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2009 Irish local elections

Nationwide local authority elections

Field	Value
election_name	2009 Irish local elections
country	Ireland
type	parliamentary
previous_election	2004 Irish local elections
previous_year	2004
next_election	2014 Irish local elections
turnout	57.77% 0.87pp
next_year	2014
seats_for_election	883 County and City Council seats; 744 Borough and Town Council seats
election_date	5 June 2009
1blank	Largest Party
2blank	Councillors
3blank	Councillors +/-
image1
leader1	Enda Kenny
leader_since1	6 June 2002
party1	Fine Gael
percentage1	32.2%
1data1	24
2data1	556
(340 C&C, 216 B&T)
3data1	88
image2
leader2	Brian Cowen
leader_since2	7 May 2008
party2	Fianna Fáil
percentage2	25.4%
1data2	3
2data2	407
(218 C&C, 189 B&T)
3data2	135
image3
leader3	Eamon Gilmore
leader_since3	6 September 2007
party3	Labour Party (Ireland)
percentage3	14.7%
1data3	4
2data3	231
(132 C&C, 99 B&T)
3data3	43
image4
leader4	Gerry Adams
leader_since4	13 November 1983
party4	Sinn Féin
percentage4	7.4%
1data4	1
2data4	127
(54 C&C, 73 B&T)
3data4	2
image5
leader5	John Gormley
leader_since5	17 July 2007
party5	Green Party (Ireland)
percentage5	2.3%
1data5	N/A
2data5	18
(3 C&C, 15 B&T)
3data5	14
image6
leader6	Séamus Healy
leader_since6	1997
party6	Workers and Unemployed Action
percentage6	0.2%
1data6	N/A
2data6	7
(2 C&C, 5 B&T)
3data6	5

(340 C&C, 216 B&T)

(218 C&C, 189 B&T)

(132 C&C, 99 B&T)

(54 C&C, 73 B&T)

(3 C&C, 15 B&T)

(2 C&C, 5 B&T) The 2009 Irish local elections were held in all the counties, cities and towns of Ireland on Friday, 5 June 2009, on the same day as the European Parliament election and two by-elections (Dublin South and Dublin Central).

Overview

The election results were significant for a number of reasons:

Fine Gael gained 88 seats and became the largest party at local level for the first time ever.
Fianna Fáil lost 135 seats and became the second-largest party nationally, and the third-largest in Dublin.
The Labour Party increased its seat total by 43 seats, and became the largest party on Dublin City Council. It also held the most seats on the four Dublin local authorities.
Sinn Féin support remained at almost the same level, gaining 2 seats.
The Green Party lost 14 seats and had 3 county councillors.
The People Before Profit Alliance won 5 seats in its first local elections.
The Socialist Party won 6 seats, a gain of 2 seats.

Results

The total number of the Irish electorate eligible to vote in the election was 3,259,253. A total of 1,880,589 first preference votes were cast, representing a turnout of 57.7%.

The Progressive Democrats and Independent Fianna Fáil did not compete in the elections. As they competed in the previous elections, totals for vote and seat changes may not total zero. People Before Profit Alliance figures are compared to Socialist Workers Party figures from the previous local elections.

All councils

Party	County	City	Borough	Town	Total	±
	305	35	16	200	556	+88
	201	17	11	178	407	–135
	94	38	13	86	231	+43
	41	13	8	65	127	+2
	3	0	2	13	18	–14
	2	0	4	1	7	+5
	3	1	1	1	6	+2
	3	2	0	0	5	+5
	0	2	0	0	2	+0
	1	0	0	1	2	–
	0	0	0	1	1	New
	102	22	10	141	275	+10
Total	753	130	60	684	1,627	—

County and city councils

Posters for local and European election candidates and parties, Dublin, May 2009

Party	Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	340	+47	605,333	32.2	+4.6
	218	–84	477,342	25.4	–6.4
	132	+31	276,627	14.7	+3.3
	54		138,405	7.4	–0.6
	5	+5	15,879	0.8	+0.5
	4		16,052	0.9	+0.2
	3	–15	44,152	2.3	–1.6
	2		4,771	0.3	+0.1
	2		3,590	0.2
	1		2,536	0.1	—
	0		1,319	0.1	New
	0		467	0.0	—
	122	+37	294,094	15.6	+4.5
Total	883	—	1,880,589	—	—

Detailed results

Authority	Total	Details
Carlow	10	4
Cavan	13	8
Clare	12	11
Cork	22	12
Cork City	8	6
Donegal	8	10
Dublin City	12	6
Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown	11	4
Fingal	6	4
Galway	13	7
Galway City	3	3
Kerry	10	7
Kildare	9	6
Kilkenny	12	7
Laois	12	8
Leitrim	10	8
Limerick	15	9
Limerick City	8	1
Longford	10	8
Louth	8	5
Mayo	17	7
Meath	11	8
Monaghan	6	5
North Tipperary	4	6
Offaly	6	9
Roscommon	10	8
Sligo	12	7
South Dublin	8	4
South Tipperary	12	6
Waterford	11	5
Waterford City	4	1
Westmeath	8	9
Wexford	10	5
Wicklow	9	4
Total	340	218

Following the June 2009 local elections Fine Gael were the largest political party on 24 councils, the Labour Party on 4 councils, Fianna Fáil on 3 councils, Independents on 2 councils and Sinn Féin on 1 council.

Borough and town councils

Party	Seats	±
	216	44
	189	53
	99	12
	73	2
	15	1
	5
	1
	1	1
	144	7

Detailed results

The five councils with the status of borough councils are marked as BC. All others are town councils.

Town	Total
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Ardee	2
Arklow	3
Athlone	3
Athy	1
Balbriggan	1
Ballina	3
Ballinasloe	2
Ballybay	4
Ballyshannon	2
Bandon	4
Bantry	5
Belturbet	1
Birr	4
Boyle	2
Bray	2
Buncrana	2
Bundoran	3
Carlow	3
Carrickmacross	2
Carrick-on-Suir	2
Cashel	2
Castlebar	1
Castleblayney	3
Cavan	3
Clonakilty	2
Clones	2
Clonmel BC	2
Cobh	1
Cootehill	3
Drogheda BC	4
Dundalk	3
Dungarvan	2
Edenderry	3
Ennis	1
Enniscorthy	2
Fermoy	2
Gorey	4
Granard	3
Greystones	2
Kells	3
Kilkee	4
Kilkenny BC	4
Killarney	2
Kilrush	3
Kinsale	2
Leixlip	1
[Letterkenny](2009-letterkenny-town-council-election)	4
Lismore	3
Listowel	3
Longford	2
Loughrea	3
Macroom	3
Mallow	1
Midleton	1
Monaghan	1
Mountmellick	3
Muine Bheag	3
Mullingar	3
Naas	1
Navan	4
Nenagh	2
Newbridge	2
New Ross	3
Passage West	2
Portlaoise	2
Shannon
Skibbereen	2
Sligo BC	3
Templemore	3
Thurles	1
Tipperary	3
Tralee	2
Tramore	1
Trim	2
Tuam	3
Tullamore	4
Westport	2
Wexford BC	3
Wicklow	1
Youghal	3
Total	216

Footnotes

References

- Volume 1: City and County Councils
- Volume 2: Borough and Town Councils

References

(28 April 2009). "By-elections set for June 5th". [[The Irish Times]].

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