| Election Name: | 2014 Cork City Council election |
| Country: | Ireland |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2009 Cork City Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2009 |
| Next Election: | 2019 Cork City Council election |
| Next Year: | 2019 |
| Seats For Election: | All 31 seats on Cork City Council |
| Election Date: | 23 May 2014 |
| Party1: | Fianna Fáil |
| Seats1: | 10 |
| Party2: | Sinn Féin |
| Seats2: | 8 |
| Party3: | Fine Gael |
| Seats3: | 5 |
| Party4: | Anti-Austerity Alliance |
| Seats4: | 3 |
| Party5: | Workers' Party (Ireland) |
| Seats5: | 1 |
| Party6: | Independent politician (Ireland) |
| Seats6: | 4 |
| Map Size: | 300px |
An election to all 31 seats on Cork City Council was held on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, contested by a field of 65 candidates. The city of Cork was divided into six local electoral areas 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).[1] [2] [3]
Having lost several seats in the 2009 local elections within Cork City Fianna Fáil made 4 gains in these local elections. The party gained 1 seat in each of the 3 Cork South Central LEAs, the base of Micheál Martin, and 1 seat in the Cork City North Central LEA on the North Side. Sinn Féin emerged as the second largest party with 8 seats as they made 3 gains on both sides of the river Lee though effectively matched Fianna Fáil in terms of first preference vote share. Fine Gael lost 3 seats to be reduced to 5 seats while their coalition partner, the Labour Party, was obliterated losing all 7 seats. The Anti-Austerity Alliance made 2 gains to return 3 councillors to City Hall and Ted Tynan became the Workers' Party sole elected representative in the State. Independents secured the remaining 4 seats.
| Party | Seats | ± | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | +4 | 9,816 | 23.99 | ||||
| 8 | +4 | 9,815 | 23.99 | ||||
| 5 | align=right | -3 | 7,758 | 18.96 | |||
| 4 | align=right | - | 6,156 | 15.05 | |||
| 3 | +3 | 2,398 | 5.86 | ||||
| 1 | 0 | 1,243 | 3.04 | ||||
| 0 | align=right | -7 | 2,433 | 5.95 | |||
| 0 | align=right | -1 | align=right | - | align=right | - | |
| Total | 31 | 0 | 40,911 | 100% |