Craigavon Borough
Geography
Area: - Total - % Water	Ranked 19th 378 km² ? %
Admin HQ:	Craigavon
ISO 3166-2:	GB-CGV
ONS code:	95N
Demographics
Population: - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density	Ranked 5th 80,671 213 / km²
Community:	Protestant: 52.9% Catholic: 44.7%
Politics
Craigavon Borough Council http://www.craigavon.gov.uk
MPs:	David Trimble

Craigavon Borough Council is a Local Council in County Armagh in Northern Ireland. The headquarters of the Council is in Craigavon, on the shores of Lough Neagh, a town built between Lurgan and Portadown. The Council area includes the large towns of Lurgan and Portadown, as well as smaller ones including Waringstown and Donaghcloney. The Council spends £15.5 million providing a wide range of services to over 80,000 people living in the area. 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. ... Craigavon is a borough in Northern Ireland, including the towns of Portadown and Lurgan. ... 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. ... 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 Armagh (Ard Mhacha in Irish) is a county on the island of Ireland. ... Northern Ireland is an administrative region and one of four parts of the United Kingdom. ... Craigavon is a borough in Northern Ireland, including the towns of Portadown and Lurgan. ... Lough Neagh (Loch nEathach in Irish) is the largest lough, or body of freshwater, in the British Isles. ... A street in Ynysybwl, Wales, relatively stereotypical of a small town A town is usually an urban area which is not considered to rank as a city. ... Lurgan (An Lorgain in Irish) is a town in Northern Ireland with a population of approximately 25,000. ... Portadown (Port an Dúnáin in Irish) is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. ...

The Craigavon Borough Council area consists of 4 electoral areas: Central, Loughside, Lurgan and Portadown from which 26 Council members are elected through local government elections every four years. The Council holds an Annual General Meeting in June, at which a new Mayor and Deputy Mayor are elected. The members elected at the last election in 2001 came from the following political parties: 7 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 7 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 6 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 4 Sinn Fein and 2 Independent Unionist Party (IUP). The current Mayor is Alderman David Simpson and the Deputy Mayor is Councillor Ignatius Fox. 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 Democratic Unionist Party is a hardline Unionist party in Northern Ireland led by Ian Paisley. ... Sinn Féin (in the Irish language ourselves or we ourselves; not as sometimes incorrectly translated, ourselves alone) is an Irish political party. ...

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

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See Also: Local Councils in Northern Ireland