2009 Letterkenny Town Council election

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2009 Letterkenny Town Council election
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All 9 seats on Letterkenny Town Council
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Sinn Féin
Seats won 4 1 1
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Party LRP Independent
Seats won 1 2
Council control before election

Fianna Fáil

 Council control after election

FG-SF-LRP-Ind coalition

An election to all 9 seats on Letterkenny Town Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of the 2009 Irish local elections. Councillors were elected in Letterkenny for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).[1]

It was the last election for the town council, as all town councils in Ireland were abolished in 2014.[2][3][4]

Results by party

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Party Seats ± FPv. FPv% ±%
Fianna Fáil 4 Steady 2,307 36.77 Increase 0.97
Fine Gael 1 Steady 1,406 22.41 Increase 4.69
Sinn Féin 1 Increase 1 469 7.48 Decrease 0.02
Letterkenny Residents Party 1 New 417 6.65 New
Labour 0 Steady 192 3.06 Increase 1.87
Green 0 Decrease 1 82 1.31 Decrease 3.36
Independent 2 Increase 1 1,403 22.36 Increase 4.66
Totals 9 - 6,274 100% —

The Letterkenny Residents Party was registered in 2008 to contest local elections only.[5] Following the dissolution of Letterkenny Town Council in 2014, Crossan unsuccessfully contested the Letterkenny local electoral area for the party. The party was deregistered in 2015.[6][7]

Results

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^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2004.

9 Seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Fianna Fáil Ciaran Brogan[*] 12.44 781
Fianna Fáil Dessie Larkin[*] 9.58 601 634
Independent Jimmy Harte[*] 7.59 476 483 485 486 493 501 506 519 530 544 571 594 623 662
Sinn Féin Gerry McMonagle[*] 7.48 469 477 477 477 484 489 494 498 514 516 550 555 572 597 598 598 598
Fine Gael Jimmy Kavanagh 7.44 467 472 472 472 476 479 483 490 497 507 533 562 616 665
Fianna Fáil Tadgh Culbert 7.27 456 490 493 495 498 504 514 529 538 540 546 600 620 644
Letterkenny Residents Party Tom Crossan 6.65 417 424 424 425 428 439 447 458 487 499 523 561 591 616 619 626 629
Independent Jim Lynch[*] 5.66 355 357 358 358 369 373 382 395 414 417 434 458 479 499 499 503 503
Fianna Fáil Victor Fisher[*] 5.56 349 371 376 378 391 394 409 416 424 444 455 478 500 536 538 544 547
Fine Gael Josie Murray 4.43 278 281 284 284 289 293 295 295 306 313 334 348 387
Fine Gael Paddy Gildea 4.22 265 271 272 272 276 283 288 296 296 342 345 362 405 465 487 494 495
Independent P.J. Blake 3.83 240 243 243 243 245 245 246 159 264 275 282
Fine Gael Frank Larkin 3.79 238 244 245 245 250 254 258 262 269 289 311 334
Labour Siobhan McLaughlin 3.06 192 194 196 196 202 208 210 214 224 232
Fine Gael Michael Abiola-Phillips 2.52 158 160 176 176 176 180 181 183 193
Independent Robert Brix Lloyd 2.17 136 137 138 138 138 147 151 154
Independent Peter Cutliffe 1.90 119 120 121 121 122 122 124
Green Frank Gallagher 1.31 82 83 83 83 83
Fianna Fáil P.J. Doherty 1.29 81 86 88 88 90 91
Independent Ian McGarvey 1.23 77 79 79 79
Fianna Fáil Setlla Oladapo 0.62 39 40
Electorate: 10,905   Valid: 6,274 (57.53%)   Spoilt: 64   Quota: 628   Turnout: 6,338 (58.12%)  

References

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  1. ^ Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (2010). "Volume 2: Borough and Town Councils" (PDF). Local Elections 2009: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics (PDF). Dublin: Stationery Office. p. 88. ISBN 9781406425109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 November 2012.
  2. ^ Brophy, Daragh (6 November 2013). ""Arrogant" Phil Hogan's visit to be greeted with protest by Letterkenny councillors". TheJournal.ie. Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Call for Letterkenny forum as Town Council meets for the final time". Highland Radio. 12 May 2014. Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  4. ^ ""A dark day" looms for Letterkenny as town council ends". Donegal Democrat. 11 May 2014. Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Register of Political Parties" (PDF). Iris Oifigiúil. 2008 (83): 1234. 14 October 2008. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Register of Political Parties" (PDF). Iris Oifigiúil. 2014 (103): 3016. 26 December 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 April 2023. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
  7. ^ "Register of Political Parties" (PDF). Oireachtas. 9 February 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
Preceded by
2004 Letterkenny Town Council election 		Letterkenny Town Council elections Succeeded by
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