2014 Galway City Council election

2014 Galway City Council election

23 May 2014
All 18 seats on Galway City Council 10 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Sinn Féin Seats won 4 3 3 Seat change +1 - +3   Fourth party Fifth party   Party Labour Independent Seats won 2 6 Seat change -3 +2
Map showing the area of Galway City Council
Council control before election Labour Council control after election Fine Gael

An election to all 18 seats on Galway City Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, an increase of 3 seats from 2009 election. The city of Galway 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)

Twenty-four-year-old Mairéad Farrell, a niece of Mairéad Farrell who was shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in 1988, won a seat at the first attempt. She was joined on the council by 2 other councillors as Sinn Féin won 3 seats. Their gains came chiefly at the expense of Labour who lost 3 fifths of their seats to return with just 2 councillors. While Fianna Fáil won the most votes the party did not make any gains in the election and returned just 3 councillors as in 2009. By contrast Fine Gael gained a seat to become the largest party. Independents were the big winners, topping the poll in all LEAs and increasing their existing numbers by 2 seats.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	4	1	3,446	15.8
	Fianna Fáil	3		4,256	19.5
	Sinn Féin	3	3	2,074	9.5
	Labour	2	3	2,370	10.8
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	0		985	4.51
	Green	0		479	2.19
	People Before Profit	0		128	0.59
	Independent	6	2	8,116	37.1
Total		18	3	21,854	100.0

Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor.

Galway City Central

Galway City Central: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Independent	Mike Cubbard	13.36	850	866	911
	Fianna Fáil	Ollie Crowe	12.98	826	827	831	842	845	862	902	1,123
	Fine Gael	Frank Fahy	10.42	663	663	668	673	674	702	735	764	797
	Labour	Billy Cameron	9.01	573	581	606	695	719	819	855	937
	Fine Gael	Pádraig Conneely	8.52	542	545	559	585	594	626	678	748	786
	Sinn Féin	Anna Marley††	7.91	503	524	534	554	631	656	718	782	796
	Fianna Fáil	Nicola Deacy	7.91	503	504	512	550	563	596	650
	Green	Séamus Sheridan	7.53	479	495	516	529	565	618	671	721	751
	Independent	Cormac O Corcoráin	5.26	335	341	360	364	427	440
	Labour	Colette Connolly	4.26	271	279	281	328	342
	Labour	John McDonagh	4.15	264	267	271
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Seán Byrne	3.69	235	285	294	301
	Independent	Mike Geraghty	2.62	167	173
	People Before Profit	Kiran Emrich	2.01	128
	Independent	Jimmy Horan	0.38	24
Electorate: 12,488   Valid: 6,363 (50.95%)   Spoilt: 83   Quota: 910   Turnout: 6,446 (51.62%)

Galway City East

Galway City East: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Independent	Terry O'Flaherty	20.4%	1,405
	Independent	Declan McDonnell	15.7%	1,085
	Fianna Fáil	Michael John Crowe	12.5%	860	923	940	950	986
	Sinn Féin	Mairéad Farrell	11.3%	782	829	842	859	874	897	1,074
	Independent	Noel Larkin	7.4%	513	598	622	634	673	697	779	827	936
	Fianna Fáil	Alan Cheevers	6.5%	451	484	491	492	505	557	586	595	654
	Fine Gael	John Walsh	5.8%	398	450	463	476	554	694	710	717	855
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Conor Burke	5.2%	357	384	390	400	408	426
	Labour	Monica Coughlan	4.7%	327	367	377	439	475	524	558	577
	Fine Gael	John Rabbitte	4.5%	311	333	338	344	397
	Fine Gael	Margot Kelly	3.8%	262	294	296	312
	Labour	Nuala Nolan	2.1%	142	161	164
Electorate: 14,010   Valid: 6,893   Spoilt: 101   Quota: 985   Turnout: 6,994 (49.2%)

Galway City West

Galway City West: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Independent	Donal Lyons	21.77	1,872
	Independent	Catherine Connolly†	17.60	1,513
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Keane	10.51	904	991	1,011	1,015	1,043	1,064	1,102
	Fine Gael	Pearce Flannery	9.27	797	892	910	918	950	977	1,273
	Labour	Níall McNelis	9.22	793	924	989	1,001	1,057	1,123	1,240
	Sinn Féin	Cathal O Conchúir	9.18	789	841	888	897	940	1,122	1,147
	Fianna Fáil	David Burke	8.28	712	820	838	849	871	910	960
	Fine Gael	Michelle Murphy	5.50	473	529	554	561	593	618
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Tommy Holohan	4.57	393	432	472	484	540
	Independent	Tommy Roddy	3.14	270	320	353	401
	Independent	Marc Anderson	0.95	82	107	125
Electorate: 17,606   Valid: 8,598 (48.84%)   Spoilt: 86   Quota: 1,229   Turnout: 8,684 (49.32%)

Changes 2014–2019

• † Galway City West Independent Cllr Catherine Connolly was elected as a TD for Galway West at the Irish general election, 2016. Her sister and now Independent Cllr, Colette, was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 21 March 2016.[1]
• †† Galway City Central Sinn Féin Cllr Anna Marley resigned her seat on 15 August 2016 saying she found it challenging to balance family responsibility with her work as a public representative.[2] On 13 October 2016 Mark Lohan was co-opted to fill the vacancy.

External links

• Official website