The first election to North Down and Ards District Council (now Ards and North Down Borough Council), part of the Northern Ireland local elections on 22 May 2014, returned 40 members to the newly formed council via Single Transferable Vote. The Democratic Unionist Party won a plurality of first-preference votes and seats.
|- class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left"|Ward ! % <br /> !Cllrs<br /> ! %<br /> !Cllrs<br /> ! %<br /> !Cllrs<br /> ! %<br /> !Cllrs<br /> ! %<br /> !Cllrs<br /> ! %<br /> !Cllrs<br /> ! %<br /> !Cllrs<br /> !rowspan=2|Total<br />Cllrs<br /> |- class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | <span style="color:black;">DUP</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | <span style="color:black;">UUP</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | <span style="color:black;">Alliance</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | <span style="color:black;">Green</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | <span style="color:black;">TUV</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor=""| <span style="color:black;">SDLP</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| <span style="black;">Others</span> |- |align="left"|Ards Peninsula |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|47.1 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |16.6 |1 |8.1 |1 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |19.1 |1 |9.1 |0 |6 |- |align="left"|Bangor Central |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|28.0 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |15.7 |2 |12.8 |1 |7.6 |1 |4.6 |0 |0.0 |0 |31.3 |0 |6 |- |align="left"|Bangor East and Donaghadee |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|32.4 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |18.9 |1 |9.8 |1 |3.9 |0 |5.3 |0 |0.0 |0 |29.7 |1 |6 |- |align="left"|Bangor West |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|31.9 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |16.2 |1 |17.3 |1 |6.4 |1 |9.1 |0 |4.9 |0 |14.2 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Comber |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|39.2 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |22.1 |1 |13.2 |1 |0.0 |0 |9.3 |1 |0.0 |0 |16.2 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Holywood and Clandeboye |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|31.9 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |17.8 |1 |22.2 |1 |14.9 |1 |0.0 |0 |5.0 |0 |8.2 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Newtownards |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|35.7 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|3 |15.2 |2 |12.7 |1 |0.0 |0 |6.4 |0 |0.0 |0 |30.0 |1 |7 |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |35.4 |17 |17.4 |9 |13.4 |7 |4.4 |3 |4.8 |1 |4.2 |1 |20.4 |2 |40 |-
2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2014: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Green
2014: 3 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x TUV
2014: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green
2014: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent
<small>* Incumbent</small>
<small>Last update 26 March 2019.</small>
Current composition: see Ards and North Down Borough Council