2014 Waterford City and County Council election

2014 Waterford City and County Council election

23 May 2014
All 32 seats on Waterford City and County Council 17 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Sinn Féin Seats won 8 8 6   Fourth party Fifth party   Party Labour Independent Seats won 1 9
Area of Waterford City and County Council

An election to all 32 seats on Waterford City and County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections. The City and County of Waterford was divided into five local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). This was a new local authority formed as a successor to both Waterford City Council (15 seats at the 2009 election) and Waterford County Council (23 seats at the 2009 election). The town councils of Dungarvan, Lismore and Tramore were also abolished.

Although it was behind Fine Gael in first preference vote share, Fianna Fáil emerged as the joint largest party on the council after the elections winning 8 seats in all. The party secured 3 seats in Comeragh, 2 in Dungarvan–Lismore and 1 in each of the Waterford city LEAs where the party had been traditionally weak after 2004 and 2009. Fine Gael's best result was in Dungarvan-Lismore where the party returned 3 seats. As the results indicate several of the party's sitting councillors lost their seats across the City and County. It was also a poor election for Labour who were reduced to just 1 seat on the new council and no city representation. The Workers' Party lost its sole seat; the first time since 1974 where it had no representation in Waterford local politics. Sinn Féin had a very successful election increasing their numbers to 6 across the City and County and winning a seat in each LEA. Independents secured the remaining 9 seats.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	8		11,095	25.1
	Fianna Fáil	8		8,612	19.5
	Sinn Féin	6		7,090	16.0
	Labour	1		3,536	8.0
	People Before Profit	0		179	0.40
	Independent	9		12,100	27.3
Total		32	6	44,248	100.0	—

Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor.

Comeragh

Comeragh: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fianna Fáil	Michael J. O'Ryan	16.4%	1,484
	Fine Gael	Liam Brazil	16.0%	1,445
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary	11.1%	1,002	1,040	1,054	1,065	1,084	1,129	1,245	1,297
	Sinn Féin	Declan Clune	10.8%	974	987	995	1,013	1,041	1,147	1,211	1,386
	Fine Gael	Seanie Power	10.1%	907	954	984	1,000	1,127	1,198	1,245	1,275	1,281
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Butler††	7.1%	639	677	689	706	730	775	868	989	1,037
	Fine Gael	Brendan Coffey	6.4%	577	584	627	645	658	688	799	895	918
	Independent	Seanie Walsh	5.4%	491	494	496	525	596	683	736
	Labour	Ger Barron	5.4%	484	487	514	557	563	615
	Direct Democracy	Dr. David James	5.3%	474	505	510	539	562
	Independent	Michael Flynn	3.4%	311	321	325	360
	Independent	Dermot Kirwan	2.7%	240	243	254
Electorate: 15,534   Valid: 9,028   Spoilt: 97   Quota: 1,290   Turnout: 9,125 (58.7%)

Dungarvan–Lismore

Dungarvan–Lismore: 8 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	Damien Geoghegan	11.3%	1,337
	Fine Gael	Pat Nugent	10.6%	1,252	1,277	1,310	1,315
	Fianna Fáil	James Tobin	9.9%	1,171	1,177	1,281	1,282	1,315
	Sinn Féin	Siobhán Whelan	8.9%	1,048	1,109	1,159	1,162	1,218	1,245	1,729
	Labour	John Pratt	8.8%	1,040	1,053	1,069	1,070	1,113	1,159	1,222	1,271
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Cronin	7.8%	920	936	1,041	1,042	1,098	1,167	1,203	1,240
	Fine Gael	Declan Doocey	6.9%	823	829	841	842	872	1,113	1,166	1,200
	Independent	Seamus O'Donnell	5.9%	704	771	800	801	995	1,041	1,096	1,197
	Sinn Féin	Louise Brierley	5.9%	697	714	723	724	773	790
	Labour	Nicky Sheehan	5.6%	666	733	826	832	855	990	1,004	1,026
	Fine Gael	Micheál Cosgrave	5.3%	628	644	686	690	725
	Independent	Midí de Paor Walsh	5.0%	592	623	648	649
	Fianna Fáil	Ann Marie Rossiter	4.6%	537	566
	Independent	Michael Wright	3.3%	392
Electorate: 22,774   Valid: 11,807   Spoilt: 148   Quota: 1,312   Turnout: 11,955 (52.5%)

Tramore–Waterford City West

Tramore–Waterford City West: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Independent	Joe Conway	11.5%	960	966	977	1,018	1,124	1,136	1,176	1,230
	Independent	Joe Kelly	8.6%	716	732	753	755	765	840	891	900	901	978	1,042	1,155
	Independent	Blaise Hannigan	7.9%	664	666	675	706	777	801	822	867	877	919	949	995
	Sinn Féin	Jim Griffin	7.5%	631	649	661	672	686	718	738	775	779	848	1,212
	Independent	Ann Marie Power	7.5%	623	633	647	696	736	750	792	818	824	856	871	903
	Fine Gael	Lola O'Sullivan	6.9%	577	580	582	694	730	733	792	857	864	883	895	1,143
	Fine Gael	Hilary Quinlan	6.8%	566	571	577	598	605	638	705	734	736	783	801
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Daly	6.0%	505	505	506	517	526	530	538
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Quinlan	6.0%	504	507	517	523	547	564	601	795	799	843	876	983
	Sinn Féin	David Lane	5.6%	472	476	486	492	499	540	555	567	567	666
	Workers' Party	Davy Walsh	4.9%	409	432	437	442	445	509	551	567	567
	Labour	Dee Jacques	4.7%	392	404	416	431	445	473
	Independent	Pat Finnerty	4.3%	359	361	365	380
	Independent	Dick Roche	4.1%	346	365	384	385	391
	Fine Gael	Maxine Keoghan	4.1%	341	348	350
	Independent	Jenna Keane	1.7%	145	157
	Independent	Monica Melay	1.2%	103
	Workers' Party	Brian Hearne	0.7%	55
Electorate: 16,028   Valid: 8,368   Spoilt: 130   Quota: 1,196   Turnout: 8,498 (53%)

Waterford City East

Waterford City East: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Sinn Féin	Pat Fitzgerald	15.6%	1,221
	Independent	Davy Daniels	14.4%	1,130
	Fine Gael	John Carey†††	11.1%	869	888	892	895	923	925	941	975	976	1,109	1,138
	Fianna Fáil	Adam Wyse	9.4%	732	745	751	761	822	834	971	1,028	1,030	1,084	1,165
	Independent	Mary Roche††††	8.5%	668	680	694	731	740	792	834	949	952	1,025	1,167
	Independent	Eddie Mulligan†	7.7%	601	614	632	650	660	690	712	743	745	798	925	958
	Fine Gael	Jim D'Arcy	6.5%	509	512	515	526	527	534	544	608	610	777	831	847
	Independent	Neil White	5.1%	405	411	418	440	447	493	512	550	551	569
	Fine Gael	Tom Cunningham	6.1%	484	484	487	489	494	497	509	545	546
	Labour	Jack Walsh	3.3%	376	380	384	390	391	406	423
	Fianna Fáil	Liz Murphy	3.1%	241	245	247	251	304	312
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon McGrath	2.3%	181	185	185	190
	People Before Profit	Joan Quirke	2.3%	179	195	211	220	222
	Independent	John Walsh	1.8%	141	143	149
	Direct Democracy	Larry McCarthy	1.1%	81	91
Electorate: 19,090   Valid: 7,824   Spoilt: 94   Quota: 1,118   Turnout: 7,918 (41.5%)

Waterford City South

Waterford City South: 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Sinn Féin	John Hearne	18.7%	1,347
	Fine Gael	John Cummins	10.8%	780	788	797	802	807	824	862	908	911	1,089
	Sinn Féin	Breda Brennan	9.7%	700	871	877	902	932	970	1,028	1,085
	Fianna Fáil	Jason Murphy	9.6%	696	712	719	721	725	737	763	827	833	889
	Independent	Seán Reinhardt	8.8%	637	671	683	692	722	761	811	882	887	972
	Independent	Laurence (Cha) O'Neill	8.5%	615	625	630	637	654	699	753	875	881	1,005
	Labour	Seamus Ryan	8.0%	578	587	591	593	603	618	636	659	661
	Workers' Party	Willy Moore	6.9%	500	530	535	549	576	593	618	700	709	792
	Independent	Tom Murphy	6.5%	467	477	481	485	499	535	591
	Independent	Donal Barry	4.3%	308	316	317	326	344	370
	Independent	David O'Brien	3.3%	237	244	247	256	281
	Independent	Keith Nolan	2.4%	175	183	187	199
	Direct Democracy	Gary Hogan	1.5%	111	114	114
	Independent	Eddie Walsh	1.0%	70	71
Electorate: 12,181   Valid: 7,221   Spoilt: 139   Quota: 1,032   Turnout: 7,360 (59.3%)

Changes 2014–2019

• † Waterford City East Cllr Eddie Mulligan joined Fianna Fáil and ceased to be an Independent on 2 November 2014. [1]
• †† Comeragh Fianna Fáil Cllr Mary Butler was elected to the 32nd Dáil for Waterford at the 2016 general election. Ray Murphy was co-opted to fill the vacancy.[2]
• ††† Waterford City East Fine Gael Cllr John Carey died on 8 September 2018 after a short illness.[3] His daughter, Sharon, was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 8 November 2018.
• †††† Waterford City East Independent Cllr Mary Roche resigned her seat on 30 November 2018 for personal reasons. Matt Shanahan was co-opted to fill the vacancy.

External links

• Official website