Ormiston (District Electoral Area)

Ormiston
Belfast City Council DEA constituency
Ormiston DEA marked on a map of Belfast City Council and its wards
Current constituency
Created2014
Seats7 (2014–)
Councillors
  •   Hedley Abernethy (APNI)
  •   Christine Bower (APNI)
  •   Anthony Flynn (GPNI)
  •   James Lawlor (DUP)
  •   Jenna Maghie (APNI)
  •   Andrew McCormick (DUP)
  •   Jim Rodgers (UUP)

Ormiston has been one of the ten district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland since 2014.[1] Located in the east of the city, the district elects seven members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Belmont, Garnerville, Gilnahirk, Sandown, Shandon, Knock and Stormont.[2] Ormiston, along with wards from the neighbouring Titanic and Lisnasharragh DEAs, together with parts of Lisburn and Castlereagh District Council, form the Belfast East constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.

The district was created for the 2014 local elections, replacing the Victoria DEA,[3] which had existed since 1985. Nineteen candidates contested the first election in 2014, the most of any DEA in Northern Ireland.[4]

  1. ^ Final Northern Ireland super council recommendations, BBC News, 13 December 2013, accessed 24 May 2014
  2. ^ Belfast City Election results, 2014
  3. ^ Map Archived 2016-05-05 at the Wayback Machine from the District Electoral Areas Commissioner Maps page Archived 2016-05-05 at the Wayback Machine. See District Electoral Areas Commissioner page Archived 2016-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ ‘Incredible mistake’ almost halted election, The News Letter, 1 May 2014