The 2023 election to Ards and North Down Borough Council was held on 18 May 2023, alongside other local elections in Northern Ireland, two weeks after local elections in England. The Northern Ireland elections were delayed by 2 weeks to avoid overlapping with the coronation of King Charles III.
They returned 40 members to the council via Single Transferable Vote.
Background
Ards and North Down is the only council in Northern Ireland on which Sinn Féin have never won a seat.
Election results
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| colspan="2" style="background-color:#f2f2f2;text-align:center;margin-bottom:-1px;border:1px solid #aaa;padding:.2em .4em" | Total | style="text-align:right;" | 40 | | | | | | style="text-align:right;" | 56,929 |<noinclude>
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.
District summary
|- class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left"|District Electoral Area (DEA) ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs ! % !Cllrs !rowspan=2|Totalcllrs |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | DUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Alliance !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | UUP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Green !colspan=2 bgcolor=""| SDLP !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | TUV !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | Sinn Féin !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| Independents and others |- |align="left"|Ards Peninsula |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|44.71 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |13.78 |1 |8.05 |1 |1.62 |0 |13.93 |1 |6.45 |0 |10.29 |0 |1.18 |0 |6 |- |align="left"|Bangor Central |16.73 |1 1 |bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|28.75 |bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|2 1 |14.55 |1 |6.90 |0 1 |0.00 |0 |5.37 |0 |0.00 |0 |27.69 |2 1 |6 |- |align="left"|Bangor East and Donaghadee |23.39 |2 |23.90 |2 1 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|34.18 |bgcolor="40BFF5"|2 |4.18 |0 |0.00 |0 |0.00 |0 |0.00 |0 |14.35 |0 1 |6 |- |align="left"|Bangor West |25.72 |2 1 |bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|30.09 |bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|1 1 |13.33 |1 |11.33 |1 |4.57 |0 |5.09 |0 |0.00 |0 |9.87 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Comber |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|38.48 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |28.83 |2 1 |19.31 |1 |2.72 |0 |0.0 |0 |5.61 |0 1 |0.00 |0 |5.00 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Holywood and Clandeboye |19.81 |1 |bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|41.03 |bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|2 |12.80 |1 |14.67 |1 |6.97 |0 |4.71 |0 |0.00 |0 |0.00 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Newtownards |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|32.38 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |23.51 |2 |13.54 |1 |2.43 |0 |0.00 |0 |6.44 |0 |0.00 |0 |21.70 |1 |7 |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |29.02 |14 |26.59 |12 2 |16.50 |8 |5.94 |2 1 |3.72 |1 |4.83 |0 1 |1.66 |0 |11.75 |3 |40 |- |}