Sligo County Council election, 2009

Sligo County Council election, 2014

5 June 2009

All 25 seats to Sligo County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fine Gael	Fianna Fáil	Labour Party
Seats won	12	7	2
Seat change	+2	-3	-1

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Sinn Féin	Independent
Seats won	1	3
Seat change	-	+2

Map showing the area of Sligo County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Sligo County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	12	+2	13,413	39.36%
	Fianna Fáil	7	-3	8,972	26.33%
	Labour Party	2	-1	2,500	7.34%
	Sinn Féin	1	-	2,709	7.95%
	Independent	3	+2	6,484	19.03%
Totals		25	-	34,078	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Ballymote

Ballymote - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fine Gael	Gerard Mullaney*	24.35	1,437
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Baker*	18.86	1,113	1,208
	Fine Gael	Thomas Collery	12.08	713	784	796	870	880	1,119
	Fine Gael	Pat McGrath*	12.08	713	762	785	994	999	1,106
	Sinn Féin	Thomas Healy	10.93	644	659	665	765	768
	Fianna Fáil	Mattie Scanlon	10.39	613	625	644	766	775	915
	Independent	Tim Mulcahy	9.18	542	554	606
	Independent	Dick Cahill	2.13	126	129
Electorate: 8,628 Valid: 5,902 (68.41%) Spoilt: 76 Quota: 1,181 Turnout: 5,964 (69.12%)

Dromore

Dromore - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Independent	Michael Clarke	21.94	1,408
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Queenan*	16.31	1,047	1,062	1,229	1,298
	Fine Gael	Mary Barrett*	15.88	1,019	1,060	1,144	1,253	1,390
	Fine Gael	Dara Mulvey	12.42	797	802	832	856	1,298
	Fine Gael	Paul Conmy*	11.14	715	726	749	809	856
	Labour Party	Alwyn Love	10.38	666	674	702	779
	Sinn Féin	Padraig Hallinan	6.25	401	430	454
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Wilson	5.69	356	380
Electorate: 8,963 Valid: 6,418 (71.61%) Spoilt: 56 Quota: 1,284 Turnout: 6,474 (72.23%)

Sligo Drumcliff

Sligo Drumcliff - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fine Gael	Joe Leonard*	19.77	1,527
	Labour Party	Veronica Cawley*	13.57	1,048	1,085	1,091	1,149
	Fianna Fáil	Jude Devins*	10.91	843	860	861	878	926	1,001
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Kilgannon*	9.18	709	722	724	741	811	852
	Fianna Fáil	Patsy Barry*	9.15	707	796	805	966	983	1,028
	Fine Gael	Hubert Keaney	8.28	640	695	701	761	923	1,023
	Sinn Féin	Arthur Gibbons	8.03	620	647	650	697	733
	Fine Gael	Matt Lyons	7.31	565	638	639	687	873	1,016
	Fine Gael	Ita Fox*	6.96	538	574	575	607
	Independent	James Gilmartin	5.11	474	546	566
	Independent	Francis Feeney	0.70	54	58
Electorate: 12,947 Valid: 7,725 (59.67%) Spoilt: 97 Quota: 1,097 Turnout: 7,822 (60.42%)

Sligo Strandhill

Sligo Strandhill - 7 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fine Gael	Tony McLoughlin*	24.86	2,019
	Independent	Declan Bree*	16.82	1,366
	Sinn Féin	Seán MacManus*	12.86	1,044
	Fianna Fáil	Deirdre Healy-McGowan	9.99	811	915	922	930	939	981
	Fine Gael	Imelda Henry*	8.40	682	966	977	1,008	1,016	1,176
	Fianna Fáil	Rosaleen O'Grady	7.30	593	567	578	587	598	607
	Labour Party	Jim McGarry*	6.14	499	940	973	1,004	1,028	1,067
	Fianna Fáil	Albert Higgins*	5.44	442	835	840	846	853	883
	Fine Gael	David Cawley	4.65	378	440	447	456	468	498
	Labour Party	Mary Dolan-McLoughlin	3.53	287	360	364	375	379
Electorate: 13,517 Valid: 8,121 (60.08%) Spoilt: 105 Quota: 1,065 Turnout: 8,226 (60.86%)

Tobercurry

Tobercurry - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3
	Independent	Margaret Gormley*	36.50	2,162
	Fianna Fáil	Jerry Lundy*	16.37	970	1,157	1,266
	Fine Gael	Gerry Murray*	15.26	904	1,211
	Fianna Fáil	Aidan Colleary*	12.96	768	890	960
	Fine Gael	Michael Fleming*	12.93	766	985	1,169
	Independent	Roger McCarrick	5.98	354	496
Electorate: 8,294 Valid: 5,924 (71.43%) Spoilt: 58 Quota: 1,185 Turnout: 5,982 (72.12%)

External links

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