2014 Galway City Council election

2014 Galway City Council election
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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.[1] 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.[2]

Results by party

Party Seats ± 1st pref FPv% ±%
Fine Gael 4 Increase1 3,446 15.8
Fianna Fáil 3 Steady 4,256 19.5
Sinn Féin 3 Increase3 2,074 9.5
Labour 2 Decrease3 2,370 10.8
Anti-Austerity Alliance 0 Steady 985 4.51
Green 0 Steady 479 2.19
People Before Profit 0 Steady 128 0.59
Independent 6 Increase2 8,116 37.1
Total 18 Increase3 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 J. 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

Co-options

Party Outgoing LEA Reason Date Co-optee
Independent Catherine Connolly Galway City West Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election. 21 March 2016 Colette Connolly[3]
Sinn Féin Anna Marley Galway City Central Resigned due to finding it difficult to balance family with council work.[4] 12 September 2016 Mark Lohan[5]

References

  1. ^ McDonald, Brian (24 May 2014). "Galway City Council City East: First count". Irish Independent. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  2. ^ "Galway City local elections". Irish Independent. 24 May 2014. Archived from the original on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  3. ^ "Former Labour Party councillor Colette Connolly has been co-opted to the City Council to fill the seat left vacant by her sister's election to the Dáil". Facebook.com. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  4. ^ "New baby, late meetings, no leave: Sinn Féin councillor on her decision to step down". Newstalk. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
  5. ^ Cunningham, Enda (12 September 2016). "Galway City's newest councillor steps into the breach". Connacht Tribune. Retrieved 12 January 2025.