Larne Lough
Mid and East Antrim Borough Council DEA constituency
Current constituency
Created	1985
Seats	5 (1985-)
Councillors	Roy Beggs Jr (UUP)   Maeve Donnelly (APNI)   Robert Logan (APNI)   Gregg McKeen (DUP)   Paul Reid (DUP)

Larne Lough is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland.^[1] The district elects five members to Mid and East Antrim District Council and contains the wards of Ballycarry and Glynn, Curran and Inver, Islandmagee, Kilwaughter and Whitehead South.^[2] Larne Lough forms part of the East Antrim constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.

It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing Larne Area B and part of Larne Area C which had existed since 1973, where it originally contained five wards (Antiville, Ballycarry, Glynn, Island Magee and Kilwaughter). For the 2014 local elections it gained parts of Larne from the abolished Larne Town DEA, and Whitehead from the abolished Kilroot DEA.

Election	Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)
2023		Robert Logan (Alliance)		Maeve Donnelly (Alliance)		Roy Beggs Jr (UUP)		Gregg McKeen (DUP)		Paul Reid (DUP)
May 2022 Co-Option						Keith Turner (UUP)
August 2019 Co-Option				Danny Donnelly (Alliance)
2019						Mark McKinty (UUP)
2014				Andrew Wilson (UUP)
2011		John Mathews (Alliance)		Roy Beggs (UUP)						Bobby McKee (DUP)
2005						Andrew Wilson (UUP)
2001						David Fleck (UUP)
1997								John Hall (UUP)
1993		Samuel McAllister (DUP)				Thomas Caldwell (UUP)		Alexander Hunter (UUP)
1989		Gary Haggan (DUP)				Samuel Steele (UUP)		Thomas Baxter (UUP)
1985		Samuel McAllister (DUP)						Laurence Niblock (UUP)		John Alexander (DUP)

2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP

2023: 2 x Alliance, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP

2019–2023 Change: No change

Larne Lough - 5 seats^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Alliance	Maeve Donnelly*	21.69%	1,389
	DUP	Gregg McKeen*	18.69%	1,197
	UUP	Roy Beggs Jr	17.78%	1,139
	Alliance	Robert Logan*	10.87%	696	996.15	1,165.15
	DUP	Paul Reid*	13.46%	862	864.53	867.76	972.26	975.26	1,224.26
	UUP	James Carson	7.49%	480	485.06	500.90	506.70	563.70	692.70
	TUV	Ronnie Donnell	6.67%	427	427.23	433.69	441.69	444.69
	Green (NI)	Philip Randle	3.36%	215	223.51
Electorate: 13,744   Valid: 6,405 (46.60%)   Spoilt: 108   Quota: 1,068   Turnout: 6,513 (47.39%)

2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance

2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP

2014-2019 Change: Alliance gain from UUP

Larne Lough - 5 seats^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	DUP	Gregg McKeen*	19.48%	1,166
	Alliance	Danny Donnelly †	17.66%	1,057
	UUP	Mark McKinty* †	16.42%	983	995.88	1,025.88
	DUP	Paul Reid*	13.46%	806	939.98	950.12	1,133.12
	Alliance	Robert Logan*	12.01%	719	720.82	890.82	909.1	912.1	961.75
	UUP	Andrew Wilson*	9.42%	564	570.3	581.58	782.9	914.9	916.2
	TUV	James Strange	7.27%	435	441.72	453.86
	Green (NI)	Robert Robinson	4.28%	256	256.56
Electorate: 13,129   Valid: 5,986 (45.59%)   Spoilt: 100   Quota: 998   Turnout: 6,086 (46.36%)

2011: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance

2014: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance

2011-2014 Change: No change

Larne Lough - 5 seats^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	DUP	Gregg McKeen*	16.99%	966
	UUP	Mark McKinty*	16.31%	927	928	966
	Alliance	Robert Logan	10.23%	583	619	622	903	903.05	1,200.05
	UUP	Andrew Wilson	14.71%	836	836	855	879	881.94	960.94
	DUP	Paul Reid	7.93%	457	457	700	710	715.71	773.71	805.71
	TUV	Kenneth Johnston	10.67%	606	606	615	621	621.51	657.53	678.53
	NI21	Jeremy Jones	10.06%	572	583	586	611	611.08
	Alliance	Michael Lynch*	5.33%	303	366	372
	DUP	Matthew Scott	5.40%	307	307
	Sinn Féin	Seán Waide	2.25%	128
Electorate: 12,826   Valid: 5,685 (44.32%)   Spoilt: 72   Quota: 948   Turnout: 5,757 (44.89%)

2005: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance

2011: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance

2005-2011 Change: No change

Larne Lough - 5 seats^[6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	DUP	Bobby McKee*	24.22%	1,048
	UUP	Roy Beggs*	21.19%	917
	DUP	Gregg McKeen*	11.25%	487	751.96
	Alliance	John Mathews*	14.49%	627	635.32	656.48	869.14
	UUP	Mark McKinty	7.58%	328	338.88	457.56	473.26	563.36	683.19
	DUP	Sharon McKeen	8.48%	367	396.76	425.74	435.07	469.41	576.02
	TUV	Sam McAllister	6.61%	286	292.72	312.27	318.73	340.83
	Alliance	Niamh Spurle	6.17%	267	270.2	275.26
Electorate: 9,312   Valid: 4,327 (46.47%)   Spoilt: 61   Quota: 722   Turnout: 4,388 (47.12%)

2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance

2005: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance

2001-2005 Change: No change

Larne Lough - 5 seats^[7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	DUP	Bobby McKee*	34.79%	1,589
	UUP	Roy Beggs*	20.39%	931
	Alliance	John Mathews*	18.87%	862
	DUP	Gregg McKeen*	9.15%	418	1,195.51
	UUP	Andrew Wilson	12.81%	585	619.45	916.25
	UUP	Jonathan Moore	3.99%	182	194.19	315.03
Electorate: 8,574   Valid: 4,567 (53.27%)   Spoilt: 91   Quota: 762   Turnout: 4,658 (54.33%)

1997: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance

2001: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance

1997-2001 Change: DUP gain from UUP

Larne Lough - 5 seats^[8]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	DUP	Bobby McKee*	25.87%	1,314
	UUP	Roy Beggs*	24.57%	1,248
	Alliance	John Mathews*	23.06%	1,171
	DUP	Gregg McKeen	9.69%	492	914.17
	UUP	David Fleck*	7.36%	374	395.83	704.35	821.2	849.2
	UUP	John Hall*	6.48%	329	342.69	424.77	551.46	615.97
	Independent	William Small	2.97%	151	155.07	162.27	240.58
Electorate: 8,552   Valid: 5,079 (59.39%)   Spoilt: 154   Quota: 847   Turnout: 5,233 (61.19%)

1993: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP

1997: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance

1993-1997 Change: Alliance gain from DUP

Larne Lough - 5 seats^[9]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	UUP	Roy Beggs*	31.32%	1,043
	UUP	David Fleck	7.96%	265	480.73	527.83	655.83
	Alliance	John Mathews	15.80%	526	536.81	554.22	566.22
	UUP	John Hall	8.92%	297	344	362.76	488.79	576.09
	DUP	Bobby McKee*	11.08%	369	405.19	497.77	521.76	523.56
	DUP	Samuel McAllister*	9.01%	300	330.55	440.19	480	489.9
	UUP	Alexander Hunter*	7.21%	240	339.17	358.34
	DUP	Sharon Gardiner	5.23%	174	197.03
	PUP	George Ferguson	3.48%	116	133.39
Electorate: 7,838   Valid: 3,330 (42.49%)   Spoilt: 95   Quota: 556   Turnout: 3,425 (43.70%)

1989: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP

1993: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP

1989-1993 Change: No change

Larne Lough - 5 seats^[10]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	UUP	Roy Beggs*	51.82%	1,680
	UUP	Thomas Caldwell	5.31%	172	695.98
	DUP	Bobby McKee*	15.79%	512	607.14
	UUP	Alexander Hunter	3.73%	121	371.63	472.83	534.05	553.37
	DUP	Samuel McAllister	11.38%	369	430.77	440.23	482.48	508.7
	UUP	Samuel Steele*	5.31%	172	337.43	362.95	431.74	451.75
	NI Conservatives	Gary Haggan*	6.66%	216	255.05	269.57
Electorate: 7,406   Valid: 3,242 (43.78%)   Spoilt: 141   Quota: 541   Turnout: 3,383 (45.68%)

1985: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP

1989: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP

1985-1989 Change: No change

Larne Lough - 5 seats^[11]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	UUP	Roy Beggs*	38.94%	1,387
	UUP	Thomas Baxter*	13.81%	492	927.58
	UUP	Samuel Steele*	8.31%	296	473.48	725.03
	DUP	Bobby McKee	13.73%	489	560.34	592.74	633.24
	DUP	Gary Haggan	6.85%	244	294.46	320.56	365.11	569.16
	Alliance	Thomas Caldwell	11.54%	411	435.94	449.44	472.39	496.83
	DUP	William Sloan	6.82%	243	267.36	273.66	295.26
Electorate: 7,198   Valid: 3,562 (49.49%)   Spoilt: 116   Quota: 594   Turnout: 3,678 (51.10%)

1985: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP

Larne Lough - 5 seats^[12]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	UUP	Roy Beggs*	27.69%	1,020
	DUP	John Alexander*	18.41%	678
	UUP	Laurence Niblock*	12.92%	476	596.4	597.48	703.48
	UUP	Thomas Baxter	9.42%	347	547.8	553.47	657.47
	DUP	Samuel McAllister*	13.33%	491	522.6	547.44	567.73
	DUP	Gary Haggan	8.69%	320	351.2	379.73	389.22
	Alliance	Thomas Benson*	9.53%	351	371.8	372.16
Electorate: 6,568   Valid: 3,683 (56.07%)   Spoilt: 96   Quota: 614   Turnout: 3,779 (57.54%)

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