2009 Waterford City Council election

An election to Waterford City Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 15 councillors were elected from three electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.

2009 Waterford City Council election

5 June 2009
All 15 seats to Waterford City Council
Party Fine Gael Labour Fianna Fáil Seats won 4 3 1 Seat change - - -   Party Sinn Féin Workers' Party Independent Seats won 1 1 5 Seat change -1 -1 +2
Map showing the area of Waterford City Council
Council control after election TBD

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	4	-	3,637	21.62%
	Labour	3	-	2,831	16.83%
	Fianna Fáil	1	-	2,212	13.15%
	Sinn Féin	1	-1	1,543	9.17%
	Workers' Party	1	-1	1,427	8.48%
	Independent	5	+2	4,737	28.16%
Totals		15	-	16,823	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Waterford City East

Waterford City East - 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Independent	Davy Daniels*	19.48	1,291
	Labour	Jack Walsh*	13.91	922	974
	Fine Gael	Jim D'Arcy*	12.30	815	864	867	891	908	927	944	964
	Fine Gael	Tom Cunningham*	8.87	588	629	632	641	656	669	682	708	711	748	778	942
	Independent	Mary Roche*	6.93	459	504	509	536	557	600	628	651	652	711	778	890
	Sinn Féin	Bill Hayes	6.05	401	412	414	416	424	428	433	438	441
	Fine Gael	Jacqueline Kelly	5.61	372	395	396	406	415	437	461	469	470	520	555
	Workers' Party	Joe Tobin	5.21	345	365	367	386	402	428	445	452	453	589	624	724
	Fianna Fáil	Gary Wyse	4.75	315	328	331	338	346	356	375	458	463	485	686	732
	Fianna Fáil	Catherine O'Neil	4.21	279	291	294	298	305	317	383	456	457	478
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Ormond	3.49	231	244	245	246	247	248	280
	Fianna Fáil	Stephanie Keating	3.11	206	224	224	224	234	247
	Independent	Michael Ivory	2.16	143	174	176	181	194
	Independent	Sheikh M. Ahmed	1.96	130	141	142	150
	Green	Maria Raftis Kennedy	1.95	129	134	135
Electorate: 10,094   Valid: 6,626 (65.64%)   Spoilt: 62   Quota: 947   Turnout: 6,688 (66.26%)

Waterford City North

Waterford City North - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fine Gael	Hilary Quinlan*	22.58	963
	Labour	Pat Hayes*	21.57	920
	Independent	Dick Roche	14.68	626	655	660	678	725	822
	Sinn Féin	Joe Kelly*	12.94	552	575	575	588	605	685
	Workers' Party	Davy Walsh*	12.54	535	564	568	590	631	752
	Fianna Fáil	Liam Dunne	6.66	284	292	294	299	324
	Fianna Fáil	Gearoid Ryan	4.85	207	211	212	214	220
	Independent	Oli Dempsey	3.63	155	168	176	182
	Independent	Ram Ramasamy	0.54	23	26
Electorate: 6,965   Valid: 4,265 (61.23%)   Spoilt: 88   Quota: 894   Turnout: 4,353 (62.50%)

Waterford City South

Waterford City South - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	John Halligan*	18.65	1,430
	Labour	Seamus Ryan*	16.67	989
	Sinn Féin	David Cullinane*	9.95	590	684	697	785	825	912
	Fine Gael	John Cummins	9.09	539	594	605	638	840	943
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Murphy*	9.27	550	579	655	676	706
	Workers' Party	Willie Moore	9.20	546	615	621	715	732	824
	Independent	Laurence (Cha) O'Neill*	7.69	456	540	562	627	731	880
	Fine Gael	Mary O'Halloran*	6.07	360	400	419	447
	People Before Profit	Donie Fell	5.19	308	358	373
	Fianna Fáil	Elaine Walsh	2.36	140	153
	Independent	Ram Ramasamy	0.40	24	31
Electorate: 9,339   Valid: 5,932 (63.52%)   Spoilt: 66   Quota: 989   Turnout: 5,998 (64.23%)

References

External links

• Environ.ie