2014 Clare County Council election

2014 Clare County Council election
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All 28 seats to Clare County Council
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Sinn Féin
Seats won 12 8 1
Seat change +1 -4 +1
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Party Independent Labour Green
Seats won 7 0 0
Seat change - -1 -1
Map showing the area of Clare County Council
Cathaoirleach before election

Joe Arkins
FG

 Subsequent Cathaoirleach

John Crowe
FG

An election to all 28 seats on Clare County Council was held on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections. County Clare was divided into four 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).[1][2] This was a reduction in 4 council seats and 2 LEAs compared to the previous elections held in 2009.

Fianna Fáil re-emerged as the largest party in County Clare after the elections with 12 seats. In addition Clare Colleran-Molloy, a sister of the journalist Ger Colleran, won a seat for the party in Ennis and became the party's first ever female elected councillor. Brian Meaney, formerly of the Green Party, had defected to Fianna Fáil but failed to be re-elected. Fine Gael lost 4 seats including that of the council's outgoing cathaoirleach, Joe Arkins, in Killaloe. The Labour Party lost their sole representative while Sinn Féin won a seat on the council for the first time since 1974. Despite some retirements Independents retained a share of 7 seats.[3]

  1. ^ Proportional Representation[permanent dead link] Citizens Information, 2009-09-21.
  2. ^ Local Election Results for Clare County Council Irish Times. Retrieved: 2014-05-31.
  3. ^ "Clare Local Election 2014 results". Clare County Council. 28 May 2014. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2020.