| Craigavon Borough | |
| Comhairle Baile Chreag Abhann | |
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| Geography | |
| Area - Total - % Water |
Ranked 19th 378 km² ? % |
| Admin HQ | Craigavon |
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-CGV |
| ONS code | 95N |
| Demographics | |
| Population - Total (2008) - Density |
Ranked 5th 90,800 240 / km² |
| Community | Protestant: 52.9% Catholic: 44.7% |
| Politics | |
| Craigavon Borough Council http://www.craigavon.gov.uk |
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| MPs | David Simpson |
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Craigavon Borough Council is a local council in counties Armagh, Down and Antrim, in Northern Ireland. The headquarters of the council is in Craigavon, on the shores of Lough Neagh, a new town built between Lurgan and Portadown. The council area includes the large towns of Lurgan and Portadown, as well as smaller ones including Waringstown and Donaghcloney. The council budget of £15.5 million provides a wide range of services to over 90,000 people living in the area.
The council area consists of four electoral areas - Central, Loughside, Lurgan and Portadown - in which 26 councillors are elected every four years. The council holds an annual meeting in June, at which a new Mayor and Deputy Mayor are elected. Parties elected in 2005 were Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) nine seats, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) six, Sinn Féin six, Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) four, and Independent one. 1 member has since defected to Traditional Unionist Voice. The current Mayor is DUP Councilor Robert Smyth, and his Deputy is Ken Twyble of the UUP.
Together with part of the district of Banbridge, it forms the Upper Bann constituency for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Summary of seats won 1973-2005
| 1973 | 1977 | 1981 | 1985 | 1989 | 1993 | 1997 | 2001 | 2005 | |
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| Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) | 11 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 6 |
| Alliance (APNI) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Vanguard (VUPP) | 4 | ||||||||
| Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| Independent Nationalist (IN) | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| United Ulster Unionist Party (UUUP) | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Workers Party (WP) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Sinn Féin (SF) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | |||
| Independent Unionist (IU) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Note: The Workers Party were known as The Republican Clubs in 1977 and Workers Party Republican Clubs in 1981.
Source: [1]
Mayor of Craigavon
Source: Freedom of Information request to Craigavon Borough Council
Review of Public Administration
Under the Review of Public Administration (RPA) the Council is due to merge with Banbridge District Council and Armagh City and District Council in 2011 to form a single council for the enlarged area totalling 1,502 km² and a population of 176,326.[1] The next election was due to take place in May 2009, but on April 25, 2008, Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until the introduction of the eleven new councils in 2011.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "Minister Foster announces decisions on Local Government Reform". DoE. http://www.doeni.gov.uk/index/local_government/minister_foster_announces_decisions_on_local_government_reform.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
- ^ Northern Ireland elections are postponed, BBC News, April 25, 2008, accessed April 27, 2008
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