Larne Borough Council was a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. It merged with Ballymena Borough Council and Carrickfergus Borough Council in May 2015 under the reorganisation of local government in Northern Ireland to become Mid and East Antrim Borough Council. Its headquarters was in the town of Larne. The Borough of Larne was divided into 3 electoral areas: Larne Town, Larne Lough and Coast Road. At the final election in 2011 15 members were elected from the following political parties: 4 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 3 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 2 Independent, 3 Alliance Party, 1 Traditional Unionist Voice, 1 Sinn Féin and 1 Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). Aldermen Jack McKee (TUV) and Roy Beggs (UUP) were the longest serving councillors on the council. Together with the neighbouring former district of Carrickfergus and part of the former district of Newtownabbey, it forms the East Antrim constituency for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly. Settlements and villages in the former borough include Ballycarry, Islandmagee, Ballystrudder, Glynn, Magheramorne, Ballygalley, Cairnalbanagh, Glenarm and Carnlough. See Also: Local Councils in Northern Ireland 2011 Election results Mayors of Larne 1973: Aubrey Girvan, Independent 1974: Tommy Seymour, Vanguard 1975: Tommy Seymour 1976: Tommy Seymour 1977: Tommy Seymour 1978: Roy Beggs, DUP then UUP 1983: Thomas Robinson, UUP 1984: Jack McKee, DUP 1985: 1986: Rosalie Armstrong, UUP 1987: Winston Fulton, DUP 1989: Rosalie Armstrong, UUP 1995: 1996: Sam McAllister, DUP 1997: Joan Drummond, UUP 1999: 2000: David Fleck, UUP 2002: Bobby McKee, DUP 2004: Roy Craig, Independent 2005: 2006: Danny O'Connor, SDLP 2007: Mark Dunn, UUP 2008: Bobby McKee, DUP 2010: Andy Wilson 2011: Bobby McKee, DUP 2012: Gerardine Mulvenna, Alliance 2013: Maureen Morrow, UUP 2014: Martin Wilson, SDLP Review of Public Administration Under the Review of Public Administration (RPA) the council was due to merge with Ballymena Borough Council and Carrickfergus Borough Council in 2011 to form a single council for the enlarged area totalling 1047 km2 and a population of 127,101. The next election was due to take place in May 2009, but on 25 April 2008, Shaun Woodward, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until the introduction of the eleven new councils in 2011. New local government district councils took over from the 26 former councils on 1 April 2015. Freedom of the Borough