Laois County Council election, 2014

23 May 2014

All 19 seats to Laois County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fianna Fáil	Fine Gael	Sinn Féin
Seats won	7	6	2
Seat change	-1	-6	+1

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Labour Party	Independent
Seats won	1	3
Seat change	-	-

Map showing the area of Laois County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Laois County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 19 councillors were elected from three electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office, a reduction of 2 seats from the previous election in 2009. In addition Mountmellick Town Council and Portlaoise Town Council were both abolished.

Fianna Fáil became the largest party after the elections securing 7 Council seats. Fine Gael, by contrast, had a very poor set of results and lost half of their Council seats returning with just 6 seats in all. Sinn Féin doubled their representation to 2 seats and Labour retained a seat on the Council in the Portlaoise LEA. Independents make up the remainder of the Council membership.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	7	-1	10,837	32.8%
	Fine Gael	6	-6	9,959	30.2%
	Sinn Féin	2	+1	4,204	12.7%
	Labour Party	1	-	1,544	4.7%
	Independent	3	-	6,208	18.8%
Totals		19	-6		100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

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Borris-in-Ossory-Mountmellick

Bossis-in-Ossory - Mountmellick - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	Fine Gael	John King*	9.87	1,189	1,190	1,195	1,199	1,199	1,204	1,414	1,454	1,689	1,694
	Independent	James Kelly	9.68	1,166	1,242	1,250	1,396	1,424	1,450	1,511	1,759
	Independent	Brendan Phelan*	9.11	1,097	1,129	1,130	1,172	1,198	1,213	1,285	1,432	1,781
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy Bracken*	9.11	1,051	1,086	1,203	1,223	1,311	1,542	1,560	1,680	1,807
	Fianna Fáil	Séamus McDonald*	7.64	920	935	955	978	1,259	1,368	1,382	1,448	1,531	1,604
	Sinn Féin	Rhoda Dooley-Brogan	7.23	871	921	942	962	1,006	1,051	1,071	1,071
	Fine Gael	Michael Lalor*	7.17	864	903	911	984	1,002	1,028	1,130	1,186	1,218	1,219
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Phelan	7.16	863	866	868	950	965	972	1,078	1,121	1,121
	Fine Gael	David Goodwin*	7.03	847	866	968	982	1,068	1,164	1,297	1,331	1,381	1,387
	Fine Gael	John Finlay	5.44	656	663	691	738	751	793	793
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Digan	5.41	652	657	660	685	685
	Fianna Fáil	Gerard Phelan	4.42	533	537	537	537
	Labour Party	Lisa Delaney	4.37	526	559	678	686	709	709
	Fine Gael	Bobby Delaney	3.64	439	459	459
	Independent	Pat Cooper	1.64	197
	Independent	Donal Keenan	1.47	177
Electorate: 19,840 Valid: 12,048 (60.73%) Spoilt: 125 Quota: 1,722 Turnout: 12,173 (61.36%)

Graiguecullen-Portarlington

Graiguecullen-Portarlington - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Sinn Féin	Aidan Mullins	14.64	1,547
	Fianna Fáil	Padraig Fleming*	11.79	1,246	1,290	1,309	1,369	1,391	1,393	1,522
	Independent	Ben Brennan*	10.53	1,112	1,198	1,218	1,303	1,410	1,420	1,493	1,560
	Fine Gael	Tom Mulhall*	9.79	1,034	1,036	1,073	1,131	1,204	1,208	1,327	1,435
	Fine Gael	John Moran*	8.58	906	923	942	955	973	974	1,260	1,432
	Fianna Fáil	Paschal McEvoy	8.36	883	885	897	924	948	950	994	1,319
	Fianna Fáil	Willie Murphy	7.61	804	806	858	897	1,116	1,131	1,137	1,209
	Fianna Fáil	Dick Miller	6.87	726	733	742	789	827	828	900
	Fine Gael	James Daly*	6.61	698	714	752	791	808	810
	Independent	Ray Cribbin*	5.01	529	546	592	672
	Independent	Kevin Scully	4.54	480	505	541
	Labour Party	Gráinne Corcoran	3.15	333	343
	Independent	Keith Lennon	2.53	267
Electorate: 19,295 Valid: 10,565 (54.76%) Spoilt: 100 Quota: 1,510 Turnout: 10,665 (55.27%)

Portlaoise

Portlaoise - 7 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12
	Fine Gael	William Aird*	13.95	1,450
	Fianna Fáil	John Joe Fennelly*	13.22	1,374
	Sinn Féin	Caroline Stanley-Dwane*	12.97	1,348
	Fine Gael	Mary Sweeney*	9.98	1,037	1,075	1,088	1,094	1,095	1,117	1,131	1,263	1,305
	Fianna Fáil	Catherine Fitzgerald*	7.90	821	841	856	856	858	923	932	984	1,012	1,051	1,119
	Fianna Fáil	Jerry Lodge*	6.95	722	738	749	754	757	796	812	876	912	949	1,036
	Labour Party	Noel Tuohy	6.59	685	698	699	707	709	746	770	835	877	1,009	1,146
	Independent	Rotimi Adebari*	5.59	581	585	587	637	639	660	690	713	777	818	948
	Fine Gael	Jim Ring	4.59	477	487	508	509	510	513	518	559	597	597
	Independent	Stephen Greene	4.42	459	463	464	487	494	505	570	586	693	708	708
	Sinn Féin	Sharon Bailey	4.22	438	441	445	447	474	485	548	552	552
	Fine Gael	Kathleen O'Brien*	3.48	362	398	398	402	404	422	434	434
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Ray Fitzpatrick	2.43	252	254	256	269	271	281	281
	Fianna Fáil	David Ryan	2.33	242	245	250	255	255	255
	Independent	Osaro Fajimiyo	1.04	108	109	109	109
	Independent	Joseph McCormack	0.34	35	36	36	36
Electorate: 20,568 Valid: 10,391 Spoilt: 104 Quota: 1,299 Turnout: 10,495 (51%)

References

↑ Laois County Council "Irish Independent" Check |url= value (help).

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