Elections to Mid and East Antrim District Council, part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 2 May 2019, returned 40 members to the council using Single Transferable Vote. The Democratic Unionist Party were the largest party in both first-preference votes and seats.
Election results
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
The overall turnout was 47.58% with a total of 46,827 valid votes cast. A total of 556 ballots were rejected.
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="" | TUV !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor=""| SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Ballymena |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|27.6 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |7.0 |0 |8.3 |1 |15.1 |1 |7.5 |0 |12.2 |1 |22.4 |2 |7 |- |align="left"|Bannside |27.0 |2 |15.3 |1 |9.3 |0 |bgcolor="#D1E5FA"|36.4 |bgcolor="#D1E5FA"|2 |12.0 |1 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |6 |- |align="left"|Braid |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|37.7 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |21.3 |1 |8.0 |1 |20.1 |2 |7.1 |0 |0.0 |0 |5.8 |0 |7 |- |align="left"|Carrick Castle |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|35.8 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |22.3 |2 |21.4 |1 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |20.5 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Coast Road |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|30.9 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |13.0 |1 |21.7 |1 |10.7 |0 |15.5 |1 |0.0 |0 |8.2 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Knockagh |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|31.8 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |24.7 |1 |20.6 |1 |5.8 |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |17.2 |1 |5 |- |align="left"|Larne Lough |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|32.9 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |25.8 |1 |29.7 |2 |7.3 |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |4.3 |0 |5 |- |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |32.0 |15 |18.2 |7 |15.8 |7 |15.2 |5 |6.4 |2 |1.8 |1 |10.4 |3 |40
District results
Ballymena
2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x Independent, 1 x SDLP, 1 x TUV, 1 x UUP 2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x Independent, 1 x SDLP, 1 x TUV, 1 x Alliance 2014-2019 Change: Alliance and Independent gain from DUP and UUP
Bannside
2014: 2 x TUV, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin 2019: 2 x TUV, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin 2014-2019 Change: No change
Braid
2014: 4 x DUP, 1 x TUV, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin 2019: 3 x DUP, 2 x TUV, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance 2014-2019 Change: TUV and Alliance gain from DUP and Sinn Féin
Carrick Castle
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x UKIP, 1 x Independent 2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance 2014-2019 Change: UUP and Alliance gain from Independent and UKIP
Coast Road
2014: 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x TUV 2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP 2014-2019 Change: DUP gain from TUV
Knockagh
2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance 2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent 2014-2019 Change: Independent gain from UUP
Larne Lough
2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance 2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP 2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain from UUP
Changes during the term † Co-options Date co-optedElectoral AreaPartyOutgoingCo-opteeReason16 August 2019Larne Lough Mark McKintyKeith TurnerMcKinty resigned.17 October 2020Braid Muriel BurnsideDavid ReidBurnside resigned.26 May 2022Ballymena Patricia O'LynnJohn HylandO'Lynn was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly.26 May 2022Larne Lough Danny DonnellyMaeve DonnellyDonnelly was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
‡ Changes in affiliation DateElectoral AreaNamePrevious affiliationNew affiliationCircumstance29 October 2020Carrick CastleJohn McDermott Defected from the UUP to the DUP.
– Suspensions Marc Collins (DUP) was suspended from the council for eight months from Friday 24 June 2022.
John Carson (DUP) was suspended from the council for three months from Monday 10 October 2022.
Last updated 12 October 2022.
Current composition: see Mid and East Antrim District Council
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