Elections to Craigavon 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 26 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="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Central |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|33.4 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |26.7 |2 |20.4 |1 |13.2 |1 |6.4 |0 |0.0 |0 |7 |- |align="left"|Loughside |4.0 |0 |4.1 |0 |bgcolor="#008800"|50.5 |bgcolor="#008800"|3 |39.3 |2 |0.0 |0 |2.1 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Lurgan |39.4 |3 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|40.2 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|3 |7.5 |0 |6.5 |0 |0.0 |0 |6.4 |0 |7 |- |align="left"|Portadown |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|42.5 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |14.5 |1 |16.5 |1 |13.2 |1 |2.7 |0 |10.6 |1 |7 |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |30.8 |9 |22.8 |6 |22.4 |6 |16.9 |4 |2.4 |0 |4.7 |0 |26
District results
Central
2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin 2005: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP 2001–2005 Change: DUP gain from SDLP
Loughside
2001: 3 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin 2005: 3 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP 2001–2005 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP
Lurgan
2001: 4 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 2005: 3 x UUP, 3 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin 2001–2005 Change: DUP and Sinn Féin gain from UUP and SDLP
Portadown
2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent 2005: 3 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent 2001–2005 Change: DUP gain from UUP
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