Craigavon Borough Council

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Map of the borough's DEAs from 1993 to 2014

Craigavon Borough Council was a local council in counties Armagh, Down and Antrim, in Northern Ireland. It merged with Armagh City and District Council and Banbridge District Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council.

The headquarters of the council were in Craigavon, on the shores of Lough Neagh, a new town built between Lurgan and Portadown. The council area included the large towns of Lurgan and Portadown, as well as smaller ones including Waringstown and Donaghcloney. The average council budget of £15.5 million provided a wide range of services to the 93,023 people living in the area.

The council area consisted of four electoral areas – Central, Loughside, Lurgan and Portadown – in which 26 councillors were elected every four years. The council held an annual meeting in June, at which a new Mayor and Deputy Mayor were elected. Parties elected in 2011, the last elections for the council, were Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) nine seats, Sinn Féin eight, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) six, Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) four, and Alliance Party of Northern Ireland one.

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. The proposed reforms were abandoned in 2010, and the 2011 Northern Ireland local elections took place to fill the last body on the council before being dissolved The proposed reform took effect on 1 April 2015.

Together with part of the district of Banbridge, it was part of the Upper Bann constituency for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.

Summary of seats won 1973–2011

	1973	1977	1981	1985	1989	1993	1997	2001	2005	2011
Ulster Unionist (UUP)	11	10	9	11	12	10	11	8	6	6
Alliance (APNI)	4	3	1		2	2	1			1
Vanguard (VUPP)	4
Democratic Unionist (DUP)	3	4	7	6	4	4	3	6	9	9
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)	2	6	5	5	6	6	7	7	4	2
Independent Nationalist (IN)	1						2
United Ulster Unionist (UUUP)		1	1
Workers' Party (WP)		1	2	2	1	1
Sinn Féin (SF)				2	1	2	2	4	6	8
Independent Unionist (IU)						1		1	1

Note: The Workers' Party were known as The Republican Clubs in 1977 and Workers Party Republican Clubs in 1981.

Source: [1]

Mayor of Craigavon

Year	Name	Political affiliation		Deputy	Deputy's affiliation
1973–75	Joseph A. Johnston	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	James McCammick	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1975–76	James McCammick	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Tom Creith	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1976–77	Tom Creith	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Herbert Whitten	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1977–78	Sydney Cairns	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Brian T. English	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1978–79	Herbert Whitten	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	David Calvert	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1979–80	Alan Locke	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	James McDonald	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1980–81	Frank Dale	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Sean Hagan	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1981–82	Mary Simpson	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	David Calvert	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1982–83	Sam Gardiner	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	James Gillespie	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1983–84	James Gillespie	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Frederick Baird	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1984–85	Arnold Hatch	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Patrick J. Crilly	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1985–87	George Savage	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	James Gillespie	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1987–88	Sydney Cairns	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Arnold Hatch	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1988–89	Sam Gardiner	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	James McCammick	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1989–91	James McCammick	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Joy Savage, then Joe Trueman	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1991–92	Joe Trueman	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Fred Crowe	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1992–93	Fred Crowe	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Sam Lutton	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1993–94	Joy Savage	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Ruth Allen	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1994–95	Brian Maguinness	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Sean McKavanagh	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1995–96	Meta Crozier	rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:Party color|	[[Ulster Unionist Party|Template:Party shortname]]	Hugh Casey	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
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1996 – Dec 96	Hugh Casey	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Sam Lutton	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Dec 1996 – 97	Sam Lutton	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Hugh Casey	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1998–99	Mervyn Carrick	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Dolores Kelly	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
1999–00	Dolores Kelly	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Fred Crowe	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2000–01	Fred Crowe	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Mark Neale	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2001–02	Sam Gardiner	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Jonathan Bell	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2002–03	Jonathan Bell	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Sydney Anderson	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2003–04	Ignatius Fox	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	David Simpson	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2004–05	David Simpson	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Ignatius Fox	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2005–06	George Savage	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Robert Smith	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2006–07	Kenneth Twyble	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Mary McAlinden	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2007–08	Robert Smith	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Kenneth Twyble	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2008–09	Sydney Anderson	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Arnold Hatch	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2009–10	Meta Crozier	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Philip Weir	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2010–11	Stephen Moutray	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Kieran Corr	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2011–12	Alan Carson	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	George Savage	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2012–13	Carla Lockhart	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Arnold Hatch	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2013–14	Mark Baxter	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Colin McCusker	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
2014–15	Colin McCusker	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color	Catherine Seeley	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color

Source: Freedom of Information request to Craigavon Borough Council

Final council makeup

Below is a list of members who made up the final sitting of the council before it was dissolved.

Name	Party
Jonathan Buckley	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Phil Moutray	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Robert Smith	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Mark Baxter	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Margaret Tinsley	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Alan Carson	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Darryn Causby	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Gladys McCullough	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Carla Lockhart	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Catherine Seeley	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Mark O'Dowd	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Liam Mackle	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Mairead O'Dowd	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Paul Duffy	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Gemma McKenna	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Thomas O'Connor	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Noel McGeown	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Kyle Savage	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Arnold Hatch	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Ronald Harkness	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Colin McCusker	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Meta Crozier	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Kenneth Twyble	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Declan McAlinden	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Joseph Nelson	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color
Conrad Dixon	REDIRECT Template:Party name with color

Council services

• Coney Island, Lough Neagh is owned by the National Trust and was managed on their behalf by Craigavon Borough Council.

Population

The area covered by Craigavon Borough Council had a population of 93,023 residents according to the 2011 Northern Ireland census.

See also

• Local government in Northern Ireland