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Belfast City Council: NI election candidates standing in your area

Belfast City Council has the most candidates of all the local authorities in May's local government election.

A total of 121 candidates are contesting 60 seats across 10 district electoral areas.

Of the parties, Sinn Féin is fielding the most candidates with 26, followed by the DUP and Alliance each with 18 and the SDLP with 11.

Read more: Northern Ireland council election 2023: Dates, candidates, where to vote and more you need to know

The Green Party is standing 10 candidates, People Before Profit has eight and the Ulster Unionists have seven.

There are also six each for TUV and the Workers Party, two each for Aontú and IRSP, one each for PUP, the Conservative Party and Socialist Party, and four independents.

In the last council election in Belfast in 2019, Sinn Féin won the most seats with 18, followed by the DUP with 15, Alliance with 10 and the SDLP with six.

There were also four Green Party councillors elected, three for People Before Profit, and two each for the UUP and PUP.

The council election takes place on Thursday May 18. Take at look here at our full coverage of the election campaign.

Here is the full list of the candidates standing in each council district electoral area:

Belfast City Council

Balmoral

Tara Brooks (Alliance)

Sarah Bunting (DUP)

Lauren Kendall (Green Party)

Joshua Lowry (UUP)

Dónal Lyons (SDLP)

Geraldine McAteer (Sinn Féin)

Sarah Mulgrew (SDLP)

Micky Murray (Alliance)

Sean Napier (Sinn Féin)

Gareth Spratt (DUP)

Black Mountain

Ciaran Beattie (Sinn Féin)

Ryan Brown (Alliance)

Arder Carson (Sinn Féin)

Matt Collins (People Before Profit)

Paul Doherty (SDLP)

Michael Donnelly (Sinn Féin)

Róis-Máire Donnelly (Sinn Féin)

Gerard Herdman (Aontú)

Stevie Maginn (Green Party)

Ursula Meighan (Workers Party)

Dan Murphy (IRSP)

Áine McCabe (Sinn Féin)

Ronan McLaughlin (Sinn Féin)

Botanic

Billy Dickson (TUV)

Jeffrey Dudgeon (UUP)

Emma-Jane Faulkner (Sinn Féin)

John Gormley (Sinn Féin)

Áine Groogan (Green Party)

Tracy Kelly (DUP)

Darren Leighton (DUP)

Paddy Lynn (Workers Party)

Idris Maiga (Conservatives)

Emmet McDonough-Brown (Alliance)

Gary McKeown (SDLP)

Neil Moore (Socialist Party)

Chris Ogle (Alliance)

Sipho Sibanda (People Before Profit)

Castle

Brónach Anglin (Sinn Féin)

Fred Cobain (DUP)

Julie-Anne Corr-Johnston (UUP)

Barney Doherty (People Before Profit)

Lily Kerr (Workers Party)

Conor Maskey (Sinn Féin)

Dean McCullough (DUP)

Sam Nelson (Alliance)

Mal O'Hara (Green Party)

Carl Whyte (SDLP)

Collin

Michael Collins (People Before Profit)

Patrick Crossan (Workers Party)

Joe Duffy (Sinn Féin)

Matt Garrett (Sinn Féin)

Ash Jones (Green Party)

Tony Mallon (Independent)

Caoimhín McCann (Sinn Féin)

Luke McCann (Aontú)

Gerard McDonald (SDLP)

Julieann McNally (Independent)

Eoin Millar (Alliance)

Clíodhna Nic Bhranair (Sinn Féin)

Séanna Walsh (Sinn Féin)

Court

Tina Black (Sinn Féin)

Claire Canavan (Sinn Féin)

Sara Haller (Green Party)

Ally Haydock (Alliance)

Billy Hutchinson (PUP)

Michael Kelly (IRSP)

Cailín McCaffery (People Before Profit)

Frank McCoubrey (DUP)

Ron McDowell (TUV)

Ian McLaughlin (DUP)

Olcan McSparron (SDLP)

Nicola Verner (DUP)

Tony Walls (Workers Party)

Geoffrey Wilson (Independent)

Lisnasharragh

Nick Cropper (People Before Profit)

Séamus de Faoite (SDLP)

Davy Douglas (DUP)

Bradley Ferguson (DUP)

Stephen Ferguson (TUV)

Eric Hanvey (Alliance)

Stevie Jenkins (Sinn Féin)

Michael Long (Alliance)

Bill Manwaring (UUP)

Anna McErlean (Alliance)

Brian Smyth (Green Party)

Oldpark

Nichola Bradley (Sinn Féin)

Charlotte Carson (SDLP)

Ange Cruz (Green Party)

Jordan Doran (DUP)

Fiona Ferguson (People Before Profit)

JJ Magee (Sinn Féin)

Ryan Murphy (Sinn Féin)

Fiona McCarthy (Workers Party)

Ann McClure (TUV)

Paul McCusker (Independent)

Tomás Ó Néill (Sinn Féin)

Chris Shannon (Alliance)

Gillian Simpson (DUP)

Ormiston

Christine Bower (Alliance)

Fiona Doran (People Before Profit)

Anthony Flynn (Green Party)

John Hiddleston (TUV)

Carole Howard (UUP)

James Lawlor (DUP)

Jenna Maghie (Alliance)

Caitríona Mallaghan (Sinn Féin)

Andrew McCormick (DUP)

Loran McGuirk (SDLP)

Ross McMullan (Alliance)

Jim Rodgers (UUP)

Caitlin Sullivan (Alliance)

Titanic

David Bell (Alliance)

Ruth Brooks (DUP)

Sonia Copeland (UUP)

Pádraig Donnelly (Sinn Féin)

George Dorrian (DUP)

Sammy Douglas (DUP)

Gillian Hamilton (Green Party)

Fiona McAteer (Alliance)

Elly Odhiambo (SDLP)

Anne Smyth (TUV)

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