Black Mountain is a District Electoral Area used to elect 7 councillors to

Belfast City Council Belfast City Council ( ga, Comhairle Cathrach Bhéal Feirste) is the local authority with responsibility for part of the city of Belfast, the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland. The Council serves an estimated population of (), the ...

. It is named after the Black Mountain. The district was created for the 2014 election. It combined 4 of the 6 wards from the abolished Upper Falls Electoral Area with 3 of the 5 wards from the abolished Lower Falls Electoral Area At the election in May 2014 it elected 5

Sinn Féin Sinn Féin ( , ; en, " eOurselves") is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active throughout both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur G ...

councillors, 1

Social Democratic and Labour Party The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) ( ga, Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is a social-democratic and Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland. The SDLP currently has eight members in the Northern Ireland ...

councillor, and

Gerry Carroll Gerry Carroll (born 27 April 1987) is a People Before Profit politician from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who has represented the Belfast West constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly since May 2016. From 2014 until 2016 he also represented ...

of the

People Before Profit Alliance People Before Profit ( ga, Pobal Roimh Bhrabús, PBP) is a left-wing to far-left Trotskyist political party formed in October 2005. It is active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. History PBP was established in 2005 as ...

. At the election in May 2019 it elected 6

councillors and 1

councillor.

Councillors

2019 results

2014: 5 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit, 1 x SDLP 2019: 6 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit 2014-2019 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP

2014 results

2014: 5 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit, 1 x SDLP

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