Manse Road (District Electoral Area)

Manse Road was one of the five district electoral areas in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland which existed from 1985 to 1993. The district elected five members to Newtownabbey Borough Council, and formed part of the South Antrim constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.

It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing Newtownabbey Area C and Newtownabbey Area D which had existed since 1973, and contained the wards of Ballyduff, Burnthill, Carnmoney, Hawthorne and Mossley. It was abolished for the 1993 local elections and replaced with the Antrim Line DEA and the University DEA.

Councillors

Election	Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)		Councillor (Party)
1989		Gordon Mawhinney (Alliance)		Samuel Neill (DUP)		Arthur Kell (UUP)		James Robinson (UUP)		George Herron (UUP)
1985		Edward Cassells (DUP)				James Smith (UUP)

1989 Election

1985: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP

1989: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance

1985-1989 Change: Alliance gain from DUP

Manse Road - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Ulster Unionist	George Herron*	37.56%	1,762
	Ulster Unionist	James Robinson*	19.48%	914
	Ulster Unionist	Arthur Kell	6.46%	303	1,131.78
	DUP	Samuel Neill*	15.20%	713	800.78
	Alliance	Gordon Mawhinney	15.46%	725	768.89	904.25
	Ind. Unionist	Thomas Buchanan	2.11%	99	109.83	305.35
	Workers' Party	Brendan Heaney	3.73%	175	182.41	196.98
Electorate: 11,302   Valid: 4,691 (41.51%)   Spoilt: 134   Quota: 782   Turnout: 4,825 (42.69%)

1985 Election

1985: 3 x UUP, 2 x DUP

Manse Road - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Ulster Unionist	George Herron*	26.91%	1,400
	DUP	Edward Cassells	18.87%	982
	Ulster Unionist	James Robinson	14.15%	736	1,064.32
	DUP	Samuel Neill*	13.47%	701	753.44	764.66	766.04	800.86	898.32
	Ulster Unionist	James Smith*	7.61%	396	468.2	515.5	516.5	803.22	809.27	836.27
	Alliance	George Jones	11.45%	596	616.14	617.9	809.12	826.34	828.54	829.54
	Ulster Unionist	Agnes Sloan	3.56%	185	235.54	362.92	364.36
	SDLP	Bernard Conlon	3.98%	207	207.76	208.64
Electorate: 10,827   Valid: 5,203 (48.06%)   Spoilt: 104   Quota: 868   Turnout: 5,307 (49.02%)