The 2023 election to Ards and North Down Borough Council was held on 18 May 2023, alongside other local elections in Northern Ireland, two weeks after local elections in England. The Northern Ireland elections were delayed by 2 weeks to avoid overlapping with the coronation of King Charles III.
They returned 40 members to the council via Single Transferable Vote.
Background Ards and North Down is the only council in Northern Ireland on which Sinn Féin have never won a seat.
Election results
| colspan="2" style="background-color:#f2f2f2;text-align:center;margin-bottom:-1px;border:1px solid #aaa;padding:.2em .4em" | Total | style="text-align:right;" | 40
| style="text-align:right;" | 56,929 |<noinclude>
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
District summary
|- class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left"|District Electoral Area (DEA) ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2|Totalcllrs |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Green !colspan=2 bgcolor=""| SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | TUV !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Independents and others |- |align="left"|Ards Peninsula |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|44.71 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |13.78 |1 |8.05 |1 |1.62 |0 |13.93 |1 |6.45 |0 |10.29 |0 |1.18 |0 |6 |- |align="left"|Bangor Central |16.73 |1 1 |bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|28.75 |bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|2 1 |14.55 |1 |6.90 |0 1 |0.00 |0 |5.37 |0 |0.00 |0 |27.69 |2 1 |6 |- |align="left"|Bangor East and Donaghadee |23.39 |2 |23.90 |2 1 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|34.18 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|2 |4.18 |0 |0.00 |0 |0.00 |0 |0.00 |0 |14.35 |0 1 |6 |- |align="left"|Bangor West |25.72 |2 1 |bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|30.09 |bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|1 1 |13.33 |1 |11.33 |1 |4.57 |0 |5.09 |0 |0.00 |0 |9.87 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Comber |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|38.48 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |28.83 |2 1 |19.31 |1 |2.72 |0 |0.0 |0 |5.61 |0 1 |0.00 |0 |5.00 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Holywood and Clandeboye |19.81 |1 |bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|41.03 |bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|2 |12.80 |1 |14.67 |1 |6.97 |0 |4.71 |0 |0.00 |0 |0.00 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Newtownards |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|32.38 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |23.51 |2 |13.54 |1 |2.43 |0 |0.00 |0 |6.44 |0 |0.00 |0 |21.70 |1 |7 |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |29.02 |14 |26.59 |12 2 |16.50 |8 |5.94 |2 1 |3.72 |1 |4.83 |0 1 |1.66 |0 |11.75 |3 |40
District results Ards Peninsula
2019: 3 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2023: 3 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2019–2023 Change: No change
Bangor Central
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green, 1 x Independent
2023: 2 x Alliance, 2 x Independent, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP
2019–2023 Change: Alliance and Independent gain from DUP and Green
Bangor East and Donaghadee
2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent
2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance
2019–2023 Change: Alliance gain from Independent
Bangor West
2019: 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green
2023: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green
2019–2023 Change: DUP gain from Alliance
Comber
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x TUV
2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP
2019–2023 Change: Alliance gain from TUV
Holywood and Clandeboye
2019: 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x Green, 1 x UUP
2023: 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x Green, 1 x UUP
2019–2023 Change: No change
Newtownards
2019: 3 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent
2023: 3 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent
2019–2023 Change: No change
Changes during the term † Co-options Date co-optedElectoral AreaPartyOutgoingCo-opteeReason25 September 2023Bangor Central Karen DouglasAlex HarbinsonDouglas resigned.30 October 2023Holywood and Clandeboye Rachel WoodsLauren KendallWoods resigned.24 April 2024Bangor East and Donaghadee Janice MacArthurEddie ThompsonMacArthur resigned.31 July 2024Bangor West Peter MartinCarl McCleanMartin was co-opted to the Northern Ireland Assembly.14 October 2024Holywood and Clandeboye David RossiterGillian McCollumRossiter resigned.15 October 2024Bangor East and Donaghadee Gillian McCollumJohn HennessyMcCollum was co-opted to Holywood and Clandeboye.21 October 2024Bangor West Christine CreightonNaomi McBurneyCreighton resigned.3 June 2025Bangor Central Ray McKimmTom BradyMcKimm resigned.14 November 2025Holywood and Clandeboye Linzi McLarenStephen HollywoodMcLaren resigned.9 December 2025Bangor West Stephen HollywoodKatherine NewmanHollywood was co-opted to Holywood and Clandeboye.1 April 2026Bangor East and Donaghadee Hannah IrwinRosaleen QuinnIrwin resigned.
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