2014 Longford County Council election
23 May 2014
All 18 seats on Longford County Council
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Independent
Seats won 8 7 3
Seat change -2 -1 -
Map showing the area of Longford County Council
Council control after election

Fine Gael
Independents

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

Party Seats ± 1st pref FPv% ±%
Fine Gael 8 -2 8,245 42.10
Fianna Fáil 7 -1 6,264 31.90
Sinn Féin 0 - 1,284 6.55
Independent 3 - 3,803 19.40
Total 18 -3 19,596 100.00 —

Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor.

Ballymahon

Ballymahon: 6 seats
PartyCandidateFPv%Count
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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

    Granard: 6 seats
    PartyCandidateFPv%Count
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    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

      Longford: 6 seats
      PartyCandidateFPv%Count
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      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

        • † Longford Fianna Fáil Councillor Padraig Loughrey resigned due to family and work commitments on 22 October 2017. Archived 19 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine On 14 December 2017 Joe Flaherty was co-opted to fill the vacancy. Archived 19 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine
        • †† Granard Fine Gael Councillor John Duffy resigned on 22 February 2018 citing work commitments. On 19 March 2018 Gerry Hagan was co-opted to fill the vacancy. Archived 7 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine

        References

        1. ↑ Naughton, Gareth (24 May 2014). "The latest from Longford County Council count". Irish Independent. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
        2. ↑ Conboy, Patrick (26 May 2014). "Local election update: How it stands". Longford Leader. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
        3. ↑ "Irish Independent Local Elections". 24 May 2014. Archived from the original on 4 June 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
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