2009 Fingal County Council election

An election to all 24 seats on Fingal County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of the 2009 Irish local elections. Fingal was divided into 5 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).

2009 Fingal County Council election

5 June 2009
24 seats on Fingal County Council
First party Second party Third party   Party Labour Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Seats won 9 6 4 Seat change 3 1   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Socialist Party Independent Green Seats won 3 2 0 Seat change 1 3   Seventh party   Party Sinn Féin Seats won 0 Seat change 1
Map showing the area of Fingal County Council
Council control after election TBD

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Labour	9	3	21,117	25.66
	Fine Gael	6	1	17,133	20.82
	Fianna Fáil	4		13,347	16.22
	Socialist Party	3	1	11,502	13.98
	Green	0	3	4,861	5.91
	Sinn Féin	0	1	4,037	4.91
	Seniors Solidarity	0		1,319	1.60
	Progressive Democrats	—	1	—	—
	Independent	2		8,966	10.90
Total		24		82,282	100.00	—

Results by local electoral area

Balbriggan

Balbriggan - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Labour	Ken Farrell	19.14	3,388
	Independent	David O'Connor*	12.94	2,291	2,346	2,388	2,454	2,541	2,623	2,800	3,035
	Fine Gael	Tom O'Leary	10.36	1,833	1,874	1,903	1,926	2,005	2,513	2,586	2,689	2,877
	Green	Joe Corr*	8.65	1,531	1,581	1,610	1,671	1,766	1,817	1,928	2,040	2,306
	Labour	Ciaran Byrne*	8.02	1,420	1,515	1,752	1,857	1,887	1,975	2,238	2,447	2,585
	Independent	May McKeon*	6.99	1,238	1,249	1,315	1,366	1,401	1,514	1,636	2,040	2,432
	Independent	Seán Brown	6.07	1,075	1,082	1,125	1,200	1,211	1,300	1,424
	Fine Gael	Larry Dunne	5.71	1,010	1,024	1,059	1,087	1,108
	Fianna Fáil	Dermot Murray	5.56	985	993	1,012	1,046	1,491	1,551	1,584	1,694
	Socialist Party	Terry Kelleher	4.98	882	905	941	1,097	1,109	1,136
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen O'Connell	4.79	848	894	898	911
	Sinn Féin	Fergus Byrne	3.82	677	691	710
	Labour	Grainne Kilmurray	2.95	523	596
Electorate: 36,258   Valid: 17,701 (48.82%)   Spoilt: 248   Quota: 2,951   Turnout: 17,949 (49.50%)

Castleknock

Castleknock - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Socialist Party	Joe Higgins	28.07	3,787
	Fine Gael	Eithne Loftus*	22.45	3,028
	Labour	Peggy Hamill*	16.32	2,201	2,753
	Fianna Fáil	Mags Murray*	12.44	1,678	1,766	1,787	1,869	1,952	2,692
	Green	Roderic O'Gorman	9.18	1,238	1,413	1,458	1,649	1,851	2,030
	Fianna Fáil	Howard Mahony	6.95	938	983	997	1,033	1,077
	Sinn Féin	Charlie Maples	3.59	484	657	694	714
	Independent	Zahid Hussain	1.01	136	191
Electorate: 29,622   Valid: 13,490 (45.54%)   Spoilt: 138   Quota: 2,699   Turnout: 13,628 (46.01%)

Howth–Malahide

Howth-Malahide - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Labour	Peter Coyle*	16.99	3,781
	Fine Gael	Alan Farrell*	12.31	2,739	2,754	2,795	2,832	2,859	2,948	3,002	3,161	3,387	3,499
	Fianna Fáil	Eoghan O'Brien*	10.26	2,283	2,288	2,311	2,338	2,360	2,421	2,440	2,500	2,592	3,634
	Labour	Cian O'Callaghan	10.14	2,256	2,275	2,283	2,354	2,458	2,507	2,859	3,251	3,610	3,818
	Fine Gael	Joan Maher*	10.66	2,372	2,376	2,383	2,454	2,478	2,515	2,582	2,821	3,058	3,283
	Independent	Jimmy Guerin	8.15	1,814	1,820	1,842	1,984	2,062	2,099	2,279	2,445	2,871	3,052
	Fianna Fáil	Averil Power	7.46	1,659	1,662	1,669	1,710	1,743	1,766	1,826	1,923	2,033
	Seniors Solidarity Party	John Wolfe	5.93	1,319	1,325	1,345	1,422	1,501	1,537	1,721	1,835
	Socialist Party	Brian Greene	4.64	1,032	1,036	1,044	1,063	1,207	1,229
	Green	David Healy*	4.32	962	965	972	1,009	1,041	1,329	1,450
	Sinn Féin	Colm O Murchadha	2.87	638	639	643	653
	Green	Robbie Kelly*	2.77	616	619	632	661	683
	Independent	Eamonn McKiernan	1.53	341	342	359
	Independent	John Seery	1.07	237	238	251
	Independent	Pat Joyce	0.91	202	203
Electorate: 41,843   Valid: 22,251 (53.18%)   Spoilt: 201   Quota: 3,709   Turnout: 22,452 (53.66%)

The Seniors Solidarity Party was founded in November 2008 by John Wolfe following changes to the medical card changes in the 2009 budget. It was registered to contest local elections in Dublin. This was the only election it contested. In December 2014, the registrar of political parties proposed to cancel its registration.

Mulhuddart

Mulhuddart - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Labour	Patrick Nulty	14.32	1,898	1,924	1,957	1,965	2,014	2,065	2,178
	Socialist Party	Ruth Coppinger*	12.86	1,705	1,733	1,784	1,795	2,241
	Labour	Michael O'Donovan*	12.80	1,696	1,708	1,749	1,758	1,785	1,845	1,987
	Fine Gael	Kieran Dennison	12.44	1,649	1,661	1,698	1,707	1,726	1,803	2,320
	Sinn Féin	Paul Donnelly*	11.44	1,517	1,532	1,557	1,565	1,641	1,672	1,699
	Fianna Fáil	David McGuinness	9.08	1,203	1,213	1,225	1,337	1,347	1,850	1,999
	Fine Gael	Adeola Ogunsina	7.28	965	974	1,083	1,294	1,297	1,368
	Fianna Fáil	Niamh Moran	5.45	723	729	760	885	890
	Socialist Party	Denis Keane	4.84	642	656	667	667
	Fianna Fáil	Idowu Sulyman Olafimihan	4.61	611	611	653
	Independent	Iggy Okafor	3.50	464	491
	Independent	Maria McGrail	1.37	182
Electorate: 30,735   Valid: 13,255 (43.13%)   Spoilt: 172   Quota: 2,210   Turnout: 13,427 (43.69%)

Swords

Swords - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Socialist Party	Clare Daly*	20.48	3,192
	Labour	Gerry McGuire*	10.09	1,572	1,617	1,623	1,678	1,737	1,848	1,923	2,322	2,433	2,670
	Labour	Tom Kelleher*	10.02	1,561	1,637	1,658	1,705	1,790	1,916	1,993	2,221	2,342	2,616
	Fianna Fáil	Darragh Butler*	9.54	1,487	1,508	1,517	1,525	1,590	1,628	2,154	2,212	2,285	2,448
	Fine Gael	Anne Devitt*	8.75	1,364	1,404	1,426	1,440	1,496	1,539	1,601	1,659	2,028	2,155
	Fine Gael	Bob Dowling	7.92	1,234	1,257	1,262	1,266	1,300	1,323	1,353	1,375	1,645	1,728
	Fine Gael	James Lawless	6.03	939	960	971	986	1,030	1,056	1,104	1,164
	Fianna Fáil	John Hennessy	5.98	932	951	961	969	996	1,031
	Labour	Pat Ward	5.27	821	861	868	921	957	1,043	1,081
	Independent	Joe O'Neill	4.70	733	773	883	919	982	1,153	1,221	1,309	1,390
	Sinn Féin	Conor Kelly	4.63	721	776	778	863	895
	Green	Kenneth Duffy	3.30	514	542	569	584
	Socialist Party	John McCamley	1.68	262	421	433
	Independent	Carmel Diviney	1.62	253	280
Electorate: 35,652   Valid: 15,585 (43.71%)   Spoilt: 157   Quota: 2,598   Turnout: 15,742 (44.15%)

References

Sources

• Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (2010). "Volume 1: City and County Councils". Local Elections 2009: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics (PDF). Dublin: Stationery Office. ISBN 9781406425109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 May 2014.