The 2023 election to Mid and East Antrim District 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.
Tyler Hoey was selected as a DUP candidate to contest the 2023 Mid and East Antrim Council elections. In 2020, Hoey 'liked' a social media post commemorating the Greysteel massacre, which stated, "On this day 27 years ago, An Ulster Freedom Fighters Active Service Unit from North Antrim-Londonderry Brigade 'Trick or Treated' its way into the republican Rising Sun bar in Greysteel in order to gain revenge for the Shankill Bombing. Spirit of '93". Following this revelation, DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said that Hoey "deeply regrets some of the things that he said in the past" and that he is "entitled to a second chance."
|- | 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;" | 50,571 |<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 /> !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;">TUV</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="" | <span style="color:black;">Sinn Féin</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor=""| <span style="color:black;">SDLP</span> !colspan=2 bgcolor="white"| <span style="black;">Independents and others</span> |- |align="left"|Ballymena |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|23.09 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |13.28 |1 1 |12.29 |1 |13.58 |1 |12.69 |1 1 |11.03 |0 1 |14.04 |1 1 |7 |- |align="left"|Bannside |23.85 |2 |10.74 |1 |8.75 |0 |bgcolor="#D1E5FA"|39.54 |bgcolor="#D1E5FA"|2 |14.72 |1 |2.40 |0 |0.0 |0 |6 |- |align="left"|Braid |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|35.31 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 1 |18.68 |1 |10.74 |1 |21.51 |2 |13.76 |1 1 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |7 |- |align="left"|Carrick Castle |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|39.22 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |23.30 |2 |25.70 |1 |6.99 |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |4.79 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Coast Road |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|32.65 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |13.3 |1 |26.23 |1 |5.79 |0 |20.08 |1 |0.0 |0 |1.95 |0 |5 |- |align="left"|Knockagh |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|31.99 |bgcolor="#D46A4C"|2 |19.04 |1 |25.53 |1 |5.37 |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |18.07 |1 |5 |- |align="left"|Larne Lough |32.15 |2 |25.27 |1 |bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|32.56 |bgcolor="#F6CB2F"|2 |6.67 |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0 |3.35 |0 |5 |- class="unsortable" class="sortbottom" style="background:#C9C9C9" |align="left"| Total |30.90 |14 1 |17.33 |8 1 |18.93 |7 |15.92 |5 |9.29 |4 2 |2.01 |0 1 |5.60 |2 1 |40 |-
2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x Independent, 1 x TUV, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance
2023: 2 x DUP, 1 x TUV, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: Sinn Féin and UUP gain from SDLP and Independent
2019: 2 x TUV, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin
2023: 2 x TUV, 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: No change
2019: 3 x DUP, 2 x TUV, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x TUV, 1 x UUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x Alliance
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: Sinn Féin gain from DUP
2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2023: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: No change
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP
2023: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: No change
2019: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent
2023: 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: No change
2019: 2 x DUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x UUP
2023: 2 x Alliance, 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: No change