2019 Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council election

Elections to Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 2 May 2019, returned 41 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 52.81% with a total of 78,144 valid votes cast. A total of 1,165 ballots were rejected.

Districts summary

|- class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left"|Ward ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2|TotalCllrs |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor=""| SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Armagh |12.9 |0 |bgcolor="#008800"|40.3 |bgcolor="#008800"|3 |13.3 |1 |21.5 |2 |5.3 |0 |6.7 |0 |6 |- |align="left"|Banbridge |23.0 |2 |14.1 |1 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|36.1 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|3 |10.8 |0 |11.7 |1 |4.2 |0 |7 |- |align="left"|Craigavon |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|26.1 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|1 |21.3 |1 |19.7 |1 |23.3 |2 |7.2 |0 |2.4 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Cusher |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|30.2 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|1 |13.3 |1 |25.0 |2 |7.9 |0 |4.0 |0 |19.6 |1 |5 |- |align="left"|Lagan River |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|45.0 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |2.6 |0 |28.0 |1 |4.2 |0 |10.8 |1 |9.5 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Lurgan |23.1 |1 |bgcolor="#008800"|36.9 |bgcolor="#008800"|3 |12.7 |1 |16.4 |1 |11.0 |1 |0.0 |0 |7 |- |align="left"|Portadown |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|41.3 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |18.4 |1 |18.0 |1 |8.6 |1 |5.1 |0 |8.6 |0 |6 |- |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |27.9 |11 |22.0 |10 |21.6 |10 |13.5 |6 |7.8 |3 |7.2 |1 |41

District results

Armagh

2014: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x DUP 2019: 3 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP 2014-2019 Change: Sinn Féin gain from DUP

Banbridge

2014: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP 2019: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Alliance 2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain from SDLP

Craigavon

2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP 2019: 2 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP 2014-2019 Change: SDLP gain from DUP

Cusher 2014: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent 2019: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Independent 2014-2019 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP

Lagan River

2014: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP 2019: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance 2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain from UUP

Lurgan

2014: 3 x Sinn Féin, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP 2019: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance 2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain from DUP

Portadown

2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UKIP 2019: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP 2014-2019 Change: DUP and SDLP gain from UUP and UKIP

Changes during the term † Co-options Date co-optedElectoral AreaPartyOutgoingCo-opteeReason1 January 2021Armagh Mealla CampbellGrainne O'NeillCampbell resigned.1 January 2021Lurgan Joe NelsonCiaran TomanNelson resigned.20 August 2021Banbridge Junior McCrumIan WilsonMcCrum died.21 February 2022Lagan River Paul RankinKeith ParkeRankin was co-opted to the Northern Ireland Assembly.23 February 2022Armagh Garath KeatingFergal DonnellyKeating resigned.26 May 2022Lagan River Eóin TennysonJessica JohnstonTennyson was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly.31 May 2022Lagan River Keith ParkePaul RankinRankin returned to council having briefly been co-opted to the Northern Ireland Assembly before the Assembly election.7 November 2022Portadown Darryn CausbyKyle MoutrayCausby resigned.

‡ Changes in affiliation DateElectoral AreaNamePrevious affiliationNew affiliationCircumstance18 June 2021PortadownDarryn Causby Resigned from the DUP over disagreements with the new party leadership.23 November 2021PortadownDarryn Causby Rejoined the DUP after resolving disagreements with the new party leadership.

– Suspensions None

Last updated 7 November 2022.

Current composition: see Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council

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