2005 Northern Ireland local elections

5 May 2005

All council seats

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Ian Paisley	Gerry Adams	David Trimble
Party	DUP	Sinn Féin	UUP
Seats won	182	126	115
Seat change	51	18	39
First Preference vote	208,278	163,205	126,317
Percentage	29.6%	23.2%	18.0%
Swing	8.2%	2.5%	4.9%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Mark Durkan	David Ford	N/A
Party	SDLP	Alliance	Independent
Seats won	101	30	20
Seat change	16	2	14
First Preference vote	121,991	35,149	27,677
Percentage	17.4%	5.0%	4.0%
Swing	2.0%	0.1%	2.6%

Colours denote the winning party with outright control over each council

Colours denote the party with a plurality of first preference votes in each District Electoral Area (in darker-coloured DEAs, the party has a majority of first preference votes)

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Elections for local government were held in Northern Ireland on 5 May 2005, contesting 582 seats in all, along with the 2005 general election across the entire United Kingdom and local elections in England.