Titanic (District Electoral Area)

Titanic is one of the ten district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland.[1] Located in the east of the city, the district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Ballymacarrett, Beersbridge, Bloomfield, Connswater, Sydenham and Woodstock. Titanic, along with wards from the neighbouring Ormiston 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, largely replacing the Pottinger District Electoral Area, which had existed since 1985. The district takes its name from the city's Titanic Quarter, where the RMS Titanic was built.[2]

Councillors

Election	Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)
2019		Michelle Kelly (Alliance)		John Kyle (PUP)		Adam Newton (DUP)		George Dorrian (DUP		Sonia Copeland (UUP)		Carole Howard (Alliance
November 2016 co-option		David Armitage (Alliance)										Mairéad O'Donnell (Sinn Féin)
May 2016 co-option								Brian Kennedy (DUP)
June 2015 co-option												Niall Ó Donnghaile (Sinn Féin)
2014								Gavin Robinson (DUP)

2019 results

Belfast City Council elections, 2019[3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	DUP	George Dorrian	1,270
	Sinn Féin	Mairéad O'Donnell	1,102
	Alliance	Michelle Kelly	1,068
	Alliance	Carole Howard	1,055
	PUP	John Kyle	1,027
	DUP	Adam Newton	913
	UUP	Sonia Copeland	852
	Green (NI)	Ben Smylie	641
	DUP	Lee Reynolds	586
	Independent	Karl Bennett	448
	UUP	Colin Hall-Thompson	278
	UKIP	Paul David Girvan	228
Turnout			9,468

2014 results

Belfast City Council elections, 2014[4]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Sonia Copeland	1,651
	Sinn Féin	Niall Ó Donnghaile	1,156
	PUP	John Kyle	1,150
	DUP	Gavin Robinson	1,148
	DUP	Adam Newton	1,017
	Alliance	David Armitage	780
	Alliance	Máire Hendron	719
	TUV	Harry Toan	578
	UKIP	Jonathan Lavery	544
	DUP	Sam White	416
	NI21	Jimmy Davidson	252
	Green (NI)	Claus Gregor	212
	Socialist Party	Thomas Black	108
	SDLP	Peter Devlin	99
	Workers' Party	Kevin McNally	70
Turnout			9,900

References

1. Final Northern Ireland super council recommendations, BBC News, 13 December 2013, accessed 24 May 2014
2. Titanic electoral area proposed, Belfast Telegraph, 2 May 2013
3. "Titanic - Election results 2019". belfastcity.gov.uk. Belfast City Council. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
4. "Belfast - Election results 2014". belfastcity.gov.uk. Belfast City Council. Retrieved 4 May 2019.