# 2014 Galway City Council election

An election to all 18 seats on Galway City Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, an increase of 3 seats from 2009 election. The city of Galway 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)
Twenty-four-year-old Mairéad Farrell, a niece of Mairéad Farrell who was shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in 1988, won a seat at the first attempt. She was joined on the council by 2 other councillors as Sinn Féin won 3 seats. Their gains came chiefly at the expense of Labour who lost 3 fifths of their seats to return with just 2 councillors. While Fianna Fáil won the most votes the party did not make any gains in the election and returned just 3 councillors as in 2009. By contrast Fine Gael gained a seat to become the largest party. Independents were the big winners, topping the poll in all LEAs and increasing their existing numbers by 2 seats.

## Results by party

| Party | Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% |
| | Fine Gael | 4 | 1 | 3,446 | 15.8 |
| | Fianna Fáil | 3 | | 4,256 | 19.5 |
| | Sinn Féin | 3 | 3 | 2,074 | 9.5 |
| | Labour | 2 | 3 | 2,370 | 10.8 |
| | Anti-Austerity Alliance | 0 | | 985 | 4.51 |
| | Green | 0 | | 479 | 2.19 |
| | People Before Profit | 0 | | 128 | 0.59 |
| | Independent | 6 | 2 | 8,116 | 37.1 |
| Total | Total | 18 | 3 | 21,854 | 100.0 |

## Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor.

### Galway City Central

Galway City Central: 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 |
| | Independent | Mike Cubbard | 13.36 | 850 | 866 | 911 | | | | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Ollie Crowe | 12.98 | 826 | 827 | 831 | 842 | 845 | 862 | 902 | 1,123 | |
| | Fine Gael | Frank Fahy | 10.42 | 663 | 663 | 668 | 673 | 674 | 702 | 735 | 764 | 797 |
| | Labour | Billy Cameron | 9.01 | 573 | 581 | 606 | 695 | 719 | 819 | 855 | 937 | |
| | Fine Gael | Pádraig Conneely | 8.52 | 542 | 545 | 559 | 585 | 594 | 626 | 678 | 748 | 786 |
| | Sinn Féin | Anna Marley | 7.91 | 503 | 524 | 534 | 554 | 631 | 656 | 718 | 782 | 796 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Nicola Deacy | 7.91 | 503 | 504 | 512 | 550 | 563 | 596 | 650 | | |
| | Green | Séamus Sheridan | 7.53 | 479 | 495 | 516 | 529 | 565 | 618 | 671 | 721 | 751 |
| | Independent | Cormac O Corcoráin | 5.26 | 335 | 341 | 360 | 364 | 427 | 440 | | | |
| | Labour | Colette Connolly | 4.26 | 271 | 279 | 281 | 328 | 342 | | | | |
| | Labour | John McDonagh | 4.15 | 264 | 267 | 271 | | | | | | |
| | Anti-Austerity Alliance | Seán Byrne | 3.69 | 235 | 285 | 294 | 301 | | | | | |
| | Independent | Mike Geraghty | 2.62 | 167 | 173 | | | | | | | |
| | People Before Profit | Kiran Emrich | 2.01 | 128 | | | | | | | | |
| | Independent | Jimmy Horan | 0.38 | 24 | | | | | | | | |
| Electorate: 12,488 Valid: 6,363 (50.95%) Spoilt: 83 Quota: 910 Turnout: 6,446 (51.62%) |||||||||||||

### Galway City East

Galway City East: 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 |
| | Independent | Terry O'Flaherty | 20.4% | 1,405 | | | | | | | | |
| | Independent | Declan McDonnell | 15.7% | 1,085 | | | | | | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Michael Crowe | 12.5% | 860 | 923 | 940 | 950 | 986 | | | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Mairéad Farrell | 11.3% | 782 | 829 | 842 | 859 | 874 | 897 | 1,074 | | |
| | Independent | Noel Larkin | 7.4% | 513 | 598 | 622 | 634 | 673 | 697 | 779 | 827 | 936 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Alan Cheevers | 6.5% | 451 | 484 | 491 | 492 | 505 | 557 | 586 | 595 | 654 |
| | Fine Gael | John Walsh | 5.8% | 398 | 450 | 463 | 476 | 554 | 694 | 710 | 717 | 855 |
| | Anti-Austerity Alliance | Conor Burke | 5.2% | 357 | 384 | 390 | 400 | 408 | 426 | | | |
| | Labour | Monica Coughlan | 4.7% | 327 | 367 | 377 | 439 | 475 | 524 | 558 | 577 | |
| | Fine Gael | John Rabbitte | 4.5% | 311 | 333 | 338 | 344 | 397 | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Margot Kelly | 3.8% | 262 | 294 | 296 | 312 | | | | | |
| | Labour | Nuala Nolan | 2.1% | 142 | 161 | 164 | | | | | | |
| Electorate: 14,010 Valid: 6,893 Spoilt: 101 Quota: 985 Turnout: 6,994 (49.2%) |||||||||||||

### Galway City West

Galway City West: 6 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| | Independent | Donal Lyons | 21.77 | 1,872 | | | | | | |
| | Independent | Catherine Connolly | 17.60 | 1,513 | | | | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Peter Keane | 10.51 | 904 | 991 | 1,011 | 1,015 | 1,043 | 1,064 | 1,102 |
| | Fine Gael | Pearce Flannery | 9.27 | 797 | 892 | 910 | 918 | 950 | 977 | 1,273 |
| | Labour | Níall McNelis | 9.22 | 793 | 924 | 989 | 1,001 | 1,057 | 1,123 | 1,240 |
| | Sinn Féin | Cathal O Conchúir | 9.18 | 789 | 841 | 888 | 897 | 940 | 1,122 | 1,147 |
| | Fianna Fáil | David Burke | 8.28 | 712 | 820 | 838 | 849 | 871 | 910 | 960 |
| | Fine Gael | Michelle Murphy | 5.50 | 473 | 529 | 554 | 561 | 593 | 618 | |
| | Anti-Austerity Alliance | Tommy Holohan | 4.57 | 393 | 432 | 472 | 484 | 540 | | |
| | Independent | Tommy Roddy | 3.14 | 270 | 320 | 353 | 401 | | | |
| | Independent | Marc Anderson | 0.95 | 82 | 107 | 125 | | | | |
| Electorate: 17,606 Valid: 8,598 (48.84%) Spoilt: 86 Quota: 1,229 Turnout: 8,684 (49.32%) |||||||||||

## Changes
### Co-options

| Party | Party | Outgoing | LEA | Reason | Date | Co-optee |
| | Independent | Catherine Connolly | Galway City West | Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election. | 21 March 2016 | Colette Connolly |
| | Sinn Féin | Anna Marley | Galway City Central | Resigned due to finding it difficult to balance family with council work. | 12 September 2016 | Mark Lohan |