2014 Cork City Council election

2014 Cork City Council election

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All 31 seats on Cork City Council
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Sinn Féin Fine Gael Seats won 10 8 5   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Anti-Austerity Alliance Workers' Party Independent Seats won 3 1 4
Map showing the area of Cork City Council

An election to all 31 seats on Cork City Council was held on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, contested by a field of 65 candidates. The city of Cork was divided into six local electoral areas 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][3]

Having lost several seats in the 2009 local elections within Cork City Fianna Fáil made 4 gains in these local elections. The party gained 1 seat in each of the 3 Cork South Central LEAs, the base of Micheál Martin, and 1 seat in the Cork City North Central LEA on the North Side. Sinn Féin emerged as the second largest party with 8 seats as they made 3 gains on both sides of the river Lee though effectively matched Fianna Fáil in terms of first preference vote share. Fine Gael lost 3 seats to be reduced to 5 seats while their coalition partner, the Labour Party, was obliterated losing all 7 seats. The Anti-Austerity Alliance made 2 gains to return 3 councillors to City Hall and Ted Tynan became the Workers' Party sole elected representative in the State. Independents secured the remaining 4 seats.