2014 Sligo County Council election
Part of the 2014 Irish local elections From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An election to all 18 seats on Sligo County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, a reduction from 25 seats at the 2009 election. County Sligo was divided into two local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councilors for a five-year term of officeon the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). In addition, the borough council of Sligo was abolished.
![]() | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All 18 seats on Sligo County Council 10 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() Area of Sligo County Council |
Fianna Fáil increased their seats by 1 to 8 seats. Sinn Féin gained 1 seat, as did People Before Profit, and Independents increased their numbers by 1 seat to 4. In contrast, Fine Gael lost 9 seats, being reduced to just 3 councillors, while the Labour Party lost representation on the council for the first time since 1912.[1][2][3]
Results by party
Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fianna Fáil | 8 | +1 | 9,454 | 29.7 | ||
Fine Gael | 3 | -9 | 7,958 | 24.9 | ||
Sinn Féin | 2 | +1 | 3,290 | 10.3 | ||
People Before Profit | 1 | +1 | 842 | 2.6 | ||
United Left | 1 | +1 | 1,848 | 5.80 | ||
Labour | 0 | -2 | 1,312 | 4.1 | ||
Independent | 3 | - | 7,142 | 22.40 | ||
Total | 18 | -7 | 31,884 | 100.00 | — |
Results by local electoral area
Summarize
Perspective
^ *: Outgoing councillor.
Ballymote–Tubbercurry
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Independent | Margaret Gormley[*]†††† | 17.84 | 2,701 | |||||||||
Independent | Michael Clarke[*] | 9.92 | 1,502 | 1,541 | 1,644 | 1,654 | 1,781 | |||||
Fianna Fáil | Martin Baker[*] | 9.60 | 1,454 | 1,485 | 1,491 | 1,521 | 1,563 | 1,574 | 1,585 | 1,620 | 1,634 | |
Fianna Fáil | Joe Queenan[*] | 7.37 | 1,116 | 1,119 | 1,236 | 1,238 | 1,269 | 1,276 | 1,281 | 1,805 | ||
Fine Gael | Gerard Mullaney[*] | 7.32 | 1,108 | 1,133 | 1,141 | 1,204 | 1,205 | 1,304 | 1,304 | 1,424 | 1,438 | |
Fianna Fáil | Paul Taylor | 7.31 | 1,107 | 1,303 | 1,312 | 1,344 | 1,395 | 1,499 | 1,502 | 1,535 | 1,556 | |
Fianna Fáil | Eamon Scanlon†† | 7.31 | 1,106 | 1,260 | 1,267 | 1,429 | 1,506 | 1,532 | 1,538 | 1,595 | 1,621 | |
Fine Gael | Blair Feeney | 7.06 | 1,069 | 1,076 | 1,159 | 1,171 | 1,213 | 1,262 | 1,280 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Jerry Lundy[*] | 6.82 | 1,032 | 1,230 | 1,233 | 1,255 | 1,299 | 1,569 | 1,575 | 1,599 | 1,607 | |
Fine Gael | Dara Mulvey[*] | 5.83 | 883 | 967 | 1,001 | 1,118 | 1,150 | 1,284 | 1,289 | 1,505 | 1,544 | |
Sinn Féin | Stephen Edward McCarrick | 4.06 | 614 | 680 | 709 | 717 | ||||||
Fine Gael | Michael Fleming[*] | 3.78 | 573 | 691 | 698 | 736 | 753 | |||||
Fine Gael | Pat McGrath[*] | 2.97 | 450 | 510 | 515 | |||||||
Independent | Mary Tuffy | 2.80 | 424 | 461 | ||||||||
Electorate: 22,833 Valid: 15,139 (66.30%) Spoilt: 158 Quota: 1,683 Turnout: 15,297 (67.0%) |
Sligo
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | ||||
United Left | Declan Bree[*] | 11.04 | 1,848 | |||||||||||||||||
Sinn Féin | Seán MacManus[*]††† | 9.23 | 1,545 | |||||||||||||||||
Independent | Marie Casserly | 7.14 | 1,195 | 1,223 | 1,227 | 1,228 | 1,269 | 1,306 | 1,371 | 1,441 | 1,458 | 1,563 | ||||||||
Fine Gael | Sinéad Maguire | 6.88 | 1,152 | 1,163 | 1,164 | 1,165 | 1,176 | 1,196 | 1,226 | 1,278 | 1,368 | 1,401 | 1,549 | |||||||
Sinn Féin | Tomas Healy | 6.75 | 1,131 | 1,168 | 1,170 | 1,180 | 1,183 | 1,195 | 1,212 | 1,242 | 1,245 | 1,278 | 1,287 | 1,325 | 1,332 | 1,390 | 1,394 | 1,697 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Rosaleen O'Grady[*] | 6.50 | 1,089 | 1,101 | 1,102 | 1,103 | 1,105 | 1,114 | 1,122 | 1,164 | 1,216 | 1,268 | 1,332 | 1,463 | 1,469 | 1,587 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Tom MacSharry | 5.80 | 971 | 992 | 994 | 995 | 1,001 | 1,019 | 1,032 | 1,068 | 1,094 | 1,122 | 1,175 | 1,250 | 1,255 | 1,408 | 1,433 | 1,519 | 1,561 | |
People Before Profit | Seamie O'Boyle† | 5.03 | 842 | 907 | 913 | 916 | 922 | 950 | 959 | 1,008 | 1,015 | 1,087 | 1,116 | 1,205 | 1,210 | 1,238 | 1,240 | 1,271 | 1,284 | |
Fianna Fáil | Seamus Kilgannon | 4.91 | 823 | 829 | 830 | 830 | 836 | 841 | 855 | 869 | 876 | 915 | 954 | 998 | 1,001 | 1,172 | 1,188 | 1,237 | 1,263 | |
Fianna Fáil | Dónal Gilroy | 4.51 | 756 | 761 | 762 | 762 | 762 | 767 | 820 | 832 | 842 | 851 | 864 | 885 | 885 | |||||
Fine Gael | Thomas Collery[*] | 4.50 | 753 | 759 | 760 | 760 | 763 | 765 | 786 | 792 | 859 | 873 | 939 | 971 | 976 | 1,004 | 1,006 | |||
Labour | Jim McGarry[*] | 4.34 | 726 | 745 | 747 | 749 | 750 | 778 | 785 | 805 | 825 | 857 | 922 | 1,049 | 1,052 | 1,082 | 1,086 | 1,134 | 1,151 | |
Fine Gael | Hubert Keaney[*] | 3.69 | 618 | 623 | 623 | 623 | 623 | 627 | 709 | 716 | 746 | 771 | 884 | 939 | 945 | 1,045 | 1,055 | 1,273 | 1,301 | |
Labour | Marcella McGarry | 3.50 | 586 | 607 | 609 | 610 | 612 | 659 | 665 | 695 | 726 | 767 | 796 | |||||||
Fine Gael | Matt Lyons[*] | 3.19 | 535 | 545 | 545 | 545 | 547 | 553 | 567 | 578 | 663 | 701 | ||||||||
Independent | Veronica Cawley[*] | 2.87 | 481 | 507 | 507 | 508 | 516 | 549 | 557 | 587 | 614 | |||||||||
Fine Gael | David Cawley[*] | 2.67 | 447 | 460 | 460 | 460 | 463 | 473 | 483 | 498 | ||||||||||
Independent | Francis Cadden | 2.54 | 426 | 443 | 445 | 446 | 459 | 478 | 479 | |||||||||||
Fine Gael | James Gilmartin | 2.21 | 370 | 373 | 373 | 373 | 374 | 377 | ||||||||||||
Independent | Patricia Gardiner | 0.95 | 159 | 166 | 166 | 166 | 176 | |||||||||||||
Independent | Kebba Cham | 0.80 | 134 | 136 | 141 | 141 | 146 | |||||||||||||
Independent | Martina Butler | 0.72 | 120 | 130 | 133 | 133 | ||||||||||||||
Fís Nua | James Higgins | 0.23 | 38 | 39 | ||||||||||||||||
Electorate: 30,180 Valid: 16,745 (55.48%) Spoilt: 225 Quota: 1,523 Turnout: 16,970 (56.23%) |
Changes
† Co-options
Outgoing | Party | Electoral area | Reason | Date | Co-optee | Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Seamie O'Boyle | People Before Profit | Sligo | Death of Councillor [4] | August 2015 | Gino O'Boyle | People Before Profit |
†† Co-options
Outgoing | Party | Electoral area | Reason | Date | Co-optee | Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Eamon Scanlon | Fianna Fáil | Ballymote–Tubbercurry | Election to Dáil Éireann[5] | 14 March 2016 | Keith Henry | Fianna Fáil |
††† Co-options
Outgoing | Party | Electoral area | Reason | Date | Co-optee | Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Seán MacManus | Sinn Féin | Sligo | Resignation[6] | 6 March 2017 | Chris MacManus | Sinn Féin |
†††† Co-options
Outgoing | Party | Electoral area | Reason | Date | Co-optee | Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Margaret Gormley | Independent | Ballymote–Tubbercurry | Death[7] | Independent |
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.