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.
Ards and North Down is the only council in Northern Ireland on which Sinn Féin have never won a seat.
|- | 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>
<small>Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes.</small>
|- class="unsortable" align="centre" !rowspan=2 align="left"|District Electoral Area (DEA) ! % <br /> !Cllrs<br /> ! %<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;">Alliance</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | <span style="color:black;">UUP</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | <span style="color:black;">Green</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor=""| <span style="color:black;">SDLP</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | <span style="color:black;">TUV</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | <span style="color:black;">Sinn Féin</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| <span style="black;">Independents and others</span> |- |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 |-
2019: 3 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2023: 3 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: No change
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green, 1 x Independent
2023: 2 x Alliance, 2 x Independent, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: Alliance and Independent gain from DUP and Green
2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent
2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: Alliance gain from Independent
2019: 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green
2023: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Green
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: DUP gain from Alliance
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x TUV
2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: Alliance gain from TUV
2019: 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x Green, 1 x UUP
2023: 2 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x Green, 1 x UUP
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: No change
2019: 3 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent
2023: 3 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: No change