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All 19 seats on Offaly County Council 10 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Map showing the area of Offaly County Council |
An election to all 19 seats on Offaly County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, a decrease from 21 seats at the 2009 election. County Offaly 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 Birr, Edenderry and Tullamore were all abolished.
Fianna Fáil remained the largest party after the elections winning 8 seats. Sinn Féin won 3 seats and in terms of vote share also became the second largest party. Fine Gael, by contrast, had a poor set of results and lost half of their seats.
Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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Fianna Fáil | 8 | -1 | 11,116 | 34.1 | ||
Sinn Féin | 3 | +3 | 5,613 | 17.2 | ||
Fine Gael | 3 | -3 | 5,475 | 16.8 | ||
Green | 0 | - | 58 | 0.18 | ||
Independent | 5 | -1 | 9,731 | 29.9 | ||
Total | 19 | -2 | 32,583 | 100.0 | — |
^ *: Outgoing councillor.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Independent | John Leahy [*] † | 23.05 | 2,686 | ||||||
Fianna Fáil | Peter Ormond [*] | 13.71 | 1,598 | 1,678 | |||||
Fine Gael | John Clendennen | 10.37 | 1,209 | 1,317 | 1,384 | 1,574 | 1,943 | ||
Sinn Féin | Carol Nolan †† | 10.01 | 1,166 | 1,420 | 1,518 | 1,636 | 1,703 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Eamon Dooley [*] | 9.92 | 1,156 | 1,287 | 1,315 | 1,516 | 1,539 | 1,552 | |
Independent | John Carroll [*] | 9.06 | 1,056 | 1,147 | 1,325 | 1,353 | 1,529 | 1,618 | |
Fianna Fáil | Michael Loughnane | 7.61 | 887 | 950 | 991 | 1,012 | 1,205 | 1,271 | |
Fine Gael | Denis Sheils | 6.32 | 736 | 775 | 873 | 991 | |||
Fine Gael | Pat Phelan | 5.59 | 651 | 760 | 790 | ||||
Independent | Teresa Ryan-Feehan | 4.37 | 509 | 655 | |||||
Electorate: 20,034 Valid: 11,654 (58.17%) Spoilt: 116 Quota: 1,665 Turnout: 11,770 (58.75%) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Martin O'Reilly††††† | 19.08 | 1,669 | |||||||||
Fianna Fáil | Eddie Fitzpatrick [*] | 14.29 | 1,250 | |||||||||
Independent | John Foley [*] | 12.33 | 1,078 | 1,229 | 1,254 | |||||||
Fianna Fáil | Noel Bourke [*] | 10.37 | 907 | 940 | 945 | 968 | 1,031 | 1,069 | 1,106 | 1,239 | 1,378 | |
Fine Gael | Liam Quinn [*] | 7.64 | 668 | 697 | 702 | 761 | 787 | 831 | 1,040 | 1,145 | 1,207 | |
Fianna Fáil | Ger Plunkett [*] | 7.62 | 667 | 705 | 707 | 708 | 710 | 722 | 741 | 799 | 818 | |
Independent | Noel Cribbin†††† | 7.24 | 633 | 669 | 676 | 704 | 787 | 848 | 862 | 890 | 1,106 | |
Independent | Fergus McDonnell | 5.03 | 440 | 482 | 501 | 518 | 569 | 618 | 645 | 658 | ||
Fine Gael | William Whittle | 3.84 | 336 | 344 | 348 | 367 | 374 | 382 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Robert Kelleghan | 3.84 | 336 | 352 | 353 | 353 | 361 | 391 | 400 | |||
Independent | Stephen Carroll | 2.76 | 241 | 266 | 298 | 300 | 304 | |||||
Labour | Declan Leddin | 2.76 | 241 | 254 | 256 | 272 | ||||||
Independent | Patricia Brady | 1.99 | 174 | 180 | 183 | |||||||
Independent | Emmanuel Sweeney | 1.21 | 106 | 128 | ||||||||
Electorate: 15,890 Valid: 8,746 (55.04%) Spoilt: 113 Quota: 1,250 Turnout: 8,859 (55.75%) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Brendan Killeavy | 22.8 | 2,778 | ||||||||||||
Independent | Dervill Dolan [*] | 15.33 | 1,868 | ||||||||||||
Fianna Fáil | Sinead Dooley [*] ††† | 9.53 | 1,161 | 1,340 | 1,379 | 1,384 | 1,403 | 1,432 | 1,493 | 1,541 | |||||
Fianna Fáil | Frank Moran | 9.12 | 1,111 | 1,156 | 1,308 | 1,311 | 1,333 | 1,344 | 1,359 | 1,428 | 1,457 | 1,482 | 1,495 | 1,505 | |
Fianna Fáil | Declan Harvey | 9.07 | 1,105 | 1,307 | 1,323 | 1,327 | 1,342 | 1,354 | 1,415 | 1,434 | 1,570 | ||||
Fine Gael | Tommy McKeigue [*] | 7.91 | 964 | 1,066 | 1,088 | 1,091 | 1,107 | 1,227 | 1,300 | 1,332 | 1,756 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Danny Owens [*] | 7.70 | 938 | 1,011 | 1,022 | 1,025 | 1,034 | 1,068 | 1,095 | 1,122 | 1,177 | 1,217 | 1,230 | 1,236 | |
Fine Gael | Molly Buckley [*] | 5.06 | 616 | 695 | 713 | 718 | 731 | 808 | 893 | 936 | |||||
Independent | Seán O'Brien | 3.92 | 478 | 768 | 784 | 796 | 858 | 864 | 907 | 1,012 | 1,102 | 1,209 | 1,230 | 1,232 | |
Labour | Paddy Doheny | 2.86 | 349 | 393 | 399 | 409 | 418 | 430 | |||||||
Independent | John Bracken | 2.63 | 321 | 425 | 462 | 472 | 509 | 515 | 532 | ||||||
Fine Gael | Theresa Wrafter | 2.42 | 295 | 308 | 316 | 320 | 323 | ||||||||
Independent | Seamus Kirwan | 1.16 | 141 | 239 | 258 | 270 | |||||||||
Green | Richard Brennan | 0.48 | 58 | 84 | 85 | ||||||||||
Electorate: 20,607 Valid: 12,183 (59.12%) Spoilt: 119 Quota: 1,523 Turnout: 12,302 (59.70%) |
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