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Part of the 2014 Irish local elections
2014 Longford County Council election
Map showing the area of Longford County Council
An election to all 18 seats on Longford County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections , a reduction from 21 seats at the 2009 election . County Longford 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). In addition, the town councils of Granard and Longford were abolished.
In one of the party's better local election results, Fine Gael remained the largest party with 8 seats. Fianna Fáil took 7 seats and the remainder were filled by Independents. This was the only Council on which Sinn Féin failed to make a breakthrough.[1] [2] [3]
Results by party [ edit ]
Results by local electoral area [ edit ] ^ *: Outgoing councillor.
Ballymahon [ edit ]
Ballymahon: 6 seats
Party
Candidate
FPv% Count
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Fine Gael
Colm Murray [*] 14.09
931
956
Fine Gael
Gerard Farrell
12.79
845
848
848
856
863
1,066
Independent
Mark Casey [*] 12.50
826
885
886
1,036
Fianna Fáil
Mick Cahill [*] 11.44
756
785
786
831
848
899
921
Fianna Fáil
Thomas Victory[*]
10.32
682
687
687
732
743
770
782
Fianna Fáil
Pat O'Toole
10.15
671
744
747
768
780
829
841
Fine Gael
Paul Ross
9.88
653
674
677
722
726
843
918
Fine Gael
Seán Farrell[*]
7.23
478
496
498
517
519
Sinn Féin
Edel Kelly
6.87
454
489
490
Independent
Niamh Moran
4.72
312
Electorate: 10,519 Valid: 6,608 (62.82%) Spoilt: 88 Quota: 945 Turnout: 6,696 (63.66%)
Granard [ edit ]
Granard: 6 seats
Party
Candidate
FPv% Count
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Fine Gael
Micheál Carrigy [*] 15.26
1,111
Fine Gael
John Duffy [*] 10.47
762
768
789
828
853
942
1,079
Fianna Fáil
P.J. Reilly [*] 10.40
757
762
775
882
994
1,025
1,157
Fine Gael
Paraic Brady
10.38
756
766
813
851
869
953
1,081
Fianna Fáil
Martin Mulleady [*] 8.71
634
637
691
698
753
832
889
905
Fianna Fáil
Luie McEntire [*] 8.61
627
631
658
674
727
793
878
902
Sinn Féin
John Reilly
7.94
578
582
606
634
656
724
783
819
Independent
James Keogh
7.01
510
516
585
600
624
Fine Gael
Frank Kilbride[*]
6.85
499
513
520
590
651
721
Fianna Fáil
John Coyle
5.32
387
395
406
428
Fine Gael
Maura Kilbride-Harkin
4.73
344
350
361
Independent
Mary Lillis
4.33
315
319
Electorate: 11,015 Valid: 7,280 (66.09%) Spoilt: 83 Quota: 1,041 Turnout: 7,363 (66.85%)
Longford [ edit ]
Longford: 6 seats
Party
Candidate
FPv% Count
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Fine Gael
John Browne [*] 12.74
727
734
755
779
831
Fianna Fáil
Seamus Butler
12.25
699
712
731
747
774
856
Fine Gael
Peggy Nolan [*] 11.37
649
657
674
706
745
909
Independent
Gerry Warnock
10.95
625
646
696
751
820
Fianna Fáil
Michael Connellan
9.25
528
531
540
556
592
643
671
685
Fianna Fáil
Pádraig Loughrey [*] 9.16
523
528
549
577
630
715
727
744
Independent
Mae Sexton [*] 8.92
509
520
547
573
627
708
754
763
Fine Gael
Yvonne Ni Mhurchu
8.58
490
493
504
514
534
Independent
Paul Connell[*]
6.06
346
360
382
412
Sinn Féin
Barbara Smyth
4.41
252
256
256
Independent
Tony Flaherty
4.33
247
263
277
277
Independent
Martin Clyne
1.98
113
Electorate: 9,612 Valid: 5,708 (59.38%) Spoilt: 78 Quota: 816 Turnout: 5,786 (60.20%)
Changes 2014–2019 [ edit ] † Longford Fianna Fáil Councillor Padraig Loughrey resigned due to family and work commitments on 22 October 2017.[1] Archived 19 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine On 14 December 2017 Joe Flaherty was co-opted to fill the vacancy.[2] Archived 19 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine
†† Granard Fine Gael Councillor John Duffy resigned on 22 February 2018 citing work commitments.[3] On 19 March 2018 Gerry Hagan was co-opted to fill the vacancy.[4] Archived 7 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine References [ edit ] External links [ edit ]
