2014 Longford County Council election
Part of the 2014 Irish local elections
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An election to all 18 seats on Longford County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, a reduction from 21 seats at the 2009 election. County Longford 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 councils of Granard and Longford were abolished.
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23 May 2014
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All 18 seats on Longford County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Map showing the area of Longford County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||
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In one of the party's better local election results, Fine Gael remained the largest party with 8 seats. Fianna Fáil took 7 seats and the remainder were filled by Independents. This was the only Council on which Sinn Féin failed to make a breakthrough.[1][2][3]
Results by party
| Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fine Gael | 8 | -2 | 8,245 | 42.10 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | 7 | -1 | 6,264 | 31.90 | ||
| Sinn Féin | 0 | - | 1,284 | 6.55 | ||
| Independent | 3 | - | 3,803 | 19.40 | ||
| Total | 18 | -3 | 19,596 | 100.00 | — | |
Results by local electoral area
^ *: Outgoing councillor.
Ballymahon
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Colm Murray[*] | 14.09 | 931 | 956 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Gerard Farrell | 12.79 | 845 | 848 | 848 | 856 | 863 | 1,066 | ||
| Independent | Mark Casey[*] | 12.50 | 826 | 885 | 886 | 1,036 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Mick Cahill[*] | 11.44 | 756 | 785 | 786 | 831 | 848 | 899 | 921 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Thomas Victory[*] | 10.32 | 682 | 687 | 687 | 732 | 743 | 770 | 782 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Pat O'Toole | 10.15 | 671 | 744 | 747 | 768 | 780 | 829 | 841 | |
| Fine Gael | Paul Ross | 9.88 | 653 | 674 | 677 | 722 | 726 | 843 | 918 | |
| Fine Gael | Seán Farrell[*] | 7.23 | 478 | 496 | 498 | 517 | 519 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Edel Kelly | 6.87 | 454 | 489 | 490 | |||||
| Independent | Niamh Moran | 4.72 | 312 | |||||||
| Electorate: 10,519 Valid: 6,608 (62.82%) Spoilt: 88 Quota: 945 Turnout: 6,696 (63.66%) | ||||||||||
Granard
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Micheál Carrigy[*] | 15.26 | 1,111 | ||||||||
| Fine Gael | John Duffy[*] | 10.47 | 762 | 768 | 789 | 828 | 853 | 942 | 1,079 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | P.J. Reilly[*] | 10.40 | 757 | 762 | 775 | 882 | 994 | 1,025 | 1,157 | ||
| Fine Gael | Paraic Brady | 10.38 | 756 | 766 | 813 | 851 | 869 | 953 | 1,081 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Martin Mulleady[*] | 8.71 | 634 | 637 | 691 | 698 | 753 | 832 | 889 | 905 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Luie McEntire[*] | 8.61 | 627 | 631 | 658 | 674 | 727 | 793 | 878 | 902 | |
| Sinn Féin | John Reilly | 7.94 | 578 | 582 | 606 | 634 | 656 | 724 | 783 | 819 | |
| Independent | James Keogh | 7.01 | 510 | 516 | 585 | 600 | 624 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Frank Kilbride[*] | 6.85 | 499 | 513 | 520 | 590 | 651 | 721 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | John Coyle | 5.32 | 387 | 395 | 406 | 428 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Maura Kilbride-Harkin | 4.73 | 344 | 350 | 361 | ||||||
| Independent | Mary Lillis | 4.33 | 315 | 319 | |||||||
| Electorate: 11,015 Valid: 7,280 (66.09%) Spoilt: 83 Quota: 1,041 Turnout: 7,363 (66.85%) | |||||||||||
Longford
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Fine Gael | John Browne[*] | 12.74 | 727 | 734 | 755 | 779 | 831 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Seamus Butler | 12.25 | 699 | 712 | 731 | 747 | 774 | 856 | |||
| Fine Gael | Peggy Nolan[*] | 11.37 | 649 | 657 | 674 | 706 | 745 | 909 | |||
| Independent | Gerry Warnock | 10.95 | 625 | 646 | 696 | 751 | 820 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Connellan | 9.25 | 528 | 531 | 540 | 556 | 592 | 643 | 671 | 685 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Pádraig Loughrey[*] | 9.16 | 523 | 528 | 549 | 577 | 630 | 715 | 727 | 744 | |
| Independent | Mae Sexton[*] | 8.92 | 509 | 520 | 547 | 573 | 627 | 708 | 754 | 763 | |
| Fine Gael | Yvonne Ni Mhurchu | 8.58 | 490 | 493 | 504 | 514 | 534 | ||||
| Independent | Paul Connell[*] | 6.06 | 346 | 360 | 382 | 412 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Barbara Smyth | 4.41 | 252 | 256 | 256 | ||||||
| Independent | Tony Flaherty | 4.33 | 247 | 263 | 277 | 277 | |||||
| Independent | Martin Clyne | 1.98 | 113 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 9,612 Valid: 5,708 (59.38%) Spoilt: 78 Quota: 816 Turnout: 5,786 (60.20%) | |||||||||||
Changes
Co-options
| Party | Outgoing | LEA | Reason | Date | Co-optee | |
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| Fianna Fáil | Padraig Loughrey | Longford | Family and work commitments[4] | 19 January 2018 | Joe Flaherty | |
| Fine Gael | John Duffy | Granard | Work commitments[5] | 7 January 2019 | Gerry Hagan | |
Changes in affiliation
| Name | LEA | Elected as | New affiliation | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gerry Warnock | Longford | Independent | Social Democrats | 20 October 2015[6] | ||
| Gerry Warnock | Longford | Social Democrats | Independent | 17 September 2016[7] | ||