2014 Clare County Council election

2014 Clare County Council election

23 May 2014
All 28 seats to Clare County Council
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Sinn Féin Seats won 12 8 1 Seat change +1 -4 +1   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Independent Labour Green Seats won 7 0 0 Seat change - -1 -1
Map showing the area of Clare County Council
Cathaoirleach before election Joe Arkins FG Subsequent Cathaoirleach John Crowe FG

An election to all 28 seats on Clare County Council was held on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections. County Clare was divided into four 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] This was a reduction in 4 council seats and 2 LEAs compared to the previous elections held in 2009.

Fianna Fáil re-emerged as the largest party in County Clare after the elections with 12 seats. In addition Clare Colleran-Molloy, a sister of the journalist Ger Colleran, won a seat for the party in Ennis and became the party's first ever female elected councillor. Brian Meaney, formerly of the Green Party, had defected to Fianna Fáil but failed to be re-elected. Fine Gael lost 4 seats including that of the council's outgoing cathaoirleach, Joe Arkins, in Killaloe. The Labour Party lost their sole representative while Sinn Féin won a seat on the council for the first time since 1974. Despite some retirements Independents retained a share of 7 seats.^[3]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%
	Fianna Fáil	12	+1	18,432	35.73
	Fine Gael	8	-4	16,239	31.48
	Sinn Féin	1	+1	2,188	4.24
	Independent	7	-	11,100	21.52
	Labour	0	-1	1,622	3.14
	Green	0	-1	490	0.95
Total		28	-4	51,583	100.00

Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor.

Ennis

Ennis: 8 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
	Independent	James Breen[*]	8.81	1,134	1,141	1,157	1,188	1,199	1,218	1,235	1,279	1,339	1,387	1,449
	Fine Gael	Johnny Flynn[*]	8.55	1,100	1,104	1,118	1,138	1,168	1,184	1,210	1,227	1,254	1,322	1,351	1,481
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McNamara[*]	8.15	1,049	1,053	1,055	1,061	1,068	1,075	1,115	1,119	1,128	1,150	1,173	1,221	1,223	1,223	1,265	1,299	1,320	1,360	1,371	1,379
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Daly[*]	7.77	1,000	1,003	1,006	1,022	1,027	1,037	1,072	1,086	1,104	1,122	1,138	1,167	1,171	1,173	1,287	1,367	1,418	1,579
	Independent	Ann Norton	6.38	821	1,121	1,125	1,129	1,153	1,224	1,311	1,484
	Fine Gael	Paul Murphy[*]	6.25	804	805	807	807	814	815	826	833	842	871	889	923	928	928	1,061	1,083	1,127	1,167	1,173	1,179
	Fine Gael	Gerard O'Halloran	6.25	804	805	808	829	839	841	844	848	853	868	872	912	917	918	933	937	958	985	990	996
	Fine Gael	Mary Howard[*]	5.59	720	724	729	738	761	771	806	832	848	894	936	1,014	1,033	1,034	1,072	1,137	1,238	1,316	1,343	1,357
	Fianna Fáil	Claire Colleran-Molloy	4.54	584	586	593	599	608	618	647	658	669	684	708	741	746	747	815	851	892	945	979	999
	Fianna Fáil	Bernard Hanrahan	3.89	501	502	505	514	516	524	532	534	542	554	569	579	579	579
	Independent	Michael Guilfoyle	3.62	466	468	473	486	493	499	507	518	531	551	579	594	596	603	630
	Independent	Frankie Neylon	3.42	440	443	448	458	460	467	475	486	528	559	588	598	601	603	640	810	881
	Fine Gael	Cillian Griffey	3.30	425	426	433	440	457	465	479	492	501	529	549
	Fine Gael	Tony Mulqueen[*]	3.08	396	404	404	414	420	424	446	458	472
	Sinn Féin	Cathal O'Reilly	3.05	392	396	403	408	413	421	427	442
	Labour	Dermot Hayes	2.59	333	343	364	376	421	472	481	514	533	564	603	622	624	625	642	671
	Independent	Paula McNamara	2.56	330	343	356	365	383	407	414	452	497	512
	Fianna Fáil	Brian Meaney[*]	2.35	302	304	305	306	317	320
	Independent	Paul O'Shea	2.00	257	265	276	286	301	326	330
	Independent	Felix Omorodion	1.83	236	239	292	292	298
	Labour	Seamus Ryan	1.78	229	252	260	263
	Independent	Joe Corbett	1.62	208	211	217
	Independent	George Atijohn	1.53	197	209
	Green	Gerben Uunk	0.71	92
	Fís Nua	Vera Moloney	0.23	30
	Independent	Tommy Kelly	0.09	12
	Fís Nua	Damon Wise	0.05	7
Electorate: 23,797   Valid: 12,869 (54.08%)   Spoilt: 139   Quota: 1,430   Turnout: 13,008 (54.66%)

Killaloe

Killaloe: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fine Gael	Joe Cooney[*]	25.63	2,843
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Hayes[*]	13.43	1,490	1,767
	Independent	Michael Begley[*]	12.53	1,390	1,468	1,475	1,529	1,799
	Fianna Fáil	Tony O'Brien	11.67	1,294	1,391	1,408	1,427	1,465	1,484	1,767
	Fine Gael	Pat Burke[*]	7.44	825	1,119	1,148	1,184	1,255	1,270	1,406
	Fianna Fáil	Alan O'Callaghan	7.13	791	916	936	991	1,100	1,119	1,323
	Fine Gael	Joe Arkins[*]	6.81	755	851	870	925	992	1,019	1,116
	Fís Nua	Niamh O'Brien	6.59	731	817	840	903
	Fianna Fáil	Liam Wiley	5.87	651	828	886	909	968
	Labour	Donal Higgins	2.91	323	351	360
Electorate: 17,593   Valid: 11,093 (63.05%)   Spoilt: 88   Quota: 1,585   Turnout: 11,181 (63.55%)

Shannon

Shannon: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Fianna Fáil	Cathal Crowe[*]	18.26	1,929
	Fine Gael	John Crowe[*]	11.54	1,219	1,261	1,267	1,276	1,280	1,294	1,304	1,401	1,443	1,615
	Independent	Gerry Flynn[*]	9.84	1,040	1,045	1,103	1,140	1,225	1,290	1,343	1,375	1,471	1,510
	Fianna Fáil	Pat McMahon[*]	9.69	1,024	1,053	1,055	1,067	1,072	1,130	1,134	1,161	1,188	1,356
	Independent	P.J. Ryan[*]	7.44	825	866	894	899	910	949	973	999	1,072	1,389
	Sinn Féin	Mike McKee	7.32	773	793	801	816	856	889	917	951	1,153	1,192
	Fine Gael	Sean McLoughlin[*]	7.30	771	778	793	847	890	939	955	997	1,016	1,060
	Fianna Fáil	Pat O'Gorman	7.09	749	813	816	819	822	885	889	933	960
	Labour	Pascal Fitzgerald[*]	5.87	506	644	645	685	691	692	702
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	David Houlihan	3.78	399	444	455	460	469	476	704	863
	Fianna Fáil	Louise Roche McNamara	3.26	344	361	366	373	392
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Seónaidh Ní Shíomóin	3.10	327	342	358	375	398	423
	Independent	Cathy McCafferty	2.30	243	247	259	279
	Labour	Tony McMahon	2.19	231	234	239
	Independent	Mike Fleming	1.40	148	155
	Fís Nua	Karen Wise	0.17	18	19
Electorate: 20,294   Valid: 10,565 (52.06%)   Spoilt: 89   Quota: 1,510   Turnout: 10,654 (52.50%)

West Clare

West Clare: 8 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Independent	Christy Curtin[*]	11.36	1,938
	Fianna Fáil	Richard Nagle[*]	10.76	1,835	1,836	1,857	1,860	1,864	2,049
	Fine Gael	Bill Slattery[*]	10.37	1,769	1,772	1,788	1,792	1,834	2,046
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Hillery[*]	8.26	1,408	1,413	1,427	1,440	1,449	1,551	1,590	1,603	1,722	1,864	1,883
	Fianna Fáil	P.J. Kelly[*]	8.11	1,383	1,390	1,395	1,398	1,416	1,442	1,461	1,463	1,560	1,607	1,621
	Fine Gael	Oliver Garry[*]	7.18	1,224	1,229	1,236	1,239	1,309	1,392	1,400	1,452	1,464	1,507	1,524
	Independent	Ian Lynch	7.14	1,218	1,270	1,349	1,353	1,579	1,608	1,609	1,612	1,737	2,037
	Fianna Fáil	Bill Chambers[*]	6.53	1,113	1,124	1,132	1,136	1,212	1,244	1,252	1,254	1,510	1,594	1,619
	Sinn Féin	Noeleen Moran	6.00	1,023	1,036	1,117	1,119	1,156	1,253	1,273	1,298	1,350
	Fine Gael	Gerard Kennedy	5.92	1,010	1,014	1,041	1,042	1,057
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Keane[*]	5.78	985	989	1,024	1,025	1,063	1,120	1,136	1,141
	Fine Gael	Gabriel Keating[*]	5.58	952	957	988	991	1,078	1,144	1,155	1,203	1,505	1,569	1,590
	Fine Gael	Marian McMahon-Jones	3.65	622	644	662	663
	Green	Kevin Heapes	2.33	398	415
	Independent	Joseph Enright	0.53	90
	Independent	Jackie Dale	0.52	88
Electorate: 28,936   Valid: 17,056 (58.94%)   Spoilt: 215   Quota: 1,896   Turnout: 17,271 (59.69%)

References

1. Proportional Representation^{[permanent dead link‍]} Citizens Information, 2009-09-21.
2. Local Election Results for Clare County Council Irish Times. Retrieved: 2014-05-31.
3. "Clare Local Election 2014 results". Clare County Council. 28 May 2014. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2020.

External links

• Official website