Coleraine Borough Council

Coleraine Borough Comhairle Baile Chúil Rathain
Geography
Area - Total	Ranked 13th of 26 486 km²
Admin HQ	Coleraine
ISO 3166-2	GB-CLR
ONS code	95C
Demographics
Population - Total (2010) - Density	Ranked 15th 56,800 117 / km²
Community	Catholic: 28% Protestant: 65.3%
Politics
Control	No overall control DUP: 8 UUP: 6 SDLP: 3 Alliance Party: 2 Sinn Féin: 1 Independents: 2
MLAs	East Londonderry DUP: 3 Independent: 1 Sinn Féin: 1 SDLP: 1
MPs	Gregory Campbell (DUP)
Meeting place
Website
http://www.colerainebc.gov.uk

Coleraine Borough Council is a local council mainly in County Londonderry and partly in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Its headquarters are in the town of Coleraine. Small towns in the area include Garvagh, Portrush, Portstewart and Kilrea. The population of the area is just over 59,067 according to the 2011 census.

The Coleraine Borough Council consists of four electoral areas: Coleraine East, Coleraine Central, The Skerries and Bann. The council has 22 members from the following political parties: 8 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 6 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 3 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 2 Alliance Party 1 Sinn Féin and 2 Independent. Unionist-controlled Coleraine Borough Council operates a rotation for positions of Mayor and Deputy Mayor between the Ulster Unionist Party(UUP), Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). The last 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. The proposed reforms were abandoned in 2010, and the most recent district council elections took place in 2011 The Mayor for the 2012/2013 term is Councillor Sam Cole of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).

The borough council area, together with the neighbouring district of Limavady and part of Derry City Council, forms the East Londonderry constituency for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.

Mayor of Coleraine

Year	Name	Political affiliation		Deputy	Deputy's affiliation
1973 - 77	A. N. Clarke		UUP	John White		UUP
1977 - 1980	John White		UUP	G. A. McIlrath		UUP
1980 - 83	G A McIlrath		UUP	C. R. Crawford		Independent
				James McClure		DUP
1983 - 84	James McClure		DUP	C. R. Crawford		Independent
1984 - 86	William King		UUP	A. N. Clarke		UUP
				James McClure		DUP
1986 - 88	Elizabeth Black		UUP	James McClure		DUP
1988 - 1990	William Watt		UUP	James McClure		DUP
1990 - 92	Elizabeth Black		UUP	James McClure		DUP
1992 - 93	William King		UUP	James McClure		DUP
1993 - 1995	David McClarty		UUP	William Matthews		Alliance
1995 - 97	Pauline Armitage		UUP	John Dallat		SDLP
1997 - 99	James McClure		DUP	William Matthews		Alliance
				Elizabeth Johnston		UUP
1999 - 2000	Norman Hillis		UUP	Olive Church		UUP
2000 - 01	Elizabeth Johnston		UUP	Barbara Dempsey		Alliance
2001 - 02	John Dallat		SDLP	Desmond Stewart		DUP
2002 - 03	Olive Church		UUP	Gerry McLaughlin		SDLP
2003 - 04	Desmond Stewart		DUP	Eamon Mullan		SDLP
2004 - 2005	Robert McPhearson		UUP	James McClure		DUP
2005 - 06	Timothy Deans		DUP	Maura Hickey		SDLP
2006 - 07	William King		UUP	Ellen Fielding		DUP
2007 - 08	Maurice Bradley		DUP	Elizabeth Johnston		UUP
2008 - 09	David Barbour		UUP	William Creelman		DUP
2009 - 10	Sandy Gilkinson		DUP	William King		UUP
2010 - 11	Norman Hillis		UUP	Sam Cole		DUP
2011 - 12	Maurice Bradley		DUP	William King		UUP
2012 - 13	Sam Cole		DUP	Maura Hickey		SDLP
2013 - 14	TBC		UUP	TBC		DUP

Source: Freedom of Information request to Coleraine Borough Council

See also

• Local Councils in Northern Ireland