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Lisburn City Council was the
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. As of May 2015 it was merged with
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as part of the
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Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council Lisburn (; ) is a city in Northern Ireland. It is southwest of Belfast city centre, on the River Lagan, which forms the boundary between County Antrim and County Down. First laid out in the 17th century by English and Welsh settlers, with th ...
. Created in 1974, the council was the second largest in the Belfast Metropolitan Area. Council headquarters were in the
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Lisburn Lisburn (; ) is a city in Northern Ireland. It is southwest of Belfast city centre, on the River Lagan, which forms the boundary between County Antrim and County Down. First laid out in the 17th century by English and Welsh settlers, with ...
. It was the second-largest council area in Northern Ireland with over 120,000 people and an area of of southwest Antrim and northwest Down. The council area included
Glenavy Glenavy () is a village and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 17 kilometres north west of Lisburn on the banks of the Glenavy River. In the 2011 Census it had a population of 5,697 people. In early documents it was known as Len ...
and Dundrod in the north,
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Hillsborough in the south, Moira and Aghalee in the west, and Drumbo in the east. The council area consisted of five electoral areas: Downshire, Dunmurry Cross, Killultagh, Lisburn Town North and Lisburn Town South. It had 30 councillors, last elected in 2011. The final composition was: 14
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(DUP), 5
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, 3 Alliance Party and 3 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). For elections to the
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, the council area was split between the Lagan Valley constituency, Belfast West and South Antrim constituencies. The first elections for the new council took place in May 2014.


Constituent cities, towns and villages

# Aghalee #
Annahilt Annahilt / Anahilt () is a village and civil parish in north County Down, Northern Ireland. It is 7.5 miles (12 kilometres) south of Lisburn, and about 14 miles south-west of Belfast, on the main road between Ballynahinch and Hillsborough. I ...
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Dunmurry Dunmurry (; ) is an urban townland in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Dunmurry is in the Collin electoral ward for the local government district of Belfast City Council. History Until the end of the 18th century, Dunmurry was largely an agricul ...
# Drumbo #
Dromara Dromara ()Placenames NI
 is a village,
Glenavy Glenavy () is a village and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 17 kilometres north west of Lisburn on the banks of the Glenavy River. In the 2011 Census it had a population of 5,697 people. In early documents it was known as Len ...
# Hillsborough #
Lisburn Lisburn (; ) is a city in Northern Ireland. It is southwest of Belfast city centre, on the River Lagan, which forms the boundary between County Antrim and County Down. First laid out in the 17th century by English and Welsh settlers, with ...
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Maghaberry Maghaberry or Magaberry (pronounced , ) is a village and townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is west of Lisburn and north of Moira. In the 2011 Census it had a population of 4,716 people. It is one of the biggest villages within ...
# Moira


Summary of seats won 1973-2011

Notes: The independent elected in 1997 was Hugh Lewsley, a former SDLP councillor. William Beattie was elected as a "Protestant Unionist" in 1997, but is tallied as an Independent Unionist above. New legislation introduced for the 2001 elections required candidates to register party names for these to appear on the ballot paper, this also made it impossible for candidates to stand as ''Independent Unionist''. The UDP missed the deadline for registration and their candidate, party leader Gary McMichael, was elected as an independent. The other candidate elected as an independent in 2001, described himself as a Unionist on the council website. Source
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Retrieved 13 January 2013


2011 Election results

2011 saw the continued advancement of the DUP and Sinn Féin within the council Area. In Downshire, the DUP picked up a seat from the UUP, and in Dunmurry Cross, Sinn Féin gained from the SDLP. However the SDLP loss was compensated by changing demographics in the Lisburn Town North DEA, where the SDLP took a seat for the first time. There were no changes in the Killutagh or Lisburn Town South DEAs. The election saw the DUP return all their candidates with the exception of Ben Mallon, a local student standing in Lisburn North.


Mayors of Lisburn

* 1964 – 70: James Howard (1st Mayor of the Borough of Lisburn) * 1970 – 73: Hugh Gray Bass * 1977 – 78?: Elsie Kelsey,
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* 1978 – 79:george mc cartney. * 1979 – 81:
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Dr Samuel Semple MBE,
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* 1981 – 83: Billy Belshaw,
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* 1983 – 85: Maureen McKinney,
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* 1985 – 87: Walter Lilburn,
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* 1987 – 88: * 1988 – 89: Billy Bleakes,
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* 1990 – 91: Willam McAllister,
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* 1991 – 93:
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* 1993 – 94: Seamus Close,
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* 1994 – 96: Harry Lewis
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* 1996 – 98?: George Morrison,
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* 1998 – 00: Peter O'Hagan, Social Democratic and Labour Party * 2000 – 02: Jim Dillon,
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* 2002 – 03: Betty Campbell,
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* 2003 – 04: Billy Bell,
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* 2004 – 05: Cecil Calvert,
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* 2005 – 06:
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* 2006 – 07:
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* 2007 – 08: James Tinsley,
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* 2008 – 09: Ronnie Crawford,
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* 2009 – 10: Allan Ewart,
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* 2010 – 11: Paul Porter,
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* 2011 – 12: Brian Heading, Social Democratic and Labour Party * 2012 – 13: William Leathem,
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* 2013 – 14: Margaret Tolerton,
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* 2014 – 15: Andrew Ewing,
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* 2018 - 19: Uel Mackin,
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Review of Public Administration

Under the Review of Public Administration (RPA) the council was due to merge with
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in 2011 to form a single council for the enlarged area totalling 540 km2 and a population of 175,182. An election was due to take place in May 2009, but on 25 April 2008, Shaun Woodward,
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announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until the introduction of the eleven new councils in 2011. The introduction of the new councils was subsequently postponed until 2015.


Population

The area covered by Lisburn City Council had a population of 120,165 residents according to the 2011 Northern Ireland census.


See also

* Local Councils in Northern Ireland


References


External links


Lisburn City Council
{{Authority control Politics of County Antrim Politics of County Down Lisburn District councils of Northern Ireland, 1973–2015