Botanic (District Electoral Area)

Botanic
Botanic
Belfast City Council DEA constituency
	Botanic DEA marked on a map of Belfast City Council and its wards
Current constituency
Created	2014
Seats	5 (2014–)
Councillors	Áine Groogan (GPNI); Tracy Kelly (DUP); Emmet McDonough-Brown (APNI); Conor McKay (SF); Gary McKeown (SDLP);

Botanic is one of the ten district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland.^[1] The district elects five members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Blackstaff; Central; Ormeau; Stranmillis, and Windsor.^[2] Botanic, along with neighbouring Balmoral, forms the greater part of the Belfast South constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament. It covers large parts of the centre and southern parts of the city.

It was created for the 2014 local elections, largely replacing the Laganbank DEA, which had existed since 1985. The DEA is named after Belfast's Botanic Gardens.

^ Final Northern Ireland super council recommendations, BBC News, 13 December 2013, accessed 24 May 2014
^ Belfast City Council Elections, 2014, ARK, accessed 24 May 2014

[1] Final Northern Ireland super council recommendations, BBC News, 13 December 2013, accessed 24 May 2014

[2] Belfast City Council Elections, 2014, ARK, accessed 24 May 2014

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