# 2009 Waterford County Council election

An election to all 23 seats on Waterford County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of the 2009 Irish local elections. County Waterford 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).

## Results by party

| Party | Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% |
| | Fine Gael | 11 | | 13,939 | 44.25 | |
| | Fianna Fáil | 5 | 2 | 8,079 | 25.65 | |
| | Labour | 4 | | 4,369 | 13.87 | |
| | Sinn Féin | 2 | 1 | 1,734 | 5.50 | |
| | Independent | 1 | 1 | 3,067 | 9.74 | |
| Total | Total | 23 | | 31,503 | 100.00 | — |

## Results by local electoral area
### Comeragh

Comeragh: 6 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| | Fine Gael | Liam Brazil* | 21.01 | 1,732 | | | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Brendan Coffey* | 17.29 | 1,429 | | | | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Michael J. O'Ryan* | 16.11 | 1,329 | | | | | | |
| | Labour | Ger Barron* | 12.39 | 1,020 | 1,169 | 1,221 | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Mary Greene* | 10.43 | 860 | 1,108 | 1,227 | | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | John O'Leary | 9.08 | 748 | 787 | 822 | 903 | 976 | 1,001 | 1,015 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Benji Whelan | 8.87 | 732 | 806 | 830 | 914 | 991 | 1,006 | 1,014 |
| | Independent | Michael Flynn | 4.82 | 398 | 441 | 461 | | | | |
| Electorate: 13,086 Valid: 8,249 (63.04%) Spoilt: 120 Quota: 1,179 Turnout: 8,369 (63.95%) |||||||||||

### Dungarvan

Dungarvan: 6 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | Fine Gael | Damien Geoghegan* | 15.32 | 1,300 | | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Pat Nugent* | 14.31 | 1,214 | | | | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Brendan Mansfield* | 11.52 | 978 | 991 | 1,047 | 1,084 | 1,279 | |
| | Labour | Billy Kyne* | 11.30 | 959 | 974 | 1,029 | 1,071 | 1,130 | 1,141 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Tom Cronin* | 10.30 | 874 | 877 | 907 | 1,140 | 1,294 | |
| | Fine Gael | Tom Higgins* | 8.79 | 746 | 769 | 909 | 982 | 1,071 | 1,100 |
| | Labour | Teresa Wright* | 8.72 | 740 | 755 | 800 | 857 | 974 | 989 |
| | Independent | Seamus O'Donnell | 8.48 | 720 | 724 | 789 | 830 | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Ollie Wilkinson | 6.01 | 510 | 514 | 532 | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Jimmy Breathnach | 5.24 | 445 | 455 | | | | |
| Electorate: 13,856 Valid: 8,486 (61.24%) Spoilt: 92 Quota: 1,213 Turnout: 8,578 (61.91%) ||||||||||

### Lismore

Lismore: 4 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| | Fianna Fáil | James Tobin* | 17.60 | 1,023 | 1,264 | | |
| | Fine Gael | Nora Flynn* | 16.05 | 933 | 1,009 | 1,020 | 1,170 |
| | Fine Gael | Liam Curran | 15.07 | 876 | 909 | 910 | 977 |
| | Labour | John Pratt | 14.38 | 836 | 892 | 902 | 1,059 |
| | Fine Gael | Declan Doocey* | 14.14 | 822 | 895 | 913 | 1,126 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Bernard Leddy | 11.68 | 679 | 806 | 867 | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Kevin Wilkinson* | 11.08 | 644 | | | |
| Electorate: 9,548 Valid: 5,813 (60.88%) Spoilt: 89 Quota: 1,163 Turnout: 5,902 (61.81%) ||||||||

### Tramore

Tramore: 7 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 |
| | Fine Gael | John Carey* | 12.43 | 1,113 | 1,118 | 1,129 | | | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Lola O'Sullivan* | 9.55 | 855 | 864 | 880 | 899 | 944 | 1,016 | 1,113 | 1,115 | 1,144 |
| | Fine Gael | Ann Marie Power* | 9.48 | 849 | 856 | 871 | 904 | 955 | 994 | 1,099 | 1,099 | 1,122 |
| | Labour | Paddy O'Callaghan* | 9.09 | 814 | 840 | 860 | 870 | 895 | 962 | 1,060 | 1,061 | 1,087 |
| | Independent | Joe Conway | 8.69 | 778 | 793 | 821 | 844 | 907 | 965 | 1,067 | 1,069 | 1,104 |
| | Fine Gael | Pat Barron | 8.44 | 765 | 766 | 774 | 788 | 801 | 829 | 868 | 870 | 892 |
| | Sinn Féin | Pat Fitzgerald | 8.44 | 756 | 773 | 784 | 792 | 801 | 814 | 845 | 845 | 1,040 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Pat Daly* | 7.56 | 677 | 681 | 685 | 739 | 756 | 774 | 807 | 807 | 1,016 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Geoff Power | 6.92 | 620 | 620 | 622 | 660 | 669 | 677 | 694 | 695 | |
| | Independent | Blaise Hannigan | 5.34 | 478 | 507 | 547 | 561 | 632 | 658 | | | |
| | Green | Stan Nangle | 3.52 | 315 | 321 | 348 | 354 | 371 | | | | |
| | Independent | Pat Finnerty | 3.25 | 291 | 306 | 329 | 344 | | | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Joe O'Shea | 2.71 | 243 | 247 | 249 | | | | | | |
| | Independent | James McCartan | 2.50 | 224 | 232 | | | | | | | |
| | Independent | Eddie Walsh | 1.99 | 178 | | | | | | | | |
| Electorate: 15,451 Valid: 8,956 (57.96%) Spoilt: 97 Quota: 1,120 Turnout: 9,053 (58.59%) |||||||||||||