Elections to Coleraine Borough Council were held on 5 May 2005 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 22 councillors.
Election results
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
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="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Bann |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|34.0 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |33.6 |2 |19.6 |1 |12.8 |1 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |6 |- |align="left"|Coleraine Central |33.8 |2 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|37.6 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|3 |10.9 |1 |5.7 |0 |6.1 |0 |5.9 |0 |6 |- |align="left"|Coleraine East |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|57.5 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |29.2 |2 |5.7 |0 |3.0 |0 |4.6 |0 |0.0 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|The Skerries |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|28.1 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |24.4 |1 |8.9 |1 |7.5 |0 |9.7 |0 |21.4 |1 |5 |- |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |36.9 |9 |32.0 |8 |12.3 |3 |7.9 |1 |4.7 |0 |6.2 |1 |22
District results
Bann
2001: 3 x UUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x DUP 2005: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP 2001-2005 Change: DUP and Sinn Féin gain from UUP and SDLP
Coleraine Central
2001: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 2005: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 2001-2005 Change: No change
Coleraine East
2001: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP 2005: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP 2001-2005 Change: No change
The Skerries
2001: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent 2005: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent 2001-2005 Change: DUP gain from UUP
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