# 2014 Westmeath County Council election

An election to all 20 seats on Westmeath County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, a reduction from 23 seats at the 2009 election. The town councils of Athlone and Mullingar were also abolished. County Westmeath 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).
Fianna Fáil emerged as the largest party after the elections as both government parties suffered at the polls. Labour lost two-thirds of their Councillors being reduced to just 2 seats while Fine Gael also lost 3 seats. Sinn Féin won seats on the council for the first time, 3 in total, and were joined by 2 Independents.

## Results by party

| Party | Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% |
| | Fianna Fáil | 8 | 1 | 11,412 | 32.9 | 11.03 |
| | Fine Gael | 5 | 3 | 8,310 | 23.9 | 14.85 |
| | Sinn Féin | 3 | 3 | 3,837 | 11.1 | 6.44 |
| | Labour | 2 | 4 | 4,766 | 13.7 | 12.38 |
| | Independent | 2 | 2 | 6,391 | 18.4 | 13.16 |
| Total | Total | 20 | 3 | 34,716 | 100.0 | — |

## Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor.

### Athlone

Athlone: 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 |
| | Independent | Kevin "Boxer" Moran† | 21.78 | 2,897 | | | | | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Tom Farrell | 11.29 | 1,502 | 1,552 | 1,561 | 1,594 | 1,616 | 1,648 | 1,649 | 1,724 | |
| | Sinn Féin | Paul Hogan†††††† | 10.70 | 1,423 | 1,684 | | | | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | John Dolan | 8.16 | 1,085 | 1,139 | 1,146 | 1,161 | 1,193 | 1,239 | 1,240 | 1,345 | 1,681 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Aengus O'Rourke | 7.88 | 1,048 | 1,256 | 1,267 | 1,306 | 1,357 | 1,387 | 1,392 | 1,494 | 1,636 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Frankie Keena | 7.77 | 1,034 | 1,200 | 1,213 | 1,255 | 1,317 | 1,373 | 1,377 | 1,520 | 1,648 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Vinny McCormack | 7.27 | 967 | 983 | 985 | 991 | 1,001 | 1,010 | 1,010 | 1,080 | 1,088 |
| | Independent | Michael O'Brien | 6.85 | 911 | 1,001 | 1,054 | 1,084 | 1,113 | 1,203 | 1,208 | 1,354 | 1,418 |
| | Fine Gael | Alan Shaw | 5.43 | 722 | 817 | 829 | 838 | 883 | 899 | 902 | 911 | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Tom Allen | 4.86 | 647 | 674 | 684 | 716 | 733 | 767 | 769 | | |
| | Labour | Jim Henson | 2.37 | 315 | 388 | 410 | 428 | | | | | |
| | Independent | Joe Devery | 2.35 | 313 | 394 | 429 | 476 | 527 | | | | |
| | Independent | P.J. Coghill | 2.08 | 277 | 312 | 333 | | | | | | |
| | Independent | John McNamara | 0.90 | 120 | 171 | | | | | | | |
| | Independent | Donal Jackson | 0.31 | 41 | 68 | | | | | | | |
| Electorate: 22,759 Valid: 13,302 (52.60%) Spoilt: 157 Quota: 1,663 Turnout: 13,459 (53.22%) |||||||||||||

### Mullingar–Coole

Mullingar-Coole: 7 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 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Aidan Davitt††† | 12.90 | 1,492 | | | | | | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Una D'arcy††††††† | 12.86 | 1,487 | | | | | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | John Shaw | 11.02 | 1,275 | 1,287 | 1,290 | 1,307 | 1,331 | 1,404 | 1,588 | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Paddy Hill | 10.44 | 1,207 | 1,215 | 1,220 | 1,241 | 1,308 | 1,326 | 1,342 | 1,357 |
| | Fine Gael | Frank McDermott | 10.06 | 1,163 | 1,164 | 1,167 | 1,195 | 1,249 | 1,372 | 1,414 | 1,428 |
| | Fine Gael | Peter Burke†† | 8.72 | 1,008 | 1,015 | 1,017 | 1,031 | 1,135 | 1,391 | 1,534 | |
| | Labour | Mick Dollard | 8.21 | 950 | 956 | 960 | 992 | 1,025 | 1,062 | 1,268 | 1,312 |
| | Labour | Denis Leonard | 6.24 | 722 | 723 | 724 | 749 | 835 | 895 | | |
| | Independent | Brian Fagan | 5.86 | 678 | 684 | 695 | 849 | 888 | 951 | 1,057 | 1,078 |
| | Fine Gael | Emily Wallace | 5.42 | 627 | 630 | 631 | 660 | 731 | | | |
| | Labour | Peter Kearney | 4.50 | 520 | 521 | 522 | 563 | 563 | | | |
| | Labour | Rachel Grimes | 1.47 | 170 | 170 | 172 | 172 | | | | |
| | Independent | Angela Maher | 1.23 | 142 | 143 | 146 | 146 | | | | |
| | Independent | Pat Holmes | 0.72 | 83 | 83 | 86 | 86 | | | | |
| | Independent | Rosemary Horan | 0.36 | 42 | 42 | 44 | 44 | | | | |
| Electorate: 22,759 Valid: 11,566 (50.82%) Spoilt: 205 Quota: 1,446 Turnout: 11,771 (51.72%) ||||||||||||

### Mullingar-Kilbeggan

Mullingar–Kilbeggan: 6 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 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Paul Daly†††† | 15.25 | 1,502 | | | | | | | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Avril Whitney††††† | 12.86 | 1,266 | 1,277 | 1,288 | 1,295 | 1,348 | 1,376 | 1,405 | 1,428 | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Ken Glynn | 9.89 | 974 | 992 | 1,011 | 1,023 | 1,058 | 1,068 | 1,114 | 1,133 | 1,138 | 1,207 |
| | Labour | Johnnie Penrose | 9.58 | 943 | 952 | 968 | 1,029 | 1,083 | 1,169 | 1,369 | 1,488 | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Sorca Clarke | 9.41 | 927 | 932 | 962 | 976 | 987 | 1,022 | 1,048 | 1,073 | 1,075 | 1,154 |
| | Fine Gael | Andrew Duncan | 8.04 | 792 | 797 | 805 | 827 | 909 | 937 | 999 | 1,144 | 1,165 | 1,432 |
| | Fine Gael | Colm Arthur | 6.05 | 596 | 603 | 609 | 637 | 660 | 669 | 696 | 834 | 857 | |
| | Independent | Brian Fagan | 5.93 | 584 | 587 | 733 | 744 | 765 | 793 | 876 | 891 | 903 | 974 |
| | Fine Gael | Michael Newman | 4.78 | 471 | 487 | 489 | 569 | 622 | 635 | 653 | 653 | | |
| | Labour | Detty Cornally | 4.77 | 470 | 471 | 485 | 516 | 535 | 587 | 587 | | | |
| | Labour | Gerry Sheridan | 3.87 | 381 | 382 | 390 | 398 | 401 | 401 | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | Chris Murtagh | 3.49 | 344 | 344 | 350 | 354 | | | | | | |
| | Labour | Ger Corcoran | 3.00 | 295 | 312 | 312 | | | | | | | |
| | Independent | Chris Burley | 1.65 | 162 | 163 | | | | | | | | |
| | Independent | Angela Maher | 1.43 | 141 | 142 | | | | | | | | |
| Electorate: 20,021 Valid: 9,848 (49.19%) Spoilt: 161 Quota: 1,407 Turnout: 10,009 (49.99%) ||||||||||||||

## Changes

* † Athlone Independent Cllr Kevin "Boxer" Moran was elected to the 32nd Dáil for Longford–Westmeath at the 2016 general election. Ailish McManus was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 21 March 2016.
* †† Mullingar–Coole Fine Gael Cllr Peter Burke was elected to the 32nd Dáil for Longford–Westmeath at the 2016 general election. Emily Wallace was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 21 March 2016.
* ††† Mullingar–Coole Fianna Fáil Cllr Aidan Davitt was elected to the 25th Seanad in April 2016. Bill Collentine was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 13 June 2016.
* †††† Mullingar–Kilbeggan Fianna Fáil Cllr Paul Daly was elected to Seanad Éireann in April 2016. Liam McDaniel was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 13 June 2016.
* ††††† Mullingar–Kilbeggan Fianna Fáil Cllr Avril Whitney resigned her seat for personal reasons on 31 May 2017. In September 2017 Brian Crum was co-opted to fill the vacancy. Archived 2018-01-22 at the Wayback Machine
* †††††† Athlone Sinn Féin Cllr Paul Hogan resigned from the party and became an Independent on 30 July 2018 saying the party had isolated and ostracised him since October 2015.
* ††††††† Mullingar–Coole Sinn Féin Cllr Una D'Arcy resigned from the party and became an Independent on 22 January 2019 saying that she didn't have the support she needed and that she didn't align with its views.