2014_South_Dublin_County_Council_election
2014 South Dublin County Council election
Part of the 2014 Irish local elections
An election to all 40 seats on South Dublin County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, an increase from 26 seats at the 2009 election. South Dublin was divided into six 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).[1][2][3]
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All 40 seats on South Dublin County Council 21 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Area of South Dublin County Council |
Under the Local Government Act 2001, South Dublin County Council had been allocated 26 seats. In November 2012, Phil Hogan, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, appointed a Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee to review the allocation of seats across local authorities.[4] In the case of South Dublin County Council, it recommended an increase to 40 seats.[5] This was implemented by the Local Government Reform Act 2014.[6]
Sinn Féin emerged as the largest party after the local elections with 9 seats and 6 gains in total. The party won 2 seats in each of Clondalkin and the 2 Tallaght LEAs. Fine Gael retained second place but lost 1 seat overall to emerge with 7 seats. While the party won 2 seats in each of Clondalkin, Lucan and Rathfarnham she won no seat in either Tallaght LEA. Fianna Fáil gained 1 seat to win 5 seats overall, in the Lucan LEA, the first time they won a seat there since 2004, but were left without representation in Tallaght South. Labour lost 5 seats, to emerge with 4 overall, and was left without representation in Lucan and Rathfarnham. Both People Before Profit and the Anti-Austerity Alliance secured 3 seats each. The Green Party also gained 1 seat in Rathfarnham. Independents were also among the biggest winners on the council with 8 seats and 7 gains in total.
Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | |
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Sinn Féin | 9 | +6 | 18,411 | 23.96 | |
Fine Gael | 7 | -1 | 13,853 | 18.03 | |
Fianna Fáil | 5 | +1 | 10,274 | 13.37 | |
Labour | 4 | -5 | 7,847 | 10.21 | |
People Before Profit | 3 | +2 | 3,630 | 4.72 | |
Anti-Austerity Alliance | 3 | +3 | 3,537 | 4.60 | |
Green | 1 | +1 | 1,667 | 2.17 | |
Workers' Party | 0 | 0 | 940 | 1.22 | |
Direct Democracy | 0 | 0 | 280 | 0.36 | |
Communist | 0 | 0 | 143 | 0.19 | |
Independent | 8 | +7 | 16,246 | 21.15 | |
Total | 40 | +14 | 76,828 | 100.00 |
^ *: Outgoing councillor.
Clondalkin
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Eoin Ó Broin [lower-alpha 1] | 21.19 | 2,992 | ||||||||
Sinn Féin | Jonathan Graham [lower-alpha 2] | 16.33 | 2,306 | ||||||||
Fianna Fáil | Trevor Gilligan[*] | 13.71 | 1,935 | ||||||||
People Before Profit | Gino Kenny [lower-alpha 3] | 12.01 | 1,696 | ||||||||
Independent | Francis Timmons | 4.83 | 682 | 1,122 | 1,282 | 1,356 | 1,387 | 1,477 | 1,886 | ||
Labour | Breeda Bonner[*] | 7.70 | 1,087 | 1,203 | 1,270 | 1,353 | 1,361 | 1,533 | 1,562 | 1,590 | |
Fine Gael | Kenny Egan | 7.19 | 1,015 | 1,157 | 1,200 | 1,282 | 1,291 | 1,338 | 1,392 | 1,407 | |
Fine Gael | Emer Higgins[*] | 8.45 | 1,193 | 1,241 | 1,262 | 1,327 | 1,330 | 1,356 | 1,366 | 1,388 | |
Workers' Party | Lorraine Hennessy | 3.07 | 433 | 693 | 853 | 880 | 910 | 1,029 | 1,143 | 1,309 | |
Independent | Matthew McDonagh | 2.82 | 398 | 637 | 866 | 867 | 903 | 987 | |||
Labour | Ken Kinsella | 1.68 | 237 | 276 | 291 | 315 | 319 | ||||
Communist | Paul Doran | 1.01 | 143 | 282 | 324 | 334 | 340 | ||||
Electorate: 35,616 Valid: 14,117 (39.64%) Spoilt: 263 Quota: 1,569 Turnout: 14,380 (40.38%) |
Lucan
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Danny O'Brien | 12.57 | 1,762 | ||||||||||||||
Fine Gael | William Lavelle[*] | 12.49 | 1,751 | ||||||||||||||
Independent | Guss O'Connell[*] | 10.50 | 1,471 | 1,496 | 1,503 | 1,506 | 1,513 | 1,522 | 1,561 | ||||||||
Independent | Paul Gogarty | 8.71 | 1,221 | 1,241 | 1,261 | 1,272 | 1,279 | 1,309 | 1,320 | 1,369 | 1,414 | 1,488 | 1,565 | ||||
People Before Profit | Ruth Nolan | 5.02 | 704 | 755 | 760 | 763 | 769 | 791 | 798 | 827 | 841 | 999 | 1,031 | 1,123 | 1,285 | 1,488 | |
Fine Gael | Vicki Casserly | 6.13 | 859 | 863 | 923 | 924 | 938 | 948 | 1,041 | 1,083 | 1,101 | 1,142 | 1,203 | 1,242 | 1,304 | 1,351 | |
Fianna Fáil | Ed O'Brien | 5.06 | 709 | 716 | 725 | 727 | 735 | 743 | 749 | 757 | 1,076 | 1,101 | 1,144 | 1,162 | 1,250 | 1,306 | |
Independent | Liona O'Toole | 5.51 | 772 | 786 | 798 | 800 | 804 | 810 | 818 | 836 | 852 | 892 | 918 | 995 | 1,137 | 1,263 | |
Labour | Caitriona Jones[*] | 3.60 | 505 | 509 | 527 | 530 | 576 | 581 | 595 | 637 | 649 | 669 | 951 | 994 | 1,048 | 1,112 | |
Independent | Tony Stafford | 4.72 | 661 | 672 | 672 | 673 | 676 | 681 | 698 | 705 | 720 | 735 | 745 | 943 | 993 | ||
Independent | Jim Doyle | 3.55 | 497 | 506 | 511 | 534 | 536 | 598 | 602 | 627 | 651 | 738 | 767 | 819 | |||
Independent | Alan Hayes | 4.16 | 583 | 592 | 595 | 596 | 598 | 605 | 618 | 635 | 645 | 665 | 676 | ||||
Labour | Eamon Tuffy[*] | 3.62 | 507 | 512 | 531 | 531 | 548 | 560 | 580 | 597 | 617 | 654 | |||||
Workers' Party | Mick Finnegan | 3.62 | 507 | 530 | 533 | 535 | 537 | 567 | 569 | 585 | 594 | ||||||
Fianna Fáil | Caitríona McClean | 3.66 | 513 | 517 | 523 | 524 | 525 | 531 | 537 | 550 | |||||||
Independent | Patrick Akpoveta | 1.96 | 275 | 281 | 284 | 289 | 326 | 336 | 337 | ||||||||
Fine Gael | Gerry Kennedy | 1.66 | 233 | 234 | 254 | 254 | 256 | 260 | |||||||||
Independent | Michael Farrelly | 1.71 | 239 | 243 | 244 | 252 | 253 | ||||||||||
Independent | Hussain Zahid | 1.29 | 181 | 184 | 186 | 187 | |||||||||||
Independent | Ciaran Byrne | 0.46 | 65 | 69 | 69 | ||||||||||||
Electorate: 33,243 Valid: 14,015 (41.93%) Spoilt: 168 Quota: 1,558 Turnout: 14,183 (42.43%) |
Rathfarnham
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | John Lahart [lower-alpha 4] | 15.95 | 1,972 | ||||||
Fine Gael | Anne-Marie Dermody [lower-alpha 5] | 13.22 | 1,634 | 1,649 | 1,715 | 1,788 | |||
Sinn Féin | Sarah Holland | 13.06 | 1,614 | 1,621 | 1,644 | 1,740 | 1,768 | ||
Independent | Deirdre O'Donovan [lower-alpha 6] | 12.27 | 1,517 | 1,533 | 1,592 | 1,731 | 1,840 | ||
Fine Gael | Paula Donovan | 8.14 | 1,006 | 1,015 | 1,043 | 1,102 | 1,547 | 1,637 | |
Green | Francis Noel Duffy | 7.64 | 944 | 959 | 992 | 1,130 | 1,198 | 1,477 | |
People Before Profit | John Flanagan | 6.52 | 806 | 809 | 830 | 886 | 907 | ||
Labour | Paddy Cosgrave[*] | 6.50 | 804 | 817 | 1,129 | 1,180 | 1,268 | 1,370 | |
Fine Gael | Alan Gallagher | 6.26 | 774 | 787 | 818 | 862 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Emma Murphy | 5.54 | 685 | 793 | 807 | ||||
Labour | Aideen Carberry | 4.91 | 607 | 613 | |||||
Electorate: 30,375 Valid: 12,363 (40.70%) Spoilt: 127 Quota: 1,767 Turnout: 12,490 (41.12%) |
Tallaght Central
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Máire Devine [lower-alpha 7] | 24.45 | 2,874 | ||||||||||
Fianna Fáil | Charlie O'Connor | 13.74 | 1,615 | 1,744 | |||||||||
Sinn Féin | Brendan Ferron | 7.70 | 905 | 1,642 | 1,663 | 1,678 | 1,705 | ||||||
Anti-Austerity Alliance | Mick Murphy | 12.11 | 1,424 | 1,506 | 1,515 | 1,533 | 1,586 | 1,620 | 1,625 | 1,651 | 1,808 | ||
Anti-Austerity Alliance | Kieran Mahon | 5.30 | 623 | 654 | 656 | 661 | 701 | 719 | 720 | 748 | 1,189 | 1,512 | |
Labour | Mick Duff [lower-alpha 8] | 8.35 | 982 | 1,022 | 1,026 | 1,168 | 1,191 | 1,224 | 1,225 | 1,353 | 1,381 | 1,495 | |
Fine Gael | Karen Warren | 5.38 | 632 | 642 | 647 | 687 | 697 | 754 | 754 | 1,065 | 1,078 | 1,153 | |
Independent | Declan Burke | 4.46 | 524 | 556 | 557 | 581 | 715 | 764 | 772 | 824 | 872 | ||
Anti-Austerity Alliance | Eddie Ericksson | 4.98 | 585 | 663 | 665 | 675 | 694 | 712 | 713 | 744 | |||
Fine Gael | Gay Kelly | 5.14 | 604 | 615 | 619 | 632 | 650 | 693 | 693 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Valerie Gaynor | 2.95 | 347 | 361 | 369 | 382 | 385 | ||||||
Independent | Ray Kelly | 2.88 | 339 | 354 | 359 | 362 | |||||||
Labour | Kemi Adenekan | 2.56 | 301 | 316 | 319 | ||||||||
Electorate: 26,285 Valid: 11,755 (44.72%) Spoilt: 186 Quota: 1,680 Turnout: 11,941 (45.43%) |
Tallaght South
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Cathal King[*] | 31.21 | 2,449 | |||||||
Sinn Féin | Louise Dunne | 20.05 | 1,573 | |||||||
Labour | Martina Genockey [lower-alpha 9] | 9.43 | 740 | 861 | 905 | 1,003 | 1,096 | 1,420 | ||
Anti-Austerity Alliance | Brian Leech | 6.16 | 483 | 804 | 886 | 911 | 956 | 994 | 1,008 | |
People Before Profit | Nicky Coules [lower-alpha 10] | 5.40 | 424 | 704 | 804 | 828 | 884 | 918 | 958 | |
Independent | Dermot Richardson [lower-alpha 11] | 4.72 | 370 | 537 | 581 | 707 | 781 | 870 | 927 | |
Anti-Austerity Alliance | Phil Foster | 5.38 | 422 | 643 | 740 | 767 | 810 | 850 | 871 | |
Fine Gael | David Yeates | 7.15 | 561 | 596 | 608 | 656 | 772 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Emmett Hegarty | 6.76 | 530 | 597 | 633 | 654 | ||||
Labour | Eugene Ryan | 2.56 | 201 | 254 | 265 | |||||
Independent | Frank O'Gorman | 1.19 | 93 | 156 | 182 | |||||
Electorate: 25,653 Valid: 7,846 (30.59%) Spoilt: 167 Quota: 1,121 Turnout: 8,013 (31.24%) |
Templeogue–Terenure
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
Independent | Dermot Looney [lower-alpha 12] | 16.89 | 2,826 | ||||||||||
Independent | Ronan McMahon [lower-alpha 13] | 13.74 | 2,299 | 2,386 | 2,427 | ||||||||
Sinn Féin | Fintan Warfield [lower-alpha 14] | 11.57 | 1,936 | 2,016 | 2,025 | 2,094 | 2,121 | 2,167 | 2,227 | 2,292 | 2,623 | ||
Labour | Pamela Kearns[*] | 8.52 | 1,426 | 1,454 | 1,472 | 1,484 | 1,679 | 1,796 | 2,002 | 2,076 | 2,248 | 2,282 | |
Fine Gael | Colm Brophy [lower-alpha 15] | 9.28 | 1,552 | 1,562 | 1,567 | 1,572 | 1,689 | 1,895 | 1,981 | 2,027 | 2,115 | 2,134 | |
Fianna Fáil | Paul Foley | 6.90 | 1,155 | 1,168 | 1,180 | 1,189 | 1,202 | 1,232 | 1,283 | 1,834 | 1,951 | 1,988 | |
Fine Gael | Brian Lawlor[*] | 8.22 | 1,375 | 1,380 | 1,383 | 1,384 | 1,438 | 1,542 | 1,599 | 1,636 | 1,855 | 1,882 | |
Independent | Shane Conneely | 6.47 | 1,082 | 1,115 | 1,158 | 1,257 | 1,315 | 1,338 | 1,485 | 1,537 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Eamonn Walsh[*] | 4.86 | 813 | 844 | 848 | 862 | 868 | 907 | 992 | ||||
Green | Suzanne McEneaney | 4.32 | 723 | 750 | 759 | 782 | 812 | 859 | |||||
Fine Gael | Siobhán Butler | 3.97 | 664 | 731 | 735 | 745 | 764 | ||||||
Labour | Chris Bond[*] | 2.69 | 450 | 467 | 467 | 480 | |||||||
Direct Democracy | Neville Bradley | 1.67 | 280 | 300 | 309 | ||||||||
Independent | Paddy Henegan | 0.90 | 151 | 168 | |||||||||
Electorate: 33,746 Valid: 16,732 (49.58%) Spoilt: 217 Quota: 2,391 Turnout: 16,949 (50.23%) |
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