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Part of the 2009 Irish local elections

2009 Carlow County Council election
← 2004 5 June 2009 2014 →
All 21 seats to Carlow County Council
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Fine Gael Labour Fianna Fáil
Seats won 10 5 4
Seat change +3 +1 -4
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Party Independent Green Progressive Democrats
Seats won 2 0 0
Seat change +2 -1 -1
Area of Carlow County Council

An election to Carlow County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from five 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% ±%
Fine Gael 10 +3 9,186 39.28
Labour 5 +1 4,545 19.44
Fianna Fáil 4 -4 6,476 24.69
Independent 2 +2 2,372 10.14
Green 0 -1 334 1.43
Progressive Democrats — -1 — —
Totals 21 - 23,385 100.00 —

Results by local electoral area

Borris

Borris - 4 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6
Fine Gael Tommy Kinsella* 22.64 1,238          
Labour Willie Quinn* 18.67 1,021 1,064 1,079 1,230    
Independent Charlie Murphy 15.00 820 838 885 925 958 1,017
Fine Gael John Murphy 14.90 815 870 916 972 1,017 1,077
Fianna Fáil P.J. Kavanagh* 11.59 634 639 659 687 692 932
Fianna Fáil Dolores Barron 7.97 436 447 455 491 507  
Green Alan Price* 6.11 334 345 361      
Independent Billy Nolan 3.11 170 171        
Electorate: 8,722   Valid: 5,468 (62.69%)   Spoilt: 68   Quota: 1,094   Turnout: 5,536 (63.47%)  

Carlow East

Carlow East - 4 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6
Fianna Fáil Jennifer Murnane-O'Connor* 26.06 1,090          
Fine Gael Fergal Browne 21.52 900          
Labour Caroline Townsend 13.01 544 595 644 658 934  
Fianna Fáil Joe McDonald* 10.86 454 557 589 597 661 688
Labour Noel Barcoe 10.57 442 489 555 565    
Fine Gael Wayne Fennell 10.35 433 451 593 624 724 794
Fine Gael Declan Alcock* 7.63 319 353        
Electorate: 7,422   Valid: 4,182 (56.35%)   Spoilt: 86   Quota: 837   Turnout: 4,268 (57.50%)  

Carlow West

Carlow West - 5 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Fine Gael Michael Abbey* 21.32 864            
Fine Gael Tom O'Neill 14.96 606 686          
Independent Walter Lacey* 13.13 532 557 598 671 725    
Fianna Fáil Ann Ahern (née Long) 13.10 531 556 603 837      
Sinn Féin John Cassin 11.20 454 463 503 534 558 564 564
Labour Des Hurley* 10.93 443 467 487 519 553 574 584
Fianna Fáil Rody Kelly* 9.13 370 387 440        
Fianna Fáil Lorraine Hynes* 3.65 148 152          
Independent Ken Murnane 2.57 104 108          
Electorate: 8,231   Valid: 4,052 (49.23%)   Spoilt: 55   Quota: 676   Turnout: 4,107 (49.90%)  

Muinebheag

Muinebheag - 4 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Labour Jim Townsend* 20.07 1,050            
Fine Gael Denis Foley* 19.75 1,033 1,061          
Fine Gael Michael Doran* 16.42 859 882 886 887 962 1,012 1,177
Fianna Fáil Arthur McDonald* 13.38 700 722 724 724 746 875 978
Fianna Fáil Eddie Cullen 9.39 491 501 502 503 525 569 605
Labour Liam O'Brien 6.73 352 379 384 385 426 508  
Independent David O'Brien* 6.16 322 359 360 360 406    
Independent Martin Nevin 4.32 226 259 260 260      
Independent James Lakes 3.48 182            
Independent Patrick Rooney 0.31 16            
Electorate: 8,751   Valid: 5,231 (59.78%)   Spoilt: 80   Quota: 1,047   Turnout: 5,311 (60.69%)  

Tullow

Tullow - 4 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4
Fianna Fáil John Pender* 26.34 1,168      
Fine Gael Pat Deering 17.66 783 818 959  
Fine Gael Pat O'Toole 15.92 706 756 818 827
Labour William Paton* 15.63 693 750 850 864
Fine Gael Fred Hunter* 14.21 630 658 763 812
Fianna Fáil Sophie Kelly 10.24 454 565    
Electorate: 7,928   Valid: 4,434 (55.93%)   Spoilt: 67   Quota: 887   Turnout: 4,501 (56.77%)  

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