Banbridge District
Geography
Area: - Total - % Water	Ranked 15th 453 km² ? %
Admin HQ:	Banbridge
ISO 3166-2:	GB-BNB
ONS code:	95Q
Demographics
Population: - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density	Ranked 18th 41,392 91 / km²
Community:	Protestant: 66.0% Catholic: 31.5%
Politics
Banbridge District Council http://www.banbridgedc.gov.uk
MPs:	Jeffrey Donaldson Eddie McGrady David Trimble

Banbridge District Council is a Local Council in County Down in Northern Ireland. The Headquarters of the Council is in the town of Banbridge. The Council area is to the north- west of County Down and covers an area of 175 square miles of countryside - from Slieve Croob (1,775 feet) in the east to the River Bann valley in the west. It is also the main gateway to the Mourne Mountains, which lie to the south and is bisected by the A1 route between Belfast and Dublin. The other main small towns in the area include: Gilford, Scarva, Loughbrickland and Dromore. The population of the area is just over 41,000. This article explains the meaning of area as a Physical quantity. ... This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by area. ... (Redirected from 1 E8 m2) 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 (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Banbridge (Droichead na Banna in Irish) is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. ... 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 the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species—living in a given geographic area. ... April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Density (symbol: ρ - Greek: rho) is a measure of mass per unit of volume. ... This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by population (census April 29, 2001 [1]). See also: Local Councils in Northern Ireland Local Councils in Northern Ireland by area Local Councils in Northern Ireland by community make-up ... 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 to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Third Parliament of the United Kingdom at the UK general election, 2001, arranged by constituency. ... Jeffrey Mark Donaldson (born 7 December 1962) is a Northern Irish politician and Member of Parliament for Lagan Valley. ... Edward Kevin McGrady (born June 3, 1935) is a Northern Ireland nationalist politician. ... The Right Honourable David Trimble (born October 15, 1944) is a Northern Ireland politician, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), former First Minister of Northern Ireland, MP and MLA. He shared the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize with John Hume of the Social Democratic and Labour Party. ... County Down, (An Dún in Irish) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, covering an area of 2,448 km² (945 square miles). ... Northern Ireland is an administrative region and one of four parts of the United Kingdom. ... Banbridge (Droichead na Banna in Irish) is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. ... Slieve Croob is the largest of a small group of peaks in the centre of County Down, north of the Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland. ... The River Bann is a the largest river in Northern Ireland. ... The granite Mountains of Mourne are located in the first proposed national park of Northern Ireland. ... This article is about the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland. ... Dublins Hapenny Bridge. ... Dromore is a market town of Co. ...

The Banbridge District Council area consists of three electoral areas: Banbridge, Knockiveagh and Dromore. In the last elections in 2001 17 members were elected from the following political parties: 6 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 6 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 3 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 1 Alliance Party and 1 Independent. In 2004-05 the Council Chairman is Councillor Ian Burns (UUP) and the Vice Chairman is Councillor John Hanna (UUP). 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Democratic Unionist Party is a hardline Unionist party in Northern Ireland led by Ian Paisley. ... The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP) is a political party in Northern Ireland representing the unionist community, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972. ... 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 Alliance Party of Northern Ireland, or APNI, is a political party operating in Northern Ireland. ...

The next election is due to take place in May 2005.

In elections for the Westminster Parliament it is split between the Upper Bann constituency, the Lagan Valley constituency and the South Down constituency. 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). ...

See Also: Local Councils in Northern Ireland