The first election to North Down and Ards District Council (now Ards and North Down Borough Council), part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 22 May 2014, returned 40 members to the newly formed council via Single Transferable Vote. The Democratic Unionist Party won a plurality of first-preference votes and seats.

Election results PartySeatsFirst Pref. votesFPv% 1716,46035.93 98,09217.66 76,24313.63 32,0234.42 24,5059.83 12,2524.92 11,6953.70 01,5543.77 01,4413.49 01,1802.86 03880.94 03880.94Totals4041,270100.00

Districts summary

|- class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left"|Ward ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2|TotalCllrs |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Green !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | TUV !colspan=2 bgcolor=""| SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Ards Peninsula |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|47.1 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |16.6 |1 |8.1 |1 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |19.1 |1 |9.1 |0 |6 |- |align="left"|Bangor Central |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|28.0 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |15.7 |2 |12.8 |1 |7.6 |1 |4.6 |0 |0.0 |0 |31.3 |0 |6 |- |align="left"|Bangor East and Donaghadee |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|32.4 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |18.9 |1 |9.8 |1 |3.9 |0 |5.3 |0 |0.0 |0 |29.7 |1 |6 |- |align="left"|Bangor West |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|31.9 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |16.2 |1 |17.3 |1 |6.4 |1 |9.1 |0 |4.9 |0 |14.2 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Comber |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|39.2 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |22.1 |1 |13.2 |1 |0.0 |0 |9.3 |1 |0.0 |0 |16.2 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Holywood and Clandeboye |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|31.9 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |17.8 |1 |22.2 |1 |14.9 |1 |0.0 |0 |5.0 |0 |8.2 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Newtownards |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|35.7 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |15.2 |2 |12.7 |1 |0.0 |0 |6.4 |0 |0.0 |0 |30.0 |1 |7 |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |35.4 |17 |17.4 |9 |13.4 |7 |4.4 |3 |4.8 |1 |4.2 |1 |20.4 |2 |40

District results

Ards Peninsula

2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance

Bangor Central

2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Green

Bangor East and Donaghadee

2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent

Bangor West

2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green

Comber

2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x TUV

Holywood and Clandeboye

2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green

Newtownards

2014: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent

* Incumbent

Changes during the term † Co-options Co-option dateElectoral AreaPartyOutgoingCo-opteeReason19 May 2016Bangor East and Donaghadee Alan ChambersDavid ChambersA. Chambers was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly.1 Jun 2016Ards Peninsula Kellie ArmstrongLorna McAlpineArmstrong was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly.7 Jul 2016Bangor Central Stuart AndersonKaren DouglasAnderson resigned.24 Oct 2016Bangor West Paul RobertsRachel Woods28 Feb 2018Bangor West Alan LeslieJennifer Gilmour15 Mar 2018Bangor West Rachel WoodsJames HunterWoods moved to the Holywood and Clandeboye DEA.15 Mar 2018Holywood and Clandeboye Prof. John BarryRachel WoodsBarry resigned.27 Mar 2018Holywood and Clandeboye Jennifer GilmourRoberta DunlopGilmour moved to the Bangor West DEA.20 Dec 2018Bangor West James HunterJames Barry McKee

‡ Changes of affiliation DateElectoral AreaNamePrevious affiliationNew affiliationCircumstance6 Feb 2015Bangor CentralNoelle Robinson Resigned.11 Dec 2015Bangor East and DonaghadeeAlan Chambers Joined.11 Apr 2016Holywood and ClandeboyeDaniel Allen Resigned.16 Aug 2016Holywood and ClandeboyeDaniel Allen Joined.

Last update 26 March 2019.

Current composition: see Ards and North Down Borough Council

References

External links Election results North Down and Ards District Council