2023 Belfast City Council election

The 2023 election to Belfast City Council was held on 18 May 2023, alongside other local elections in Northern Ireland, two weeks after local elections in England. The Northern Ireland elections were delayed by 2 weeks to avoid overlapping with the coronation of King Charles III.

Main article: 2023 Northern Ireland local elections
2023 Belfast City Council election
18 May 2023
All 60 council seats
31 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Michelle O'Neill Jeffrey Donaldson Naomi Long
Party Sinn Féin DUP Alliance
Leader's seat Not standing Not standing Not standing
Last election 18 seats, 28.2% 15 seats, 21.6% 10 seats, 15.7%
Seats won 22 14 11
Seat change 4 1 1
Popular vote 44,202 26,621 19,841
Percentage 35.2% 21.2% 15.9%
Swing 7.0% 0.4% 0.2%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
GPNI
Leader Colum Eastwood Malachai O'Hara Doug Beattie
Party SDLP Green (NI) Ulster Unionist
Leader's seat Not standing Castle (defeated ) Not standing
Last election 6 seats, 9.1% 4 seats, 6.0% 2 seats, 6.2%
Seats won 5 3 2
Seat change 1 1
Popular vote 9,690 5,965 5,123
Percentage 7.8% 4.8% 4.1%
Swing 1.3% 1.2% 2.1%
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
PUP
Leader Eamonn McCann Jim Allister Billy Hutchinson
Party People Before Profit TUV PUP
Leader's seat Not standing Not standing Court (defeated)
Last election 3 seats, 5.2% 0 seats, 0.3% 2 seats, 3.1%
Seats won 1 1 0
Seat change 2 1 2
Popular vote 4,492 3,482 679
Percentage 3.6% 2.8% 0.5%
Swing 1.6% 2.5% 2.6%
First preference vote and seat totals by local electoral area. As this is a STV election, seat totals are determined by popular vote and preferences in each district electoral area.
Council control before election

No overall control

 Council control after election

No overall control

Voters returned 60 members to the council via single transferable vote. Typical for Northern Ireland, the council remained with no overall control but Sinn Féin remained the single largest party, but fell short of a majority despite a net gain of 4 seats.

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