Court (District Electoral Area)

Court is one of the ten district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the north and west of the city, the district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Ballygomartin, Clonard, Falls, Forth River, Shankill, and Woodvale. Court is split between the Belfast North and Belfast West constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.

Court
District Electoral Area

Wards of Court DEA in Belfast City Council
Population21,886 (2011 Census, 1993 boundaries)
District
County
CountryNorthern Ireland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
UK Parliament
NI Assembly

History
Wards of Court DEA in Belfast from 1993 to 2014 (see census table)

The DEA was created for the 1985 local elections. It initially contained six wards, three of which came from the abolished Area E, with the remainder from Area G. From the 1993 through 2011 local elections, it contained five wards, namely Crumlin, Glencairn, Highfield, Shankill and Woodvale, following the abolition of the Saint Anne's ward. For the 2014 local elections, the Crumlin ward was abolished, the Glencairn ward was replaced by Forth River ward and the Highfield ward was replaced by Ballygomartin ward. These four wards were joined by the Falls and Clonard wards, which had previously been part of the abolished Lower Falls District Electoral Area.

2011 census data
MapWardPopulation
(2011 Census)		CatholicProtestantOtherNo ReligionAreaDensityNI AssemblyUK ParliamentRef
1Crumlin4,58211.3%82.3%0.6%5.9%0.83 km25,520/km2Belfast NorthBelfast North[1]
2Glencairn3,74917.5%75.5%0.9%6.1%4.1 km2914/km2Belfast WestBelfast West[2]
3Highfield5,6519.5%82.6%0.9%7%2.69 km22,101/km2Belfast WestBelfast West[3]
4Shankill3,8167.9%84.5%0.7%6.9%0.93 km24,103/km2Belfast WestBelfast West[4]
5Woodvale4,0886%87%0.6%6.4%0.57 km27,172/km2Belfast NorthBelfast North[5]
Court21,88610.3%82.5%0.7%6.5%9.12 km22,400/km2Belfast North (2)
Belfast West (3)		Belfast North (2)
Belfast West (3)

Councillors
Election Councillor
(Party)		 Councillor
(Party)		 Councillor
(Party)		 Councillor
(Party)		 Councillor
(Party)		 Councillor
(Party)
2019 Brian Kingston
(DUP)		 Billy Hutchinson
(PUP)		 Claire Canavan
(Sinn Féin)		 Nicola Verner
(DUP)		 Frank McCoubrey
(DUP)		 Christina Black
(Sinn Féin)
December 2018
co-option		 Jolene Bunting
(TUV/Independent)
January 2018
co-option		 Mary McConville
(Sinn Féin)
February 2017
defection		 Jim McVeigh
(Sinn Féin)
2014
2011 Hugh Smyth
(PUP)		 Naomi Thompson
(DUP)		 William Humphrey
(DUP)		 Frank McCoubrey
(Independent)		 Reduced to 5
seats from 1993 to 2011
2005 Diane Dodds
(DUP)		 Elaine McMillen
(DUP)
2001 Eric Smyth
(DUP)		 Chris McGimpsey
(UUP)
1997 Fred Cobain
(UUP)		 Frank McCoubrey
(UDP)
1993 Joe Coggle
(Independent Unionist)
1989 Herbert Ditty
(UUP)		 Elizabeth Seawright
(Independent Unionist)
1985 Ted Ashby
(DUP)		 George Seawright
(Independent Unionist)

See also

Elections

References
  1. "Ward Information for Crumlin (Belfast) ward 95GG19". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  2. "Ward Information for Glencairn ward 95GG26". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  3. "Ward Information for Highfield ward 95GG28". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  4. "Ward Information for Shankill ward 95GG40". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  5. "Ward Information for Woodvale ward 95GG51". NISRA. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
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