Black Mountain is a District Electoral Area used to elect 7 councillors to Belfast City Council.
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 DEA with 3 of the 5 wards from the abolished Lower Falls DEA.
In the 2014 election it elected 5 Sinn Féin councillors, 1 Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor, and Gerry Carroll of the People Before Profit Alliance. In the 2019 election Sinn Fein gained a sixth seat from the SDLP. In the 2023 election, the SDLP regained a seat at the expense of People Before Profit.
Councillors Election Councillor (Party) Councillor (Party) Councillor (Party) Councillor (Party) Councillor (Party) Councillor (Party) Councillor (Party) April 2026 DefectionCiarán Beattie (Sinn Féin)Arder Carson (Sinn Féin)Róis-Máire Donnelly (Sinn Féin)Áine McCabe (Sinn Féin)Micheal Donnelly (Sinn Féin)Ronan McLaughlin (Sinn Féin)Paul Doherty (Independent)/ <br/ >(SDLP) 2023November 2022 Co-OptionMatt Collins (PBP)November 2020 Co-OptionSteven Corr (Sinn Féin)2019 Emma Groves (Sinn Féin)October 2017 Co-Option Orla Nic Biorna (Sinn Féin) Tim Attwood (SDLP) May 2016 Co-Option Janice Austin (Sinn Féin) 2014 Gerry Carroll (PBP)
2023 results
2019: 6 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit
2023: 6 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP
2019–2023 Change: SDLP gain from People Before Profit
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
References
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