# 2014 Longford County Council election

An election to all 18 seats on Longford County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, a reduction from 21 seats at the 2009 election. County Longford 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 councils of Granard and Longford were abolished.
In one of the party's better local election results, Fine Gael remained the largest party with 8 seats. Fianna Fáil took 7 seats and the remainder were filled by Independents. This was the only Council on which Sinn Féin failed to make a breakthrough.

## Results by party

| Party | Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% |
| | Fine Gael | 8 | -2 | 8,245 | 42.10 | |
| | Fianna Fáil | 7 | -1 | 6,264 | 31.90 | |
| | Sinn Féin | 0 | - | 1,284 | 6.55 | |
| | Independent | 3 | - | 3,803 | 19.40 | |
| Total | Total | 18 | -3 | 19,596 | 100.00 | — |

## Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor.

### Ballymahon

Ballymahon: 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 | Colm Murray | 14.09 | 931 | 956 | | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Gerard Farrell | 12.79 | 845 | 848 | 848 | 856 | 863 | 1,066 | |
| | Independent | Mark Casey | 12.50 | 826 | 885 | 886 | 1,036 | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Mick Cahill | 11.44 | 756 | 785 | 786 | 831 | 848 | 899 | 921 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Thomas Victory | 10.32 | 682 | 687 | 687 | 732 | 743 | 770 | 782 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Pat O'Toole | 10.15 | 671 | 744 | 747 | 768 | 780 | 829 | 841 |
| | Fine Gael | Paul Ross | 9.88 | 653 | 674 | 677 | 722 | 726 | 843 | 918 |
| | Fine Gael | Seán Farrell | 7.23 | 478 | 496 | 498 | 517 | 519 | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Edel Kelly | 6.87 | 454 | 489 | 490 | | | | |
| | Independent | Niamh Moran | 4.72 | 312 | | | | | | |
| Electorate: 10,519 Valid: 6,608 (62.82%) Spoilt: 88 Quota: 945 Turnout: 6,696 (63.66%) |||||||||||

### Granard

Granard: 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 |
| | Fine Gael | Micheál Carrigy | 15.26 | 1,111 | | | | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | John Duffy†† | 10.47 | 762 | 768 | 789 | 828 | 853 | 942 | 1,079 | |
| | Fianna Fáil | P.J. Reilly | 10.40 | 757 | 762 | 775 | 882 | 994 | 1,025 | 1,157 | |
| | Fine Gael | Paraic Brady | 10.38 | 756 | 766 | 813 | 851 | 869 | 953 | 1,081 | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Martin Mulleady | 8.71 | 634 | 637 | 691 | 698 | 753 | 832 | 889 | 905 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Luie McEntire | 8.61 | 627 | 631 | 658 | 674 | 727 | 793 | 878 | 902 |
| | Sinn Féin | John Reilly | 7.94 | 578 | 582 | 606 | 634 | 656 | 724 | 783 | 819 |
| | Independent | James Keogh | 7.01 | 510 | 516 | 585 | 600 | 624 | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Frank Kilbride | 6.85 | 499 | 513 | 520 | 590 | 651 | 721 | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | John Coyle | 5.32 | 387 | 395 | 406 | 428 | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Maura Kilbride-Harkin | 4.73 | 344 | 350 | 361 | | | | | |
| | Independent | Mary Lillis | 4.33 | 315 | 319 | | | | | | |
| Electorate: 11,015 Valid: 7,280 (66.09%) Spoilt: 83 Quota: 1,041 Turnout: 7,363 (66.85%) ||||||||||||

### Longford

Longford: 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 |
| | Fine Gael | John Browne | 12.74 | 727 | 734 | 755 | 779 | 831 | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Seamus Butler | 12.25 | 699 | 712 | 731 | 747 | 774 | 856 | | |
| | Fine Gael | Peggy Nolan | 11.37 | 649 | 657 | 674 | 706 | 745 | 909 | | |
| | Independent | Gerry Warnock | 10.95 | 625 | 646 | 696 | 751 | 820 | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Michael Connellan | 9.25 | 528 | 531 | 540 | 556 | 592 | 643 | 671 | 685 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Pádraig Loughrey† | 9.16 | 523 | 528 | 549 | 577 | 630 | 715 | 727 | 744 |
| | Independent | Mae Sexton | 8.92 | 509 | 520 | 547 | 573 | 627 | 708 | 754 | 763 |
| | Fine Gael | Yvonne Ni Mhurchu | 8.58 | 490 | 493 | 504 | 514 | 534 | | | |
| | Independent | Paul Connell | 6.06 | 346 | 360 | 382 | 412 | | | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Barbara Smyth | 4.41 | 252 | 256 | 256 | | | | | |
| | Independent | Tony Flaherty | 4.33 | 247 | 263 | 277 | 277 | | | | |
| | Independent | Martin Clyne | 1.98 | 113 | | | | | | | |
| Electorate: 9,612 Valid: 5,708 (59.38%) Spoilt: 78 Quota: 816 Turnout: 5,786 (60.20%) ||||||||||||

## Changes 2014–2019

* † Longford Fianna Fáil Councillor Padraig Loughrey resigned due to family and work commitments on 22 October 2017. Archived 19 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine On 14 December 2017 Joe Flaherty was co-opted to fill the vacancy. Archived 19 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine
* †† Granard Fine Gael Councillor John Duffy resigned on 22 February 2018 citing work commitments. On 19 March 2018 Gerry Hagan was co-opted to fill the vacancy. Archived 7 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine