Coleraine Borough Council

Map of the borough's DEAs from 1993 to 2014

Coleraine Borough Council was a local council mainly in County Londonderry and partly in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. It merged with Ballymoney Borough Council, Limavady Borough Council and Moyle District Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Causeway Coast and Glens District Council.

Its headquarters were in the town of Coleraine. Small towns in the area include Garvagh, Portrush, Portstewart and Kilrea.

Coleraine Borough Council consisted of four electoral areas: Coleraine East, Coleraine Central, The Skerries and Bann. The council last had 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 operated a rotation for positions of Mayor and Deputy Mayor between the UUP, DUP and the Irish nationalist SDLP. The last election was due to take place in May 2009, but on 25 April 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.<ref>Northern Ireland elections are postponed, BBC News, April 25, 2008, accessed April 27, 2008</ref> The proposed reforms were abandoned in 2010, and the most recent district council elections took place in 2011<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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

Mayor of Coleraine

Source: Freedom of Information request to Coleraine Borough Council

Year	Name	Political affiliation		Deputy	Deputy's affiliation
1973–77	A. N. Clarke	Template:Party name with colour	John White	Template:Party name with colour
1977–1980	John White	Template:Party name with colour	G. A. McIlrath	Template:Party name with colour
1980–83	G A McIlrath	rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Party color|	[[Ulster Unionist Party|Template:Party shortname]]	C. R. Crawford	Template:Party name with colour
		James McClure		Template:Party name with colour
1983–84	James McClure	Template:Party name with colour	C. R. Crawford	Template:Party name with colour
1984–86	William King	rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Party color|	[[Ulster Unionist Party|Template:Party shortname]]	A. N. Clarke	Template:Party name with colour
		James McClure		Template:Party name with colour
1986–88	Dr Gladys Black	Template:Party name with colour	James McClure	Template:Party name with colour
1988–1990	Jim Watt	Template:Party name with colour	James McClure	Template:Party name with colour
1990–92	Elizabeth Black	Template:Party name with colour	James McClure	Template:Party name with colour
1992–93	William King	Template:Party name with colour	James McClure	Template:Party name with colour
1993–1995	David McClarty	Template:Party name with colour	William Matthews	Template:Party name with colour
1995–97	Pauline Armitage	Template:Party name with colour	John Dallat	Template:Party name with colour
1997–99	James McClure	rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Party color|	[[Democratic Unionist Party|Template:Party shortname]]	William Matthews	Template:Party name with colour
		Elizabeth Johnston		Template:Party name with colour
1999–2000	Norman Hillis	Template:Party name with colour	Olive Church	Template:Party name with colour
2000–01	Elizabeth Johnston	Template:Party name with colour	Barbara Dempsey	Template:Party name with colour
2001–02	John Dallat	Template:Party name with colour	Desmond Stewart	Template:Party name with colour
2002–03	Olive Church	Template:Party name with colour	Gerry McLaughlin	Template:Party name with colour
2003–04	Desmond Stewart	Template:Party name with colour	Eamon Mullan	Template:Party name with colour
2004–2005	Robert McPhearson	Template:Party name with colour	James McClure	Template:Party name with colour
2005–06	Timothy Deans	Template:Party name with colour	Maura Hickey	Template:Party name with colour
2006–07	William King	Template:Party name with colour	Ellen Fielding	Template:Party name with colour
2007–08	Maurice Bradley	Template:Party name with colour	Elizabeth Johnston	Template:Party name with colour
2008–09	David Barbour	Template:Party name with colour	William Creelman	Template:Party name with colour
2009–10	Sandy Gilkinson	Template:Party name with colour	William King	Template:Party name with colour
2010–11	Norman Hillis	Template:Party name with colour	Sam Cole	Template:Party name with colour
2011–12	Maurice Bradley	Template:Party name with colour	William King	Template:Party name with colour
2012–13	Sam Cole	Template:Party name with colour	Maura Hickey	Template:Party name with colour
2013–14	David Harding	Template:Party name with colour	Mark Fielding	Template:Party name with colour
2014–15	George Duddy	Template:Party name with colour	Yvonne Boyle	Template:Party name with colour

* For 2015 onwards, see Causeway Coast and Glens District Council

Population

The area covered by Coleraine Borough Council had a population of 79,067 residents according to the 2011 Northern Ireland census.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See also

• Local government in Northern Ireland

References

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