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James Martin McCarthy

Antrim and Newtownabbey candidates for NI council elections 2023

With the election just days away and parties making their final bids for your vote, the full line-up of candidates can be confirmed.

In Antrim and Newtownabbey District Council, 68 candidates will battle it out for 40 seats in what is an increasingly diverse council.

This year, the Green Party are hoping to pick up a seat in Glengormley Urban where they finished just 68 votes behind Sinn Féin in 2019.

Read more: NI council election dates, candidates, where to vote and more you need to know

2019 wasn't a great election for the unionist parties in this council with the DUP, UUP and TUV losing a combined total of six seats.

This year, with an increasing Alliance vote, the Ulster Unionist Party could lose their position as the second largest party and subsequently bringing an end to an overall unionist majority on the council.

Alliance currently hold seven seats on the council and have their eyes on a potential for three gains with a second seat in Antrim, one in Ballyclare and one in Glengormley Urban.

At the last election, Sinn Féin overtook the SDLP to become the largest nationalist party on the council and they will be hoping to gain seats in Antrim and Dunsilly.

The TUV lost both their seats on the council in 2019, however party stalwart Mel Lucas will hope to win back a seat in Ballyclare which was lost when former TUV councillor David Arthurs ran as an independent in 2019.

Here is the full list of the candidates standing in Antrim and Newtownabbey for the election on Thursday 18 May:

Airport

Thomas Burns (SDLP)

Terri Johnston (Green Party)

Anne-Marie Logue (Sinn Féin)

Matthew Magill (DUP)

Andrew McAuley (Alliance)

Paul Michael (UUP)

Maighréad Ní Chonghaile ( Sinn Féin)

Antrim

Eleanor Bailey (Green Party)

Paul Dunlop (DUP)

Neil Kelly (Alliance)

Roisin Lynch (SDLP)

Karl McMeekan (DUP)

Tommy Monaghan (Alliance)

Jim Montgomery (UUP)

Lucille O'Hagan (Sinn Féin)

Richard Shields (TUV)

John Smyth (DUP)

Leah Smyth (UUP)

Ballyclare

Jeannine Archibald (DUP)

Lewis Boyle (Alliance)

Mel Lucas (TUV)

Gerard Magee (Sinn Féin)

Helen Magill (DUP)

Vera McWilliam (UUP)

Norrie Ramsay (UUP)

Robert Robinson (Green Party)

Michael Stewart (Independent)

Dunsilly

Jay Burbank (Alliance)

Jonathan Campbell (TUV)

Linda Clarke (DUP)

Tom Cunningham (DUP)

Henry Cushinan (Sinn Féin)

Siobhán McErlean (Aontú)

Annie O'Loan (Sinn Féin)

Ryan Wilson (SDLP)

Stewart Wilson (UUP)

Glengormley Urban

Alison Benington (DUP)

Paula Bradley (DUP)

Mark Cosgrove (UUP)

Michael Goodman (Sinn Féin)

Rosie Kinnear (Sinn Féin)

Michael Maguire (Independent)

Noreen McClelland (SDLP)

Julian McGrath (Alliance)

Eamonn McLaughlin (Sinn Féin)

Anita Paitek (Alliance)

Jason Reid (NI Conservatives)

Lesley Veronica (Green Party)

Macedon

Rosemary Bell-McCracken (PUP)

Norman Boyd (TUV)

Matthew Brady (DUP)

Ellie Byrne (Green Party)

Robert Foster (UUP)

Ben Mallon (DUP)

Taylor McGrann (Sinn Féin)

Victor Robinson (DUP)

Stafford Ward (Independent)

Billy Webb (Alliance)

Three Mile Water

Tom Campbell (Alliance)

Mark Cooper (DUP)

Stephen Cosgrove (UUP)

Sam Flanagan (DUP)

Julie Gilmour (Alliance)

Brian Kerr (UUP)

Dylan Loughlin (Green Party)

Trevor Mawhinney (TUV)

Emmanuel Mullen (Sinn Féin)

Stephen Ross (DUP)

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