2014 Offaly County Council election

2014 Offaly County Council election
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All 19 seats on Offaly County Council
10 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Fianna Fáil Sinn Féin Fine Gael
Seats won 8 3 3
Seat change -1 +3 -3
  Fourth party
 
Party Independent
Seats won 5
Seat change -1
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.

Results by party

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Party Seats ± 1st pref FPv% ±%
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 —

Results by local electoral area

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^ *: Outgoing councillor.

Birr

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Birr: 6 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
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%)  

Edenderry

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Edenderry: 6 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
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%)  

Tullamore

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Tullamore: 7 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
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%)  

Changes 2014–2019

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  • † In March 2015 Birr Independent Cllr John Leahy became a founder of Renua.[1]
  • †† Sinn Féin's Carol Nolan was elected to the 32nd Dáil for Offaly in the 2016 general election. Sean Maher was co-opted to fill the vacancy.[2]
  • ††† Tullamore Fianna Fáil Cllr Sinead Dooley resigned her seat on 3 July 2017 as she had been appointed Asst. CEO of Irish Rural Link.[3] On 19 September 2017 Tony McCormack was co-opted to fill the vacancy.[4]
  • †††† Edenderry Independent Cllr Noel Cribbin joined Fine Gael on 8 November 2018.[5]
  • ††††† Edenderry Sinn Féin Cllr Martin O'Reilly resigned his seat on 10 November 2018 following his appointment as a primary school teacher.[6] On 21 January 2019 Alan Daly was co-opted to fill the vacancy.[7]

References

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Sources

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"Offaly County Council". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 1 June 2014.

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