Ards Borough Council is a Local Council in County Down, Northern Ireland with its headquarters in Newtownards. Other towns include Portaferry, Comber, and Donaghadee, and the population of the area is about 73,000. Image File history File links NorthernIrelandArds. ... Area is the measure of how much exposed area any two dimensional object has. ... This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by area. ... To help compare different orders of magnitude and geographical regions, we list here areas between 100 km² and 1000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of SI unit of surface area square metre, one of the SI derived units. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... The ISO 3166-2 codes for the United Kingdom correspond to the nations administrative divisions. ... The Office for National Statistics coding system is a hierarchical code used in the United Kingdom for tabulating census and other statistical data. ... In physics, density is mass m per unit volume V. For the common case of a homogeneous substance, it is expressed as: where, in SI units: ρ (rho) is the density of the substance, measured in kg·m-3 m is the mass of the substance, measured in kg V is... This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by population. ... This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by Protestant / Catholic community make-up In the 2001 decennial census, the Census Office for Northern Ireland (CONI) asked a new question to attempt to achieve a more accurate depiction of the balance of the mainly Unionist Protestant and mainly... This is a list of MPs elected in the UK general election, 2005 to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom at the United Kingdom general election, 2005, arranged by constituency. ... Lady Sylvia Hermon (born 11 August 1955) is a Northern Ireland unionist politician. ... Iris Robinson (born September 6, 1949 in Belfast as Iris Collins) is a Northern Ireland unionist politician. ... Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Downpatrick Area: 2,448 km² Population (est. ... Northern Ireland (Irish: ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Portaferry (in Irish: Port an Pheire, ie Landing place of the ferry) is a large village in County Down, Northern Ireland, at the southern end of the Ards Peninsula, near the Narrows at the entrance to Strangford Lough. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... Donaghadee Harbour and lighthouse Donaghadee (in Irish: Domhnach Daoi, ie Daoi’s Church) is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland, situated on the east coast, about 18 miles from Belfast and about eight miles north east of Newtownards. ...

The borough has four district electoral areas: Newtownards, Ards West, Ards East and Ards Peninsula, from which 23 members are elected. At the 2005 election members were elected from the following political parties: 13 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 6 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 3 [[Alliance Party of Northern Ireland|Alliance Party], and 1 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). The current Mayor is Councillor Robin Drysdale (DUP) and the Deputy Mayor is Councillor James Fletcher (UUP). The Ards peninsula is a peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland which separates Strangford Lough from the North Channel on Irelands northeast coast. ... “DUP” redirects here. ... The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP or, in a historic sense, simply the Unionist Party) is a moderate unionist political party in Northern Ireland. ... The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP — Irish: Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is the smaller of the two major nationalist parties in Northern Ireland. ...

The current DUP team has now fallen to 11 following the re-designation of two councillors as Independents. As such from February 2007, the DUP have lost their overall majority in the Council chamber.

The next election is due to take place in May 2009. Under the Review of Public Administration, Ards is due to form part of the new East district.

Strangford Lough is at the heart of the area, and is the largest inlet in the British Isles with internationally renowned wildlife. The Irish Sea coast stretches from Donaghadee to Portaferry. Mount Stewart, a National Trust property on the shore of Strangford Lough is in the area, as well as Northern Ireland’s only aquarium, Exploris, in Portaferry and Grace Neill's, holder of the Guinness Book of Records title of the oldest pub on Ireland. View of Portaferry from the Strangford side of the lough Strangford Lough (Loch Cuan in Irish) is a lough in County Down, Northern Ireland, separated from the Irish Sea by the Ards peninsula. ... The British Isles in relation to mainland Europe The British Isles (French: , Irish: [1] or Oileáin Iarthair Eorpa,[2] Manx: Ellanyn Goaldagh, Scottish Gaelic: , Welsh: ), are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe comprising Great Britain, Ireland and a number of smaller islands. ... Relief map of the Irish Sea. ... Exterior of Mount Stewart Mount Stewart is an 18th century house and landscaped garden owned by the National Trust. ... The standard of the National Trust The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, usually known as The National Trust, is a British preservation organization. ... “Aquaria” redirects here. ... Grace Neills. ... Suresh Joachim, minutes away from breaking the ironing world record at 55 hours and 5 minutes, at Shoppers World, Brampton. ...

In elections for the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly it is mostly in the Strangford constituency, with part in the North Down consituency. The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... The logo of the Northern Ireland Assembly, a six flowered linen or flax plant. ... Strangford is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ... North Down is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ...

See also

• Local Councils in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is divided into 26 Local Council areas. ...

References

1. ^ http://www.ratingreviewni.gov.uk/ards_bc.pdf

External links

• Kingdoms of Down Tourism
• Ards Borough Council Web Site