Offaly County Council election, 2009

5 June 2009

All 21 seats to Offaly County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fianna Fáil	Fine Gael	Independent
Seats won	9	6	6
Seat change	+1	-	+1

	Fourth party

Party	Progressive Democrats
Seats won	0
Seat change	-2

Map showing the area of Offaly County Council

Council control after election

TBD

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

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	9	+1
	Fine Gael	6	-
	Independent	6	+1
	Progressive Democrats	0	-2
Totals		21	-	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Birr

Birr- 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Ormond*	20.61	1,481
	Independent	Tony McLoughlin*	14.61	1,050	1,053	1,056	1,093	1,146	1,348	1,670
	Independent	John Carroll*	14.41	1,036	1,043	1,046	1,099	1,134	1,254	1,415	1,514
	Fine Gael	Percy Clendennen*	13.27	954	956	959	1,031	1,157	1,200	1,276	1,322
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Tierney	8.99	646	648	668	686	714
	Independent	Denis Sheils	8.86	637	640	642	681	715	826
	Fine Gael	Brian Whelahan	8.74	628	628	632	704	801	897	1,050	1,122
	Fine Gael	Nigel Craughwell	5.32	382	382	383	403
	Independent	Philip Ryan	4.91	353	354	361
	Christian Solidarity	Colm Callanan	0.28	20
Electorate: 10,677 Valid: 7,187 (67.31%) Spoilt: 108 Quota: 1,438 Turnout: 7,295 (68.32%)

Edenderry

Edenderry – 6 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12	Count 13	Count 14
	Fianna Fáil	John Foley*	17.25	1,649
	Independent	Eddie Fitzpatrick*	12.93	1,236	1,245	1,248	1,295	1,340	1,353	1,366	1,481
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Bourke*	12.60	1,205	1,324	1,344	1,367
	Fine Gael	Liam Quinn	7.55	722	736	766	769	776	839	846	857	859	908	948	981	1,088	1,272
	Labour Party	Declan Leddin	6.20	593	609	610	610	614	620	681	688	690	735	750	833	867	918
	Fianna Fáil	Ger Plunkett	6.15	588	605	608	654	671	694	700	727	739	778	797	815	831	962
	Fine Gael	Nichola Hogan	6.09	582	603	608	609	615	638	706	713	717	740	818	931	1,148	1,278
	Independent	Michael Fox*	4.67	447	455	464	465	478	525	537	557	577	632	667	734	804
	Independent	Fergus McDonnell*	3.59	343	363	370	370	378	398	455	478	483	513	521
	Fine Gael	John Foran*	3.47	332	342	346	349	360	364	387	413	425	433	528	580
	Fine Gael	Jack Deegan	3.36	321	322	323	333	349	351	360	378	392	413
	Sinn Féin	Martin O'Reilly	3.22	308	313	320	327	337	348	358	379	381
	Independent	Stephen Mather	2.92	279	284	284	288	309	315	320
	Independent	Noel Cribbin	2.81	269	285	292	292	296	306
	Independent	Fidelma Doolan	2.46	235	246	263	264	269
	Independent	Frank Weir	1.87	179	181	183	193
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Nolan	1.56	149	158	159
	Independent	Dominic Sheehy	1.17	112	113
	Christian Solidarity	Colm Callanan	0.14	13	13
Electorate: 15,602 Valid: 9,562 (61.29%) Spoilt: 120 Quota: 1,367 Turnout: 9,682 (62.06%)

Ferbane

Ferbane- 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Dooley*	15.97	1,257	1,268	1,335	1,351	1,669
	Independent	John Leahy	14.54	1,144	1,297	1,403	1,546	1,798
	Fine Gael	Connie Hanniffy*	14.26	1,122	1,163	1,280	1,450	1,505	1,525
	Fianna Fáil	Sinead Moylan-Ryan*	13.70	1,078	1,088	1,117	1,242	1,432	1,522
	Fine Gael	Marcella Corcoran Kennedy*	11.48	903	954	1,015	1,246	1,280	1,320
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Feighery*	10.79	849	874	895	907
	Fine Gael	Tom Rigney	9.20	723	735	748
	Independent	Ollie Daly	5.49	432	460
	Labour Party	Mary Kiely	4.19	330
	Christian Solidarity	Colm Callanan	0.38	30
Electorate: 11,766 Valid: 7,869 (66.88%) Spoilt: 129 Quota: 1,574 Turnout: 7,998 (67.98%)

Tullamore

Tullamore – 7 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11
	Fianna Fáil	Barry Cowen*	13.26	1,626
	Fine Gael	Tommy McKeigue*	13.01	1,496
	Fianna Fáil	Sinead Dooley	10.52	1,234	1,290	1,304	1,307	1,338	1,378	1,510
	Fine Gael	Molly Buckley*	9.96	1,168	1,173	1,234	1,245	1,288	1,489
	Independent	Dervill Dolan*	9.95	1,167	1,201	1,208	1,210	1,267	1,368	1,420	1,425	1,927
	Fianna Fáil	Danny Owens*	8.83	1,036	1,061	1,078	1,080	1,082	1,092	1,137	1,148	1,204	1,275	1,280
	Sinn Féin	Brendan Killeavey	6.72	788	791	796	797	830	853	1,007	1,020	1,073	1,113	1,117
	Independent	Johnny Butterfield*	6.59	773	777	801	804	850	886	999	1,010	1,072	1,128	1,141
	Independent	Frank Moran	5.99	702	719	721	721	778	917	948	951
	Labour Party	Seán O'Brien	5.57	653	656	668	671	688	724
	Fine Gael	Frank Feery	4.76	558	565	608	611	633
	Independent	John Bracken	2.84	333	337	340	341
	Fine Gael	Vinny O'Brien	1.58	185	186
	Christian Solidarity	Colm Callanan	0.09	10	10
Electorate: 18,568 Valid: 11,729 (63.17%) Spoilt: 145 Quota: 1,467 Turnout: 11,874 (63.95%)

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