2014 Laois County Council election

2014 Laois County Council election

23 May 2014
All 19 seats to Laois County Council
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Sinn Féin Seats won 7 6 2 Seat change -1 -6 +1   Fourth party Fifth party   Party Labour Independent Seats won 1 3 Seat change - -
Map showing the area of Laois County Council
Council control after election TBD

An election to all 19 seats on Laois County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, a reduction from 21 seats at the 2009 election. County Laois was divided into three local electoral areas 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 Mountmellick and Portlaoise were both abolished.

Fianna Fáil became the largest party after the elections securing 7 seats. Fine Gael, by contrast, had a very poor set of results and lost half of their seats returning with just 6 seats in all. Sinn Féin doubled their representation to 2 seats and Labour retained a seat on the council in the Portlaoise LEA. Independents make up the remainder of the Council membership.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	7	1	10,837	32.8
	Fine Gael	6	6	9,959	30.2
	Sinn Féin	2	1	4,204	12.7
	Labour	1		1,544	4.7
	Independent	3		6,208	18.8
Total		19	6	32,752	100.0

Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor.

Borris-in-Ossory–Mountmellick

Bossis-in-Ossory–Mountmellick: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Fine Gael	John King[*]	9.87	1,189	1,190	1,195	1,199	1,199	1,204	1,414	1,454	1,689	1,694
	Independent	James Kelly	9.68	1,166	1,242	1,250	1,396	1,424	1,450	1,511	1,759
	Independent	Brendan Phelan[*]	9.11	1,097	1,129	1,130	1,172	1,198	1,213	1,285	1,432	1,781
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy Bracken[*]	9.11	1,051	1,086	1,203	1,223	1,311	1,542	1,560	1,680	1,807
	Fianna Fáil	Séamus McDonald[*]	7.64	920	935	955	978	1,259	1,368	1,382	1,448	1,531	1,604
	Sinn Féin	Rhoda Dooley-Brogan	7.23	871	921	942	962	1,006	1,051	1,071	1,071
	Fine Gael	Michael Lalor[*]	7.17	864	903	911	984	1,002	1,028	1,130	1,186	1,218	1,219
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Phelan	7.16	863	866	868	950	965	972	1,078	1,121	1,121
	Fine Gael	David Goodwin[*]	7.03	847	866	968	982	1,068	1,164	1,297	1,331	1,381	1,387
	Fine Gael	John Finlay	5.44	656	663	691	738	751	793	793
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Digan	5.41	652	657	660	685	685
	Fianna Fáil	Gerard Phelan	4.42	533	537	537	537
	Labour	Lisa Delaney	4.37	526	559	678	686	709	709
	Fine Gael	Bobby Delaney	3.64	439	459	459
	Independent	Pat Cooper	1.64	197
	Independent	Donal Keenan	1.47	177
Electorate: 19,840   Valid: 12,048 (60.73%)   Spoilt: 125   Quota: 1,722   Turnout: 12,173 (61.36%)

Graiguecullen–Portarlington

Graiguecullen–Portarlington: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Sinn Féin	Aidan Mullins	14.64	1,547
	Fianna Fáil	Padraig Fleming[*]	11.79	1,246	1,290	1,309	1,369	1,391	1,393	1,522
	Independent	Ben Brennan[*]	10.53	1,112	1,198	1,218	1,303	1,410	1,420	1,493	1,560
	Fine Gael	Tom Mulhall[*]	9.79	1,034	1,036	1,073	1,131	1,204	1,208	1,327	1,435
	Fine Gael	John Moran[*]	8.58	906	923	942	955	973	974	1,260	1,432
	Fianna Fáil	Paschal McEvoy	8.36	883	885	897	924	948	950	994	1,319
	Fianna Fáil	Willie Murphy	7.61	804	806	858	897	1,116	1,131	1,137	1,209
	Fianna Fáil	Dick Miller	6.87	726	733	742	789	827	828	900
	Fine Gael	James Daly[*]	6.61	698	714	752	791	808	810
	Independent	Ray Cribbin[*]	5.01	529	546	592	672
	Independent	Kevin Scully	4.54	480	505	541
	Labour	Gráinne Corcoran	3.15	333	343
	Independent	Keith Lennon	2.53	267
Electorate: 19,295   Valid: 10,565 (54.76%)   Spoilt: 100   Quota: 1,510   Turnout: 10,665 (55.27%)

Portlaoise

Portlaoise: 7 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Fine Gael	William Aird[*]	13.95	1,450
	Fianna Fáil	John Joe Fennelly[*]	13.22	1,374
	Sinn Féin	Caroline Dwane-Stanley[*]	12.97	1,348
	Fine Gael	Mary Sweeney[*]	9.98	1,037	1,075	1,088	1,094	1,095	1,117	1,131	1,263	1,305
	Fianna Fáil	Catherine Fitzgerald[*]	7.90	821	841	856	856	858	923	932	984	1,012	1,051	1,119
	Fianna Fáil	Jerry Lodge[*]	6.95	722	738	749	754	757	796	812	876	912	949	1,036
	Labour	Noel Tuohy	6.59	685	698	699	707	709	746	770	835	877	1,009	1,146
	Independent	Rotimi Adebari[*]	5.59	581	585	587	637	639	660	690	713	777	818	948
	Fine Gael	Jim Ring	4.59	477	487	508	509	510	513	518	559	597	597
	Independent	Stephen Greene	4.42	459	463	464	487	494	505	570	586	693	708	708
	Sinn Féin	Sharon Bailey	4.22	438	441	445	447	474	485	548	552	552
	Fine Gael	Kathleen O'Brien[*]	3.48	362	398	398	402	404	422	434	434
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Ray Fitzpatrick	2.43	252	254	256	269	271	281	281
	Fianna Fáil	David Ryan	2.33	242	245	250	255	255	255
	Independent	Osaro Fajimiyo	1.04	108	109	109	109
	Independent	Joseph McCormack	0.34	35	36	36	36
Electorate: 20,568   Valid: 10,391   Spoilt: 104   Quota: 1,299   Turnout: 10,495 (51%)

Changes

Co-options

Party		Outgoing	LEA	Reason	Date	Co-optee
	Fianna Fáil	Jerry Lodge	Portlaoise	Death.[1]	4 April 2018	Pauline Madigan[2]

References

Sources

"Laois County Council". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2014.

Citations

1. "PICTURES - A look back at the life of the late Cllr Jerry Lodge". Laois Live. 4 April 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
2. Miller, Steven (30 July 2018). "Warm council welcome as Pauline Madigan takes her seat". Laois Today. Retrieved 23 March 2025.