Wicklow County Council election, 2009

5 June 2009

All 24 seats to Wicklow County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fine Gael	Labour Party	Fianna Fáil
Seats won	9	6	4
Seat change	+2		-2

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

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

Map showing the area of Wicklow County Council

Council control after election

TBD

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

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	9	+2	17,795	31.14%
	Labour Party	6	-	10,953	19.16%
	Fianna Fáil	4	-2	12,374	21.65%
	Sinn Féin	2	+2	4,695	8.21%
	Green Party	0	-1	2,277	3.98%
	Independent	3	-1	9,059	15.85%
Totals		24	-	57,153	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Arklow

Arklow - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fine Gael	Vincent Blake*	15.94	2,041	2,065	2,137
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Fitzgerald	14.77	1,892	1,942	1,998	2,016	2,018	2,449
	Labour Party	Nicky Kelly*	11.90	1,524	1,715	1,828	2,274
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Doran*	10.92	1,399	1,407	1,415	1,726	1,759	1,909	2,030
	Independent	Peter Dempsey	10.12	1,296	1,366	1,428	1,476	1,513	1,779	1,908
	Fianna Fáil	Tommy Annesley	8.85	1,134	1,185	1,256	1,284	1,290
	Fine Gael	Sylvester Bourke*	8.74	1,119	1,169	1,486	1,595	1,656	1,934	1,998
	Labour Party	Kevin Ryan	8.10	1,037	1,156	1,182
	Fine Gael	Donal O'Sullivan	5.41	693	767
	Labour Party	Bernie O'Halloran	5.25	672
Electorate: 19,195 Valid: 12,807 (66.72%) Spoilt: 178 Quota: 2,135 Turnout: 12,985 (67.65%)

Baltinglass

Baltinglass - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Independent	Tommy Cullen*	22.99	1,934	1,982	2,149
	Fine Gael	Edward Timmins*	20.57	1,730	1,772	1,958	2,130
	Independent	Jim Ruttle*	19.84	1,669	1,728	1,970	2,384
	Fine Gael	Lorcan McMahon	11.97	1,007	1,053	1,125	1,362
	Sinn Féin	Gerry O'Neill	11.14	937	956	1,042
	Fianna Fáil	Geraldine Cole	10.61	892	907
	Green Party	Pat Pidgeon	2.88	242
Electorate: 12,777 Valid: 8,411 (65.83%) Spoilt: 71 Quota: 2,103 Turnout: 8,482 (66.38%)

Bray

Bray - 7 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	Count 11	Count 12	Count 13
	Independent	Christopher Fox*	14.40	2,043
	Labour Party	John Byrne*	14.04	1,992
	Sinn Féin	John Brady	13.39	1,899
	Fine Gael	John Ryan*	8.29	1,176	1,215	1,227	1,237	1,243	1,265	1,302	1,335	1,667	1,749	1,839
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Vance*	8.25	1,171	1,199	1,214	1,221	1,233	1,261	1,390	1,424	1,460	1,522	2,091
	Fine Gael	Mick Glynn	6.25	886	908	927	934	944	972	1,018	1,067	1,208	1,345	1,411	1,467	1,493
	Green Party	Ciaran O'Brien*	6.15	872	886	894	907	915	951	974	1,045	1,111	1,201	1,270	1,350	1,362
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Lawlor*	5.82	826	875	888	893	901	914	1,059	1,072	1,089	1,138
	Labour Party	Barry Nevin	5.36	760	777	876	885	905	942	969	1,059	1,112	1,267	1,339	1,378	1,387
	Fine Gael	Sarah Wray	4.57	649	667	674	690	694	722	734	770
	Independent	Eugene Finnegan	3.60	511	530	546	556	575	633	787	843
	Fianna Fáil	Damien Meaney	3.53	501	511	521	526	534	544
	Independent	Darren Murphy	3.07	435	449	457	491	508	574	600
	Independent	Wayne Tobin	2.49	353	365	372	383	396
	Independent	Emma Kelly	0.79	112	139	143
Electorate: 24,360 Valid: 14,186 (58.23%) Spoilt: 180 Quota: 1,774 Turnout: 14,366 (58.97%)

Greystones

Greystones - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fine Gael	Simon Harris	31.76	3,119
	Labour Party	Tom Fortune*	16.42	1,617	1,793	1,840	1,948	2,155
	Fine Gael	George Jones*	12.04	1,182	1,535	1,551	1,582	1,645	1,681	1,807	2,014
	Fine Gael	Derek Mitchell*	11.30	1,110	1,383	1,398	1,426	1,494	1,536	1,614	1,786
	Fianna Fáil	Eleanor Roche	7.01	688	731	742	765	793	803
	Fianna Fáil	Kathleen Kelleher*	6.57	645	733	741	767	801	816	1,176	1,297
	Independent	Chris Maloney	5.29	519	602	648	717	774	812	895
	Green Party	Caroline Burrell	4.27	419	488	506	541
	Sinn Féin	Anthony McCoy	3.39	333	379	399
	Independent	Charlie Keddy	1.90	187	211
Electorate: 16,176 Valid: 9,819 (60.70%) Spoilt: 75 Quota: 1,964 Turnout: 9,894 (61.16%)

Wicklow

Wicklow - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Labour Party	Jimmy O'Shaughnessy*	16.08	1,918	1,983	2,104
	Fine Gael	Irene Winters*	14.55	1,736	1,813	2,019
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Casey*	13.37	1,595	1,732	1,767	2,264
	Sinn Féin	John Snell	12.79	1,526	1,592	1,650	1,879	1,938
	Labour Party	Conal Kavanagh*	12.01	1,433	1,506	1,657	1,800	1,909
	Fine Gael	Declan O'Neill	11.29	1,347	1,360	1,422	1,492	1,550
	Fianna Fáil	Jane Dignam	7.95	949	1,123	1,174
	Green Party	Pat Kavanagh	6.24	744	777
	Fianna Fáil	Gail Dunne	5.72	682
Electorate: 19,547 Valid: 11,930 (61.03%) Spoilt: 149 Quota: 1,989 Turnout: 12,079 (61.79%)

External links

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