Black Mountain is a District Electoral Area used to elect 7 councillors to Belfast City Council.
It is named after the Black Mountain.
The district was created for the 2014 election. It combined 4 of the 6 wards from the abolished Upper Falls DEA with 3 of the 5 wards from the abolished Lower Falls DEA.
In the 2014 election it elected 5 Sinn Féin councillors, 1 Social Democratic and Labour Party councillor, and Gerry Carroll of the People Before Profit Alliance. In the 2019 election Sinn Fein gained a sixth seat from the SDLP. In the 2023 election, the SDLP regained a seat at the expense of People Before Profit.
2019: 6 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit
2023: 6 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP
2019âÂÂ2023 Change: SDLP gain from People Before Profit
2014: 5 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit, 1 x SDLP
2019: 6 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit
2014-2019 Change: Sinn Féin gain from SDLP
2014: 5 x Sinn Féin, 1 x People Before Profit, 1 x SDLP