Editing County Antrim (section)

==Administration==
The county was administered by [[Antrim County Council]] from 1899 until the abolition of county councils in Northern Ireland in 1973.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1972/9/contents |title=Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 |publisher=Legislation.gov.uk |access-date=29 November 2019 |archive-date=30 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191030152505/http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1972/9/contents |url-status=live}}</ref> The traditional county town is [[Antrim, County Antrim|Antrim]]. More recently, [[Ballymena]] was the seat of county government. From 1973 Northern Ireland was split into [[Districts of Northern Ireland|districts]], which were redrawn in 2015. County Antrim is part of the following districts:
* [[Antrim and Newtownabbey]]
* [[Belfast]]
* [[Causeway Coast and Glens]]
* [[Mid and East Antrim]]
* [[Lisburn and Castlereagh]]
* [[Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon]]

The county contains within it the whole of five [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|parliamentary]] [[constituencies]]:
* [[Belfast North (UK Parliament constituency)|Belfast North]]
* [[Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)|Belfast West]]
* [[East Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)|East Antrim]]
* [[North Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)|North Antrim]]
* [[South Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)|South Antrim]]

Parts of the following five [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|parliamentary]] [[constituencies]] are also in County Antrim:
* [[Belfast East (UK Parliament constituency)|Belfast East]]{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}
* [[Belfast South (UK Parliament constituency)|Belfast South]]
* [[East Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency)|East Londonderry]]
* [[Lagan Valley (UK Parliament constituency)|Lagan Valley]]
* [[Upper Bann (UK Parliament constituency)|Upper Bann]]