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 local electoral area [ edit ] ^ *: Outgoing councillor.
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: 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: 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%)
† 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