Electoral Wards
Belfast City Council currently comprises 51 electoral wards, nominally one for each elected councillor. However, as the PR-STV voting system requires multi-seat constituencies, the 51 wards are grouped into nine district electoral areas (DEA) which elect between 5 and 7 councillors each:
- Balmoral (6)
- Castle (6)
- Court (5)
- Laganbank (5)
- Lower Falls (5)
- Oldpark (6)
- Pottinger (6)
- Upper Falls (5)
- Victoria (7)
Read more about this topic: Members Of Belfast City Council
Famous quotes containing the words electoral and/or wards:
“Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)