Elections to Down District Council were held on 5 May 2011 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 23 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 ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2|TotalCllrs |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Green !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Ballynahinch |bgcolor="#99FF66"|26.5 |bgcolor="#99FF66"|2 |20.4 |1 |26.0 |1 |14.3 |1 |3.6 |0 |3.0 |0 |6.2 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Downpatrick |bgcolor="#99FF66"|57.4 |bgcolor="#99FF66"|4 |27.4 |2 |2.4 |0 |4.8 |0 |0.0 |0 |8.0 |1 |0.0 |0 |7 |- |align="left"|Newcastle |33.3 |2 |bgcolor="#008800"|36.3 |bgcolor="#008800"|2 |7.8 |0 |9.5 |1 |8.4 |1 |4.6 |0 |0.0 |0 |6 |- |align="left"|Rowallane |15.8 |1 |4.9 |0 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|32.9 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |26.3 |1 |8.1 |0 |0.0 |0 |12.0 |1 |5 |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |34.2 |9 |22.9 |5 |16.4 |3 |13.2 |3 |4.9 |1 |4.1 |1 |4.3 |1 |23
Districts results
Ballynahinch
2005: 2 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP 2011: 2 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP 2005-2011 Change: No change
Downpatrick
2005: 4 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Green 2011: 2 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Green 2005-2011 Change: No change
Newcastle
2005: 3 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP 2011: 2 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance 2005-2011 Change: Alliance gain from SDLP
Rowallane
2005: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP 2011: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent 2005-2011 Change: Independent gain from UUP
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