Black Mountain (District Electoral Area)

Black Mountain is a District Electoral Area used to elect 7 councillors to Belfast City Council.

Black Mountain
Belfast City Council DEA constituency
Black Mountain DEA marked on a map of Belfast City Council and its wards
Current constituency
Created2014
Seats7 (2014–)
Councillors
  •   Ciarán Beattie (SF)
  •   Arder Carson (SF)
  •   Paul Doherty (SDLP)
  •   Micheal Donnelly (SF)
  •   Róis-Máire Donnelly (SF)
  •   Áine McCabe (SF)
  •   Ronan McLaughlin (SF)

It is named after the Black Mountain.

The district was created for the 2014 election. It combined 4 of the 6 wards from the abolished Upper Falls DEA with 3 of the 5 wards from the abolished Lower Falls DEA.

In the 2014 election it elected 5 Sinn Féin councillors, 1 Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor, and Gerry Carroll of the People Before Profit Alliance. In the 2019 election Sinn Fein gained a sixth seat from the SDLP. In the 2023 election, the SDLP regained a seat at the expense of People Before Profit.