Election Name: | 2009 Fingal County Council election |
Country: | Ireland |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | yes |
Previous Election: | 2004 Fingal County Council election |
Previous Year: | 2004 |
Next Election: | 2014 Fingal County Council election |
Next Year: | 2014 |
Seats For Election: | 24 seats on Fingal County Council |
Election Date: | 5 June 2009 |
Party1: | Labour Party (Ireland) |
Seats1: | 9 |
Seat Change1: | 3 |
Party2: | Fine Gael |
Seats2: | 6 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Party3: | Fianna Fáil |
Seats3: | 4 |
Party4: | Socialist Party of Ireland |
Seats4: | 3 |
Seat Change4: | 1 |
Party5: | Independent (politician) |
Seats5: | 2 |
Party6: | Green Party (Ireland) |
Seats6: | 0 |
Seat Change6: | 3 |
Party7: | Sinn Féin |
Seats7: | 0 |
Seat Change7: | 1 |
Map Size: | 300px |
Council control | |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
An election to all 24 seats on Fingal County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of the 2009 Irish local elections. Fingal was divided into 5 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Party | valign=top | Seats | valign=top | ± | valign=top | valign=top | valign=top | ±% | ||
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9 | 3 | 21,117 | 25.66 | |||||||
6 | 1 | 17,133 | 20.82 | |||||||
4 | 13,347 | 16.22 | ||||||||
3 | 1 | 11,502 | 13.98 | |||||||
0 | 3 | 4,861 | 5.91 | |||||||
0 | 1 | 4,037 | 4.91 | |||||||
0 | 1,319 | 1.60 | ||||||||
1 | ||||||||||
2 | 8,966 | 10.90 | ||||||||
Total | align=right | 24 | align=right | 82,282 | 100.00 | — |
The Seniors Solidarity Party was founded in November 2008 by John Wolfe following changes to the medical card changes in the 2009 budget.[1] It was registered to contest local elections in Dublin.[2] This was the only election it contested. In December 2014, the registrar of political parties proposed to cancel its registration.[3]