2014 Longford County Council election

2014 Longford County Council election
All 18 seats on Longford County Council
	Map showing the area of Longford County Council
	Council control after election; Fine Gael ; Independents ;

Last updated December 06, 2023

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.

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

Ballymahon: 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	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

Granard: 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	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

Longford: 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	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 2014–2019

† Longford Fianna Fáil Councillor Padraig Loughrey resigned due to family and work commitments on 22 October 2017. Archived 19 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine On 14 December 2017 Joe Flaherty was co-opted to fill the vacancy. Archived 19 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine
†† Granard Fine Gael Councillor John Duffy resigned on 22 February 2018 citing work commitments. On 19 March 2018 Gerry Hagan was co-opted to fill the vacancy. Archived 7 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine

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References

↑ Naughton, Gareth (24 May 2014). "The latest from Longford County Council count". Irish Independent . Retrieved 24 May 2014.
↑ Conboy, Patrick (26 May 2014). "Local election update: How it stands". Longford Leader . Retrieved 26 May 2014.
↑ "Irish Independent Local Elections". 24 May 2014. Archived from the original on 4 June 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.

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[1] Naughton, Gareth (24 May 2014). "The latest from Longford County Council count". Irish Independent . Retrieved 24 May 2014.

[2] Conboy, Patrick (26 May 2014). "Local election update: How it stands". Longford Leader . Retrieved 26 May 2014.

[3] "Irish Independent Local Elections". 24 May 2014. Archived from the original on 4 June 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.

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