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Niall Deeney

Full list of candidates for council election in Causeway Coast and Glens

A total of 74 candidates will contest the council elections in the Causeway Coast and Glens district on May 18.

With 40 seats available, spread across seven electoral areas, 34 candidates will fail to make it across the line when the votes are counted on May 19.

The DUP is standing the most candidates with 16 in total, followed by Sinn Fein's 13 candidates and the UUP's 10.

Read more: Northern Ireland council election: List of all the candidates in the May 2023 poll

Alliance has announced eight candidates and the SDLP seven, followed by the TUV and Aontu with four candidates each.

The Green Party is standing two candidates, while People Before Profit and the PUP has each announced one candidate.

There are a total of eight independent candidates spread across the electoral areas in Causeway Coast and Glens.

Last time around, in 2019, the DUP came out on top with 14 councillors.

Sinn Fein were the next largest with nine seats, followed by the UUP on seven and the SDLP on six.

The Ballymoney area will see seven councillors elected, with the same number returned in the Causeway area, and six from Coleraine.

The Bann, Benbradagh, Limavady and Glens areas will each elect five councillors.

Take at look here at our full coverage as the election campaign unfolds.

Here is the full list of candidates for the 2023 council election in Causeway Coast and Glens District:

Ballymoney

Caitlin Bond (SDLP)

Lee Kane (Alliance)

Jonathan McAuley (TUV)

Tom McKeown (UUP)

Cathal McLaughlin (Independent)

Alan McLean (DUP)

Ciarán McQuillan (Sinn Féin)

Leanne Peacock (Sinn Féin)

Mervyn Storey (DUP)

Ivor Wallace (DUP)

Darryl Wilson (UUP)

Bann

Ciarán Archibald (Sinn Féin)

Sean Bateson (Sinn Féin)

Gemma Brolly (Aontú)

William Craig (TUV)

Richard Holmes (UUP)

Dawn Huggins (DUP)

Joe Hutchinson (Alliance)

Andrew Kerr (UUP)

Michelle Knight-McQuillan (DUP)

Jen McCahon (Green Party)

Adrian McQuillan (Independent)

Benbradagh

Robert Carmichael (UUP)

Michael Coyle (SDLP)

Liam McElhinney (Aontú)

Sean McGlinchey (Sinn Féin)

Kathleen McGurk (Sinn Féin)

Niall Murphy (Independent)

Dermot Nicholl (Sinn Féin)

Edgar Scott (DUP)

Christine Turner (Alliance)

Causeway

David Alexander (Independent)

Mark Coulson (Green Party)

Mark Fielding (DUP)

Sandra Hunter (UUP)

Allister Kyle (TUV)

John McAuley (DUP)

Peter McCully (Alliance)

Sharon McKillop (DUP)

Angela Mulholland (Independent)

Paul Shevlin (SDLP)

Richard Stewart (Alliance)

Emma Thompson (Sinn Féin)

Barry Torrens (UUP)

Coleraine

Philip Anderson (DUP)

Niamh Archibald (Sinn Féin)

Yvonne Boyle (Alliance)

George Duddy (Independent)

Helen Maher (SDLP)

Amy Louise Merron (People Before Profit)

Tanya Stirling (DUP)

Michael Sweeney (TUV)

Adele Tomb (DUP)

Russell Watton (PUP)

John Wisener (UUP)

Limavady

John Boyle (Aontú)

Steven Callaghan (DUP)

Aaron Callan (DUP)

Brenda Chivers (Sinn Féin)

Barry Crawford (UUP)

Amy Mairs (Alliance)

James McCorkell (Independent)

Ashleen Schenning (SDLP)

Billy Stewart (Independent)

Jordan Wallace (DUP)

The Glens

Wesley Craig (UUP)

Bill Kennedy (DUP)

Margaret Anne McKillop (SDLP)

Oliver McMullan (Sinn Féin)

Cara McShane (Sinn Féin)

Glenise Morgan (Alliance)

John Robbin (Aontú)

Maighréad Watson (Sinn Féin)

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