Castle (District Electoral Area)


Castle is one of the ten district electoral areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Located in the north of the city, the district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Bellevue, Cavehill, Chichester Park, Duncairn, Fortwilliam and Innisfayle. Castle, along with Oldpark district and parts of the Court district and Newtownabbey Borough Council, forms the Belfast North constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament. The district is bounded to the east by the Victoria Channel, to the north by Newtownabbey Borough Council and Belfast Lough, to the south by North Street and to the west by the Cavehill Road.
The district takes its name from Belfast Castle which is located on Cavehill in the north of the district, while the southern section of the district is part of the city centre and forms one of the Belfast's main cultural areas, known as the Cathedral Quarter. The east of the area also contains the Port of Belfast. Castle is served by the M2 and M5 motorways and the Yorkgate railway station.
Castle is one of the most mixed areas in the city, with just over half of the district's population being Protestant at the 2001 Census. This has resulted in the construction of a number of peace lines, for example along the Whitewell Road.

History

Castle was created for the 1985 local elections. All six wards came from the former Area H, with only the Cliftonville ward and northern section of the Waterworks ward omitted from the new district. One of the district's six wards, Castleview, was renamed Innisfayle in 2014.

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Councillors

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April 2020
co-option
Nuala McAllister
Carl Whyte
Fred Cobain Mal O'Hara Conor Maskey Dean McCullough
January 2020
co-option
Nuala McAllister
Carl Whyte
Fred Cobain Mal O'Hara Conor Maskey Guy Spence
2019Nuala McAllister
Carl Whyte
Fred Cobain Mal O'Hara John Finucane
Guy Spence
June 2017
defection
Nuala McAllister
Pat Convery
Lydia Patterson
David Browne
Mary Campbell
Guy Spence
2014Nuala McAllister
Pat Convery
Lydia Patterson
David Browne
Mary Campbell
Guy Spence
2011Tierna Cunningham
Pat Convery
Lydia Patterson
David Browne
Mary Campbell
Guy Spence
2005Tierna Cunningham
Pat Convery
Nigel Dodds
David Browne
Cathal Mullaghan
Ian Crozier
2001Danny Lavery
Pat Convery
Nigel Dodds
David Browne
Alban Maginness
Ian Crozier
1997Danny Lavery
Tom Campbell
Nigel Dodds
David Browne
Alban Maginness
Nelson McCausland
1993Jonathan Stephenson
John Carson
Nigel Dodds
David Browne
Alban Maginness
Nelson McCausland
1989Tom Campbell
John Carson
Nigel Dodds
Frank Millar
Alban Maginness
Nelson McCausland
1985Tom Campbell
John Carson
Nigel Dodds
Frank Millar
Alban Maginness
Alfie Redpath

Elections

2019 Elections

2014 Elections

2011 Elections