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All 32 seats on Clare County Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map showing the area of Clare County Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Clare County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 32 councillors were elected from six 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).
| Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fine Gael | 12 | +2 | 19,220 | 34.23 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | 11 | -4 | 19,959 | 35.55 | ||
| Labour | 1 | - | 2,268 | 4.04 | ||
| Green | 1 | - | 1,291 | 2.30 | ||
| Independent | 7 | +2 | 13,252 | 23.60 | ||
| Totals | 32 | - | 56,151 | 100.00 | — | |
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Johnny Flynn | 17.64 | 1,402 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Paul Murphy* | 16.80 | 1,335 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Sonny Scanlan* | 15.45 | 1,228 | 1,286 | 1,321 | 1,326 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Pat Daly* | 13.71 | 1,089 | 1,106 | 1,113 | 1,114 | 1,319 | 1,633 | ||
| Independent | Tommy Brennan* | 11.49 | 913 | 951 | 966 | 967 | 1,034 | 1,142 | 1,211 | |
| Independent | Michael Guilfoyle | 8.26 | 656 | 708 | 720 | 721 | 803 | 874 | 939 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Tom Malone | 7.03 | 559 | 584 | 590 | 590 | 679 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Bernard Hanrahan* | 6.61 | 525 | 538 | 540 | 542 | ||||
| Independent | J.J. McCabe | 3.01 | 239 | |||||||
| Electorate: 13,666 Valid: 7,946 (58.14%) Spoilt: 88 Quota: 1,325 Turnout: 8,034 (58.79%) | ||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Independent | James Breen | 30.88 | 1,747 | |||||||||
| Fine Gael | Tony Mulqueen | 15.50 | 877 | 1,023 | 1,046 | 1,092 | 1,166 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Tom McNamara | 10.85 | 614 | 693 | 704 | 714 | 716 | 717 | 805 | 846 | 1,084 | |
| Green | Brian Meaney* | 9.44 | 534 | 594 | 610 | 632 | 692 | 703 | 771 | 908 | 1,020 | |
| Independent | Frankie Neylon | 6.70 | 379 | 454 | 470 | 537 | 565 | 573 | 618 | 753 | 828 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Peter Considine* | 5.74 | 325 | 382 | 393 | 399 | 403 | 404 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Garrett Greene | 5.62 | 318 | 369 | 385 | 398 | 407 | 407 | 530 | 595 | ||
| Independent | Rita McInerney | 4.93 | 279 | 357 | 381 | 409 | 467 | 480 | 514 | |||
| Labour | Paul O'Shea | 4.08 | 231 | 247 | 264 | 286 | ||||||
| Independent | Martin White | 3.41 | 193 | 221 | 244 | |||||||
| Sinn Féin | Seán Hayes | 2.85 | 161 | 186 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 22,471 Valid: 12,144 (54.04%) Spoilt: 215 Quota: 1,519 Turnout: 12,359 (55.00%) | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Martin Conway * | 18.35 | 1,820 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Hillery | 16.34 | 1,621 | 1,634 | 1,640 | 1,663 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Kelly* | 15.95 | 1,582 | 1,590 | 1,598 | 1,613 | 1,765 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Richard Nagle* | 14.40 | 1,428 | 1,452 | 1,454 | 1,521 | 1,848 | |
| Fine Gael | Joe Arkins* | 13.93 | 1,382 | 1,459 | 1,484 | 1,573 | 1,690 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Michelle Moroney | 8.06 | 800 | 808 | 814 | 845 | ||
| Green | Ann Marie Flanagan | 7.63 | 757 | 781 | 804 | 944 | 1,068 | |
| Independent | Eugene McNamara | 3.99 | 396 | 407 | 446 | |||
| Independent | Paddy Kenneally | 1.35 | 134 | 135 | ||||
| Electorate: 14,446 Valid: 9,920 (68.67%) Spoilt: 129 Quota: 1,654 Turnout: 10,005 (69.26%) | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Joe Cooney * | 24.43 | 2,780 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Pat Hayes* | 14.07 | 1,601 | 1,952 | ||||
| Labour | Pascal Fitzgerald* | 13.10 | 1,491 | 1,532 | 1,549 | 1,676 | ||
| Independent | Michael Begley | 11.55 | 1,314 | 1,386 | 1,413 | 1,641 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Cathal Crowe * | 11.51 | 1,310 | 1,343 | 1,379 | 1,487 | 1,531 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Tony O'Brien* | 9.89 | 1,125 | 1,193 | 1,271 | 1,338 | 1,385 | |
| Fine Gael | Pat Burke | 9.25 | 1,053 | 1,505 | 1,604 | 1,886 | ||
| Fine Gael | John McInerney* | 6.20 | 705 | 842 | 869 | |||
| Electorate: 17,493 Valid: 11,379 (65.05%) Spoilt: 96 Quota: 1,696 Turnout: 11,475 (65.60%) | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Independent | Christy Curtin* | 15.33 | 1,733 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Oliver Garry* | 15.18 | 1,716 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | P.J. Kelly* | 13.57 | 1,533 | 1,551 | 1,575 | 1,646 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Patrick Keane* | 12.00 | 1,356 | 1,364 | 1,367 | 1,426 | 1,651 | |
| Fine Gael | Gabriel Keating | 11.02 | 1,245 | 1,262 | 1,301 | 1,442 | 1,618 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Bill Chambers* | 10.34 | 1,168 | 1,190 | 1,200 | 1,314 | 1,635 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Tom Prendeville* | 8.62 | 974 | 979 | 982 | 1,047 | ||
| Independent | Ciaran O'Dea | 8.16 | 922 | 958 | 963 | 1,097 | 1,219 | |
| Independent | Anne Breen | 5.79 | 654 | 666 | 683 | |||
| Electorate: 16,804 Valid: 11,301 (67.25%) Spoilt: 127 Quota: 1,615 Turnout: 11,428 (68.01%) | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fine Gael | John Crowe* | 15.85 | 1,577 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Tony Mulcahy * | 13.41 | 1,334 | 1,362 | 1,380 | 1,412 | 1,534 | |||
| Independent | Patricia McCarthy* | 12.82 | 1,275 | 1,287 | 1,303 | 1,345 | 1,468 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Pat McMahon* | 10.69 | 1,063 | 1,068 | 1,114 | 1,122 | 1,135 | 1,138 | 1,371 | |
| Independent | Gerry Flynn | 10.65 | 1,059 | 1,066 | 1,084 | 1,134 | 1,252 | 1,286 | 1,337 | |
| Independent | P.J. Ryan | 10.18 | 1,013 | 1,063 | 1,083 | 1,140 | 1,169 | 1,179 | 1,524 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Pat O'Gorman | 7.96 | 792 | 803 | 852 | 886 | 900 | 907 | ||
| Fine Gael | Marinella Raftery | 7.70 | 766 | 794 | 803 | 837 | 916 | 967 | 1,125 | |
| Labour | Tony McMahon | 5.49 | 546 | 551 | 568 | 595 | ||||
| Independent | Noel Broggy | 3.06 | 304 | 308 | 317 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Eamon Fennessy | 1.77 | 176 | 180 | ||||||
| Independent | Damon Wise | 0.42 | 42 | 43 | ||||||
| Electorate: 16,617 Valid: 9,947 (59.86%) Spoilt: 113 Quota: 1,422 Turnout: 10,032 (60.37%) | ||||||||||
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