Longford County Council election, 2009

5 June 2004

All 21 seats to Longford County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fine Gael	Fianna Fáil	Independent
Seats won	10	8	3
Seat change	-1	-	+1

Map showing the area of Longford County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Longford County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from four electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	10	-1	8,921	45.57%
	Fianna Fáil	8	-	7,202	34.36%
	Independent	3	+1	3,805	18.16%
Totals		21	-	20,958	100%	—

Ballymahon - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fine Gael	Larry Bannon*	15.13	925
	Fine Gael	Patrick Belton*	13.08	800	817	836	858	891
	Fianna Fáil	Barney Steele*	12.37	756	763	765	803	816	867	868	916
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Cahill*	10.96	670	674	682	689	702	767	769	844
	Fine Gael	Adrian Farrell*	10.48	641	647	648	649	661	684	690	726
	Independent	Mark Casey	10.29	629	643	645	665	699	731	732	857
	Fine Gael	Seán Farrell*	9.99	611	622	630	635	663	716	720	789
	Independent	John Nolan	6.51	398	412	419	439	467	492	495
	Fianna Fáil	Anne Marie Nolan	3.99	244	253	255	264	274
	Labour Party	James Feeney	2.83	173	182	183	201
	Sinn Féin	Conor Nolan	2.68	164	171	172
	Independent	Michael Brennan	1.68	103
Electorate: 8,836 Valid: 6,114 (69.19%) Spoilt: 68 Quota: 874 Turnout: 6,182 (69.96%)

Drumlish - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Mulleady*	19.75	886	915
	Fine Gael	Gerry Brady*	18.24	818	893	901
	Fine Gael	John Duffy	16.99	762	834	836	1,039
	Fianna Fáil	Luie McEntire*	16.77	752	793	797	899
	Fianna Fáil	P.J. Mulligan	11.37	510	546	548	634
	Fine Gael	Martin Farrell*	9.63	432	461	462
	Republican Sinn Féin	Seán Lynch	5.33	239
	Sinn Féin	Ciaran Grimes	1.92	86
Electorate: 6,289 Valid: 4,485 (71.31%) Spoilt: 47 Quota: 898 Turnout: 4,532 (72.06%)

Granard -4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Fianna Fáil	P.J. Reilly*	16.87	677	731	803
	Fine Gael	Michael Carrigy	16.77	673	735	783	858
	Fine Gael	Frank Kilbride*	16.67	669	695	739	798
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Victory	14.60	586	625	641	704
	Fine Gael	Maura Kilbride-Harkin*	11.88	477	488	534	640
	Independent	Brian Lynch	8.12	326	351	407
	Independent	Tommy Stokes	8.00	321	349
	Fianna Fáil	Margaret Connell	5.90	237
	Sinn Féin	Jack Mulvey	1.20	48
Electorate: 5,810 Valid: 4,014 (69.09%) Spoilt: 68 Quota: 803 Turnout: 4,058 (69.85%)

Longford- 7 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fine Gael	Peggy Nolan*	15.42	978
	Fianna Fáil	Padraig Loughrey	13.40	850
	Independent	Mae Sexton	9.76	619	658	667	713	818
	Fine Gael	Alan Mitchell*	9.30	590	636	640	661	727	807
	Fine Gael	Victor Kiernan*	8.61	545	563	569	590	653	690	699
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Butler*	8.43	535	549	559	578	597	656	657
	Independent	Paul Connell	8.29	526	536	540	592	629	731	736
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Glennon*	7.85	499	513	527	545	610	668	677
	Independent	Peter Murphy*	7.05	447	458	461	481
	Independent	Michael Nevin*	6.86	436	450	454	497	552
	Sinn Féin	Brendan Farrell	2.73	173	180	181
	Labour Party	Seamus Keaveney	2.32	147	157	158
Electorate: 9,565 Valid: 6,344 (66.33%) Spoilt: 104 Quota: 794 Turnout: 6,448 (67.41%)

Preceded by Longford County Council election, 2004	Longford County Council elections	Succeeded by Longford County Council election, 2014

(2004 ←) Irish local elections, 2009 (→ 2014)

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