2014_Leitrim_County_Council_election

2014 Leitrim County Council election

2014 Leitrim County Council election

Part of the 2014 Irish local elections

An election to all 18 seats on Leitrim County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, a reduction from 22 seats at the 2009 election]. County Leitrim 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).

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Fine Gael lost 6 seats, and their previously held overall majority while Fianna Fáil also lost 2 seats. Independents and Sinn Féin both increased their numbers by 2 despite the Council being reduced by 4 seats as a whole.[1][2]

Results by party

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Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor.

Ballinamore

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    Carrick-on-Shannon

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      Manorhamilton

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        References

        1. [1]
          McGreevy, Ronan (24 May 2014). "All change in Leitrim as Independents and Sinn Féin surge". The Irish Times. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
        2. [2]
          "Leitrim County Council Election results". Irish Independent. 24 May 2014. Archived from the original on 18 June 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.

        Changes

        • †Ballinamore Sinn Féin Councillor Martin Kenny was elected a TD for Sligo-Leitrim at the 2016 general election. Caroline Gildea was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 14 March 2016.
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