# 2009 Leitrim County Council election

An election to Leitrim County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 22 councillors were elected from four 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 | +2 | 6,963 | 37.07 | |
| | Fianna Fáil | 8 | -2 | 6,007 | 31.98 | |
| | Sinn Féin | 2 | - | 2,418 | 12.87 | |
| | Independent | 2 | - | 2,864 | 15.25 | |
| Totals | Totals | 22 | - | 18,781 | 100.00 | — |

## Results by local electoral area
### Ballinamore

Ballinamore - 5 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Paddy O'Rourke* | 17.29 | 877 | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Caillian Ellis* | 16.82 | 853 | | |
| | Fine Gael | John McCartin | 16.78 | 851 | | |
| | Fine Gael | Damien Brennan* | 14.10 | 715 | 730 | 752 |
| | Fine Gael | Gordon Hughes | 13.33 | 676 | 759 | 846 |
| | Sinn Féin | Martin Kenny* | 13.03 | 661 | 959 | |
| | Sinn Féin | Maureen Martin | 8.64 | 438 | | |
| Electorate: 6,671 Valid: 5,071 (76.02%) Spoilt: 48 Quota: 846 Turnout: 5,119 (76.74%) |||||||

### Carrick-on-Shannon

Carrick-on-Shannon - 7 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| | Independent | Enda Stenson* | 18.54 | 983 | | | | | | | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Seán McGowan* | 12.61 | 672 | | | | | | | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Gerry Kilrane | 10.90 | 581 | 634 | 650 | 657 | 686 | | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Thomas Mulligan* | 10.06 | 536 | 579 | 596 | 598 | 628 | 670 | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Sinead Guckian* | 8.82 | 470 | 504 | 507 | 523 | 530 | 554 | 685 | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Gerry Reynolds* | 7.49 | 399 | 442 | 443 | 461 | 464 | 473 | 545 | 546 | 554 | 606 |
| | Fine Gael | John Ward | 6.98 | 372 | 410 | 414 | 422 | 437 | 453 | 468 | 475 | 477 | 579 |
| | Labour | John Feely | 5.35 | 285 | 307 | 308 | 325 | 330 | 367 | 409 | 410 | 416 | 472 |
| | Independent | Des Guckian | 5.27 | 281 | 300 | 303 | 328 | 337 | 374 | 382 | 386 | 388 | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Liam McElgunn* | 5.01 | 267 | 288 | 289 | 297 | 300 | 312 | | | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Chris Cronin | 3.62 | 193 | 206 | 215 | 222 | 238 | | | | | |
| | Independent | Stephen Flynn | 2.08 | 111 | 130 | 123 | 132 | 133 | | | | | |
| | Green | Garreth McDaid | 1.97 | 105 | 117 | 118 | | | | | | | |
| | Independent | Bernard McDonagh | 0.75 | 40 | 42 | | | | | | | | |
| | Independent | John McCrann | 0.64 | 34 | 38 | | | | | | | | |
| Electorate: 7,723 Valid: 5,329 (69.00%) Spoilt: 44 Quota: 667 Turnout: 5,373 (69.57%) ||||||||||||||

### Dromahaire

Dromahaire - 5 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| | Fine Gael | Enda McGloin* | 17.69 | 814 | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | John McTernan* | 17.54 | 807 | | | | |
| | Independent | Gerry Dolan* | 14.45 | 665 | 701 | 719 | 943 | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Francis Gilmartin* | 14.10 | 649 | 661 | 674 | 716 | 751 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Mary Bohan* | 13.17 | 606 | 625 | 626 | 692 | 768 |
| | Sinn Féin | Padraig Fallon | 10.50 | 483 | 509 | 511 | 582 | 627 |
| | Fine Gael | Sean Loughlin | 9.54 | 439 | 452 | 464 | | |
| | Green | Johnny Gogan | 3.02 | 139 | | | | |
| Electorate: 6,034 Valid: 4,602 (76.27%) Spoilt: 47 Quota: 768 Turnout: 4,649 (77.05%) |||||||||

### Manorhamilton

Manorhamilton - 5 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| | Fine Gael | Séan McDermott* | 16.10 | 691 | 695 | 758 | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Michael Colreavy* | 14.98 | 643 | 716 | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Frank Dolan* | 14.12 | 606 | 613 | 721 | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Tony Ferguson* | 13.37 | 574 | 635 | 764 | | |
| | Fine Gael | Siobhán McGloin | 13.30 | 571 | 618 | 655 | 672 | 693 |
| | Independent | Gabriel McSharry | 12.07 | 518 | 527 | 619 | 650 | 671 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Pat Munday | 10.67 | 458 | 468 | | | |
| | Independent | Thomas Kelly | 5.40 | 232 | | | | |
| Electorate: 5,849 Valid: 4,293 (69.63%) Spoilt: 45 Quota: 716 Turnout: 4,338 (70.63%) |||||||||