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2014 Kerry County Council election

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All 33 seats to Kerry County Council 17 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Sinn Féin Seats won 9 9 5 Seat change 2 1 3   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Labour SKIA Independent Seats won 2 1 7 Seat change 2 4
Map showing the area of Kerry County Council
Council control after election Fianna Fáil Fine Gael

An election to all 33 seats on Kerry County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, an increase from 27 seats at the 2009 election. County Kerry was divided into four 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). In addition, the town councils of Killarney, Listowel and Tralee were abolished.

Fianna Fáil emerged as the largest party on the council after the elections gaining 2 additional seats, 1 in Listowel and 1 in the Killarney LEA. The party ended up with 9 seats, the same numbers as Fine Gael, who lost 1 seat overall, and who were also slightly behind Fianna Fáil in terms of first preference votes. Sinn Féin had an excellent election, winning 5 seats overall and 4 in North Kerry where had they run a third candidate in Tralee they would have won a third seat. Labour had a very bad election losing half of their seats and both councillors returned were elected for the Tralee LEA. Michael Gleeson of SKIA retained his seat as did both the Healy-Rae's and Independents returned 7 councillors overall, 8 including SKIA. The Listowel results were subject to a full recount in 2016.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	9	2	15,526	22.25	4.68
	Fine Gael	9	1	15,207	21.79	5.58
	Sinn Féin	5	3	9,899	14.19	3.78
	Labour	2	2	4,597	6.59	8.39
	SKIA	1		2,039	3.07	0.23
	People Before Profit	0		390	0.56	New
	Independent	7	4	22,009	31.54	15.67
Total		33	6	69,817	100.00

Results by local electoral area

 *: Outgoing councillor.

Kerry South and West

Killarney

Listowel

A full recount began of the ballots for the Listowel LEA on 10 February 2016. This followed a court case taken by Dan Kiely, who ended the original count within five votes of two elected candidates. Voters filled in the ballot for the 2014 European Parliament election simultaneously with the local election ballot, and some put preferences 1-2-3 on one ballot and 4-5-6 on the other. The returning officers' official guidelines advised to accept the latter ballots, but the Supreme Court ruled they were invalid under Article 80(2) of the Local Election Regulations 1995. When the "count afresh" began, "at least 10 ballots" were excluded based on the Supreme Court ruling. Candidates' counting agents scrutinised about 300 "doubtful" ballot papers; 32 on which they could not agree were taken under Garda Síochána escort to Limerick, where a Circuit Court judge ruled 14 of them invalid. After the eleventh and final count, in the early hours of 12 February, the same seven candidates had been returned as in 2014, with Kiely four votes behind Moloney.

Tralee

Changes

Co-options

Changes in affiliation

References

1. "Kerry County Council". Irish Independent. 26 May 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
2. ^ "Recount for 2014 Listowel local elections underway -". RTÉ.ie. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
3. Kiely -v- Kerry County Council IESC 97 Judgments & Determinations: Courts Service of Ireland. (Judgments of Justices: O'Donnell Donal, McKechnie, Clarke, Charleton.)
4. "S.I. No. 297/1995 - Local Elections Regulations, 1995". Irish Statute Book. Article 80(2). Retrieved 10 February 2016.
5. Brennan, Cianan (10 February 2016). "Two votes in it. 10 spoiled votes. This Kerry election recount just got interesting…". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
6. "32 disputed ballots in Listowel recount identified". RTÉ.ie. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
7. "Dan Kiely fails in bid to regain seat on KCC". Radio Kerry. 12 February 2016. Archived from the original on 14 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
8. "Two candidates elected in Listowel recount". RTÉ.ie. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
9. Radio Kerry results, retrieved 12 February 2012: Count 2 Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine Count 3 Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine Count 4 Archived 16 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine Count 5 Archived 16 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine Count 6 Archived 16 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine Count 7 Archived 16 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine Count 8 Archived 16 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine Count 9 Archived 16 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine Count 10 Archived 16 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine Count 11 Archived 16 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine
10. Lucey, Anne (15 March 2016). "Maura Healy-Rae formally co-opted onto Kerry County Council". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
11. Lucey, Anne (15 March 2016). "Maura Healy-Rae formally co-opted onto Kerry County Council". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
12. "Tom Barry is being co-opted to Kerry County Council today to replace Dianne Nolan in the Listowel Municipal District". X.com. Retrieved 20 January 2025.
13. Anne, Lucey (16 July 2016). "Kerry councillor Michael Cahill set to rejoin Fianna Fáil fold". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 20 January 2025.

External links

• "Local Elections 2014 Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. June 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 January 2019.
• Official website
• http://irelandelection.com/council.php?elecid=157&tab=constit&detail=yes&electype=5&councilid=12&electype=5

• 2014 Irish local elections
• Kerry County Council elections