2014 Sligo County Council election

2014 Sligo County Council election
All 18 seats to Sligo County Council ; 10 seats needed for a majority
	Map showing the area of Sligo County Council
	Council control after election; TBD;

Last updated September 08, 2023

An election to Sligo County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 18 councilors were elected from two electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.^{[ citation needed ]}

Ahead of the 2014 election Sligo was redrawn into two electoral areas, a reduction in three from five, and the number of councilors was reduced to 18, from a previous total of 25. The Sligo Borough Council was also abolished. Fianna Fáil had a very good election, increasing their seat numbers by 1 to 8 seats. Sinn Féin gained 1 seat, as did People Before Profit, and Independents increased their numbers by 1 seat to 4. In contrast, Fine Gael lost 9 seats, being reduced to just 3 Councillors, while the Labour Party suffered a wipe out, losing representation on the council for the first time since 1912.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	8	+1	9,454	29.7
	Fine Gael	3	-9	7,958	24.9
	Sinn Féin	2	+1	3,290	10.3
	People Before Profit	1	+1	842	2.6
	United Left	1	+1	1,848	5.80
	Labour	0	-2	1,312	4.1
	Independent	3	-	7,142	22.40
Totals		18	-7	31,884	100.0	—

Results by Electoral Area

Sitting in italics^[4]

Ballymote-Tubbercurry

Ballymote-Tubbercurry - 8 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Independent	Margaret Gormley*††††	17.84	2,701
	Independent	Michael Clarke*	9.92	1,502	1,541	1,644	1,654	1,781
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Baker*	9.60	1,454	1,485	1,491	1,521	1,563	1,574	1,585	1,620	1,634
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Queenan *	7.37	1,116	1,119	1,236	1,238	1,269	1,276	1,281	1,805
	Fine Gael	Gerard Mullaney*	7.32	1,108	1,133	1,141	1,204	1,205	1,304	1,304	1,424	1,438
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Taylor	7.31	1,107	1,303	1,312	1,344	1,395	1,499	1,502	1,535	1,556
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Scanlon ††	7.31	1,106	1,260	1,267	1,429	1,506	1,532	1,538	1,595	1,621
	Fine Gael	Blair Feeney	7.06	1,069	1,076	1,159	1,171	1,213	1,262	1,280
	Fianna Fáil	Jerry Lundy*	6.82	1,032	1,230	1,233	1,255	1,299	1,569	1,575	1,599	1,607
	Fine Gael	Dara Mulvey*	5.83	883	967	1,001	1,118	1,150	1,284	1,289	1,505	1,544
	Sinn Féin	Stephen Edward McCarrick	4.06	614	680	709	717
	Fine Gael	Michael Fleming*	3.78	573	691	698	736	753
	Fine Gael	Pat McGrath*	2.97	450	510	515
	Independent	Mary Tuffy	2.80	424	461
Electorate: 22,833 Valid: 15,139 (66.30%) Spoilt: 158 Quota: 1,683 Turnout: 15,297 (67.0%)

Sligo

Sligo - 10 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
	United Left	Declan Bree *	11.04	1,848
	Sinn Féin	Seán MacManus *†††	9.23	1,545
	Independent	Marie Casserly	7.14	1,195	1,223	1,227	1,228	1,269	1,306	1,371	1,441	1,458	1,563
	Fine Gael	Sinéad Maguire	6.88	1,152	1,163	1,164	1,165	1,176	1,196	1,226	1,278	1,368	1,401	1,549
	Sinn Féin	Tomas Healy	6.75	1,131	1,168	1,170	1,180	1,183	1,195	1,212	1,242	1,245	1,278	1,287	1,325	1,332	1,390	1,394	1,697
	Fianna Fáil	Rosaleen O'Grady*	6.50	1,089	1,101	1,102	1,103	1,105	1,114	1,122	1,164	1,216	1,268	1,332	1,463	1,469	1,587
	Fianna Fáil	Tom MacSharry	5.80	971	992	994	995	1,001	1,019	1,032	1,068	1,094	1,122	1,175	1,250	1,255	1,408	1,433	1,519	1,561
	People Before Profit	Seamie O'Boyle†	5.03	842	907	913	916	922	950	959	1,008	1,015	1,087	1,116	1,205	1,210	1,238	1,240	1,271	1,284
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Kilgannon	4.91	823	829	830	830	836	841	855	869	876	915	954	998	1,001	1,172	1,188	1,237	1,263
	Fianna Fáil	Dónal Gilroy	4.51	756	761	762	762	762	767	820	832	842	851	864	885	885
	Fine Gael	Thomas Collery*	4.50	753	759	760	760	763	765	786	792	859	873	939	971	976	1,004	1,006
	Labour	Jim McGarry*	4.34	726	745	747	749	750	778	785	805	825	857	922	1,049	1,052	1,082	1,086	1,134	1,151
	Fine Gael	Hubert Keaney*	3.69	618	623	623	623	623	627	709	716	746	771	884	939	945	1,045	1,055	1,273	1,301
	Labour	Marcella McGarry	3.50	586	607	609	610	612	659	665	695	726	767	796
	Fine Gael	Matt Lyons*	3.19	535	545	545	545	547	553	567	578	663	701
	Independent	Veronica Cawley*	2.87	481	507	507	508	516	549	557	587	614
	Fine Gael	David Cawley*	2.67	447	460	460	460	463	473	483	498
	Independent	Francis Cadden	2.54	426	443	445	446	459	478	479
	Fine Gael	James Gilmartin	2.21	370	373	373	373	374	377
	Independent	Patricia Gardiner	0.95	159	166	166	166	176
	Independent	Kebba Cham	0.80	134	136	141	141	146
	Independent	Martina Butler	0.72	120	130	133	133
	Fís Nua	James Higgins	0.23	38	39
Electorate: 30,180 Valid: 16,745 (55.48%) Spoilt: 225 Quota: 1,523 Turnout: 16,970 (56.23%)

Post-election changes

† Co-options

Outgoing	Party		Electoral area	Reason	Date	Co-optee	Party
Seamie O'Boyle		People Before Profit	Sligo	Death of Councillor ^[5]	August 2015	Gino O'Boyle		People Before Profit

†† Co-options

Outgoing	Party		Electoral area	Reason	Date	Co-optee	Party
Eamon Scanlon		Fianna Fáil	Ballymote-Tubbercurry	Election to Dáil Éireann^[6]	14 March 2016	Keith Henry		Fianna Fáil

††† Co-options

Outgoing	Party		Electoral area	Reason	Date	Co-optee	Party
Seán MacManus		Sinn Féin	Sligo	Resignation^[7]	6 March 2017	Chris MacManus		Sinn Féin

†††† Co-options

Outgoing	Party		Electoral area	Reason	Date	Co-optee	Party
Margaret Gormley		Independent	Ballymote-Tubbercurry	Death^[8]				Independent politician

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References

↑ "Sligo profile: Focus on bread-and-butter issues". The Irish Times . 15 May 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
↑ "Sligo County Council Elections". Irish Independent. 24 May 2014. Archived from the original on 30 May 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
↑ "O'Boyle stormer laid its roots in Sligo town support" Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine , sligotoday.ie; accessed 30 March 2015.
↑ "Local Election: Sligo County Council". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 31 May 2014.
↑ "Sligo councillor Seamie O'Boyle has died". Ocean FM .^{[ permanent dead link ]}
↑ McGreevy, Ronan (28 February 2016) [27 February 2016]. "Sligo-Leitrim: Fianna Fáil takes two seats as Eamon Scanlon returns". The Irish Times . Dublin. ISSN 0791-5144.
↑ "Long-serving Sligo Councillor surprises colleagues announcing his retirement". Ocean FM . 9 January 2017.
↑ "The death has occurred of Sligo Independent councillor Margaret Gormley". Midwest Radio . 5 April 2019.

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[1] "Sligo profile: Focus on bread-and-butter issues". The Irish Times . 15 May 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2014.

[2] "Sligo County Council Elections". Irish Independent. 24 May 2014. Archived from the original on 30 May 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2014.

[3] "O'Boyle stormer laid its roots in Sligo town support" Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine , sligotoday.ie; accessed 30 March 2015.

[4] "Local Election: Sligo County Council". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 31 May 2014.

[5] "Sligo councillor Seamie O'Boyle has died". Ocean FM .^{[ permanent dead link ]}

[6] McGreevy, Ronan (28 February 2016) [27 February 2016]. "Sligo-Leitrim: Fianna Fáil takes two seats as Eamon Scanlon returns". The Irish Times . Dublin. ISSN 0791-5144.

[7] "Long-serving Sligo Councillor surprises colleagues announcing his retirement". Ocean FM . 9 January 2017.

[8] "The death has occurred of Sligo Independent councillor Margaret Gormley". Midwest Radio . 5 April 2019.

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