2014 Roscommon County Council election
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All 18 seats on Roscommon County Council 10 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Roscommon County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, a reduction from 26 seats at the 2009 election. County Roscommon 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). In addition, the town council of Boyle was abolished.
Fine Gael lost 7 seats, including a number of long-serving councillors; due to voter anger over continuous boil water notices and the closure of the Accident and Emergency Department at Roscommon University Hospital; the latter leading to a split in the party locally. Fianna Fáil and Independents performed well in the election with the former becoming the largest party in Roscommon for the first time since 1985.[1][2][3][4]
Results by party
[edit]Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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Fianna Fáil | 8 | - | 10,822 | 34.53 | ||
Fine Gael | 3 | -7 | 7,026 | 22.42 | ||
Sinn Féin | 1 | - | 2,542 | 8.11 | ||
Independent | 6 | -1 | 10,361 | 33.06 | ||
Total | 18 | -8 | 30,751 | 100.00 | — |
Results by local electoral area
[edit]^ *: Outgoing councillor.
Athlone
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
Independent | Tony Ward[*] | 17.62 | 1,712 | |||||
Fianna Fáil | Ivan Connaughton†††† | 14.56 | 1,414 | |||||
Fine Gael | John Naughten[*] | 12.71 | 1,235 | 1,298 | 1,309 | 1,414 | ||
Fianna Fáil | John Keogh[*] | 11.52 | 1,119 | 1,158 | 1,176 | 1,271 | 1,379 | |
Independent | Laurence Fallon | 10.76 | 1,045 | 1,102 | 1,111 | 1,287 | 1,458 | |
Fianna Fáil | Paddy Kilduff[*]††† | 10.13 | 984 | 1,026 | 1,034 | 1,111 | 1,183 | |
Fine Gael | Ollie Moore[*] | 8.73 | 848 | 882 | 892 | 923 | 988 | |
Sinn Féin | David McWeeney | 6.64 | 645 | 675 | 703 | 759 | ||
Independent | Anthony Geraghty | 3.78 | 367 | 399 | 426 | |||
Independent | Peadar Doyle | 2.11 | 205 | 217 | 237 | |||
Independent | Gordon Hudson | 1.44 | 140 | 155 | 155 | |||
Electorate: 14,519 Valid: 9,714 (66.91%) Spoilt: 109 Quota: 1,401 Turnout: 9,823 (67.66%) |
Boyle
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | John Cummins[*] | 13.16 | 1,513 | 1,535 | 1,582 | 1,628 | 1,643 | ||||
Independent | Valerie Byrne | 11.71 | 1,347 | 1,442 | 1,461 | 1,578 | 1,619 | 1,777 | |||
Sinn Féin | Patrick Michael Mulligan[*] | 10.88 | 1,251 | 1,283 | 1,362 | 1,406 | 1,614 | 1,639 | 1,640 | 1,727 | |
Fianna Fáil | Eugene Murphy[*]† | 9.99 | 1,149 | 1,163 | 1,178 | 1,289 | 1,310 | 1,381 | 1,406 | 1,463 | |
Fianna Fáil | Rachel Doherty[*] | 9.28 | 1,067 | 1,079 | 1,131 | 1,152 | 1,176 | 1,296 | 1,332 | 1,608 | |
Independent | Tom Crosby[*] | 9.23 | 1,062 | 1,107 | 1,112 | 1,144 | 1,161 | 1,207 | 1,230 | 1,268 | |
Fine Gael | Maura Hopkins†† | 7.30 | 840 | 867 | 916 | 1,039 | 1,287 | 1,400 | 1,413 | 1,729 | |
Fine Gael | Charlie Hopkins | 6.36 | 731 | 733 | 734 | 752 | 767 | 929 | 948 | ||
Fine Gael | Gerry Garvey[*] | 5.86 | 674 | 680 | 682 | 739 | 754 | 754 | |||
Fine Gael | Liam Callaghan[*] | 5.15 | 592 | 606 | 650 | ||||||
Labour | Micheál Frain | 5.10 | 587 | 606 | 652 | 696 | 696 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Aidan Sampey | 3.17 | 365 | 374 | 374 | ||||||
Independent | Gertrude Drury-O'Beirne | 1.58 | 182 | 182 | |||||||
Independent | Anthony Brendan Coleman | 1.22 | 140 | 140 | |||||||
Electorate: 17,647 Valid: 11,500 (65.17%) Spoilt: 132 Quota: 1,643 Turnout: 11,632 (65.91%) |
Roscommon
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Paschal Fitzmaurice[*] | 15.03 | 1,576 | |||||||||
Fianna Fáil | Orla Leyden[*] | 10.04 | 1,053 | 1,054 | 1,063 | 1,070 | 1,085 | 1,134 | 1,241 | 1,290 | 1,334 | |
Independent | Kathleen Shanagher | 9.17 | 962 | 965 | 966 | 973 | 992 | 1,022 | 1,211 | 1,314 | 1,345 | |
Independent | Dominick Connolly[*] | 9.12 | 957 | 959 | 964 | 983 | 1,010 | 1,128 | 1,295 | 1,376 | 1,443 | |
Fianna Fáil | Larry Brennan | 9.03 | 947 | 947 | 951 | 956 | 973 | 1,009 | 1,103 | 1,140 | 1,161 | |
Fine Gael | Michael Creaton[*] | 8.34 | 875 | 876 | 885 | 917 | 959 | 1,039 | 1,060 | 1,120 | 1,419 | |
Independent | Nigel Dineen | 7.58 | 795 | 803 | 822 | 869 | 993 | 1,044 | 1,113 | 1,322 | 1,487 | |
Fine Gael | Michael McGreal[*] | 7.23 | 758 | 758 | 762 | 830 | 863 | 892 | 905 | 943 | ||
Independent | Paula McNamara[*] | 6.59 | 691 | 693 | 694 | 705 | 727 | 762 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Séamus O'Brien | 6.46 | 646 | 650 | 658 | 712 | 799 | 807 | 831 | |||
Fine Gael | Seán Beirne[*] | 4.51 | 473 | 474 | 474 | 478 | 481 | |||||
Independent | John Murphy[*] | 3.75 | 393 | 397 | 409 | 449 | ||||||
Independent | Padraig Morris | 3.06 | 321 | 327 | 332 | |||||||
Independent | Joe Malone | 0.40 | 42 | |||||||||
Electorate: 16,891 Valid: 10,633 (62.10%) Spoilt: 144 Quota: 1,499 Turnout: 10,489 (62.95%) |
Changes
[edit]- † Boyle Fianna Fáil Councillor Eugene Murphy was elected to the 32nd Dáil for Roscommon–Galway at the Irish general election 2016. His brother, Joe, was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 14 March 2016.[1] Archived 22 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- †† Boyle Fine Gel Councillor Maura Hopkins was elected to the 25th Seanad in April 2016. Liam Callaghan was co-opted to fill the vacancy in July 2016.[2]
- ††† Athlone Fianna Fáil Councillor Paddy Kilduff resigned from the party and became an Independent on 9 February 2018 citing disillusionment with how the party was run and how its members were treated.[3]
- †††† Athlone Fianna Fáil Councillor Ivan Connaughton resigned from the party and became an Independent on 3 January 2019.[4] Archived 7 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine
References
[edit]- ^ McDonagh, Marese (17 May 2014). "Roscommon profile: Voters boiling angry over contaminated water". The Irish Times.
- ^ McCaughey, Ciara (26 May 2014). "Roscommon Council results: Fine Gael vote implodes in the three electoral areas". The Irish Times. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
- ^ "Local Election: Roscommon County Council". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 31 May 2014.
- ^ "Roscommon Local Elections". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 18 June 2014.