 The area is represented in the Northern Ireland Assembly by Clare Bailey, Matthew O'Toole SDLP, Paula Bradshaw, Deirdre Hargey Sinn Fein, Christopher Stalford.Within Belfast City Council, the area was formerly part of the Laganbank District Electoral Area which had existed since 1985.It became part of the Botanic (District Electoral Area) for the first time in the 2014 local elections and in 2019 Emmet McDonough-Brown Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (son of Jimmy Brown (Irish republican), Sinn Fein, Tracy Kelly Democratic Unionist Party, Aine Groogan Green Party in Northern Ireland and Gary McKeown SDLP were elected to Belfast City Council.