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15 seats on Galway City Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map showing the area of Galway City Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Galway City Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 15 councillors were elected from three local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Results by party
| Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 5 | +1 | 4,347 | 19.11 | ||
| Fine Gael | 3 | - | 4,848 | 21.31 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | 3 | +1 | 4,702 | 20.67 | ||
| Independent | 4 | +3 | 6,970 | 30.64 | ||
| Green | 0 | -1 | 1,194 | 5.25 | ||
| Sinn Féin | 0 | -1 | 690 | 3.03 | ||
| Progressive Democrats | 0 | -3 | - | - | ||
| Totals | 15 | - | 22,751 | 100.00 | — | |
Results by local electoral area
Galway City Central
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Labour | Billy Cameron* | 20.61 | 1,065 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Padraig Conneely* | 19.58 | 1,012 | 1,017 | 1,025 | 1,059 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Ollie Crowe | 15.03 | 777 | 779 | 783 | 787 | 814 | 903 | |
| Fianna Fáil | John Connolly* | 11.59 | 599 | 601 | 609 | 623 | 680 | 754 | |
| Labour | Colette Connolly* | 10.47 | 541 | 554 | 588 | 716 | 814 | 1,045 | |
| Independent | Mike Cubbard | 9.17 | 474 | 477 | 493 | 514 | 626 | ||
| Independent | Mike Geraghty | 6.48 | 335 | 338 | 350 | 384 | |||
| Green | Mairead Ni Chroinin | 4.93 | 255 | 258 | 272 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Anna Marley | 2.13 | 110 | 110 | |||||
| Electorate: 11,284 Valid: 5,168 (45.80%) Spoilt: 73 Quota: 1,034 Turnout: 5,241 (46.45%) | |||||||||
Galway City East
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Independent | Terry O'Flaherty* | 12.95 | 1,139 | 1,141 | 1,160 | 1,174 | 1,204 | 1,242 | 1,311 | ||||
| Independent | Declan McDonnell* | 12.44 | 1,094 | 1,095 | 1,101 | 1,114 | 1,125 | 1,148 | 1,200 | 1,214 | 1,259 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Crowe* | 11.88 | 1,045 | 1,046 | 1,080 | 1,082 | 1,092 | 1,119 | 1,156 | 1,161 | 1,234 | 1,270 | |
| Labour | Derek Nolan | 11.31 | 995 | 999 | 1,013 | 1,082 | 1,160 | 1,208 | 1,283 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Brian Walsh* | 11.13 | 979 | 979 | 984 | 1,004 | 1,015 | 1,094 | 1,136 | 1,148 | 1,544 | ||
| Labour | Tom Costello* | 8.83 | 777 | 778 | 801 | 823 | 867 | 927 | 1,001 | 1,012 | 1,069 | 1,203 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Mary Leahy* | 8.62 | 758 | 760 | 781 | 785 | 797 | 813 | 832 | 838 | 901 | 930 | |
| Fine Gael | Barra Nevin | 7.07 | 622 | 622 | 625 | 630 | 642 | 733 | 756 | 759 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Martin Concannon | 4.65 | 409 | 411 | 412 | 418 | 431 | 452 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Frank Fahy | 4.50 | 396 | 397 | 407 | 411 | 423 | ||||||
| Green | James Hope | 2.65 | 233 | 233 | 238 | 247 | |||||||
| Labour | Nuala Nolan | 1.94 | 171 | 175 | 176 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Sheila Mangan | 1.76 | 155 | 155 | |||||||||
| Independent | Thomas King | 0.25 | 22 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 18,149 Valid: 8,795 (48.46%) Spoilt: 117 Quota: 1,257 Turnout: 8,912 (49.10%) | |||||||||||||
Galway City West
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Independent | Donal Lyons* | 20.97 | 1,843 | |||||||
| Independent | Catherine Connolly* | 13.43 | 1,180 | 1,220 | 1,272 | 1,347 | 1,480 | |||
| Fine Gael | Hildegarde Naughton | 12.07 | 1,061 | 1,125 | 1,138 | 1,186 | 1,265 | 1,298 | 1,466 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Peter Keane | 9.89 | 869 | 895 | 908 | 921 | 965 | 1,264 | 1,358 | |
| Labour | Niall McNelis | 9.08 | 798 | 837 | 865 | 904 | 959 | 1,011 | 1,346 | |
| Fine Gael | John Mulholland* | 8.85 | 778 | 843 | 861 | 884 | 962 | 1,043 | 1,167 | |
| Green | Niall O Brolchain* | 8.03 | 706 | 755 | 781 | 853 | 923 | 985 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Val Hanley | 5.68 | 499 | 538 | 560 | 587 | 618 | |||
| Independent | A.J. Cahill | 5.55 | 488 | 507 | 522 | 561 | ||||
| Independent | Daniel Callanan* | 3.86 | 339 | 364 | 394 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Tom Hanly | 1.95 | 171 | 175 | ||||||
| Independent | Aidan McCabe | 0.64 | 56 | 64 | ||||||
| Electorate: 16,731 Valid: 8,788 (52.53%) Spoilt: 89 Quota: 1,465 Turnout: 8,877 (53.06%) | ||||||||||
External links
| Local elections in Galway City and County | |
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| Galway Corporation/City Council | |
| Galway County Council | |