No overall control No overall control The 2023 election to Belfast City Council was held on 18 May 2023, alongside other local elections in Northern Ireland, two weeks after local elections in England.

[1] The Northern Ireland elections were delayed by 2 weeks to avoid overlapping with the coronation of King Charles III.

[2] Voters returned 60 members to the council via single transferable vote.

Typical for Northern Ireland, the council remained with no overall control but Sinn Féin remained the single largest party, but fell short of a majority despite a net gain of 4 seats.

2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Sinn Féin 2023: 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin 2019–2023 Change: Alliance gain from DUP 2019: 6 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit 2023: 6 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP 2019–2023 Change: SDLP gain from People Before Profit 2019: 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Green, 1 x SDLP 2023: 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Green 2019–2023 Change: No change 2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Green 2023: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP 2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin gain from Green 2019: 4 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit, 1 x SDLP 2023: 5 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit 2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP 2019: 3 x DUP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x PUP 2023: 3 x DUP, 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x TUV 2019–2023 Change: TUV gain from PUP 2019: 2 x Alliance, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Green 2023: 2 x Alliance, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Green 2019–2023 Change: No Change 2019: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x People Before Profit 2023: 4 x Sinn Féin, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent 2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin and Independent gain from SDLP and People Before Profit 2019: 3 x Alliance, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green 2023: 3 x Alliance, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green 2019–2023 Change: No change 2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x PUP 2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP 2019–2023 Change: Sinn Féin gain from PUP