2014 South Dublin County Council election

2014 South Dublin County Council election

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All 40 seats on South Dublin County Council 21 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Sinn Féin Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Seats won 9 7 5 Seat change 6 1 1   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Labour People Before Profit Anti-Austerity Alliance Seats won 4 3 3 Seat change 5 2 3   Seventh party Eighth party   Party Green Independent Seats won 1 8 Seat change 1 7
Area of South Dublin County Council

An election to all 40 seats on South Dublin County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, an increase from 26 seats at the 2009 election. South Dublin was divided into six 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). ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Increase in seats

Under the Local Government Act 2001, South Dublin County Council had been allocated 26 seats. In November 2012, Phil Hogan, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, appointed a Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee to review the allocation of seats across local authorities. ^[4] In the case of South Dublin County Council, it recommended an increase to 40 seats. ^[5] This was implemented by the Local Government Reform Act 2014. ^[6]

Overview of results

Sinn Féin emerged as the largest party after the local elections with 9 seats and 6 gains in total. The party won 2 seats in each of Clondalkin and the 2 Tallaght LEAs. Fine Gael retained second place but lost 1 seat overall to emerge with 7 seats. While the party won 2 seats in each of Clondalkin, Lucan and Rathfarnham she won no seat in either Tallaght LEA. Fianna Fáil gained 1 seat to win 5 seats overall, in the Lucan LEA, the first time they won a seat there since 2004, but were left without representation in Tallaght South. Labour lost 5 seats, to emerge with 4 overall, and was left without representation in Lucan and Rathfarnham. Both People Before Profit and the Anti-Austerity Alliance secured 3 seats each. The Green Party also gained 1 seat in Rathfarnham. Independents were also among the biggest winners on the council with 8 seats and 7 gains in total.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%
	Sinn Féin	9	+6	18,411	23.96
	Fine Gael	7	-1	13,853	18.03
	Fianna Fáil	5	+1	10,274	13.37
	Labour	4	-5	7,847	10.21
	People Before Profit	3	+2	3,630	4.72
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	3	+3	3,537	4.60
	Green	1	+1	1,667	2.17
	Workers' Party	0	0	940	1.22
	Direct Democracy	0	0	280	0.36
	Communist	0	0	143	0.19
	Independent	8	+7	16,246	21.15
Total		40	+14	76,828	100.00

Results by local electoral area

^  *: Outgoing councillor.

Clondalkin

Clondalkin: 8 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Sinn Féin	Eoin Ó Broin	21.19	2,992
	Sinn Féin	Jonathan Graham	16.33	2,306
	Fianna Fáil	Trevor Gilligan [*]	13.71	1,935
	People Before Profit	Gino Kenny [*]	12.01	1,696
	Independent	Francis Timmons	4.83	682	1,122	1,282	1,356	1,387	1,477	1,886
	Labour	Breeda Bonner [*]	7.70	1,087	1,203	1,270	1,353	1,361	1,533	1,562	1,590
	Fine Gael	Kenny Egan	7.19	1,015	1,157	1,200	1,282	1,291	1,338	1,392	1,407
	Fine Gael	Emer Higgins [*]	8.45	1,193	1,241	1,262	1,327	1,330	1,356	1,366	1,388
	Workers' Party	Lorraine Hennessy	3.07	433	693	853	880	910	1,029	1,143	1,309
	Independent	Matthew McDonagh	2.82	398	637	866	867	903	987
	Labour	Ken Kinsella	1.68	237	276	291	315	319
	Communist	Paul Doran	1.01	143	282	324	334	340
Electorate: 35,616  Valid: 14,117 (39.64%)  Spoilt: 263  Quota: 1,569  Turnout: 14,380 (40.38%)

Lucan

Lucan: 8 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
	Sinn Féin	Danny O'Brien	12.57	1,762
	Fine Gael	William Lavelle [*]	12.49	1,751
	Independent	Guss O'Connell [*]	10.50	1,471	1,496	1,503	1,506	1,513	1,522	1,561
	Independent	Paul Gogarty	8.71	1,221	1,241	1,261	1,272	1,279	1,309	1,320	1,369	1,414	1,488	1,565
	People Before Profit	Ruth Nolan	5.02	704	755	760	763	769	791	798	827	841	999	1,031	1,123	1,285	1,488
	Fine Gael	Vicki Casserly	6.13	859	863	923	924	938	948	1,041	1,083	1,101	1,142	1,203	1,242	1,304	1,351
	Fianna Fáil	Ed O'Brien	5.06	709	716	725	727	735	743	749	757	1,076	1,101	1,144	1,162	1,250	1,306
	Independent	Liona O'Toole	5.51	772	786	798	800	804	810	818	836	852	892	918	995	1,137	1,263
	Labour	Caitriona Jones [*]	3.60	505	509	527	530	576	581	595	637	649	669	951	994	1,048	1,112
	Independent	Tony Stafford	4.72	661	672	672	673	676	681	698	705	720	735	745	943	993
	Independent	Jim Doyle	3.55	497	506	511	534	536	598	602	627	651	738	767	819
	Independent	Alan Hayes	4.16	583	592	595	596	598	605	618	635	645	665	676
	Labour	Eamon Tuffy [*]	3.62	507	512	531	531	548	560	580	597	617	654
	Workers' Party	Mick Finnegan	3.62	507	530	533	535	537	567	569	585	594
	Fianna Fáil	Caitríona McClean	3.66	513	517	523	524	525	531	537	550
	Independent	Patrick Akpoveta	1.96	275	281	284	289	326	336	337
	Fine Gael	Gerry Kennedy	1.66	233	234	254	254	256	260
	Independent	Michael Farrelly	1.71	239	243	244	252	253
	Independent	Hussain Zahid	1.29	181	184	186	187
	Independent	Ciaran Byrne	0.46	65	69	69
Electorate: 33,243  Valid: 14,015 (41.93%)  Spoilt: 168  Quota: 1,558  Turnout: 14,183 (42.43%)

Rathfarnham

Rathfarnham: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	John Lahart [*]	15.95	1,972
	Fine Gael	Anne-Marie Dermody	13.22	1,634	1,649	1,715	1,788
	Sinn Féin	Sarah Holland	13.06	1,614	1,621	1,644	1,740	1,768
	Independent	Deirdre O'Donovan	12.27	1,517	1,533	1,592	1,731	1,840
	Fine Gael	Paula Donovan	8.14	1,006	1,015	1,043	1,102	1,547	1,637
	Green	Francis Noel Duffy	7.64	944	959	992	1,130	1,198	1,477
	People Before Profit	John Flanagan	6.52	806	809	830	886	907
	Labour	Paddy Cosgrave [*]	6.50	804	817	1,129	1,180	1,268	1,370
	Fine Gael	Alan Gallagher	6.26	774	787	818	862
	Fianna Fáil	Emma Murphy	5.54	685	793	807
	Labour	Aideen Carberry	4.91	607	613
Electorate: 30,375  Valid: 12,363 (40.70%)  Spoilt: 127  Quota: 1,767  Turnout: 12,490 (41.12%)

Tallaght Central

Tallaght Central: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Sinn Féin	Máire Devine	24.45	2,874
	Fianna Fáil	Charlie O'Connor	13.74	1,615	1,744
	Sinn Féin	Brendan Ferron	7.70	905	1,642	1,663	1,678	1,705
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Mick Murphy	12.11	1,424	1,506	1,515	1,533	1,586	1,620	1,625	1,651	1,808
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Kieran Mahon	5.30	623	654	656	661	701	719	720	748	1,189	1,512
	Labour	Mick Duff [*]	8.35	982	1,022	1,026	1,168	1,191	1,224	1,225	1,353	1,381	1,495
	Fine Gael	Karen Warren	5.38	632	642	647	687	697	754	754	1,065	1,078	1,153
	Independent	Declan Burke	4.46	524	556	557	581	715	764	772	824	872
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Eddie Ericksson	4.98	585	663	665	675	694	712	713	744
	Fine Gael	Gay Kelly	5.14	604	615	619	632	650	693	693
	Fianna Fáil	Valerie Gaynor	2.95	347	361	369	382	385
	Independent	Ray Kelly	2.88	339	354	359	362
	Labour	Kemi Adenekan	2.56	301	316	319
Electorate: 26,285  Valid: 11,755 (44.72%)  Spoilt: 186  Quota: 1,680  Turnout: 11,941 (45.43%)

Tallaght South

Tallaght South: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Sinn Féin	Cathal King [*]	31.21	2,449
	Sinn Féin	Louise Dunne	20.05	1,573
	Labour	Martina Genockey	9.43	740	861	905	1,003	1,096	1,420
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Brian Leech	6.16	483	804	886	911	956	994	1,008
	People Before Profit	Nicky Coules	5.40	424	704	804	828	884	918	958
	Independent	Dermot Richardson	4.72	370	537	581	707	781	870	927
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Phil Foster	5.38	422	643	740	767	810	850	871
	Fine Gael	David Yeates	7.15	561	596	608	656	772
	Fianna Fáil	Emmett Hegarty	6.76	530	597	633	654
	Labour	Eugene Ryan	2.56	201	254	265
	Independent	Frank O'Gorman	1.19	93	156	182
Electorate: 25,653  Valid: 7,846 (30.59%)  Spoilt: 167  Quota: 1,121  Turnout: 8,013 (31.24%)

Templeogue–Terenure

Templeogue–Terenure: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Independent	Dermot Looney [*]	16.89	2,826
	Independent	Ronan McMahon	13.74	2,299	2,386	2,427
	Sinn Féin	Fintan Warfield	11.57	1,936	2,016	2,025	2,094	2,121	2,167	2,227	2,292	2,623
	Labour	Pamela Kearns [*]	8.52	1,426	1,454	1,472	1,484	1,679	1,796	2,002	2,076	2,248	2,282
	Fine Gael	Colm Brophy [*]	9.28	1,552	1,562	1,567	1,572	1,689	1,895	1,981	2,027	2,115	2,134
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Foley	6.90	1,155	1,168	1,180	1,189	1,202	1,232	1,283	1,834	1,951	1,988
	Fine Gael	Brian Lawlor [*]	8.22	1,375	1,380	1,383	1,384	1,438	1,542	1,599	1,636	1,855	1,882
	Independent	Shane Conneely	6.47	1,082	1,115	1,158	1,257	1,315	1,338	1,485	1,537
	Fianna Fáil	Eamonn Walsh [*]	4.86	813	844	848	862	868	907	992
	Green	Suzanne McEneaney	4.32	723	750	759	782	812	859
	Fine Gael	Siobhán Butler	3.97	664	731	735	745	764
	Labour	Chris Bond [*]	2.69	450	467	467	480
	Direct Democracy	Neville Bradley	1.67	280	300	309
	Independent	Paddy Henegan	0.90	151	168
Electorate: 33,746  Valid: 16,732 (49.58%)  Spoilt: 217  Quota: 2,391  Turnout: 16,949 (50.23%)

Changes

Co-options

Party		Outgoing	LEA	Reason	Date	Co-optee
	Sinn Féin	Eoin O'Broin	Clondalkin	Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election.	14 March 2016	Mark Ward
	Fianna Fáil	John Lahart	Rathfarnham	Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election.	14 March 2016	Emma Murphy [7]
	Fine Gael	Colm Brophy	Templeogue-Terenure	Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election.	14 March 2016	Brian Lawlor [8]
	People Before Profit	Gino Kenny	Clondalkin	Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election.	20 April 2016	Madeleine Johansson [9]
	Sinn Féin	Máire Devine	Tallaght Central	Elected to 25th Seanad at the 2016 Seanad election.	25 April 2016	Cora McCann
	Sinn Féin	Fintan Warfield	Templeogue-Terenure	Elected to 25th Seanad at the 2016 Seanad election.	May 2016	Enda Fanning
	Fine Gael	Anne-Marie Dermody	Rathfarnham	Resigned to prioritise work as a solicitor. [10]	14 November 2017	Conor McMahon [11]
	People Before Profit	Nicky Coules	Tallaght South	Health Issues. [12]	14 November 2017	Emma Hendrick
	Sinn Féin	Enda Fanning	Templeogue-Terenure	Resignation. [13]	10 October 2017	Robert Russell [14]

Changes in affiliation

Name	LEA	Elected as		New affiliation		Date
Ronan McMahon	Templeogue-Terenure		Independent		Renua	13 March 2015 [15]
Dermot Richardson	Tallaght South		Independent		Sinn Féin	20 April 2016 [16]
Dermot Looney	Templeogue-Terenure		Independent		Social Democrats	8 June 2017 [17]
Johnathan Graham	Clondalkin		Sinn Féin		Independent	24 January 2018 [18]
Martina Genockey	Tallaght South		Labour		Independent	28 September 2018 [19]
Mick Duff	Tallaght Central		Labour		Independent	5 October 2018 [20]
Johnathan Graham	Clondalkin		Independent		Fianna Fáil	22 March 2019 [21]
Deirdre O'Donovan	Rathfarnham		Independent		Fianna Fáil	22 March 2019 [22]

References

1. Proportional Representation Citizens Information, 2009-09-21.
2. Local Election Results for South Dublin County Council Irish Times. Retrieved: 2014-05-29.
3. Local Elections Results for South Dublin County Council Council website. Retrieved: 2015-03-07.
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6. Local Government Reform Act 2014 , s. 15: Number of members of local authorities ( No. 1 of 2014, s. 15 ). Enacted on 27 January 2014. Act of the Oireachtas .Retrieved from Irish Statute Book .
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18. McConnell, Daniel (25 January 2018). "Clondalkin councillor Jonathan Graham to quit Sinn Féin". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
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External links

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