# 2009 Carlow County Council election

An election to Carlow County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) 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 | 10 | +3 | 9,186 | 39.28 | |
| | Labour | 5 | +1 | 4,545 | 19.44 | |
| | Fianna Fáil | 4 | -4 | 6,476 | 24.69 | |
| | Independent | 2 | +2 | 2,372 | 10.14 | |
| | Green | 0 | -1 | 334 | 1.43 | |
| | Progressive Democrats | — | -1 | — | — | |
| Totals | Totals | 21 | - | 23,385 | 100.00 | — |

## Results by local electoral area
### Borris

Borris - 4 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | Fine Gael | Tommy Kinsella* | 22.64 | 1,238 | | | | | |
| | Labour | Willie Quinn* | 18.67 | 1,021 | 1,064 | 1,079 | 1,230 | | |
| | Independent | Charlie Murphy | 15.00 | 820 | 838 | 885 | 925 | 958 | 1,017 |
| | Fine Gael | John Murphy | 14.90 | 815 | 870 | 916 | 972 | 1,017 | 1,077 |
| | Fianna Fáil | P.J. Kavanagh* | 11.59 | 634 | 639 | 659 | 687 | 692 | 932 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Dolores Barron | 7.97 | 436 | 447 | 455 | 491 | 507 | |
| | Green | Alan Price* | 6.11 | 334 | 345 | 361 | | | |
| | Independent | Billy Nolan | 3.11 | 170 | 171 | | | | |
| Electorate: 8,722 Valid: 5,468 (62.69%) Spoilt: 68 Quota: 1,094 Turnout: 5,536 (63.47%) ||||||||||

### Carlow East

Carlow East - 4 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Jennifer Murnane-O'Connor* | 26.06 | 1,090 | | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Fergal Browne | 21.52 | 900 | | | | | |
| | Labour | Caroline Townsend | 13.01 | 544 | 595 | 644 | 658 | 934 | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Joe McDonald* | 10.86 | 454 | 557 | 589 | 597 | 661 | 688 |
| | Labour | Noel Barcoe | 10.57 | 442 | 489 | 555 | 565 | | |
| | Fine Gael | Wayne Fennell | 10.35 | 433 | 451 | 593 | 624 | 724 | 794 |
| | Fine Gael | Declan Alcock* | 7.63 | 319 | 353 | | | | |
| Electorate: 7,422 Valid: 4,182 (56.35%) Spoilt: 86 Quota: 837 Turnout: 4,268 (57.50%) ||||||||||

### Carlow West

Carlow West - 5 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 | Michael Abbey* | 21.32 | 864 | | | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Tom O'Neill | 14.96 | 606 | 686 | | | | | |
| | Independent | Walter Lacey* | 13.13 | 532 | 557 | 598 | 671 | 725 | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Ann Ahern (née Long) | 13.10 | 531 | 556 | 603 | 837 | | | |
| | Sinn Féin | John Cassin | 11.20 | 454 | 463 | 503 | 534 | 558 | 564 | 564 |
| | Labour | Des Hurley* | 10.93 | 443 | 467 | 487 | 519 | 553 | 574 | 584 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Rody Kelly* | 9.13 | 370 | 387 | 440 | | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Lorraine Hynes* | 3.65 | 148 | 152 | | | | | |
| | Independent | Ken Murnane | 2.57 | 104 | 108 | | | | | |
| Electorate: 8,231 Valid: 4,052 (49.23%) Spoilt: 55 Quota: 676 Turnout: 4,107 (49.90%) |||||||||||

### Muinebheag

Muinebheag - 4 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| | Labour | Jim Townsend* | 20.07 | 1,050 | | | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Denis Foley* | 19.75 | 1,033 | 1,061 | | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Michael Doran* | 16.42 | 859 | 882 | 886 | 887 | 962 | 1,012 | 1,177 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Arthur McDonald* | 13.38 | 700 | 722 | 724 | 724 | 746 | 875 | 978 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Eddie Cullen | 9.39 | 491 | 501 | 502 | 503 | 525 | 569 | 605 |
| | Labour | Liam O'Brien | 6.73 | 352 | 379 | 384 | 385 | 426 | 508 | |
| | Independent | David O'Brien* | 6.16 | 322 | 359 | 360 | 360 | 406 | | |
| | Independent | Martin Nevin | 4.32 | 226 | 259 | 260 | 260 | | | |
| | Independent | James Lakes | 3.48 | 182 | | | | | | |
| | Independent | Patrick Rooney | 0.31 | 16 | | | | | | |
| Electorate: 8,751 Valid: 5,231 (59.78%) Spoilt: 80 Quota: 1,047 Turnout: 5,311 (60.69%) |||||||||||

### Tullow

Tullow - 4 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| | Fianna Fáil | John Pender* | 26.34 | 1,168 | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Pat Deering | 17.66 | 783 | 818 | 959 | |
| | Fine Gael | Pat O'Toole | 15.92 | 706 | 756 | 818 | 827 |
| | Labour | William Paton* | 15.63 | 693 | 750 | 850 | 864 |
| | Fine Gael | Fred Hunter* | 14.21 | 630 | 658 | 763 | 812 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Sophie Kelly | 10.24 | 454 | 565 | | |
| Electorate: 7,928 Valid: 4,434 (55.93%) Spoilt: 67 Quota: 887 Turnout: 4,501 (56.77%) ||||||||