Ormiston (District Electoral Area)

Ormiston has been one of the ten district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland since 2014. Located in the east of the city, the district elects seven members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Belmont, Garnerville, Gilnahirk, Sandown, Shandon, Knock and Stormont. Ormiston, along with wards from the neighbouring Titanic and Lisnasharragh DEAs, together with parts of Lisburn and Castlereagh District Council, form the Belfast East constituency for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.

The district was created for the 2014 local elections, replacing the Victoria District Electoral Area, which had existed since 1985. Nineteen candidates contested the first election in 2014, the most of any DEA in Northern Ireland.

2014 elections

Belfast City Council elections, 2014
Party		Candidate	1st Pref
	UUP	Jim Rodgers	1,899
	Alliance	Mervyn Jones	1,184
	DUP	Tom Haire	1,072
	Alliance	Ross McMullan	899
	Alliance	Laura McNamee	898
	Green (NI)	Ross Brown	831
	DUP	John Hussey	821
	DUP	Denny Vitty	809
	DUP	Brian Kennedy	750
	PUP	Ian Shanks	720
	TUV	John Hiddleston	640
	UUP	Peter Johnston	622
	UKIP	Stephen Crosby	618
	Alliance	Andrew Webb	561
	NI21	Ian Dickson	245
	NI21	Jayne Olorunda	192
	NI Conservatives	Ian Reid	162
	SDLP	Michael McMillan	95
	Sinn Féin	Laura Keenan	56
Turnout			13,074