The Ballymena Borough Council area consists of four electoral areas: Ballymena North, Braid, Bannside and Ballymena South, from which 24 members were elected in the 2005 election. The current political composition of the council is: 9 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 6 United Unionist Coalition (UUC), 4 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 2 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 1 Sinn Féin and 2 Independents. The Mayor of Ballymena for 2004-05 is Councillor Hubert Nicholl (DUP) and the Deputy Mayor is Councillor TGA Scott (UUP).
The present Borough of Ballymena was created in 1973 from the merging of the former Borough with the former Ballymena Rural District.
Together with the neighbouring districts of Ballymoney and Moyle, it forms the North Antrim constituency for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.
Review of Public Administration
Under the Review of Public Administration (RPA) the Council is due to merge with Larne Borough Council and Carrickfergus Borough Council in 2011 to form a single council for the enlarged area totalling 1047 Sq Km and a population of 127,101. The next 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.See also
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