2014 Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council election

2014 Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council election
← 2009 23 May 2014 2019 →
All 40 seats on Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council; 21 seats needed for a majority
	Map showing the area of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council
Council control before election; Fine Gael;	Council control after election ; Fine Gael;

An election to all 40 seats on Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council was held on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, an increase from 28 at the previous election. Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown was divided into six local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors from a field of 85 candidates for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).^[1]^[2]

Quick facts All 40 seats on Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council 21 seats needed for a majority, First party ...

Close

Fine Gael retained their position as the leading party on the authority with 11 seats, including 2 seats in each of Blackrock, Dundrum and Stillorgan and 3 seats in Dún Laoghaire. Fianna Fáil doubled their seats to 8 and won 2 seats in each of Blackrock and Stillorgan. Labour lost 1 seat overall to emerge with 7 seats. The party won 2 seats in each of Glencullen–Sandyford and Killiney–Shankill to compensate from losing a seat in Dún Laoghaire. Sinn Féin gained 3 seats to secure representation on the council for the first time. People Before Profit gained 2 extra seats to also return with 3 councillors. The Green Party also returned with 2 seats with 2 gains in Dundrum and Dún Laoghaire. Independents doubled their seats to return with 6 seats to the Council chamber.

[1]

[2]

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%
	Fine Gael	11	0	19,518	28.15
	Fianna Fáil	8	+4	12,936	18.66
	Labour	7	−1	9,108	13.14
	Sinn Féin	3	+3	6,690	9.65
	People Before Profit	3	+1	5,475	7.90
	Green	2	+2	4,829	6.97
	Independent	6	+3	10,774	15.54
Total		40	+12	69,330	100.00

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fine Gael	Marie Baker^[*]	17.29	1,797
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Hanafin	14.45	1,501
	Fianna Fáil	Kate Feeney	12.40	1,288	1,322	1,367	1,432	1,521
	Independent	Victor Boyhan^[*]††††	11.27	1,171	1,202	1,272	1,421	1,502
	Fine Gael	Barry Ward^[*]	11.06	1,149	1,247	1,272	1,341	1,830
	People Before Profit	Lola Hynes	8.09	841	848	1,034	1,201	1,238	1,264
	Fine Gael	Maurice Dockrell	6.78	704	795	822	863
	Green	Celine Moorkens	6.52	677	691	754
	Labour	Deirdre Kingston^[*]	6.17	641	664	815	992	1,077	1,335
	Sinn Féin	Brian McNally	3.64	378	380
	Labour	Angela Timlin	2.35	244	256
Electorate: 22,712 Valid: 10,391 (45.75%) Spoilt: 83 Quota: 1,485 Turnout: 10,474 (46.12%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Sinn Féin	Sorcha Nic Cormaic	8.68	1,161	1,165	1,167	1,184	1,217	1,228	1,351	1,381	1,413	1,420	1,431	1,571
	Fianna Fáil	Shay Brennan	8.84	1,130	1,144	1,152	1,173	1,322	1,339	1,348	1,385	1,743
	Green	Catherine Martin†	7.98	1,068	1,078	1,099	1,160	1,182	1,237	1,289	1,346	1,409	1,423	1,502	1,602
	Fine Gael	Brian Murphy†††††††††	7.84	1,049	1,059	1,147	1,183	1,221	1,283	1,295	1,343	1,409	1,414	1,678
	Independent	Seamus O'Neill	7.50	1,004	1,027	1,038	1,089	1,109	1,130	1,221	1,400	1,445	1,451	1,499	1,630
	Labour	Grace Tallon^[*]	6.79	908	922	975	1,002	1,012	1,241	1,293	1,356	1,447	1,455	1,584	1,683
	Fine Gael	Pat Hand^[*]	6.55	877	883	933	957	982	1,029	1,037	1,054	1,081	1,085	1,339	1,422
	Independent	Anne Colgan	5.73	767	786	801	878	907	934	996	1,095	1,133	1,141	1,184	1,392
	Fine Gael	Jim O'Dea^[*]	5.50	736	743	821	841	866	901	906	935	976	981
	Independent	Tony Fox^[*]	5.43	726	748	752	796	825	836	887	941	979	992	1,045
	Fianna Fáil	Sarah Ryan	5.13	686	689	700	721	808	825	837	865
	Independent	Stephen O'Shea	4.32	578	593	596	632	650	659	722
	People Before Profit	John O'Dowd	4.13	553	557	558	597	613	626
	Fianna Fáil	Tony Kelly	4.03	539	542	544	548
	Labour	Peter Leonard	3.98	532	536	551	564	576
	Independent	Terence Corish	3.71	497	518	523
	Fine Gael	Madeline Spiers	2.83	379	381
	Independent	Donal Fingleton	1.43	192
Electorate: 28,094 Valid: 13,382 (47.63%) Spoilt: 160 Quota: 1,673 Turnout: 13,542 (48.20%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
	Fine Gael	John Bailey^[*]	16.19	2,423
	Fianna Fáil	Cormac Devlin^[*]	8.37	1,253	1,341	1,346	1,349	1,361	1,368	1,390	1,404	1,423	1,578	1,624	1,671
	People Before Profit	Melissa Halpin^[*]	8.00	1,198	1,210	1,214	1,219	1,226	1,235	1,256	1,275	1,311	1,348	1,412	1,436	1,436	1,670
	Green	Ossian Smyth	7.14	1,068	1,096	1,107	1,117	1,128	1,133	1,148	1,212	1,256	1,314	1,403	1,473	1,474	1,534	1,656
	People Before Profit	Karl Gill††††††††	6.93	1,037	1,066	1,070	1,071	1,079	1,087	1,105	1,112	1,124	1,153	1,216	1,233	1,233	1,489	1,659
	Sinn Féin	Jeanette Kavanagh	6.10	913	923	927	930	932	932	938	945	956	972	1,003	1,012	1,012
	Fine Gael	Patricia Stewart^[*]	5.06	757	851	852	854	863	865	874	944	981	1,012	1,046	1,321	1,321	1,330	1,377
	Fianna Fáil	James McCann	4.72	707	736	736	741	748	754	769	772	791	941	991	1,015	1,017	1,086
	Labour	Jane Dillon-Byrne^[*]	4.66	697	787	790	793	875	876	886	1,093	1,111	1,137	1,162	1,207	1,208	1,244	1,319
	Fine Gael	Mary Fayne	4.52	677	866	866	868	876	880	893	940	975	998	1,020	1,227	1,230	1,248	1,337
	Independent	Michael Merrigan	4.45	666	674	682	693	701	731	765	782	903	936	1,113	1,140	1,140	1,251	1,352
	Fianna Fáil	Lisa Rogerson	4.01	600	631	631	631	638	646	656	671	696
	Fine Gael	Ellen O'Connor	3.93	588	659	662	663	671	678	694	726	766	802	835
	Independent	John Paul Kearney	3.59	537	556	557	573	578	608	662	673	749	774
	Labour	Donna Pierce^[*]	3.09	462	483	484	485	547	549	556
	Independent	Rita O'Brien	2.33	349	355	418	446	453	583	638	646
	Independent	Mary MacHale	1.94	291	300	303	310	313	342
	Labour	John Kane	1.64	246	261	261	263
	Independent	Peter Kerrigan	1.40	210	214	233	294	296
	Independent	Anthony Kenny	1.01	151	154	163
	Independent	Alan O'Reilly	0.92	138	141
Electorate: 32,795 Valid: 14,968 (45.64%) Spoilt: 181 Quota: 1,664 Turnout: 15,149 (46.19%)

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Labour	Lettie McCarthy^[*]	17.65	1,577
	Fine Gael	Neale Richmond^[*]†††††	13.07	1,168
	Sinn Féin	Chris Curran	10.75	961	976	981	985	1,019	1,020	1,043	1,045	1,246
	Independent	Kevin Daly	8.87	793	836	838	856	891	894	943	944	1,080	1,132
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Murphy^[*]	7.91	707	761	772	802	1,062	1,066	1,140
	Labour	Peter O'Brien	7.21	644	790	815	846	879	886	1,009	1,015	1,087	1,104
	People Before Profit	Nicola Curry	6.76	604	621	626	637	665	666	726	729
	Independent	Lynsey McGovern†††††††††	6.15	550	583	606	620	650	655	748	751	929	984
	Green	Tom Kivlehan	5.77	516	548	558	580	600	604
	Fianna Fáil	John Byrne	5.38	481	500	508	516
	Fine Gael	Tom Joyce^[*]	4.53	405	443	517	747	777	802	875	882	902	906
	Fine Gael	Aileen Eglington	3.63	324	361	408
	Fine Gael	Stewart Stephens	2.31	206	231
Electorate: 22,226 Valid: 8,936 (40.21%) Spoilt: 94 Quota: 1,118 Turnout: 9,030 (40.63%)

2014 Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council election

Results by party

Results by local electoral area

Blackrock

Dundrum

Dún Laoghaire

Glencullen–Sandyford

Killiney–Shankill

Stillorgan

Changes

Co-options

Changes in affiliation

References

External links

Related Articles

Timelines

Top Qs

Fact Checks

	Outgoing	LEA	Reason	Date	Co-optee
Labour	Richard Humphreys	Stillorgan	Was appointed as a High Court Judge.^[3]	23 July 2015	Carron McKinney
Green	Catherine Martin	Dundrum	Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election.	26 February 2016	Karen Furlong^[4]
Fine Gael	Maria Bailey	Killiney–Shankill	Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election.	26 February 2016	Jim Gildea^[5]
Fine Gael	Josepha Madigan	Stillorgan	Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election.	26 February 2016	John Kennedy^[6]
Independent	Victor Boyhan	Blackrock	Elected to 25th Seanad at the 2016 Seanad election.	26 April 2016	Anne Colgan
Fine Gael	Neale Richmond	Glencullen–Sandyford	Elected to 25th Seanad at the 2016 Seanad election.	3rd June 2016	Emma Blain^[7]
Fianna Fáil	Gerry Horkan	Stillorgan	Elected to 25th Seanad at the 2016 Seanad election.	26 April 2016	Donal Smith
People Before Profit	Karl Gill	Dún Laoghaire	Resignation.	10 October 2016	Dave O'Keeffe
Labour	Carron McKinney	Stillorgan	Work commitiments in the UK.^[8]	3 May 2017	Alex White
Green	Karen Furlong	Dundrum	Resignation.	8 October 2018	Daniel Dunne^[9]

Name	LEA	Elected as		New affiliation		Date
Lynsey McGovern	Glencullen–Sandyford		Independent		Fine Gael	25 October 2017^[10]
Brian Murphy	Dundrum		Fine Gael		Independent	30 October 2017^[11]

Killiney–Shankill: 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	People Before Profit	Hugh Lewis^[*]	14.03	1,653	1,663	1,758
	Sinn Féin	Shane O'Brien	12.77	1,504	1,516	1,541	1,582	1,588	1,600	1,602	1,672	1,672	1,674
	Fianna Fáil	Jennifer Cuffe	10.92	1,286	1,329	1,366	1,616	1,620	1,708
	Labour	Carrie Smyth^[*]	10.36	1,220	1,251	1,271	1,303	1,305	1,409	1,443	1,718
	Fine Gael	Maria Bailey^[*]††	9.23	1,087	1,223	1,252	1,294	1,296	1,789
	Labour	Denis O'Callaghan^[*]	8.22	968	995	1,024	1,068	1,072	1,178	1,219	1,405	1,434	1,450
	People Before Profit	Cillian Doyle	7.73	911	928	1,011	1,048	1,098	1,124	1,130	1,417	1,422	1,428
	Green	Cara Augustenborg	7.27	857	888	963	998	1,003	1,066	1,088
	Fine Gael	Jim Gildea	6.46	761	895	920	942	943
	Fianna Fáil	Vinny Duran-Kearns	4.76	561	566	583
	Independent	Simon Hall	4.13	487	508
	Fine Gael	Garrett McDermott	4.13	486
Electorate: 26,266 Valid: 11,781 (44.85%) Spoilt: 134 Quota: 1,684 Turnout: 11,915 (45.36%)

Stillorgan: 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fine Gael	Barry Saul^[*]	21.83	2,155
	Fine Gael	Josepha Madigan†††	13.68	1,350	1,716
	Fianna Fáil	Gerry Horkan^[*]††††††	11.31	1,117	1,185	1,212	1,232	1,304	1,323	1,405
	Independent	Deirdre Donnelly	11.16	1,102	1,155	1,172	1,323	1,620
	Fianna Fáil	Liam Dockery	10.94	1,080	1,112	1,131	1,163	1,200	1,210	1,277
	Labour	Richard Humphreys^[*]†††††††	9.82	969	1,036	1,057	1,091	1,162	1,186	1,536
	Green	Miriam Hennessy	6.51	643	666	678	736	806	893	1,004
	Independent	Catriona Lawlor	5.72	565	595	606	689
	Sinn Féin	Simon Gillespie	4.57	451	460	461
	Fine Gael	John Kennedy	4.46	440	536	733	748	802	823
Electorate: 21,417 Valid: 9,872 (46.09%) Spoilt: 88 Quota: 1,411 Turnout: 9,960 (46.51%)