| Comber | |
|---|---|
| Ards and North Down Borough Council DEA constituency | |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2014 |
| Seats | 5 (2014–) |
| Councillors | |
Comber is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) inArds and North Down, Northern Ireland.[1] The district elects five members toArds and North Down Borough Council and contains the wards of Ballygowan, Comber North, Comber South, Comber West and Killinchy.[2] Comber forms part of the Strangford constituencies for theNorthern Ireland Assembly andUK Parliament.
It was created for the2014 local elections, largely replacing theArds West DEA, which had existed since 1985.
| Election | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | Councillor (Party) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Patricia Morgan (Alliance) | Rachel Ashe (Alliance) | Philip Smith (UUP) | Libby Douglas (DUP) | Trevor Cummings (DUP) | |||||
| February 2023 Defection | Stephen Cooper (TUV)/ (Independent) | Robert Gibson (DUP) | ||||||||
| January 2023 Co-Option | ||||||||||
| 2019 | Deborah Girvan (Alliance) | |||||||||
| 2014 | James Fletcher (UUP) | |||||||||
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x TUV
2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP
2019–2023 Change: Alliance gain from TUV
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| DUP | Libby Douglas[4] | 20.60% | 1,501 | |||||
| UUP | Philip Smith* | 19.31% | 1,407 | |||||
| DUP | Trevor Cummings* | 17.88% | 1,303 | |||||
| Alliance | Patricia Morgan* | 14.84% | 1,081 | 1,087.38 | 1,127.54 | 1,204.6 | 1,219.6 | |
| Alliance | Rachel Ashe | 13.99% | 1,019 | 1,032.64 | 1,074.72 | 1,160.8 | 1,215.2 | |
| TUV | Sam Patterson | 5.61% | 409 | 595.56 | 651.24 | 677.36 | 922.12 | |
| Independent | Stephen Cooper* | 4.42% | 322 | 374.14 | 399.58 | 452.36 | ||
| Green (NI) | Cory Quinn | 2.72% | 197 | 207.56 | 219.56 | |||
| Independent | John Sloan | 0.58% | 47 | 52.5 | 66.42 | |||
| Electorate: 15,112 Valid: 7,286 (48.21%) Spoilt: 95 Quota: 1,215 Turnout: 7,381 (48.84%) | ||||||||
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x TUV
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x TUV
2014-2019 Change: No change
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Alliance | Deborah Girvan* † | 23.23% | 1,516 | ||||||
| UUP | Philip Smith | 16.58% | 1,082 | 1,178.3 | |||||
| DUP | Trevor Cummings* | 12.91% | 843 | 856.8 | 895.5 | 901.8 | 1,298.8 | ||
| DUP | Robert Gibson* | 15.09% | 985 | 992.5 | 1,024.5 | 1,028.7 | 1,201.7 | ||
| TUV | Stephen Cooper* ‡ | 10.65% | 695 | 716 | 819.3 | 828 | 887 | 1,065 | |
| Green (NI) | Ricky Bamford | 5.70% | 372 | 582.3 | 737.4 | 780.6 | 797.6 | 816.6 | |
| DUP | John Montgomery | 9.85% | 643 | 648.7 | 689.5 | 693.1 | |||
| UUP | Michael Palmer | 4.87% | 318 | 361.8 | |||||
| Independent | John Sloan | 1.12% | 73 | 100 | |||||
| Electorate: 14,244 Valid: 6,527 (45.82%) Spoilt: 60 Quota: 1,088 Turnout: 6,587 (46.24%) | |||||||||
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x TUV
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| DUP | Robert Gibson* | 17.29% | 1,071 | |||||||
| UUP | James Fletcher* | 13.93% | 863 | 878 | 880.61 | 974.67 | 1,037.67 | |||
| Alliance | Deborah Girvan* | 13.16% | 815 | 880 | 880.3 | 980.39 | 1,016.48 | 1,121.48 | ||
| DUP | Trevor Cummings* | 11.54% | 715 | 724 | 733.39 | 771.63 | 838.93 | 960.93 | 975.93 | |
| TUV | Stephen Cooper | 9.32% | 577 | 585 | 585.78 | 639.87 | 750.08 | 908.23 | 920.23 | |
| DUP | John Oswald* | 10.33% | 640 | 648 | 663.36 | 676.63 | 742.14 | 867.38 | 879.38 | |
| UUP | Philip Smith* | 8.17% | 506 | 526 | 526.42 | 588.48 | 661.6 | |||
| UKIP | Isabella Hanna | 6.89% | 427 | 439 | 440.65 | 477.71 | ||||
| NI Conservatives | John Andrews | 6.64% | 411 | 425 | 425.93 | |||||
| NI21 | Margaret Howson | 2.73% | 169 | |||||||
| Electorate: 13,681 Valid: 6,194 (45.27%) Spoilt: 78 Quota: 1,033 Turnout: 6,272 (45.84%) | ||||||||||