2009 Carlow County Council election

2009 Carlow County Council election

5 June 2009
All 21 seats to Carlow County Council
First party Second party Third party   Party Fine Gael Labour Fianna Fáil Seats won 10 5 4 Seat change +3 +1 -4   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Independent Green Progressive Democrats Seats won 2 0 0 Seat change +2 -1 -1
Area of Carlow County Council

An election to Carlow County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	10	+3	9,186	39.28
	Labour	5	+1	4,545	19.44
	Fianna Fáil	4	-4	6,476	24.69
	Independent	2	+2	2,372	10.14
	Green	0	-1	334	1.43
	Progressive Democrats	—	-1	—	—
Totals		21	-	23,385	100.00	—

Results by local electoral area

Borris

Borris - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fine Gael	Tommy Kinsella*	22.64	1,238
	Labour	Willie Quinn*	18.67	1,021	1,064	1,079	1,230
	Independent	Charlie Murphy	15.00	820	838	885	925	958	1,017
	Fine Gael	John Murphy	14.90	815	870	916	972	1,017	1,077
	Fianna Fáil	P.J. Kavanagh*	11.59	634	639	659	687	692	932
	Fianna Fáil	Dolores Barron	7.97	436	447	455	491	507
	Green	Alan Price*	6.11	334	345	361
	Independent	Billy Nolan	3.11	170	171
Electorate: 8,722   Valid: 5,468 (62.69%)   Spoilt: 68   Quota: 1,094   Turnout: 5,536 (63.47%)

Carlow East

Carlow East - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Jennifer Murnane-O'Connor*	26.06	1,090
	Fine Gael	Fergal Browne	21.52	900
	Labour	Caroline Townsend	13.01	544	595	644	658	934
	Fianna Fáil	Joe McDonald*	10.86	454	557	589	597	661	688
	Labour	Noel Barcoe	10.57	442	489	555	565
	Fine Gael	Wayne Fennell	10.35	433	451	593	624	724	794
	Fine Gael	Declan Alcock*	7.63	319	353
Electorate: 7,422   Valid: 4,182 (56.35%)   Spoilt: 86   Quota: 837   Turnout: 4,268 (57.50%)

Carlow West

Carlow West - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fine Gael	Michael Abbey*	21.32	864
	Fine Gael	Tom O'Neill	14.96	606	686
	Independent	Walter Lacey*	13.13	532	557	598	671	725
	Fianna Fáil	Ann Ahern (née Long)	13.10	531	556	603	837
	Sinn Féin	John Cassin	11.20	454	463	503	534	558	564	564
	Labour	Des Hurley*	10.93	443	467	487	519	553	574	584
	Fianna Fáil	Rody Kelly*	9.13	370	387	440
	Fianna Fáil	Lorraine Hynes*	3.65	148	152
	Independent	Ken Murnane	2.57	104	108
Electorate: 8,231   Valid: 4,052 (49.23%)   Spoilt: 55   Quota: 676   Turnout: 4,107 (49.90%)

Muinebheag

Muinebheag - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Labour	Jim Townsend*	20.07	1,050
	Fine Gael	Denis Foley*	19.75	1,033	1,061
	Fine Gael	Michael Doran*	16.42	859	882	886	887	962	1,012	1,177
	Fianna Fáil	Arthur McDonald*	13.38	700	722	724	724	746	875	978
	Fianna Fáil	Eddie Cullen	9.39	491	501	502	503	525	569	605
	Labour	Liam O'Brien	6.73	352	379	384	385	426	508
	Independent	David O'Brien*	6.16	322	359	360	360	406
	Independent	Martin Nevin	4.32	226	259	260	260
	Independent	James Lakes	3.48	182
	Independent	Patrick Rooney	0.31	16
Electorate: 8,751   Valid: 5,231 (59.78%)   Spoilt: 80   Quota: 1,047   Turnout: 5,311 (60.69%)

Tullow

Tullow - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Fianna Fáil	John Pender*	26.34	1,168
	Fine Gael	Pat Deering	17.66	783	818	959
	Fine Gael	Pat O'Toole	15.92	706	756	818	827
	Labour	William Paton*	15.63	693	750	850	864
	Fine Gael	Fred Hunter*	14.21	630	658	763	812
	Fianna Fáil	Sophie Kelly	10.24	454	565
Electorate: 7,928   Valid: 4,434 (55.93%)   Spoilt: 67   Quota: 887   Turnout: 4,501 (56.77%)

External links

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