2023 Northern Ireland local elections

2023 Northern Ireland local elections
18 May 2023
All 11 districts, 462 council seats
Turnout54.7%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Michelle O'Neill Jeffrey Donaldson Naomi Long
Party Sinn Féin DUP Alliance
Last election 105 122 53
Seats won 144 122 67
Seat change 39 14
Popular vote 230,793 173,033 99,251
Percentage 30.9% 23.3% 13.3%
Swing 7.7% 0.8% 1.8%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Doug Beattie Colum Eastwood Jim Allister
Party UUP SDLP TUV
Last election 75 59 6
Seats won 54 39 9
Seat change 21 20 3
Popular vote 81,282 64,996 29,202
Percentage 10.9% 8.7% 3.9%
Swing 3.2% 3.3% 1.7%
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
PUP
Leader Mal O'Hara Eamonn McCann Billy Hutchinson
Party Green (NI) People Before Profit PUP
Last election 8 5 3
Seats won 5 2 1
Seat change 3 3 2
Popular vote 12,692 8,059 2,103
Percentage 1.7% 1.0% 0.3%
Swing 0.4% 0.4% 0.5%
Results by DEA (District Electoral Area)

Local elections were held in Northern Ireland on 18 May 2023. The elections were delayed by two weeks to avoid overlapping with the coronation of King Charles III. Following the elections, Sinn Féin became the largest party in local government for the first time. It also marked the first time that nationalist parties had garnered a greater share of the vote than unionist parties, however, despite this, there were more unionist councillors elected than nationalists.

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