Shore Road (District Electoral Area)

Shore Road was one of the five district electoral areas in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 1993. The district elected five members to Newtownabbey Borough Council, and formed part of the South Antrim constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly and East Antrim and South Antrim constituencies for the UK Parliament.

It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing Newtownabbey Area C which had existed since 1973, and contained the wards of Abbey, Cloughfern, Jordanstown, Monkstown and Rostulla. It was abolished for the 1993 local elections and replaced with the Macedon DEA and the University DEA.

Councillors

Election	Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)
1989		William McKimmon (Alliance)		Ken Robinson (UUP)		Barbara Gilliland (UUP)		Billy Boyd (DUP)		Jean Boyd (DUP)
1985		Leo McKenna (Alliance)		Robert Caul (UUP)						Billy Gillespie (DUP)

1989 Election

1985: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance

1989: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance

1985-1989 Change: No change

Shore Road - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	UUP	Barbara Gilliland	23.70%	1,008
	UUP	Ken Robinson*	22.87%	973
	DUP	Billy Boyd*	22.33%	950
	Alliance	William McKimmon	18.08%	769
	DUP	Jean Boyd	3.53%	150	351.31	544.86	767.16
	Ind. Unionist	William Ball	5.64%	240	310.93	363.43	376.17
	Labour '87	David Lowrie	3.86%	164	184.5	198.85	199.63
Electorate: 10,478   Valid: 4,254 (40.60%)   Spoilt: 148   Quota: 710   Turnout: 4,402 (42.01%)

1985 Election

1985: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance

Shore Road - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	DUP	Billy Boyd	25.97%	1,370
	UUP	Robert Caul*	25.40%	1,340
	UUP	Ken Robinson	13.50%	712	751.6	1,099.42
	DUP	Billy Gillespie	6.37%	336	712.2	726.48	802.32	810.16	840.62	997.06
	Alliance	Leo McKenna	12.09%	638	640.16	657.16	682.12	753.84	800.46	818.72
	Ind. Unionist	Desmond Dowds*	5.63%	297	341.28	400.78	492.94	502.12	538.78	668.48
	PUP	John Niblock	6.31%	333	342.36	347.8	363.4	368.64	378.82
	Independent	Helen Craig	2.35%	124	134.44	139.2	146.4	160
	Newtownabbey Labour	Thomas Crawford	1.16%	61	63.16	63.84	65.76
	Newtownabbey Labour	James Devlin	0.93%	49	49.36	50.04	50.52
	Independent	Claire Martin*	0.28%	15	15.36	15.7	16.66
Electorate: 10,409   Valid: 5,275 (50.68%)   Spoilt: 117   Quota: 880   Turnout: 5,392 (51.80%)