2009 Galway City Council election

2009 Galway City Council election

5 June 2009
15 seats on Galway City Council
First party Second party Third party   Party Labour Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Seats won 5 3 3 Seat change +1 - +1   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Independent Green Sinn Féin Seats won 4 0 0 Seat change +3 -1 -1   Seventh party   Party Progressive Democrats Seats won 0 Seat change -3
Map showing the area of Galway City Council
Council control after election TBD

An election to Galway City Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 15 councillors were elected from three local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Labour	5	+1	4,347	19.11
	Fine Gael	3	-	4,848	21.31
	Fianna Fáil	3	+1	4,702	20.67
	Independent	4	+3	6,970	30.64
	Green	0	-1	1,194	5.25
	Sinn Féin	0	-1	690	3.03
	Progressive Democrats	0	-3	-	-
Totals		15	-	22,751	100.00	—

Results by local electoral area

Galway City Central

Galway City Central - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Labour	Billy Cameron*	20.61	1,065
	Fine Gael	Padraig Conneely*	19.58	1,012	1,017	1,025	1,059
	Fianna Fáil	Oliver Crowe	15.03	777	779	783	787	814	903
	Fianna Fáil	John Connolly*	11.59	599	601	609	623	680	754
	Labour	Colette Connolly*	10.47	541	554	588	716	814	1,045
	Independent	Mike Cubbard	9.17	474	477	493	514	626
	Independent	Mike Geraghty	6.48	335	338	350	384
	Green	Mairead Ni Chroinin	4.93	255	258	272
	Sinn Féin	Anna Marley	2.13	110	110
Electorate: 11,284   Valid: 5,168 (45.80%)   Spoilt: 73   Quota: 1,034   Turnout: 5,241 (46.45%)

Galway City East

Galway City East - 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Independent	Terry O'Flaherty*	12.95	1,139	1,141	1,160	1,174	1,204	1,242	1,311
	Independent	Declan McDonnell*	12.44	1,094	1,095	1,101	1,114	1,125	1,148	1,200	1,214	1,259
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Crowe*	11.88	1,045	1,046	1,080	1,082	1,092	1,119	1,156	1,161	1,234	1,270
	Labour	Derek Nolan	11.31	995	999	1,013	1,082	1,160	1,208	1,283
	Fine Gael	Brian Walsh*	11.13	979	979	984	1,004	1,015	1,094	1,136	1,148	1,544
	Labour	Tom Costello*	8.83	777	778	801	823	867	927	1,001	1,012	1,069	1,203
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Leahy*	8.62	758	760	781	785	797	813	832	838	901	930
	Fine Gael	Barra Nevin	7.07	622	622	625	630	642	733	756	759
	Sinn Féin	Martin Concannon	4.65	409	411	412	418	431	452
	Fine Gael	Frank Fahy	4.50	396	397	407	411	423
	Green	James Hope	2.65	233	233	238	247
	Labour	Nuala Nolan	1.94	171	175	176
	Fianna Fáil	Sheila Mangan	1.76	155	155
	Independent	Thomas King	0.25	22
Electorate: 18,149   Valid: 8,795 (48.46%)   Spoilt: 117   Quota: 1,257   Turnout: 8,912 (49.10%)

Galway City West

Galway City West - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Independent	Donal Lyons*	20.97	1,843
	Independent	Catherine Connolly*	13.43	1,180	1,220	1,272	1,347	1,480
	Fine Gael	Hildegarde Naughton	12.07	1,061	1,125	1,138	1,186	1,265	1,298	1,466
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Keane	9.89	869	895	908	921	965	1,264	1,358
	Labour	Niall McNelis	9.08	798	837	865	904	959	1,011	1,346
	Fine Gael	John Mulholland*	8.85	778	843	861	884	962	1,043	1,167
	Green	Niall O Brolchain*	8.03	706	755	781	853	923	985
	Fianna Fáil	Val Hanley	5.68	499	538	560	587	618
	Independent	A.J. Cahill	5.55	488	507	522	561
	Independent	Daniel Callanan*	3.86	339	364	394
	Sinn Féin	Tom Hanly	1.95	171	175
	Independent	Aidan McCabe	0.64	56	64
Electorate: 16,731   Valid: 8,788 (52.53%)   Spoilt: 89   Quota: 1,465   Turnout: 8,877 (53.06%)

External links

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