# 2014 Roscommon County Council election

An election for all 18 seats to Roscommon County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, a reduction from 26 seats at the 2009 election. County Roscommon was divided into three 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). In addition, the town council of Boyle was abolished.
Fine Gael lost 7 seats, including a number of long-serving councillors; due to voter anger over continuous boil water notices and the closure of the Accident and Emergency Department at Roscommon University Hospital; the latter leading to a split in the party locally. Fianna Fáil and Independents performed well in the election with the former becoming the largest party in Roscommon for the first time since 1985.

## Results by party

| Party | Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% |
| | Fianna Fáil | 8 | - | 10,822 | 34.53 | |
| | Fine Gael | 3 | -7 | 7,026 | 22.42 | |
| | Sinn Féin | 1 | - | 2,542 | 8.11 | |
| | Independent | 6 | -1 | 10,361 | 33.06 | |
| Total | Total | 18 | -8 | 30,751 | 100.00 | — |

## Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor.

### Athlone

Athlone: 6 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| | Independent | Tony Ward | 17.62 | 1,712 | | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Ivan Connaughton†††† | 14.56 | 1,414 | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | John Naughten | 12.71 | 1,235 | 1,298 | 1,309 | 1,414 | |
| | Fianna Fáil | John Keogh | 11.52 | 1,119 | 1,158 | 1,176 | 1,271 | 1,379 |
| | Independent | Laurence Fallon | 10.76 | 1,045 | 1,102 | 1,111 | 1,287 | 1,458 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Paddy Kilduff††† | 10.13 | 984 | 1,026 | 1,034 | 1,111 | 1,183 |
| | Fine Gael | Ollie Moore | 8.73 | 848 | 882 | 892 | 923 | 988 |
| | Sinn Féin | David McWeeney | 6.64 | 645 | 675 | 703 | 759 | |
| | Independent | Anthony Geraghty | 3.78 | 367 | 399 | 426 | | |
| | Independent | Peadar Doyle | 2.11 | 205 | 217 | 237 | | |
| | Independent | Gordon Hudson | 1.44 | 140 | 155 | 155 | | |
| Electorate: 14,519 Valid: 9,714 (66.91%) Spoilt: 109 Quota: 1,401 Turnout: 9,823 (67.66%) |||||||||

### Boyle

Boyle: 6 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| | Fianna Fáil | John Cummins | 13.16 | 1,513 | 1,535 | 1,582 | 1,628 | 1,643 | | | |
| | Independent | Valerie Byrne | 11.71 | 1,347 | 1,442 | 1,461 | 1,578 | 1,619 | 1,777 | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Patrick Michael Mulligan | 10.88 | 1,251 | 1,283 | 1,362 | 1,406 | 1,614 | 1,639 | 1,640 | 1,727 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Eugene Murphy† | 9.99 | 1,149 | 1,163 | 1,178 | 1,289 | 1,310 | 1,381 | 1,406 | 1,463 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Rachel Doherty | 9.28 | 1,067 | 1,079 | 1,131 | 1,152 | 1,176 | 1,296 | 1,332 | 1,608 |
| | Independent | Tom Crosby | 9.23 | 1,062 | 1,107 | 1,112 | 1,144 | 1,161 | 1,207 | 1,230 | 1,268 |
| | Fine Gael | Maura Hopkins†† | 7.30 | 840 | 867 | 916 | 1,039 | 1,287 | 1,400 | 1,413 | 1,729 |
| | Fine Gael | Charlie Hopkins | 6.36 | 731 | 733 | 734 | 752 | 767 | 929 | 948 | |
| | Fine Gael | Gerry Garvey | 5.86 | 674 | 680 | 682 | 739 | 754 | 754 | | |
| | Fine Gael | Liam Callaghan | 5.15 | 592 | 606 | 650 | | | | | |
| | Labour | Micheál Frain | 5.10 | 587 | 606 | 652 | 696 | 696 | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Aidan Sampey | 3.17 | 365 | 374 | 374 | | | | | |
| | Independent | Gertrude Drury-O'Beirne | 1.58 | 182 | 182 | | | | | | |
| | Independent | Anthony Brendan Coleman | 1.22 | 140 | 140 | | | | | | |
| Electorate: 17,647 Valid: 11,500 (65.17%) Spoilt: 132 Quota: 1,643 Turnout: 11,632 (65.91%) ||||||||||||

### Roscommon

Roscommon: 6 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Paschal Fitzmaurice | 15.03 | 1,576 | | | | | | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Orla Leyden | 10.04 | 1,053 | 1,054 | 1,063 | 1,070 | 1,085 | 1,134 | 1,241 | 1,290 | 1,334 |
| | Independent | Kathleen Shanagher | 9.17 | 962 | 965 | 966 | 973 | 992 | 1,022 | 1,211 | 1,314 | 1,345 |
| | Independent | Dominick Connolly | 9.12 | 957 | 959 | 964 | 983 | 1,010 | 1,128 | 1,295 | 1,376 | 1,443 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Larry Brennan | 9.03 | 947 | 947 | 951 | 956 | 973 | 1,009 | 1,103 | 1,140 | 1,161 |
| | Fine Gael | Michael Creaton | 8.34 | 875 | 876 | 885 | 917 | 959 | 1,039 | 1,060 | 1,120 | 1,419 |
| | Independent | Nigel Dineen | 7.58 | 795 | 803 | 822 | 869 | 993 | 1,044 | 1,113 | 1,322 | 1,487 |
| | Fine Gael | Michael McGreal | 7.23 | 758 | 758 | 762 | 830 | 863 | 892 | 905 | 943 | |
| | Independent | Paula McNamara | 6.59 | 691 | 693 | 694 | 705 | 727 | 762 | | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Séamus O'Brien | 6.46 | 646 | 650 | 658 | 712 | 799 | 807 | 831 | | |
| | Fine Gael | Seán Beirne | 4.51 | 473 | 474 | 474 | 478 | 481 | | | | |
| | Independent | John Murphy | 3.75 | 393 | 397 | 409 | 449 | | | | | |
| | Independent | Padraig Morris | 3.06 | 321 | 327 | 332 | | | | | | |
| | Independent | Joe Malone | 0.40 | 42 | | | | | | | | |
| Electorate: 16,891 Valid: 10,633 (62.10%) Spoilt: 144 Quota: 1,499 Turnout: 10,489 (62.95%) |||||||||||||

## Changes

* † Boyle Fianna Fáil Councillor Eugene Murphy was elected to the 32nd Dáil for Roscommon–Galway at the Irish general election 2016. His brother, Joe, was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 14 March 2016. Archived 22 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
* †† Boyle Fine Gael Councillor Maura Hopkins was elected to the 25th Seanad in April 2016. Liam Callaghan was co-opted to fill the vacancy in July 2016.
* ††† Athlone Fianna Fáil Councillor Paddy Kilduff resigned from the party and became an Independent on 9 February 2018 citing disillusionment with how the party was run and how its members were treated.
* †††† Athlone Fianna Fáil Councillor Ivan Connaughton resigned from the party and became an Independent on 3 January 2019. Archived 7 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine