2014 Galway City Council election
An election to all 18 seats on Galway City Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, an increase of 3 seats from 2009 election. The city of Galway 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 on Galway City Council 10 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Map showing the area of Galway City Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Twenty-four-year-old Mairéad Farrell, a niece of Mairéad Farrell who was shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in 1988, won a seat at the first attempt.[1] She was joined on the council by 2 other councillors as Sinn Féin won 3 seats. Their gains came chiefly at the expense of Labour who lost 3 fifths of their seats to return with just 2 councillors. While Fianna Fáil won the most votes the party did not make any gains in the election and returned just 3 councillors as in 2009. By contrast Fine Gael gained a seat to become the largest party. Independents were the big winners, topping the poll in all LEAs and increasing their existing numbers by 2 seats.[2]
Results by party
editParty | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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Fine Gael | 4 | 1 | 3,446 | 15.8 | ||
Fianna Fáil | 3 | 4,256 | 19.5 | |||
Sinn Féin | 3 | 3 | 2,074 | 9.5 | ||
Labour | 2 | 3 | 2,370 | 10.8 | ||
Anti-Austerity Alliance | 0 | 985 | 4.51 | |||
Green | 0 | 479 | 2.19 | |||
People Before Profit | 0 | 128 | 0.59 | |||
Independent | 6 | 2 | 8,116 | 37.1 | ||
Total | 18 | 3 | 21,854 | 100.0 |
Results by local electoral area
edit^ *: Outgoing councillor.
Galway City Central
editParty | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Independent | Mike Cubbard | 13.36 | 850 | 866 | 911 | |||||||
Fianna Fáil | Ollie Crowe[*] | 12.98 | 826 | 827 | 831 | 842 | 845 | 862 | 902 | 1,123 | ||
Fine Gael | Frank Fahy[*] | 10.42 | 663 | 663 | 668 | 673 | 674 | 702 | 735 | 764 | 797 | |
Labour | Billy Cameron[*] | 9.01 | 573 | 581 | 606 | 695 | 719 | 819 | 855 | 937 | ||
Fine Gael | Pádraig Conneely[*] | 8.52 | 542 | 545 | 559 | 585 | 594 | 626 | 678 | 748 | 786 | |
Sinn Féin | Anna Marley†† | 7.91 | 503 | 524 | 534 | 554 | 631 | 656 | 718 | 782 | 796 | |
Fianna Fáil | Nicola Deacy | 7.91 | 503 | 504 | 512 | 550 | 563 | 596 | 650 | |||
Green | Séamus Sheridan | 7.53 | 479 | 495 | 516 | 529 | 565 | 618 | 671 | 721 | 751 | |
Independent | Cormac O Corcoráin | 5.26 | 335 | 341 | 360 | 364 | 427 | 440 | ||||
Labour | Colette Connolly[*] | 4.26 | 271 | 279 | 281 | 328 | 342 | |||||
Labour | John McDonagh | 4.15 | 264 | 267 | 271 | |||||||
Anti-Austerity Alliance | Seán Byrne | 3.69 | 235 | 285 | 294 | 301 | ||||||
Independent | Mike Geraghty | 2.62 | 167 | 173 | ||||||||
People Before Profit | Kiran Emrich | 2.01 | 128 | |||||||||
Independent | Jimmy Horan | 0.38 | 24 | |||||||||
Electorate: 12,488 Valid: 6,363 (50.95%) Spoilt: 83 Quota: 910 Turnout: 6,446 (51.62%) |
Galway City East
editParty | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Independent | Terry O'Flaherty[*] | 20.4% | 1,405 | |||||||||
Independent | Declan McDonnell[*] | 15.7% | 1,085 | |||||||||
Fianna Fáil | Michael John Crowe[*] | 12.5% | 860 | 923 | 940 | 950 | 986 | |||||
Sinn Féin | Mairéad Farrell | 11.3% | 782 | 829 | 842 | 859 | 874 | 897 | 1,074 | |||
Independent | Noel Larkin | 7.4% | 513 | 598 | 622 | 634 | 673 | 697 | 779 | 827 | 936 | |
Fianna Fáil | Alan Cheevers | 6.5% | 451 | 484 | 491 | 492 | 505 | 557 | 586 | 595 | 654 | |
Fine Gael | John Walsh | 5.8% | 398 | 450 | 463 | 476 | 554 | 694 | 710 | 717 | 855 | |
Anti-Austerity Alliance | Conor Burke | 5.2% | 357 | 384 | 390 | 400 | 408 | 426 | ||||
Labour | Monica Coughlan | 4.7% | 327 | 367 | 377 | 439 | 475 | 524 | 558 | 577 | ||
Fine Gael | John Rabbitte | 4.5% | 311 | 333 | 338 | 344 | 397 | |||||
Fine Gael | Margot Kelly | 3.8% | 262 | 294 | 296 | 312 | ||||||
Labour | Nuala Nolan[*] | 2.1% | 142 | 161 | 164 | |||||||
Electorate: 14,010 Valid: 6,893 Spoilt: 101 Quota: 985 Turnout: 6,994 (49.2%) |
Galway City West
editParty | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Independent | Donal Lyons[*] | 21.77 | 1,872 | |||||||
Independent | Catherine Connolly[*]† | 17.60 | 1,513 | |||||||
Fianna Fáil | Peter Keane[*] | 10.51 | 904 | 991 | 1,011 | 1,015 | 1,043 | 1,064 | 1,102 | |
Fine Gael | Pearce Flannery | 9.27 | 797 | 892 | 910 | 918 | 950 | 977 | 1,273 | |
Labour | Níall McNelis[*] | 9.22 | 793 | 924 | 989 | 1,001 | 1,057 | 1,123 | 1,240 | |
Sinn Féin | Cathal O Conchúir | 9.18 | 789 | 841 | 888 | 897 | 940 | 1,122 | 1,147 | |
Fianna Fáil | David Burke | 8.28 | 712 | 820 | 838 | 849 | 871 | 910 | 960 | |
Fine Gael | Michelle Murphy[*] | 5.50 | 473 | 529 | 554 | 561 | 593 | 618 | ||
Anti-Austerity Alliance | Tommy Holohan | 4.57 | 393 | 432 | 472 | 484 | 540 | |||
Independent | Tommy Roddy | 3.14 | 270 | 320 | 353 | 401 | ||||
Independent | Marc Anderson | 0.95 | 82 | 107 | 125 | |||||
Electorate: 17,606 Valid: 8,598 (48.84%) Spoilt: 86 Quota: 1,229 Turnout: 8,684 (49.32%) |
References
edit- ^ McDonald, Brian (24 May 2014). "Galway City Council City East: First count". Irish Independent. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
- ^ "Galway City local elections". Irish Independent. 24 May 2014. Archived from the original on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
Changes 2014–2019
edit- † Galway City West Independent Cllr Catherine Connolly was elected as a TD for Galway West at the Irish general election, 2016. Her sister and now Independent Cllr, Colette, was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 21 March 2016.[1]
- †† Galway City Central Sinn Féin Cllr Anna Marley resigned her seat on 15 August 2016 saying she found it challenging to balance family responsibility with her work as a public representative.[2] On 13 October 2016 Mark Lohan was co-opted to fill the vacancy.