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Black Mountain (District Electoral Area)
District Electoral Area in Belfast, Northern Ireland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Black Mountain is a District Electoral Area used to elect 7 councillors to Belfast City Council.
Quick Facts Current constituency, Created ...
Black Mountain | |
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Belfast City Council DEA constituency | |
![]() Black Mountain DEA marked on a map of Belfast City Council and its wards | |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2014 |
Seats | 7 (2014–) |
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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.