Counting across 11 sites will begin on Friday and is expected to continue into Saturday.
It is the first electoral test for the parties since last year's Assembly elections and takes place against the backdrop of the Stormont stalemate, with the powersharing institutions not operating as part of a DUP protest against post-Brexit trading arrangements.It was a low-key election campaign, largely overshadowed by the visit to Northern Ireland of US President Joe Biden, commemorations of the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and the coronation.
NI council elections 2023 Sinn Fein, which currently has 105 councillors, will be hoping to emulate last May's Assembly election result and emerge as the largest party. Party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has pledged that his party will stand firm over any return to Stormont until political and trading concerns around the Windsor Framework are addressed.
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