2014 Dublin City Council election

An election to all 63 seats on Dublin City Council was held on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections. The city of Dublin was divided into nine local electoral areas 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).^[1][2][3]

2014 Dublin City Council election

← 2009 23 May 2014 2019 →
All 63 seats on Dublin City Council 32 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Sinn Féin Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Seats won 16 9 8 Seat change 9 3 4   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Labour People Before Profit Green Seats won 8 5 3 Seat change 11 3 3   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Party United Left Anti-Austerity Alliance Independent Seats won 1 1 12 Seat change 1 1 6
Map showing the area of Dublin City Council
Council control before election Labour Party Fine Gael Council control after election Sinn Féin Labour Party Green Party

Overview

Under the Local Government Reform Act 2014, Dublin City Council was expanded from 52 to 63 seats. Sinn Féin won 16 seats, a gain of 7 seats, to emerge as the largest party and at least 1 seat in every LEA except Rathgar–Rathmines. Fianna Fáil won 9 seats, a gain of 3 seats in total. The party won 2 seats in Clontarf and 1 seat in every LEA except the North-Inner City. Fine Gael lost 4 seats to return with 8 seats overall. The party won 2 seats in Pembroke–South Dock and Rathgar–Rathmines but found itself without representation in Ballyfermot–Drimnagh, Cabra–Finglas and Crumlin–Kimmage. The Labour Party lost 11 seats in all, including the outgoing Lord Mayor of Dublin, Oisín Quinn, to return with just 8 councillors in all. People Before Profit gained 3 seats to return with 5 seats in all and the Green Party made a return to the council with 3 seats. The United Left and the Anti-Austerity Alliance both returned 1 seat while Independents doubled their numbers to 12 seats.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Sinn Féin	16	9	33,393	24.22	11.55
	Fianna Fáil	9	3	19,957	14.47	3.63
	Fine Gael	8	4	19,275	13.98	4.72
	Labour	8	11	17,524	12.71	16.69
	People Before Profit	5	3	9,544	6.92	2.75
	Green	3	3	7,000	5.08	1.54
	United Left	1	1	2,180	1.58	New
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	1	1	2,025	1.47	New
	Éirígí	0		1,705	1.24	New
	Direct Democracy	0		446	0.32	New
	Workers' Party	0		360	0.26	0.53
	Independent	12	6	24,470	17.75	5.27
Total		63	11	137,879	100.00

Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor.

Ballyfermot–Drimnagh

Ballyfermot–Drimnagh: 6 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Sinn Féin	Daithí Doolan	19.28	2,834
	People Before Profit	Bríd Smith[*]	13.82	2,031	2,091	2,130
	Independent	Paul Hand	8.84	1,300	1,327	1,403	1,516	1,517	1,608	1,680	1,799	1,845	1,924	1,954	2,151
	Fianna Fáil	Daithí de Róiste	8.74	1,284	1,305	1,318	1,335	1,337	1,346	1,391	1,408	1,460	1,531	1,551	1,695
	Independent	Vincent Jackson[*]	7.97	1,171	1,203	1,261	1,311	1,316	1,336	1,379	1,476	1,606	1,728	1,775	1,902
	Sinn Féin	Greg Kelly	7.75	1,139	1,638	1,669	1,695	1,696	1,743	1,768	1,898	1,937	2,209
	Fine Gael	Philip Nolan	5.82	856	859	862	917	918	930	989	1,007	1,121	1,146	1,151
	Labour	Michael O'Sullivan[*]	4.79	704	705	710	721	721	749	818	852	1,140	1,164	1,171	1,518
	Labour	Sheila Howes[*]	4.42	650	660	672	689	690	698	797	814
	Éirígí	Louise Minihan[*]	4.35	639	677	699	720	724	737	760	818	857
	Green	Oisín Ó hAlmhain	3.74	550	554	558	571	571	587
	United Left	Brian Stafford	2.90	426	430	437	445	448
	People Before Profit	Paul Shields	2.78	409	420	437	465	477	634	690
	Independent	Peter O'Neill	2.51	369	374	399
	Independent	Henry Harding	1.20	176
	Independent	Noel Bennett	0.69	102	106
	Independent	Laurence Vize	0.39	58	60
Electorate: 34,597   Valid: 14,698 (42.48%)   Spoilt: 272   Quota: 2,100   Turnout: 14,970 (43.27%)

Ballymun

Ballymun: 7 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
	Sinn Féin	Noeleen Reilly	14.82	2,540
	Sinn Féin	Cathleen Carney Boud	13.58	2,328
	Labour	Andrew Montague[*]	9.16	1,570	1,618	1,626	1,643	1,646	1,651	1,663	1,687	1,710	1,733	1,798	1,870	1,998	2,158
	Fianna Fáil	Paul McAuliffe[*]	8.69	1,490	1,503	1,514	1,518	1,520	1,531	1,541	1,554	1,568	1,588	1,653	1,679	1,740	1,830	1,936
	Fine Gael	Noel Rock	7.27	1,247	1,256	1,262	1,266	1,275	1,285	1,290	1,310	1,319	1,370	1,544	1,603	1,680	2,166
	Fianna Fáil	Laura Reid	6.58	1,128	1,146	1,154	1,162	1,169	1,183	1,189	1,212	1,220	1,252	1,291	1,327	1,381	1,436	1,531
	Labour	Aine Clancy[*]	5.50	943	952	958	961	965	969	972	999	1,016	1,034	1,096	1,118	1,276	1,496	1,606
	Fine Gael	Gerry Breen[*]	5.39	924	929	931	934	938	938	939	948	955	992	1,129	1,144	1,183
	Green	Caroline Conroy	4.30	738	764	780	784	789	794	817	855	885	912	949	997
	Fine Gael	Bill Tormey[*]	3.95	678	689	692	694	700	700	707	718	729	754
	People Before Profit	Andrew Keegan	3.74	642	711	744	762	769	807	907	930	1,066	1,116	1,150	1,289	1,444	1,473	1,869
	Independent	Geraldine Gough	3.54	607	626	642	655	672	689	725	748	780	889	911	1,113	1,238	1,279
	Independent	Seán Tyrrell	2.74	470	527	537	547	585	595	623	707	755	843	871
	Independent	Peter McDonnell	2.44	418	425	428	457	465	479	497	550	567
	Workers' Party	Owen Martin	2.10	360	397	426	429	433	440	466	477
	Independent	Agnieszka Wieczorkowska	1.97	338	351	357	363	389	397	411
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Helen Metcalfe	1.50	258	285	299	305	314	330
	Direct Democracy	Cormac McKay	0.94	162	173	179	183	184
	Independent	Cearuil Swords	0.91	156	165	170	177
	Independent	Austin McCoy	0.85	146	155	158
Electorate: 38,875   Valid: 17,143 (44.10%)   Spoilt: 311   Quota: 2,143   Turnout: 17,454 (44.90%)

Beaumont–Donaghmede

Beaumont–Donaghmede: 9 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
	Sinn Féin	Larry O'Toole[*]	15.29	3,337
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Brabazon[*]	10.70	2,334
	People Before Profit	John Lyons	10.60	2,313
	Sinn Féin	Mícheál Mac Donncha[*]	10.29	2,245
	Sinn Féin	Denise Mitchell	9.08	1,982	2,781
	Fine Gael	Declan Flanagan[*]	6.49	1,415	1,429	1,442	1,457	1,460	1,579	1,584	1,586	1,592	1,621	1,634	2,012	2,221
	Independent	Paddy Bourke[*]	5.33	1,163	1,214	1,278	1,287	1,299	1,305	1,337	1,345	1,364	1,415	1,462	1,484	1,545	2,080
	Fianna Fáil	Sean Paul Mahon[*]	4.74	1,034	1,068	1,090	1,170	1,173	1,181	1,187	1,190	1,194	1,227	1,247	1,288	1,345	1,384
	Labour	Brian McDowell[*]	4.19	914	929	937	947	950	961	966	969	972	1,005	1,010	1,101
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Michael O'Brien	4.15	906	961	1,050	1,057	1,105	1,106	1,169	1,187	1,544	1,624	1,812	1,840	1,921	2,205
	Labour	Alison Gilliland	4.00	873	895	914	919	923	937	945	946	951	1,019	1,033	1,144	1,569	1,637
	Independent	Paul Clarke	3.82	833	865	909	919	943	949	1,006	1,014	1,037	1,095	1,203	1,224	1,278
	Fine Gael	Stephanie Regan	3.15	688	699	703	709	710	737	746	747	752	796	808
	Éirígí	Ciarán Heaphey	2.35	512	563	647	650	659	660	678	686	697	716
	Green	Ian Smyth	2.03	442	456	479	485	490	492	515	520	525
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Pronsias O Conaráin	1.61	351	379	408	411	421	424	483	489
	Direct Democracy	Tom Rooney	1.30	284	309	341	343	352	352
	Fine Gael	Ciarán Byrne	0.88	193	197	199	203	203
Electorate: 49,839   Valid: 21,819 (43.78%)   Spoilt: 408   Quota: 2,182   Turnout: 22,227 (44.60%)

Cabra–Finglas

Cabra–Finglas: 7 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Independent	Cieran Perry[*]	13.47	2,269
	Sinn Féin	Anthony Connaghan[*]	13.10	2,207
	Sinn Féin	Emma Murphy	12.79	2,155
	Sinn Féin	Seamus McGrattan[*]	10.99	1,852	1,893	1,958	1,979	2,012	2,037	2,062	2,082	2,175
	Fianna Fáil	David Costello	7.79	1,313	1,318	1,323	1,354	1,356	1,502	1,523	1,546	1,564	1,565	1,911	2,013	2,162
	Labour	Brendan Carr	7.29	1,229	1,242	1,262	1,263	1,264	1,279	1,403	1,520	1,566	1,572	1,643	1,878	2,292
	Independent	Teresa Keegan	6.74	1,135	1,171	1,175	1,194	1,197	1,210	1,243	1,321	1,448	1,453	1,518	1,652	1,768
	United Left	Bernie Hughes	4.20	707	723	733	753	756	758	767	791	1,027	1,051	1,069	1,171	1,185
	Fine Gael	David Rouse	3.82	643	645	645	806	806	818	852	904	917	917	953	1,011
	Labour	John Redmond[*]	3.50	589	591	594	641	643	647	722	763	779	781	794
	People Before Profit	David Gaughran	3.10	522	540	546	551	553	557	580	654
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Anthony Ward	3.00	506	513	514	519	519	689	723	737	742	742
	Green	Tom Duffy	2.72	459	465	467	475	476	482	520
	Fianna Fáil	Darren Lehane	2.62	441	444	445	449	449
	Labour	Declan Meenagh	2.61	440	449	449	457	458	471
	Fine Gael	Jimmy Prendergast	2.28	384	388	390
Electorate: 37,487   Valid: 16,851 (44.95%)   Spoilt: 319   Quota: 2,107   Turnout: 17,170 (45.80%)

Clontarf

Clontarf: 6 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Independent	Damien O'Farrell[*]	20.56	3,926
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Haughey	12.78	2,440	2,525	2,548	2,691	2,794
	Fianna Fáil	Deirdre Heney[*]	11.39	2,175	2,293	2,316	2,390	2,479	2,510	2,663	2,715	2,809
	Fine Gael	Naoise Ó Muirí[*]	10.36	1,979	2,144	2,155	2,365	2,440	2,450	3,042
	Labour	Jane Horgan-Jones[*]	10.17	1,943	2,110	2,131	2,224	2,314	2,320	2,524	2,710	2,833
	Sinn Féin	Ciarán O'Moore	9.41	1,798	1,898	1,988	2,013	2,111	2,115	2,136	2,141	2,564
	Green	Donna Cooney	4.94	943	1,042	1,063	1,128	1,255	1,258	1,370	1,430	1,704
	Fine Gael	Jimmy Bowler	4.91	938	1,000	1,005	1,199	1,235	1,238
	Fine Gael	Pat Crimmins[*]	4.75	907	926	934
	People Before Profit	Pat Doherty	4.26	814	904	1,137	1,164	1,374	1,382	1,418	1,428
	Independent	Philip Grogan	3.80	726	923	1,039	1,071
	Anti-Austerity Alliance	Philip Wright	2.67	510	601
Electorate: 28,420   Valid: 19,099 (67.20%)   Spoilt: 219   Quota: 2,729   Turnout: 19,318 (67.97%)

Crumlin–Kimmage

Crumlin–Kimmage: 6 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
	Sinn Féin	Críona Ní Dhálaigh[*]	13.48	1,528	1,531	1,543	1,568	1,575	1,582	1,592	1,610	1,753
	Sinn Féin	Ray McHugh	12.72	1,442	1,445	1,455	1,470	1,480	1,494	1,500	1,509	1,612	1,671
	People Before Profit	Tina McVeigh	11.56	1,310	1,338	1,363	1,405	1,431	1,452	1,465	1,547	1,662
	United Left	Pat Dunne[*]	9.24	1,047	1,062	1,067	1,085	1,098	1,127	1,134	1,154	1,186	1,189	1,241	1,255	1,316	1,345
	Labour	Rebecca Moynihan[*]	8.65	981	994	1,032	1,047	1,054	1,069	1,108	1,218	1,243	1,248	1,518	1,521	1,902
	Fianna Fáil	Catherine Ardagh	7.56	857	861	871	874	1,033	1,049	1,067	1,092	1,111	1,114	1,161	1,161	1,303	1,390
	Independent	Paul Dillon	5.73	649	674	678	729	736	871	886	952	995	1,000	1,045	1,053	1,138	1,191
	Éirígí	Damien Farrell	4.89	554	557	558	566	571	584	585	589
	Fine Gael	Edel James	4.55	516	525	533	537	550	559	764	813	832	833	968	970
	Labour	Gary Honer	4.48	508	515	560	567	576	585	611	663	677	682
	Green	Sandra Dunne	3.76	426	439	452	466	474	478	489
	Fine Gael	Jason O'Callaghan	3.07	348	354	361	365	370	376
	Fianna Fáil	Aoife Donoghue	2.58	293	294	299	301
	Independent	Tony Byrne	2.36	267	274	282	302	310
	Independent	John J. O'Donovan	1.94	220	254	260
	Labour	John Gallagher[*]	1.78	202	203
	Independent	Christian Hayden	1.03	117
	Independent	Lech Szczecinski	0.62	70
Electorate: 29,575   Valid: 11,335 (38.33%)   Spoilt: 246   Quota: 1,620   Turnout: 11,581 (39.16%)

North Inner City

North Inner City: 8 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Sinn Féin	Janice Boylan	13.52	1,393
	Independent	Christy Burke[*]	12.01	1,238
	Independent	Nial Ring[*]	9.62	991	995	1,009	1,013	1,018	1,021	1,096	1,109	1,172
	Sinn Féin	Jonathan Dowdall	7.09	731	865	886	891	891	895	917	918	957	1,060	1,094	1,113	1,114
	Green	Ciarán Cuffe	7.03	724	733	737	740	753	762	767	772	829	858	933	1,098	1,100
	Independent	Gary Gannon	7.19	741	752	766	784	805	811	837	843	904	987	1,039	1,073	1,079
	Fine Gael	Ray McAdam	5.88	606	610	611	613	621	633	635	786	804	815	868	1,030	1,032
	Independent	Eilis Ryan	6.09	628	635	638	647	660	663	681	687	745	771	840	940	950
	Sinn Féin	Gaye Fagan	7.10	732	786	799	804	804	808	825	827	847	873	909	941	947
	Labour	Lucy McRoberts	4.10	422	423	423	425	427	510	511	534	556	672	703
	Fianna Fáil	Brian Mohan	4.95	510	513	515	516	522	528	533	541	559	570
	Labour	Darryl O'Callaghan	4.04	416	422	429	429	429	447	454	462	490
	Independent	Mel MacGiobúin[*]	3.96	408	413	420	422	429	434	445	447
	Fine Gael	Patrick Martin	2.21	228	229	230	232	234	241	251
	Independent	Malachy Steenson	2.11	217	218	220	224	224	224
	Labour	Padraig McLoughlin[*]	1.57	162	164	165	166	167
	Independent	Rafal Kornatka	0.88	91	92	93	98
	Independent	Eva de Winter	0.38	39	44	46
	Independent	Philip Lee	0.26	27	27	27
Electorate: 28,900   Valid: 10,304 (35.65%)   Spoilt: 243   Quota: 1,145   Turnout: 10,547 (36.49%)

Pembroke–South Dock

Pembroke–South Dock: 8 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Sinn Féin	Chris Andrews	15.07	2,081
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Kennedy	10.05	1,388	1,407	1,408	1,434	1,440	1,493	1,495	1,543
	Labour	Dermot Lacey[*]	9.72	1,343	1,361	1,365	1,380	1,469	1,495	1,497	1,830
	Independent	Mannix Flynn[*]	9.64	1,331	1,453	1,478	1,569
	Green	Claire Byrne	7.75	1,071	1,132	1,148	1,172	1,216	1,291	1,299	1,353	1,424	1,466	1,642
	Fine Gael	Paddy McCartan[*]	7.39	1,021	1,032	1,033	1,041	1,051	1,068	1,068	1,093	1,140	1,306	1,393
	Fine Gael	Kieran Binchy[*]	7.30	1,008	1,015	1,017	1,025	1,062	1,074	1,074	1,114	1,141	1,293	1,376
	People Before Profit	Sonya Stapleton	5.60	773	927	938	966	977	1,155	1,170	1,203	1,231	1,246	1,332
	Fianna Fáil	Lorraine Clifford	5.41	747	781	783	790	808	838	840	865	874	918
	Fine Gael	Linda O'Shea-Farren	4.77	659	661	662	665	671	691	691	706	724
	Fine Gael	Nadine Meisonnave	4.67	645	647	651	662	673	696	698	734	760	1,007	1,117
	Independent	Anne Maree Quinn	3.70	511	541	555	606	611
	Labour	James Humphreys	3.66	506	523	528	539	653	683	686
	Labour	Gerry Ashe[*]	2.43	336	354	363	369
	Independent	Wayne Flanagan-Tobin	1.89	261	289	326
	Independent	Marcin Czechowicz	0.32	44	59
	Independent	Christian Hayden	0.31	43	50
	Independent	Galen MacCaba	0.31	43	44
Electorate: 39,209   Valid: 13,811 (35.22%)   Spoilt: 202   Quota: 1,535   Turnout: 14,013 (35.74%)

Rathgar–Rathmines

Rathgar–Rathmines: 6 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Green	Patrick Costello	12.85	1,647	1,707	1,742	1,745	1,892
	Fine Gael	Kate O'Connell	12.60	1,615	1,636	1,958
	Labour	Mary Freehill[*]	9.43	1,209	1,239	1,296	1,303	1,356	1,370	1,658	1,727	2,221
	Sinn Féin	Dominic MacConraoi	8.34	1,069	1,086	1,093	1,094	1,294	1,313	1,334	1,387	1,435	1,480	1,488
	Fianna Fáil	Jim O'Callaghan[*]	8.24	1,056	1,070	1,082	1,084	1,101	1,102	1,234	1,845
	Fine Gael	Paddy Smyth	8.24	1,056	1,065	1,222	1,311	1,322	1,322	1,473	1,534	1,714	1,879
	Fianna Fáil	Daniel Donnelly	7.50	961	981	1,001	1,004	1,014	1,015	1,035
	Labour	Oisín Quinn[*]	6.40	820	825	840	849	869	873
	Independent	Ruairi McGinley[*]	6.36	815	893	928	932	1,108	1,126	1,163	1,257	1,426	1,536	1,575
	Labour	Henry Upton[*]	5.96	764	782	841	847	883	886	1,037	1,088
	People Before Profit	Kim O'Donnell	5.69	730	786	793	795
	Fine Gael	Samantha Long	5.62	721	732
	Independent	Ethna Tinney	2.78	356
Electorate: 32,122   Valid: 12,819 (39.91%)   Spoilt: 157   Quota: 1,832   Turnout: 12,976 (40.40%)

Changes

Co-options

Party		Outgoing	LEA	Reason	Date	Co-optee
	Sinn Féin	Jonathan Dowdall	North Inner City	Health reasons.[4]	March 2015	Gaye Fagan[5]
	Fine Gael	Noel Rock	Ballymun	Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election.	26 February 2016	Norma Sammon[6]
	Sinn Féin	Denise Mitchell	Beaumont–Donaghmede	Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election.	26 February 2016	Edel Moran[7]
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Haughey	Clontarf	Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election.	26 February 2016	Sean Paul Mahon[8]
	Fine Gael	Kate O'Connell	Rathgar–Rathmines	Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election.	26 February 2016	Anne Feeney[9]
	Fianna Fáil	Jim O'Callaghan	Rathgar–Rathmines	Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election.	26 February 2016	Clare O'Connor[10]
	People Before Profit	Bríd Smith	Ballyfermot–Drimnagh	Elected to the 32nd Dáil at the 2016 general election.	26 February 2016	Hazel De Nortúin
	Fianna Fáil	Catherine Ardagh	Crumlin–Kimmage	Elected to 25th Seanad at the 2016 Seanad election.	26 February 2016	Michael Mullooly

Changes in affiliation

Name	LEA	Elected as		New affiliation		Date
Eilis Ryan	North Inner City		Independent		Workers' Party	21 January 2015[11]
Gary Gannon	North Inner City		Independent		Social Democrats	15 July 2015[12]
Sonya Stapleton	Pembroke–South Dock		People Before Profit		Independent	February 2016[13]
Noeleen Reilly	Ballymun		Sinn Féin		Independent	5 February 2016[14]
John Lyons	Beaumont–Donaghmede		People Before Profit		Independent Left	7 January 2019[15]