Elections to Down District 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 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 !rowspan=2|TotalCllrs |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Green !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Others |- |align="left"|Ballynahinch |bgcolor="#99FF66"|33.3 |bgcolor="#99FF66"|2 |19.9 |1 |19.9 |1 |26.8 |1 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Downpatrick |bgcolor="#99FF66"|50.7 |bgcolor="#99FF66"|4 |32.2 |2 |8.5 |0 |0.0 |0 |7.4 |1 |1.2 |0 |7 |- |align="left"|Newcastle |bgcolor="#99FF66"|40.4 |bgcolor="#99FF66"|3 |32.3 |2 |11.3 |1 |10.4 |0 |2.1 |0 |3.5 |0 |6 |- |align="left"|Rowallane |22.3 |1 |4.9 |0 |32.3 |2 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|32.3 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |2.9 |0 |5.3 |0 |5 |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |37.5 |10 |23.1 |5 |17.3 |4 |16.3 |3 |3.3 |1 |2.5 |0 |23
Districts results
Ballynahinch
2001: 2 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP 2005: 2 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP 2001-2005 Change: No change
Downpatrick
2001: 4 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent 2005: 4 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Green 2001-2005 Change: Sinn Féin and Green gain from UUP and Independent
Newcastle
2001: 3 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP 2005: 3 x SDLP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP 2001-2005 Change: No change
Rowallane
2001: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 2005: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP 2001-2005 Change: DUP gain from UUP
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