2014 Kildare County Council election

An election to Kildare County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 40 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office, an increase in 15 seats compared to 2009.[1] In addition Athy Town Council, Leixlip Town Council, Naas Town Council and Newbridge Town Council were all abolished.

2014 Kildare County Council election

23 May 2014
All 40 seats to Kildare County Council 21 seats needed for a majority
Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour Seats won 12 9 5 Seat change +6 - -1   Party Sinn Féin Independent Seats won 5 9 Seat change +5 +5
Map showing the area of Kildare County Council
Council control after election TBD

In recognition of its major population growth in recent times Kildare was allocated 15 additional council seats. This helped to insulate both Government parties somewhat from anti-Government hostility that lead to seat losses in other counties. Fine Gael returned 9 seats, as they did in 2009 and Labour returned with 5 councillors, a loss of 1 seat in the Kildare-Newbridge LEA. Fianna Fáil emerged as the big winners doubling their seats to 12 and becoming the largest party. The party won 3 seats in each of Kildare-Newbridge, Maynooth and in Naas. Sinn Féin won a seat in each LEA, returning to County Hall for the first time since 1999.[2] Independents also gained 5 seats to have a total membership of 9.[3]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	12	+6	16,530	26.4%
	Fine Gael	9	-	13,111	20.9%
	Labour	5	-1	8,359	13.4%
	Sinn Féin	5	+5	7,494	11.9%
	Independent	9	+5	14,207	22.7%
Totals		40	+15	61,837	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Athy

Athy - 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Miley, Jnr*	17.12	1,747
	Labour	Mark Wall*	15.01	1,531
	Fianna Fáil	Mark Dalton†	13.47	1,374	1,499
	Labour	Aoife Breslin	11.95	1,219	1,241	1,377	1,434	1,449	1,470
	Fine Gael	Ivan Keatley*	11.61	1,184	1,274	1,521
	Fine Gael	Richard O'Rourke	8.92	910	918	980	984	1,030	1,033	1,079
	Sinn Féin	Thomas Redmond	8.27	844	859	895	902	904	910	1,563
	Sinn Féin	Ger Kelly	7.97	813	828	863	868	868	879
	Fine Gael	Richard Daly*	5.69	580	594
Electorate: 22,014   Valid: 10,202 (46.34%)   Spoilt: 196   Quota: 1,458   Turnout: 10,398 (47.23%)

Celbridge-Leixlip

Celbridge-Leixlip - 7 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Fianna Fáil	Frank O'Rourke*†††††	15.31	1,814
	Independent	Anthony Larkin*	12.16	1,441
	Sinn Féin	Ide Cussen†††††††††	8.01	949	969	990	1,013	1,025	1,026	1,073	1,099	1,135	1,183	1,238	1,244
	Independent	Bernard Caldwell	7.93	940	945	977	989	991	992	1,065	1,183	1,288	1,485
	Labour	Kevin Byrne*	7.11	842	893	903	918	974	974	1,024	1,104	1,123	1,133	1,198	1,231
	Fine Gael	Joe Neville	6.52	773	781	793	797	981	982	1,008	1,093	1,194	1,347	1,674
	Independent	Brendan Young	6.23	738	763	783	849	872	875	997	1,026	1,062	1,184	1,340	1,387
	Labour	Shane Griffin	6.14	727	768	771	805	868	868	913	984	1,018	1,032	1,139	1,178
	Green	Shane Fitzgerald	5.84	692	701	719	732	743	745	768	803	885	995
	Independent	Denis McCarthy	5.20	616	619	645	688	690	693	728	762	819
	Labour	Colm Purcell*	4.32	512	518	528	528	545	545	550
	Independent	Michael Beirne	3.63	430	446	475	519	541	541
	Fianna Fáil	Gráinne Whelan	3.61	428	524	538	543	555	555	571	604
	Fine Gael	Philip Slattery	3.38	401	425	428	439
	Independent	Peter Kavanagh	2.37	281	291	308
	Independent	James Devaney	1.57	186	189
	Independent	Jean Berry	0.65	77	80
Electorate: 27,070   Valid: 11,847 (43.76%)   Spoilt: 111   Quota: 1,481   Turnout: 11,958 (44.17%)

Kildare-Newbridge

Kildare-Newbridge - 9 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
	Fianna Fáil	Fiona O'Loughlin*††††††	12.45	1,786
	Fianna Fáil	Suzanne Doyle*	10.47	1,502
	Fine Gael	Fiona McLoughlin-Healy††††††††	9.87	1,415	1,445
	Sinn Féin	Mark Lynch	9.02	1,293	1,308	1,315	1,318	1,319	1,325	1,336	1,351	1,360	1,378	1,412	1,440
	Independent	Joanne Pender	7.15	1,026	1,042	1,067	1,073	1,073	1,084	1,112	1,138	1,183	1,203	1,263	1,315	1,442
	Independent	Paddy Kennedy*	6.67	957	981	988	991	993	1,017	1,043	1,070	1,111	1,132	1,165	1,243	1,295	1,341	1,343	1,482
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Power	6.19	888	1,003	1,009	1,026	1,027	1,030	1,050	1,060	1,081	1,1103	1,127	1,163	1,187	1,239	1,240	1,315	1,321
	Fine Gael	Mark Stafford	5.68	814	887	890	895	896	899	909	913	916	942	957	1,533
	Sinn Féin	Damian Molyneaux	4.76	682	693	698	699	699	706	711	738	746	756	772	796	846	866	867
	Fine Gael	Michael Nolan, Jnr*	4.64	666	678	681	682	682	693	709	720	736	757	765	787	798	920	920	972	977
	Independent	Willie Crowley†††	3.85	552	559	563	564	565	571	584	603	666	683	694	753	863	874	876	1,020	1,055
	Fine Gael	Mary Donnelly	3.60	516	527	527	535	536	543	546	547	549	592	623	639	677
	Independent	Declan Crowe	2.59	372	376	382	387	387	388	392	397	403	421	492	581
	Independent	Murty Aspell	2.50	359	365	375	376	377	384	402	428	454	472	484
	Independent	John (Gusher) Gleeson	2.32	333	336	338	347	347	351	355	365	372	388
	Independent	Morgan McCabe	1.81	259	266	270	270	270	272	287	296
	Labour	Francis Browne*	1.48	212	215	217	222	222	304	308	314	316
	Independent	Seamus Finn	1.43	205	208	219	220	220	228	230
	Labour	Willie Hamilton	1.38	198	200	201	202	203
	Independent	Ray O'Brien	1.37	196	204	208	208	209	212
	Independent	Jason Turner	0.76	109	110
Electorate: 32,598   Valid: 14,340 (43.99%)   Spoilt: 197   Quota: 1,435   Turnout: 14,537 (44.59%)

Maynooth

Maynooth - 9 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Fine Gael	Brendan Weld*	13.82	1,701
	Independent	Padraig McEvoy*	13.56	1,668
	Sinn Féin	Réada Cronin	10.49	1,291
	Independent	Teresa Murray	7.74	952	984	1,045	1,050	1,136	1,268
	Labour	John McGinley*	7.53	927	936	950	952	956	961	1,142	1,144	1,151	1,188
	Fianna Fáil	Naoise O Cearúil	7.48	920	939	963	966	970	980	1,000	1,060	1,065	1,089
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Ward	6.93	853	897	921	923	925	961	975	1,015	1,018	1,046
	Fine Gael	Tim Durkan	5.83	717	856	889	891	895	911	954	977	981	1,325
	Fianna Fáil	Daragh Fitzpatrick	5.38	662	722	771	774	789	796	818	1,113	1,116	1,250
	People Before Profit	Martin Grehan	5.08	625	640	688	708	731	797	829	852	866	899
	Fine Gael	Seamus Langan*	4.87	599	688	700	702	747	757	781	858	859
	Fianna Fáil	Ben Doyle	4.27	529	539	552	556	583	592	611
	Labour	Julie McNamara	2.64	325	356	437	438	446	458
	Independent	John Paul Gannon	2.32	286	297	340	351	392
	Independent	Joan McGuire	2.06	254	261	296	301
Electorate: 28,237   Valid: 12,305 (43.86%)   Spoilt: 163   Quota: 1,232   Turnout: 12,468 (44.44%)

Naas

Naas - 9 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Fianna Fáil	James Lawless††††	16.15	2,123
	Sinn Féin	Sorcha O'Neill†††††††	12.34	1,622
	Independent	Seamie Moore*	9.94	1,307	1,361
	Fine Gael	Darren Scully*	9.23	1,213	1,291	1,305	1,308	1,321
	Fianna Fáil	Robert Power	7.29	954	1,174	1,198	1,209	1,218	1,231	1,241	1,283	1,344
	Fianna Fáil	Willie Callaghan*††	7.23	950	1,119	1,137	1,148	1,159	1,185	1,197	1,304	1,361
	Fine Gael	Billy Hillis	6.25	822	839	846	849	850	862	872	893	1,040	1,047	1,053	1,101
	Labour	Anne Breen	6.21	816	846	863	866	877	890	906	1,074	1,194	1,208	1,213	1,533
	Fine Gael	Fintan Brett	6.09	800	843	848	851	852	863	871	885	1,019	1,027	1,038	1,145
	Fine Gael	Jacinta O'Sullivan	4.51	593	623	635	637	640	651	661	694
	Labour	Fergus Carpenter	4.0	526	631	642	643	645	652	665	721	754	757	759
	Labour	Ger Dunne	3.99	524	539	556	556	561	566	575
	Independent	Paddy Horan	2.26	297	308	355	359	415	542	706	739	763	765	770	807
	Direct Democracy	Martin Byrne	1.72	226	241	300	301	326	348
	Independent	Francis James O'Rourke	1.40	184	197	234	237	304
	Independent	Cathal Spelman	1.38	182	194	233	234
Electorate: 30,335   Valid: 13,143 (43.33%)   Spoilt: 171   Quota: 1,315   Turnout: 13,314 (43.89%)

References

1. "Kildare". The Irish Times.
2. http://electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1999L&cons=12
3. "Kildare Local Elections". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 2014-06-16.

Post-Election Changes

• †On 16 October 2014 Athy Fianna Fáil Councillor Mark Dalton resigned from the party and became an Independent after financial irregularities were discovered at a voluntary housing association of which he was a director. He resigned from the Council in September 2018 and Fianna Fáil's Brian Dooley was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 20 November 2018.
• ††On 30 November 2014 Naas Fianna Fáil Councillor Willie Callaghan died after a short illness. On 26 January 2015 his daughter, Deborah, was co-opted to fill the vacancy.
• †††On 19 December 2015 Kildare-Newbridge Independent Councillor Willie Crowley died after injuries sustained from a hit and run incident. Independent Morgan McCabe was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 26 January 2016.†††
• ††††Naas Fianna Fáil Councillor James Lawless was elected as a TD for Kildare North at the Irish general election, 2016. Carmel Kelly was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 14 March 2016.
• †††††Celbridge-Leixlip Fianna Fáil Councillor Frank O'Rourke was elected as a TD for Kildare North at the Irish general election, 2016. Michael Coleman was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 14 March 2016.
• ††††††Kildare-Newbridge Fianna Fáil Councillor Fiona O'Loughlin was elected as a TD for Kildare South at the Irish general election, 2016. Murty Aspell was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 14 March 2016.
• †††††††Naas Sinn Féin Councillor Sorcha O'Neill resigned from the party and became an Independent on 21 April 2017 citing allegations of bullying, intimidation and a toxic and hostile environment.7 SF members in Naas quit party
• ††††††††Kildare-Newbridge Fine Gael Councillor Fiona McLoughlin-Healy resigned from the party and became an Independent on 9 March 2018 citing failure by the party to address in a meaningful way a formal complaint she had made.
• †††††††††Celbridge-Leixlip Sinn Féin Councillor Ide Cussen resigned from the party on 21 November 2018 saying there was no freedom of conscience in the party on the abortion issue. She then announced she was joining the new party being created by Peadar Tóibín.

External links

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