Abbey (District Electoral Area)

Abbey was one of the four district electoral areas in North Down, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 2014.

The district elected six members to North Down Borough Council and formed part of the North Down constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.

It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing North Down Area B and North Down Area C which had existed since 1973, and contained the wards of Bangor Castle, Bloomfield, Conlig, Harbour, Rathgael and Whitehill.

It was abolished for the 2014 local elections and mainly replaced by the Bangor Central DEA.

2005: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance 2011: 4 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Green 2005-2011 Change: DUP and Green gain from UUP (two seats) 2001: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UKUP 2005: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance 2001-2005 Change: DUP gain from UKUP 1997: 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UKUP, 1 x Conservative, 1 x DUP, 1 x PUP 2001: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UKUP 1997-2001 Change: UUP and DUP gain from Conservative and PUP 1993: 2 x UPUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Conservative 1997: 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UKUP, 1 x Conservative, 1 x DUP, 1 x PUP 1993-1997 Change: UKUP and PUP gain from UPUP (two seats) 1989: 2 x UPUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Conservative 1993: 2 x UPUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Conservative 1989-1993 Change: No change 1985: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UPUP 1989: 2 x UPUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Conservative, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP 1985-1989 Change: UPUP and Conservative gain from DUP and UUP 1985: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UPUP