Cork City Council election, 2009

5 June 2009

All 31 seats to Cork City Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fine Gael	Labour Party	Fianna Fáil
Seats won	8	7	6
Seat change	-	+1	-5

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Party	Sinn Féin	Socialist Party	Workers' Party
Seats won	4	1	1
Seat change	+2	-	+1

	Seventh party	Eighth party	Ninth party

Party	Independent	Green Party	Progressive Democrats
Seats won	4	0	0
Seat change	+3	-1	-1

Map showing the area of Cork City Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Cork City Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 31 councillors were elected from three electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	8	-	11,885	25.42%
	Labour Party	7	+1	8,693	18.59%
	Fianna Fáil	6	-5	9,536	20.39%
	Sinn Féin	4	+2	5,057	10.82%
	Socialist Party	1	-	2,391	5.11%
	Workers' Party	1	+1	1,158	2.48%
	Independent	4	+3	6,502	13.91%
	Green Party	0	-1	1,537	3.29%
	Progressive Democrats	0	-1	-	-
Totals		31	-	46,759	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Cork North-Central

Cork North-Central - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Socialist Party	Mick Barry*	26.45	2,096
	Labour Party	Catherine Clancy*	13.59	1,077	1,233	1,262	1,300	1,339
	Fianna Fáil	Kenneth O'Flynn*	10.65	844	871	873	883	892	893	910	934	1,276
	Fine Gael	Patricia Gosch*	10.39	823	892	905	1,031	1,059	1,062	1,153	1,241	1,348
	Fianna Fáil	Damian Wallace*	8.66	686	708	711	718	731	732	747	775
	Sinn Féin	Thomas Gould	7.80	618	740	743	770	807	807	942	1,078	1,136
	Labour Party	Paddy Brown	5.81	460	564	576	597	624	632	693	818	884
	Independent	Jim Cronin	4.95	392	466	469	478	539	540	627
	Workers' Party	Jackie Connolly	4.43	351	478	487	494	532	536
	Fine Gael	Joe Kavanagh	3.24	257	277	280
	Independent	Annette Spillane*	2.93	232	273	281	294
	Green Party	Ian Gallagher	1.10	87	100
Electorate: 14,317 Valid: 7,923 (55.34%) Spoilt: 194 Quota: 1,321 Turnout: 8,117 (56.69%)

Cork North-East

Cork North-East - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Labour Party	John Kelleher*	18.70	1,024	1,091	1,165
	Fianna Fáil	Tim Brosnan*	18.61	1,019	1,034	1,079	1,084	1,152
	Fine Gael	Dara Murphy*	18.47	1,011	1,035	1,102
	Independent	David Whyte	9.88	541	565	611	618	703	815
	Workers' Party	Ted Tynan	8.93	489	576	601	615	698	938
	Sinn Féin	Pat Coughlan	7.78	426	464	476	481	526
	Fine Gael	Derek Connolly	6.83	374	383	393	410
	Green Party	Ken Walsh	5.41	296	310
	Socialist Party	Dave Keating	5.39	295
Electorate: 10,431 Valid: 5,475 (52.49%) Spoilt: 82 Quota: 1,096 Turnout: 5,557 (53.27%)

Cork North-West

Cork North-West - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Independent	Dave McCarthy*	23.36	1,419
	Sinn Féin	Jonathan O'Brien*	21.71	1,319
	Labour Party	Michael O'Connell*	15.29	929	988	1,012	1,130	1,716	1,280
	Fine Gael	Joe O'Callaghan*	13.25	805	839	856	906	936	1,013	1,050
	Fianna Fáil	Tony Fitzgerald*	12.10	735	778	783	830	846	1,071	1,098
	Fianna Fáil	John Sheehan	8.00	436	507	511	539	550
	Workers' Party	Mick Crowley	5.23	318	357	364
	Green Party	Nicholas McMurray	1.05	64	71
Electorate: 10,964 Valid: 6,075 (55.41%) Spoilt: 118 Quota: 1,216 Turnout: 6,193 (56.48%)

Cork South-Central

Cork South-Central - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Labour Party	Lorraine Kingston*	25.48	1,778
	Independent	Mick Finn	13.23	923	1,029	1,050	1,140	1,230
	Fine Gael	Emmet O'Halloran	11.44	798	904	914	1,164
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Martin*	833	790	837	879	1,235
	Sinn Féin	Fiona Kerins*	11.06	772	887	910	979	1,038
	Fianna Fáil	Tom O'Driscoll*	9.13	637	682	696	726
	Independent	Paudie Dineen	9.01	629	702	730	806	900
	Fine Gael	Billy MacGill	4.16	290	352	357
	Green Party	Mary Ryder	3.54	247	296	302
	Independent	Tom McIntyre	1.63	114	129
Electorate: 12,858 Valid: 6,978 (54.27%) Spoilt: 164 Quota: 1,164 Turnout: 7,142 (55.55%)

Cork South-East

Cork South-East - 7 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fine Gael	Des Cahill	15.45	1,776
	Fine Gael	Laura McGonigle*	14.58	1,675
	Labour Party	Denis O'Flynn*	13.24	1,522
	Fianna Fáil	Terry Shannon*	10.57	1,215	1,236	1,255	1,263	1,388	1,867
	Independent	Chris O'Leary*	10.24	1,177	1,205	1,232	1,252	1,374	1,433	1,459
	Independent	Kieran McCarthy	9.35	1,075	1,117	1,160	1,173	1,313	1,380	1,483
	Fine Gael	Jim Corr*	7.23	831	999	1,112	1,131	1,228	1,319	1,384
	Sinn Féin	Ken Ahern	7.17	824	838	847	858	907	930	957
	Fianna Fáil	Donal Counihan*	6.34	729	748	755	758	853
	Green Party	Stephen Crowley	3.14	361	395	408	417
	Fianna Fáil	Deirdre Foley	2.67	307	320	327	329
Electorate: 19,409 Valid: 11,492 (59.21%) Spoilt: 140 Quota: 1,437 Turnout: 11,632 (59.93%)

Cork South-West

Cork South-West - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Fine Gael	John Buttimer*	23.35	2,070
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Shields*	13.49	1,196	1,283
	Labour Party	Michael Ahern*	12.63	1,120	1,204	1,304
	Sinn Féin	Henry Cremin	12.38	1,098	1,125	1,164	1,208	1,220
	Fianna Fáil	Fergal Dennehy*	10.62	942	981	1,027	1,085	1,095
	Labour Party	Ger Gibbons*	8.83	783	871	957	1,131	1,180
	Fine Gael	Barry Keane	6.77	600	754	814
	Fine Gael	Brian Bermingham*	6.49	575	867	957	1,338
	Green Party	Mick Murphy	5.44	482	514
Electorate: 14,907 Valid: 8,866 (59.48%) Spoilt: 153 Quota: 1,267 Turnout: 8,993 (60.33%)

External links

http://www.corkcity.ie/

Preceded by Cork City Council election, 2004	Cork City Council elections	Succeeded by Cork City Council election, 2014

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