2011 Ards Borough Council election

2005 Ards Borough Council election

May 5, 2011 (2011-05-05)
All 23 seats to North Down Borough Council 12 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party DUP UUP Alliance Seats won 11 6 4 Seat change 1 1 1   Fourth party Fifth party   Party SDLP Independent Seats won 1 1 Seat change 1

Elections to Ards Borough Council were held on 5 May 2011 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 23 councillors.

Election results

Ards Borough Council Election Result 2011

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	DUP	11	0	1	1	47.8	47.4	11,732	5.0
	UUP	6	0	1	1	26.1	17.5	4,337	7.0
	Alliance	4	1	0	1	17.4	18.2	4,512	4.1
	SDLP	1	0	0		4.3	6.8	1,685	3.4
	Independent	1	1	0	1	4.3	5.4	1,328	1.6
	TUV	0	0	0	New	0.0	3.4	830	New
	Green (NI)	0	0	0		0.0	0.8	191	0.1
	NI Conservatives	0	0	0		0.0	0.5	129	0.5

Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.

Districts summary

 Results of the Ards Borough Council election, 2011
by district

Ward	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	%	Cllrs	Total Cllrs
	colspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color" | DUP	colspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color" | UUP	colspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color" | Alliance	colspan=2 bgcolor="Template:Social Democratic and Labour Party/meta/color" | SDLP	Others
Ards East	57.6	4	17.0	1	16.2	1	1.8	0	7.4	0	6
Ards West	52.4	3	20.6	2	19.8	1	0.0	0	7.2	0	6
Newtownards	40.9	2	20.9	2	16.5	1	1.7	0	20.0	1	6
Peninsula	36.4	2	11.8	1	20.2	1	24.2	1	7.4	0	5
Total	47.4	11	17.5	6	18.2	4	6.8	1	10.1	1	23