Fingal County Council election, 2009

5 June 2009

All 24 seats to Fingal County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Labour Party	Fine Gael	Fianna Fáil
Seats won	9	6	4
Seat change	+3	+1	-

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Party	Socialist Party	Independent	Green Party
Seats won	3	2	0
Seat change	+1	-	-3

	Seventh party	Eighth party

Party	Sinn Féin	Progressive Democrats
Seats won	0	0
Seat change	-1	-1

Map showing the area of Fingal County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Fingal County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 24 councillors were elected from six electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Labour Party	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%
	Independent	2	-	10,285	12.50%
	Green Party	0	-3	4,861	5.91%
	Sinn Féin	0	-1	4,037	4.91%
	Progressive Democrats	0	-1	-	-
Totals		24	-	82,282	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Balbriggan

Balbriggan - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Labour Party	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 Party	Joe Corr*	8.65	1,531	1,581	1,610	1,671	1,766	1,817	1,928	2,040	2,306
	Labour Party	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 Party	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	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Socialist Party	Joe Higgins	28.07	3,787
	Fine Gael	Eithne Loftus*	22.45	3,028
	Labour Party	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 Party	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	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	Labour Party	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 Party	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
	Independent	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 Party	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 Party	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%)

Mulhuddart

Mulhuddart - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Labour Party	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 Party	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	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	Socialist Party	Clare Daly*	20.48	3,192
	Labour Party	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 Party	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 Party	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 Party	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%)

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