Election Name: | 2014 Leitrim County Council election |
Country: | Ireland |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | yes |
Previous Election: | 2009 Leitrim County Council election |
Previous Year: | 2009 |
Next Election: | 2019 Leitrim County Council election |
Next Year: | 2019 |
Seats For Election: | All 18 seats to Leitrim County Council |
Election Date: | 23 May 2014 |
Party1: | Fianna Fáil |
Seats1: | 6 |
Seat Change1: | -2 |
Party2: | Fine Gael |
Seats2: | 4 |
Seat Change2: | -6 |
Party3: | Sinn Féin |
Seats3: | 4 |
Seat Change3: | +2 |
Party4: | Independent politician (Ireland) |
Seats4: | 4 |
Seat Change4: | +2 |
Map Size: | 300px |
Council control | |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
An election to all 18 seats on Leitrim County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, a reduction from 22 seats at the 2009 election. County Leitrim was divided into three 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).
Fine Gael lost 6 seats, and their previously held overall majority while Fianna Fáil also lost 2 seats. Independents and Sinn Féin both increased their numbers by 2 despite the Council being reduced by 4 seats as a whole.[1] [2]
Party | Seats | ± | ±% | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
6 | align=right | -2 | 6,110 | 33.68 | |||||
4 | align=right | -6 | 4,952 | 27.29 | |||||
4 | +2 | 3,481 | 19.19 | ||||||
4 | +2 | 3,601 | 19.84 | ||||||
Total | align=right | 18 | align=center | -4 | align=right | 18,144 | 100.00 | — |