Comber_(District_Electoral_Area)

Comber
Comber
Ards and North Down Borough Council DEA constituency
Current constituency
Created	2014
Seats	5 (2014–)
Councillors	Rachel Ashe (APNI); Trevor Cummings (DUP); Libby Douglas (DUP); Patricia Morgan (APNI); Philip Smith (UUP);

Comber (District Electoral Area)

Electoral district in Northern Ireland

Comber is one of the seven district electoral areas (DEA) in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland.^[1] The district elects five members to Ards and North Down Borough Council and contains the wards of Ballygowan, Comber North, Comber South, Comber West and Killinchy.^[2] Comber forms part of the Strangford constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.

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It was created for the 2014 local elections, largely replacing the Ards West DEA, which had existed since 1985.

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Election
2023	Patricia Morgan (Alliance)	Rachel Ashe (Alliance)	Philip Smith (UUP)	Libby Douglas (DUP)	Trevor Cummings (DUP)
February 2023 Defection		Stephen Cooper (TUV)/ (Independent)		Robert Gibson (DUP)
January 2023 Co-Option
2019	Deborah Girvan (Alliance)
2014	Deborah Girvan (Alliance)		James Fletcher (UUP)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	DUP	Libby Douglas ^[4]	20.60%	1,501
	Ulster Unionist	Philip Smith*	19.31%	1,407
	DUP	Trevor Cummings*	17.88%	1,303
	Alliance	Patricia Morgan*	14.84%	1,081	1,087.38	1,127.54	1,204.6	1,219.6
	Alliance	Rachel Ashe	13.99%	1,019	1,032.64	1,074.72	1,160.8	1,215.2
	TUV	Sam Patterson	5.61%	409	595.56	651.24	677.36	922.12
	Independent	Stephen Cooper*	4.42%	322	374.14	399.58	452.36
	Green (NI)	Cory Quinn	2.72%	197	207.56	219.56
	Independent	John Sloan	0.58%	47	52.5	66.42
Electorate: 15,112 Valid: 7,286 (48.21%) Spoilt: 95 Quota: 1,215 Turnout: 7,381 (48.84%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Alliance	Deborah Girvan* †	23.23%	1,516
	Ulster Unionist	Philip Smith	16.58%	1,082	1,178.3
	DUP	Trevor Cummings*	12.91%	843	856.8	895.5	901.8	1,298.8
	DUP	Robert Gibson*	15.09%	985	992.5	1,024.5	1,028.7	1,201.7
	TUV	Stephen Cooper* ‡	10.65%	695	716	819.3	828	887	1,065
	Green (NI)	Ricky Bamford	5.70%	372	582.3	737.4	780.6	797.6	816.6
	DUP	John Montgomery	9.85%	643	648.7	689.5	693.1
	Ulster Unionist	Michael Palmer	4.87%	318	361.8
	Independent	John Sloan	1.12%	73	100
Electorate: 14,244 Valid: 6,527 (45.82%) Spoilt: 60 Quota: 1,088 Turnout: 6,587 (46.24%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	DUP	Robert Gibson*	17.29%	1,071
	Ulster Unionist	James Fletcher*	13.93%	863	878	880.61	974.67	1,037.67
	Alliance	Deborah Girvan*	13.16%	815	880	880.3	980.39	1,016.48	1,121.48
	DUP	Trevor Cummings*	11.54%	715	724	733.39	771.63	838.93	960.93	975.93
	TUV	Stephen Cooper	9.32%	577	585	585.78	639.87	750.08	908.23	920.23
	DUP	John Oswald*	10.33%	640	648	663.36	676.63	742.14	867.38	879.38
	Ulster Unionist	Philip Smith*	8.17%	506	526	526.42	588.48	661.6
	UKIP	Isabella Hanna	6.89%	427	439	440.65	477.71
	NI Conservatives	John Andrews	6.64%	411	425	425.93
	NI21	Margaret Howson	2.73%	169
Electorate: 13,681 Valid: 6,194 (45.27%) Spoilt: 78 Quota: 1,033 Turnout: 6,272 (45.84%)

Comber (District Electoral Area)