Northern Ireland local elections, 2014

Northern Ireland local elections, 2014

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All 462 council seats
First party Second party Third party   Leader Peter Robinson Gerry Adams Mike Nesbitt Party DUP Sinn Féin UUP Seats won 130 105 88 Seat change 15 10 11 Popular vote 144,928 151,137 101,385 Percentage 23.1% 24.1% 16.1% Swing 4.1% 0.7% 0.9%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Alasdair McDonnell David Ford Jim Allister Party SDLP Alliance TUV Seats won 66 32 13 Seat change 1 2 10 Popular vote 85,237 41,769 28,310 Percentage 13.6% 6.7% 4.5% Swing 1.4% 0.7% 2.5%
Colours denote which party won the most seats in each council

Local elections were held in Northern Ireland on Thursday 22 May 2014, contesting 462 seats in all, as part of the wider local elections across the United Kingdom. The election took place on the same day as the European Parliament election.

All voters were required to present one piece of photographic ID in order to cast a vote at the polling station. Accepted forms of ID were an electoral identity card, an EEA photographic driving licence, a European Union member-state passport, a Translink 60+ SmartPass, a Translink Senior SmartPass, a Translink Blind Person's SmartPass or a Translink War Disabled SmartPass. Voters lacking an accepted type of photographic ID had until 9 May 2014 to apply for an electoral identity card from the Electoral Office.

The elections represented a milestone in the reform of local government in Northern Ireland, as councillors were elected to 11 new councils. These operated in shadow form until Wednesday 1 April 2015, with the current 26 councils existing in parallel until then.

The 11 new councils, with links to the official lists of candidates standing ("statements of persons nominated"), are:

The local government reorganisation and electoral administration is founded by the Local Government Bill. Nominations of election candidates closed on 29 April 2014.

Because these elections were contested with new electoral boundaries, the results are not directly comparable with those of the last election. However, psephologist Nicholas Whyte has calculated a baseline by which to judge the parties' relative performance. This baseline is used in the following tables.