and partly in County Down in Northern Ireland. The council is the second largest in the Belfast Metropolitan Area. Council headquarters are in the city of Lisburn. It was conferred city status in May 2002 as a result of the Council's success in the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee competition. It is the second largest Council area in Northern Ireland with over 108,000 residents and an area of 174 square miles of southwest Antrim and northwest Down and stretches from Glenavy and Dundrod in the north to Dromara and Hillsborough in the south and from Drumbo in the east to Moira and Aghalee in the west.
The Lisburn City Council area consists of 5 electoral areas: Downshire, Dunmurry Cross, Killultagh, Lisburn Town North and Lisburn Town South. It has 30 councillors last elected in 2005 and serving a four year term. The members elected were from the following political parties: 13 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 7 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 4 Sinn Féin, 3 Alliance Party and 3 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). The current Mayor is Councillor James Tinsley (DUP), and the Deputy Mayor is Cllr Ronnie Crawford (UUP).
The next election is due to take place in May 2009, but may be postponed due to an ongoing review of Local Government.
In elections for the Westminster Parliament it is split between the Lagan Valley constituency and the West Belfast constituency.
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| Party | seats | change +/- | |
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| • | Democratic Unionist Party | 13 | +8 |
| • | Ulster Unionist Party | 7 | -6 |
| • | Sinn Féin | 4 | = |
| • | Social Democratic and Labour Party | 3 | = |
| • | Alliance Party of Northern Ireland | 3 | = |
| • | Independent | 0 | -2 |
- 1977 - 78?: Elsie Kelsey, Ulster Unionist Party
- 1981 - 83: Billy Belshaw, Democratic Unionist Party
- 1983 - 85: Maureen McKinney, Ulster Unionist Party
- 1985 - 87: Walter Lilburn, Ulster Unionist Party
- 1988 - 89: Billy Bleakes, Ulster Unionist Party
- 1991 - 93: Ivan Davis, Ulster Unionist Party
- 1993 - 94: Seamus Close, Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- 1996 - 98?: George Morrison, Ulster Unionist Party
- 1998 - 00: Peter O'Hagan, Social Democratic and Labour Party
- 2000 - 02: Jim Dillon, Ulster Unionist Party
- 2002 - 03: Betty Campbell, Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- 2003 - 04: Billy Bell, Ulster Unionist Party
- 2004 - 05: Cecil Calvert, Democratic Unionist Party
- 2005 - 06: Jonathan Craig, Democratic Unionist Party
- 2006 - 07: Trevor Lunn, Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
- 2007 - 08: James Tinsley, Democratic Unionist Party
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| (Subdivisions created by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971) |
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