Sovereign state United Kingdom Area 151 km² Protestant population 67.8% Capital Newtownabbey | Catholic population 22.6% Province Ulster | |
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Councillors MLAsBelfast North, East Antrim & South AntrimDUP: 9Sinn Féin: 4SDLP: 1UUP: 2Alliance Party: 2MPsNigel Dodds (DUP)William McCrea (DUP)Sammy Wilson (DUP) Website www.newtownabbey.gov.uk University Northern Regional College, Felden Points of interest Loughshore Caravan Park, National Trust ‑ Patterson, Museum at The Mill, The White House, Sentry Hill Historic House | ||
Newtownabbey Borough Council was a Local Authority in County Antrim in Northern Ireland, on the north shore of Belfast Lough just immediately north of Belfast. The Council merged with Antrim Borough Council in April 2015 under local government reform in Northern Ireland to form Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council.
Contents
- Map of Newtownabbey UK
- Elections
- Summary of seats won 19732011
- Mayors
- Review of Public Administration
- Population
- References
Map of Newtownabbey, UK
Newtownabbey was founded in 1958 as a result of an Act of Parliament passed in 1957 and comprises large urban residential areas along with traditional farming communities. Its major industries include electronics, software and telecommunications development and agriculture. Council headquarters are at Mossley Mill in Newtownabbey. Towns within the area included Ballyclare and Glengormley. The University of Ulster at Jordanstown is also in the area covered by the former Council.
The Newtownabbey Borough Council area consisted of four electoral areas: Antrim Line, Macedon, University, and Ballyclare. At the 2011 elections, 25 members were elected from the following political parties: 12 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 5 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 5 Alliance Party, 1 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), and 2 Sinn Féin. At the Annual General Meeting of the Council on the first Monday in June each year the Mayor was elected and became the first citizen of the Borough.
In elections for the Westminster Parliament it was split between the East Antrim constituency, the South Antrim constituency and the North Belfast constituency.
In May 2015 Newtownabbey Borough Council merged with Antrim Borough Council to form the new Antrim and Newtownabbey District Council.
Elections
When first created for the 1973 local elections, the council consisted of four electoral areas, named A, B, C and D, which elected 21 councillors. For the 1985 local elections, the number of electoral areas was increased to five: Manse Road, Doagh Road, Shore Road, Antrim Line and Ballyclare, each of which elected five councillors. Boundary changes again took effect for the 1993 local elections. The Doagh Road area, centred on Rathcoole was reduced from five to four wards. Consequently it gained the Whiteabbey and Cloughfern wards from the Shore Road district to form the new Macedon district. The Antrim Line district gained the Burnthill ward from the Manse Road district and the Mallusk ward from the Ballyclare district (which had gained a ward in the boundary changes.) The remaining seven wards of the Manse Road and Shore Road districts were combined to form the University district. In relation to the 1973–1981 districts, Ballyclare is similar to Area A, Macedon to Area B, University to Area C and Antrim Line to Area D.
Summary of seats won 1973–2011
† Results for Labour are those for Robert Kidd and Mark Langhammer. Kidd was elected for the Northern Ireland Labour Party in 1973, as Independent Labour in 1977, for the Newtownabbey Labour Party in 1981, 1985 and 1997 and for Labour '87 in 1989. Langhammer was elected as Labour in 1993, 1997 and as an independent in 2001, though describing himself as "Labour" on the council website.
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Mayors
1977 – 78: Sidney Cameron, Ulster Unionist Party1978 – 80: Arthur Templeton, Ulster Unionist Party1980 – 81: J. Smith, Democratic Unionist Party1981 – 82: C. W. Stringer, Ulster Unionist Party1982 – 83: Clifford Forsythe, Ulster Unionist Party1983 – 86: Leslie Caul, Ulster Unionist Party1986 – 87: George Herron, Independent Unionist1987 – 89: J. Smith, Democratic Unionist Party1989 – 90: George Herron, Independent Unionist1990 – 91: Fraser Agnew, Ulster Unionist Party1991 – 92: Ken Robinson, Ulster Unionist Party1992 – 93: Arthur Templeton, Independent Unionist1993 – 94: Arthur Kell, Ulster Unionist Party1994 – 95: J. Robinson, Ulster Unionist Party1995 – 96: Andrew Beattie, Ulster Unionist Party1996 – 97: Billy Snoddy, Democratic Unionist Party1997 – 99: Edward Crilly, Ulster Unionist Party1999 – 00: Jim Bingham, Ulster Unionist Party2000 – 02: Vera McWilliam, Ulster Unionist Party2002 – 04: Paul Girvan, Democratic Unionist Party2004 – 05: Ted Turkington, Ulster Unionist Party2005 – 06: Billy DeCourcy, Democratic Unionist Party2006 – 07: Lynn Frazer, Alliance Party of Northern Ireland2007 – 08: Nigel Hamilton, Democratic Unionist Party2008 – 09: Victor Robinson, Democratic Unionist Party2009 – 10: John Scott, Ulster Unionist Party2010 – 11: Paula Bradley, Democratic Unionist Party2011 – 12: Billy Webb, Alliance Party of Northern Ireland2012 – 13: Victor Robinson, Democratic Unionist Party2013 – 14: Fraser Agnew, Ulster Unionist PartyReview of Public Administration
Under the Review of Public Administration (RPA) the district was due to merge with Antrim Borough in 2011 to form a single council for the enlarged area totalling 572 km² and a population of 128,361. The next election was due to take place in May 2009, but on 25 April 2008, Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until the introduction of the eleven new councils in 2011. On 1 April 2015 the new Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council took over responsibility for the area.
Population
The area covered by Newtownabbey Borough Council had a population of 85,139 residents according to the 2011 Northern Ireland census.