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

[2] They returned 40 members to the council via Single Transferable Vote.

Tyler Hoey was selected as a DUP candidate to contest the 2023 Mid and East Antrim Council elections.

In 2020, Hoey 'liked' a social media post commemorating the Greysteel massacre, which stated, "On this day 27 years ago, An Ulster Freedom Fighters Active Service Unit from North Antrim-Londonderry Brigade 'Trick or Treated' its way into the republican Rising Sun bar in Greysteel in order to gain revenge for the Shankill Bombing.

[3] Following this revelation, DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said that Hoey "deeply regrets some of the things that he said in the past" and that he is "entitled to a second chance.