Ballymoney Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. It is based in Ballymoney. Other towns in the Council area include Dervock , Dunloy , Cloughmills and Rasharkin . The area has a population of nearly 27,000.

In the last local government elections on 7 June 2001, 16 members were elected from the following political parties: 8 Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 5 Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), 2 Social Democratic and Labour Party and 1 Sinn Fein. The Mayor is Councillor Cecil J Cousley (DUP) and Deputy Mayor is Ian R Stevenson (DUP).

The next election is due to take place in May 2005.

The present Council boundaries, which upon the granting of a charter in 1977 became the Borough of Ballymoney, were established in the 1973 reorganisation of local government.

In 2000 Ballymoney Borough Council twinned with the French town of Vanves . Since 2001, the Council has been a Sister City of Benbrook in Texas and building on its motorcycling history, is also linked to the Borough of Douglas on the Isle of Man.

Together with the neighbouring districts of Ballymena and Moyle, it forms the North Antrim constituency for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.

See Also: Local Councils in Northern Ireland