2009 Leitrim County Council election

2009 Leitrim County Council election

5 June 2009
22 seats on Leitrim County Council
First party Second party Third party   Party Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Sinn Féin Seats won 10 8 2 Seat change +2 -2 -   Fourth party   Party Independent Seats won 2 Seat change -
Map showing the area of Leitrim County Council
Council control after election TBD

An election to Leitrim County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 22 councillors were elected from four 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	+2	6,963	37.07
	Fianna Fáil	8	-2	6,007	31.98
	Sinn Féin	2	-	2,418	12.87
	Independent	2	-	2,864	15.25
Totals		22	-	18,781	100.00	—

Results by local electoral area

Ballinamore

Ballinamore - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy O'Rourke*	17.29	877
	Fianna Fáil	Caillian Ellis*	16.82	853
	Fine Gael	John McCartin	16.78	851
	Fine Gael	Damien Brennan*	14.10	715	730	752
	Fine Gael	Gordon Hughes	13.33	676	759	846
	Sinn Féin	Martin Kenny*	13.03	661	959
	Sinn Féin	Maureen Martin	8.64	438
Electorate: 6,671   Valid: 5,071 (76.02%)   Spoilt: 48   Quota: 846   Turnout: 5,119 (76.74%)

Carrick-on-Shannon

Carrick-on-Shannon - 7 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Independent	Enda Stenson*	18.54	983
	Fianna Fáil	Seán McGowan*	12.61	672
	Fianna Fáil	Gerry Kilrane	10.90	581	634	650	657	686
	Fine Gael	Thomas Mulligan*	10.06	536	579	596	598	628	670
	Fianna Fáil	Sinead Guckian*	8.82	470	504	507	523	530	554	685
	Fine Gael	Gerry Reynolds*	7.49	399	442	443	461	464	473	545	546	554	606
	Fine Gael	John Ward	6.98	372	410	414	422	437	453	468	475	477	579
	Labour	John Feely	5.35	285	307	308	325	330	367	409	410	416	472
	Independent	Des Guckian	5.27	281	300	303	328	337	374	382	386	388
	Fianna Fáil	Liam McElgunn*	5.01	267	288	289	297	300	312
	Sinn Féin	Chris Cronin	3.62	193	206	215	222	238
	Independent	Stephen Flynn	2.08	111	130	123	132	133
	Green	Garreth McDaid	1.97	105	117	118
	Independent	Bernard McDonagh	0.75	40	42
	Independent	John McCrann	0.64	34	38
Electorate: 7,723   Valid: 5,329 (69.00%)   Spoilt: 44   Quota: 667   Turnout: 5,373 (69.57%)

Dromahaire

Dromahaire - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fine Gael	Enda McGloin*	17.69	814
	Fine Gael	John McTernan*	17.54	807
	Independent	Gerry Dolan*	14.45	665	701	719	943
	Fianna Fáil	Francis Gilmartin*	14.10	649	661	674	716	751
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Bohan*	13.17	606	625	626	692	768
	Sinn Féin	Padraig Fallon	10.50	483	509	511	582	627
	Fine Gael	Sean Loughlin	9.54	439	452	464
	Green	Johnny Gogan	3.02	139
Electorate: 6,034   Valid: 4,602 (76.27%)   Spoilt: 47   Quota: 768   Turnout: 4,649 (77.05%)

Manorhamilton

Manorhamilton - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fine Gael	Séan McDermott*	16.10	691	695	758
	Sinn Féin	Michael Colreavy*	14.98	643	716
	Fine Gael	Frank Dolan*	14.12	606	613	721
	Fianna Fáil	Tony Ferguson*	13.37	574	635	764
	Fine Gael	Siobhán McGloin	13.30	571	618	655	672	693
	Independent	Gabriel McSharry	12.07	518	527	619	650	671
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Munday	10.67	458	468
	Independent	Thomas Kelly	5.40	232
Electorate: 5,849   Valid: 4,293 (69.63%)   Spoilt: 45   Quota: 716   Turnout: 4,338 (70.63%)

External links

• Official website