2009 Wicklow County Council election

2009 Wicklow County Council election

5 June 2009
All 24 seats on Wicklow County Council
First party Second party Third party   Party Fine Gael Labour Fianna Fáil Seats won 9 6 4 Seat change +2 - -2   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Sinn Féin Green Independent Seats won 2 0 3 Seat change +2 -1 -1
Map showing the area of Wicklow County Council
Council control after election TBD

An election to Wicklow County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 24 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	9	+2	17,795	31.14
	Labour	6	-	10,953	19.16
	Fianna Fáil	4	-2	12,374	21.65
	Sinn Féin	2	+2	4,695	8.21
	Green	0	-1	2,277	3.98
	Independent	3	-1	9,059	15.85
Totals		24	-	57,153	100.00	—

Results by local electoral area

Arklow

Arklow - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fine Gael	Vincent Blake*	15.94	2,041	2,065	2,137
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Fitzgerald	14.77	1,892	1,942	1,998	2,016	2,018	2,449
	Labour	Nicky Kelly*	11.90	1,524	1,715	1,828	2,274
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Doran*	10.92	1,399	1,407	1,415	1,726	1,759	1,909	2,030
	Independent	Peter Dempsey	10.12	1,296	1,366	1,428	1,476	1,513	1,779	1,908
	Fianna Fáil	Tommy Annesley	8.85	1,134	1,185	1,256	1,284	1,290
	Fine Gael	Sylvester Bourke*	8.74	1,119	1,169	1,486	1,595	1,656	1,934	1,998
	Labour	Kevin Ryan	8.10	1,037	1,156	1,182
	Fine Gael	Donal O'Sullivan	5.41	693	767
	Labour	Bernie O'Halloran	5.25	672
Electorate: 19,195   Valid: 12,807 (66.72%)   Spoilt: 178   Quota: 2,135   Turnout: 12,985 (67.65%)

Baltinglass

Baltinglass - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Independent	Tommy Cullen*	22.99	1,934	1,982	2,149
	Fine Gael	Edward Timmins*	20.57	1,730	1,772	1,958	2,130
	Independent	Jim Ruttle*	19.84	1,669	1,728	1,970	2,384
	Fine Gael	Lorcan McMahon	11.97	1,007	1,053	1,125	1,362
	Sinn Féin	Gerry O'Neill	11.14	937	956	1,042
	Fianna Fáil	Geraldine Cole	10.61	892	907
	Green	Pat Pidgeon	2.88	242
Electorate: 12,777   Valid: 8,411 (65.83%)   Spoilt: 71   Quota: 2,103   Turnout: 8,482 (66.38%)

Bray

Bray - 7 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Independent	Christopher Fox*	14.40	2,043
	Labour	John Byrne*	14.04	1,992
	Sinn Féin	John Brady	13.39	1,899
	Fine Gael	John Ryan*	8.29	1,176	1,215	1,227	1,237	1,243	1,265	1,302	1,335	1,667	1,749	1,839
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Vance*	8.25	1,171	1,199	1,214	1,221	1,233	1,261	1,390	1,424	1,460	1,522	2,091
	Fine Gael	Mick Glynn	6.25	886	908	927	934	944	972	1,018	1,067	1,208	1,345	1,411	1,467	1,493
	Green	Ciaran O'Brien*	6.15	872	886	894	907	915	951	974	1,045	1,111	1,201	1,270	1,350	1,362
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Lawlor*	5.82	826	875	888	893	901	914	1,059	1,072	1,089	1,138
	Labour	Barry Nevin	5.36	760	777	876	885	905	942	969	1,059	1,112	1,267	1,339	1,378	1,387
	Fine Gael	Sarah Wray	4.57	649	667	674	690	694	722	734	770
	Independent	Eugene Finnegan	3.60	511	530	546	556	575	633	787	843
	Fianna Fáil	Damien Meaney	3.53	501	511	521	526	534	544
	Independent	Darren Murphy	3.07	435	449	457	491	508	574	600
	Independent	Wayne Tobin	2.49	353	365	372	383	396
	Independent	Emma Kelly	0.79	112	139	143
Electorate: 24,360   Valid: 14,186 (58.23%)   Spoilt: 180   Quota: 1,774   Turnout: 14,366 (58.97%)

Greystones

Greystones - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	Simon Harris	31.76	3,119
	Labour	Tom Fortune*	16.42	1,617	1,793	1,840	1,948	2,155
	Fine Gael	George Jones*	12.04	1,182	1,535	1,551	1,582	1,645	1,681	1,807	2,014
	Fine Gael	Derek Mitchell*	11.30	1,110	1,383	1,398	1,426	1,494	1,536	1,614	1,786
	Fianna Fáil	Eleanor Roche	7.01	688	731	742	765	793	803
	Fianna Fáil	Kathleen Kelleher*	6.57	645	733	741	767	801	816	1,176	1,297
	Independent	Chris Maloney	5.29	519	602	648	717	774	812	895
	Green	Caroline Burrell	4.27	419	488	506	541
	Sinn Féin	Anthony McCoy	3.39	333	379	399
	Independent	Charlie Keddy	1.90	187	211
Electorate: 16,176   Valid: 9,819 (60.70%)   Spoilt: 75   Quota: 1,964   Turnout: 9,894 (61.16%)

Wicklow

Wicklow - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Labour	Jimmy O'Shaughnessy*	16.08	1,918	1,983	2,104
	Fine Gael	Irene Winters*	14.55	1,736	1,813	2,019
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Casey*	13.37	1,595	1,732	1,767	2,264
	Sinn Féin	John Snell	12.79	1,526	1,592	1,650	1,879	1,938
	Labour	Conal Kavanagh*	12.01	1,433	1,506	1,657	1,800	1,909
	Fine Gael	Declan O'Neill	11.29	1,347	1,360	1,422	1,492	1,550
	Fianna Fáil	Jane Dignam	7.95	949	1,123	1,174
	Green	Pat Kavanagh	6.24	744	777
	Fianna Fáil	Gail Dunne	5.72	682
Electorate: 19,547   Valid: 11,930 (61.03%)   Spoilt: 149   Quota: 1,989   Turnout: 12,079 (61.79%)

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