Aldermen Jack McKee (TUV) and Roy Beggs (UUP) were the longest serving councillors on the council.

Settlements and villages in the former borough include Ballycarry, Islandmagee, Ballystrudder, Glynn, Magheramorne, Ballygalley, Cairnalbanagh, Glenarm and Carnlough.

[1] The next election was due to take place in May 2009, but on 25 April 2008, Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until the introduction of the eleven new councils in 2011.

This gave the regiment the right to march through the towns of the borough with 'flags flying, bands playing and bayonets fixed'.

[4] The area covered by the former Larne Borough Council had a population of 32,180 residents according to the 2011 Northern Ireland census.