2014 Galway City Council election
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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)
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
[edit]Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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Fine Gael | 4 | ![]() |
3,446 | 15.8 | ||
Fianna Fáil | 3 | ![]() |
4,256 | 19.5 | ||
Sinn Féin | 3 | ![]() |
2,074 | 9.5 | ||
Labour | 2 | ![]() |
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 | ![]() |
8,116 | 37.1 | ||
Total | 18 | ![]() |
21,854 | 100.0 |
Results by local electoral area
[edit]^ *: Outgoing councillor.
Galway City Central
[edit]Party | 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
[edit]Party | 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
[edit]Party | 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.