Kilkenny County Council election, 2009

5 June 2009

All 26 seats to Kilkenny County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fine Gael	Fianna Fáil	Labour Party
Seats won	12	7	5
Seat change	+1	-1	-

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Green Party	Independent
Seats won	1	1
Seat change	-	-

Map showing the area of Kilkenny County Council

Council control before election

Fine Gael
Labour Party

Council control after election

Fine Gael
Labour Party

An election to Kilkenny County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	12	+1
	Fianna Fáil	7	-1
	Labour Party	5	-
	Green Party	1	-
	Independent	1	-
Totals		26	-	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Ballyragget

Ballyragget - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Labour Party	Maurice Shortall*	22.99	2,004
	Fine Gael	Mary Hilda Cavanagh*	20.93	1,824
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Millea*	14.55	1,268	1,295	1,391	1,427	1,501
	Fine Gael	Catherine Connery*	10.96	955	1,021	1,129	1,168	1,202	1,259
	Fine Gael	Dan Brennan*	9.82	856	1,036	1,098	1,199	1,252	1,467
	Independent	Martin Carroll	6.90	601	717	733	837	921	1,111
	Fianna Fáil	Brid Mooney-Doyle	6.67	581	627	642	680	718
	Independent	Gerard Ferris	3.63	316	390	405
	Sinn Féin	Ray Quinlan	3.57	311	353	412	437
Electorate: 13,162 Valid: 8,716 (66.22%) Spoilt: 154 Quota: 1,453 Turnout: 8,870 (67.39%)

Callan

Callan - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3
	Fine Gael	Billy Ireland*	19.19	1,269	1,364
	Fianna Fáil	Matt Doran*	18.22	1,205	1,233	1,266
	Independent	Patrick Crowley	17.89	1,183	1,277	1,461
	Fine Gael	Tom Maher*	17.39	1,150	1,181	1,367
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Brennan	13.62	901	967	1,007
	Labour Party	Brian Harris	7.74	512	558
	Independent	John Eardly	5.96	394
Electorate: 10,435 Valid: 6,614 (63.38%) Spoilt: 92 Quota: 1,323 Turnout: 6,706 (64.26%)

Kilkenny

Kilkenny - 7 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Fianna Fáil	Andrew McGuinness	17.58	1,880
	Fine Gael	Martin Brett*	11.24	1,202	1,231	1,258	1,279	1,334	1,418
	Green Party	Malcolm Noonan*	10.29	1,100	1,134	1,154	1,214	1,303	1,444
	Fine Gael	Betty Manning	9.16	979	1,002	1,020	1,047	1,092	1,154	1,189	1,200	1,290
	Fianna Fáil	John Coonan*	9.14	977	1,071	1,090	1,111	1,153	1,191	1,201	1,214	1,295
	Fine Gael	Paul Cuddihy*	8.76	937	951	978	995	1,027	1,069	1,086	1,108	1,186
	Labour Party	Marie Fitzpatrick*	6.55	700	730	837	854	899	1,088	1,112	1,126	1,346
	Sinn Féin	Kathleen Funchion	6.24	667	698	718	766	818	856	870	876
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Fitzpatrick*	5.90	631	851	860	878	897	921	928	929	983
	Labour Party	Seán O hArgain	5.16	552	567	620	643	700
	Independent	Frank Kavanagh	4.14	443	456	466	513
	Labour Party	Seán Butler	3.01	322	331
	Independent	Eugene McGuinness	2.82	302	333	339
Electorate: 17,724 Valid: 10,692 (60.32%) Spoilt: 169 Quota: 1,337 Turnout: 10,861 (61.28%)

Piltown

Piltown - 6 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	Tomás Breathnach*	15.98	1,653
	Fine Gael	Pat Dunphy*	15.17	1,570
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Aylward	11.00	1,138	1,151	1,156	1,256	1,295	1,325	1,329	1,417	1,664
	Fine Gael	Anne Maria Irish	10.61	1,098	1,137	1,157	1,174	1,234	1,550
	Fine Gael	Fidelis Doherty	9.85	1,019	1,039	1,052	1,065	1,087	1,209	1,240	1,352	1,461	1,493
	Fine Gael	Paddy Gaule	7.25	750	760	772	779	798	835	856	908	1,054	1,079
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Walsh*	6.44	666	669	670	692	706	730	734	756
	Fine Gael	Fintan Byrne	5.91	611	627	633	639	675
	Fianna Fáil	Cora Long*	5.54	573	593	607	703	732	753	759	930	1,076	1,201
	Independent	Ann Blackmore	4.52	468	491	499	604	693	716	721
	Fianna Fáil	Robert Duggan	3.93	407	412	418
	Sinn Féin	Peadar de Bluit	3.81	394	419	425	437
Electorate: 16,342 Valid: 10,347 (63.32%) Spoilt: 111 Quota: 1,479 Turnout: 10,458 (63.99%)

Thomastown

Thomastown - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fine Gael	Pat O'Neill*	19.24	1,459	1,504	1,534
	Labour Party	Ann Phelan*	15.60	1,183	1,296	1,454	1,508	1,514	1,574
	Labour Party	Michael O'Brien*	11.13	844	892	925	1,021	1,023	1,082	1,276	1,289
	Independent	Dixie Doyle*	10.47	794	882	887	972	972	1,076	1,234	1,242
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Brennan*	8.87	673	687	730	745	747
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Treacy	8.47	642	678	725	793	794	1,141	1,242	1,257
	Fine Gael	Willie Barron	7.71	585	615	687	873	879	922
	Fine Gael	Joey O'Hanrahan	6.82	517	536	548
	Independent	Joan Murphy	6.16	467	516
	Green Party	Duncan Russell	3.11	236
	Sinn Féin	Jamie Roche	2.43	184
Electorate: 11,284 Valid: 7,584 (67.21%) Spoilt: 103 Quota: 1,517 Turnout: 7,687 (68.12%)

External links

Official website

Preceded by Kilkenny County Council election, 2004	Kilkenny County Council elections	Succeeded by Kilkenny County Council election, 2014

(2004 ←) Irish local elections, 2009 (→ 2014)

Carlow Cavan Clare Cork City Cork County Donegal Dublin City Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown Fingal Galway City Galway County Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick City Limerick County Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan North Tipperary Offaly Roscommon Sligo South Dublin South Tipperary Waterford City Waterford County Westmeath Wexford Wicklow

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, January 30, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.