2014 Leitrim County Council election
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An election to all 18 seats on Leitrim County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, a reduction from 22 seats at the 2009 election]. County Leitrim was divided into three local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
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All 18 seats to Leitrim County Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Map showing the area of Leitrim County Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fine Gael lost 6 seats, and their previously held overall majority while Fianna Fáil also lost 2 seats. Independents and Sinn Féin both increased their numbers by 2 despite the Council being reduced by 4 seats as a whole.[1][2]
Results by party
editParty | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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Fianna Fáil | 6 | -2 | 6,110 | 33.68 | ||
Fine Gael | 4 | -6 | 4,952 | 27.29 | ||
Sinn Féin | 4 | +2 | 3,481 | 19.19 | ||
Independent | 4 | +2 | 3,601 | 19.84 | ||
Total | 18 | -4 | 18,144 | 100.00 | — |
Results by local electoral area
edit^ *: Outgoing councillor.
Ballinamore
editParty | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Paddy O'Rourke[*] | 13.88 | 948 | 958 | 965 | 1,006 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Caillian Ellis[*] | 11.61 | 793 | 821 | 873 | 983 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Martin Kenny[*]† | 10.57 | 722 | 737 | 917 | 925 | 929 | 951 | 954 | |
Fine Gael | John McCartin[*] | 10.32 | 705 | 736 | 786 | 792 | 857 | 880 | 884 | |
Sinn Féin | Brendan Barry | 10.00 | 683 | 691 | 784 | 897 | 1,078 | |||
Fine Gael | Gordon Hughes[*] | 9.29 | 635 | 674 | 732 | 751 | 823 | 847 | 848 | |
Fine Gael | Enda McGloin[*] | 8.43 | 576 | 579 | 580 | 683 | ||||
Independent | Gerry Dolan[*] | 8.42 | 575 | 597 | 630 | 735 | 998 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Francis Gilmartin[*] | 7.71 | 527 | 530 | 534 | |||||
Sinn Féin | Maureen Martin | 6.79 | 464 | 498 | ||||||
Independent | Desmond Wisley | 2.99 | 204 | |||||||
Electorate: 9,581 Valid: 6,832 (71.31%) Spoilt: 59 Quota: 977 Turnout: 6,891 (71.92%) |
Carrick-on-Shannon
editParty | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
Independent | Enda Stenson[*] | 15.97 | 858 | |||||
Sinn Féin | Séadhna Logan | 12.51 | 672 | 694 | 703 | 734 | 749 | |
Independent | Des Guckian | 12.49 | 671 | 714 | 727 | 786 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Seán McGowan[*] | 12.27 | 659 | 695 | 707 | 755 | 862 | |
Fianna Fáil | Sinéad Guckian[*] | 11.30 | 607 | 680 | 696 | 902 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Siobhán Finnegan-McElgunn | 9.92 | 533 | 560 | 572 | |||
Fine Gael | Finola Armstrong-McGuire | 9.55 | 513 | 595 | 607 | 804 | ||
Fine Gael | Thomas Mulligan[*] | 9.29 | 499 | 565 | 581 | 585 | 597 | |
Fine Gael | John Ward[*] | 6.68 | 359 | |||||
Electorate: 8,872 Valid: 5,371 (60.54%) Spoilt: 40 Quota: 768 Turnout: 5,411 (60.99%) |
Manorhamilton
editParty | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Padraig Fallon | 15.82 | 940 | ||||||
Fianna Fáil | Mary Bohan[*] | 13.67 | 812 | 836 | 872 | ||||
Independent | Felim Gurn | 13.16 | 782 | 802 | 840 | 846 | 873 | ||
Fine Gael | Frank Dolan[*] | 10.30 | 612 | 619 | 636 | 641 | 697 | 838 | |
Fine Gael | Séan McDermott[*] | 10.30 | 612 | 617 | 666 | 668 | 760 | 859 | |
Independent | Thomas Kelly | 8.35 | 496 | 512 | 573 | 574 | 645 | 721 | |
Fine Gael | Siobhán McGloin[*] | 7.42 | 441 | 445 | 470 | 471 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Justin Warnock | 7.41 | 440 | 443 | 512 | 513 | 682 | 789 | |
Fianna Fáil | Pat Munday | 7.39 | 439 | 444 | 492 | 499 | 515 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Philip Rooney | 5.92 | 352 | 357 | |||||
Independent | James Vincent Kelly | 0.25 | 15 | 17 | |||||
Electorate: 8,865 Valid: 5,941 (67.02%) Spoilt: 70 Quota: 849 Turnout: 6,011 (67.81%) |
References
edit- ^ McGreevy, Ronan (24 May 2014). "All change in Leitrim as Independents and Sinn Féin surge". The Irish Times. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
- ^ "Leitrim County Council Election results". Irish Independent. 24 May 2014. Archived from the original on 18 June 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
Changes
edit- †Ballinamore Sinn Féin Councillor Martin Kenny was elected a TD for Sligo-Leitrim at the 2016 general election. Caroline Gildea was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 14 March 2016.[1]