Mr O'Hara is the second Green Party leader to lose their seat in a year
He remained in contention until the final stage of the count in the Castle area to the north of the city, but lost in the end to the SDLP's Carl Whyte.
DUP councillors Fred Cobain and Dean McCullough and Alliance councillor Sam Nelson were also elected to the six-seat DEA.In August last year the LGBT activist was announced as the new leader of the Green Party in Northern Ireland. In 2019, Sinn Féin was the largest party in Belfast with 18 councillors, however, this total was a drop from the 19 seats it won at the 2014 and 2011 local government elections.
Meanwhile, the Alliance Party had 10 councillors in 2019, ahead of the SDLP who had six, the Green Party had four, People Before Profit had three, the UUP had two and the PUP had two.Counting in the remaining DEAs of Botanic, Oldpark, Ormiston, Collin and Titanic, are due to start on Saturday.
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