Adrian Kavanagh, 28th April 2014

This short post aims to list all the official Local Elections 2014 pages across the webpages of the different City and County Councils. As well as listing details on aspects of the elections process (including Notice of Poll details, as well as polling schemes and electoral area maps in some cases), these pages may also be used (in some cases) to report election count details as the counts progress on the weekend of 24-25 May 2014. I would also assume (although everyone know what “assume did to you and me”) that official candidate nomination details will be published on, or linked from, these pages after the official close of nominations at 12pm on May 3rd 2014. If not, I will try to compensate by offering links from local media sources in those counties, if these exist. Indeed, the Dublin City, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, South Dublin County, Galway City, Donegal, Monaghan and Louth websites are recording these candidate nomination details on a rolling basis already.

I have, however, found it hard to locate the Local Elections page details for some of these websites, as indicated by the (???) symbol below. If you are aware of an official page for these sites, or know of a more reliable/informative link in the case of some of those links below, then please let me know and I will amend the record as soon as possible.

Local Authority – Local Elections 2014 pages

Carlow: http://www.carlow.ie/councillors/Pages/local-elections.aspx (A link to the official Notice of Poll for the Carlow and Muinebeag electoral areas is now available off this website.)

Cavan: http://www.cavancoco.ie/about-the-electoral-register Cavan County Council has produced a list of all the officially nominated candidates in the different Cavan County electoral areas, as is linked here. This week’s The Anglo Celt does contain a listing of the officially nominated Ballyjamesduff candidates, which confirms the details already noted on this site, but there is no official listing in this for the other parties.

Clare: http://www.clarecoco.ie/your-council/voting/council-elections/ Clare FM has produced a list of the candidates in all of the Clare electoral areas on their website, as also has The Clare Herald on their website. The Clare People website similarly has listed, and commented on, the official candidate list for the different electoral areas in Clare.

Cork County (???): http://www.corkcoco.ie/co/web/Cork%20County%20Council/About%20Us/Electoral%20Areas

Cork County Council has produced a list of all the officially nominated candidates in the different Cork County electoral areas, as is linked here.

Cork City: http://www.corkcity.ie/services/corporateandexternalaffairs/franchise/

The Cork City Council website now contains a listing of the official candidate nominations for the six electoral areas in the city area.

* Donegal: http://www.donegalcoco.ie/council/localelections2014/ This site also contains links to the official candidate nominations for the five electoral areas in the county.

* Dublin City: http://www.dublincity.ie/YOURCOUNCIL/LOCALELECTIONS/Pages/LocalElections.aspx

Dublin City Council has produced a list of official candidate nominations here. The polling scheme for Dublin City can be found here.

* Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown: http://www.dlrcoco.ie/vote/#d.en.10387 This site also contains links to the official candidate nominations for the five electoral areas in the county. The polling scheme for Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown can be found here.

Fingal: http://www.fingalcoco.ie/your-council/voting-and-elections/local-elections-2014/ The print version of the May 6th edition of the Swords Fingal Independent does contain candidate listed for the Swords, Balbriggan and Howth-Malahide electoral areas. Fingal County Council has now produced official candidate lists on their website for the Balbriggan, Swords, Howth-Malahide, Mulhuddart and Castleknock electoral areas. The polling scheme for Fingal County can be found here.

* South Dublin: http://www.sdcc.ie/the-council/elections-and-voting/local-elections The Council’s page listing all the official candidate nominations for the six electoral areas located within the county is located here. The polling scheme for South Dublin County can be found here.

Galway County: http://www.galway.ie/en/about/Electors/ Candidate selection details for Tuam, Athenry-Oranmore and Ballinasloe are listed on the Tuam Herald website. There is also a link detailing the candidates nominated for all the Galway County electoral areas, as well as those in Galway City, on the Galway Independent website. The Council now has produced its own online listing of officially nominated candidates, which can be found here.

Galway City*: http://www.galwaycity.ie/GeneralNews/090414_01.html  Various forms/documents (including lists of officially nominated candidates for the three electoral areas in the city) relating to the local election process may be viewed here: http://www.galwaycity.ie/AllServices/CorporateServices/Forms/#nominees

Kerry: Kerry County Council now has put up a listing of all the officially nominated candidates for the five electoral areas within the county and this can be found here. Kerry County Council used this site for their 2009 elections: http://elections.kerrycoco.ie/

Kildare: http://kildare.ie/CountyCouncil/CorporateServices/Elections/LocalElections/

The website for the Leinster Leader newspaper now includes a list of the officially nominated candidates in the five electoral areas in Kildare County. The KFM Radio website also contains a listing of these candidates, which may be found here. The Council’s official listing of candidates may be found here. The polling scheme for Kildare County can be accessed using this link.

Kilkenny: http://www.kilkennycoco.ie/eng/Your_Council/Local_Elections/Local-Elections-2014/Notice-of-Election-Kilkenny-County-Council-2014.html

The Kilkenny People website has a list of all the officially nominated candidates for the four electoral areas in Kilkenny. Kilkenny County Council has now produced a list of all the officially nominated candidates in the four electoral areas within the county, as is linked here.

Laois: http://www.laois.ie/YourCouncil/Elections2014/

Laois County Council now has put up listings of all the officially nominated candidates for the three electoral areas within the county and these can be found here.

Leitrim: http://www.leitrimcoco.ie/eng/About_the_Council/Elections-and-Voting/

Leitrim County Council has now produced a listing of the officially selected candidates in the three electoral areas in the county, which can be found here. (The Ocean FM website has a listing of the officially nominated candidates in the Manorhamilton electoral area here.)

Limerick County and City: http://www.limerickcity.ie/YourCouncil/ElectedMembers/Elections23rdMay2014/

Limerick City Council has now put up the notice of poll for the electoral areas in Limerick, listing all the officially nominated candidates for these. This can be viewed here. The polling scheme for the Limerick City and Limerick County electoral areas are located here.

Longford: http://www.longfordcoco.ie/coco_content.aspx?id=28210 The Longford Leader website contains a listing of the candidates for the three electoral areas in this county. Longford County Council has now put up lists of the officially nominated candidates for the Ballymahon, Granard and Longford electoral areas.

* Louth: http://www.louthcoco.ie/en/Elections/  There is a page on the website listing all officially nominated candidates for the five different electoral areas and that is located here  / Louth (Returning Officer): http://www.louthreturningofficer.com/

Mayo: http://www.mayococo.ie/en/YourCouncils/RegisterofElectors/EuropeanParliamentLocalElections2014/ Mayo County Council has produced a list of the officially nominated candidates for the four electoral areas in the county and this can be found here. The Mayo News website has produced a listing of the officially nominated local election candidates for the four Mayo electoral areas.

Meath: http://www.meath.ie/CountyCouncil/ElectionsVotingInformation/EuropeanParliamentandLocalElections2014/

Meath County Council has produced a list of the officially nominated candidates for the six electoral areas in the county and this can be found here. The polling scheme for Meath County can be accessed using this link.

* Monaghan: http://www.monaghan.ie/en/yourcouncil/localelections2014/ The Council site has separate pages listing all the officially nominated candidates for the three electoral areas of Ballybay-Clones, Carrickmacross-Castleblaney and Monaghan. As the Ballybay-Clones contest was cancelled due to the death of Owen Bannigan, a new contest was rescheduled for Saturday June 7th between 8.00am and 10.00pm – the candidate list for this new Ballybay-Clones contest is now available from the Monaghan County Council website.

Offaly: http://www.offaly.ie/eng/Services/Your_Councils/Elections-2014/ This page now contains links to listings for the officially nominated candidates for the Birr, Tullamore and Edenderry electoral areas.

Tipperary: http://www.tipperarynorth.ie/council/yourcouncil_ele.html

The Tipp FM website has offered a listing of all the candidates running in the different electoral areas in Tipperary. There is also a listing of the Nenagh candidates on a link from the Tipperary Star website.

Roscommon: http://www.roscommoncoco.ie/en/Services/Register_of_Electors/Information_for_Local_Election_Candidates/

Sligo: http://www.sligococo.ie/localelections/ Oceam FM has produced a listing of all the officially nominated candidates for the two electoral areas in Sligo, which can be found here. Sligo County Council now have listings of the officially nominated candidates for the Sligo and Ballymote-Tubbercurry electoral areas.

Waterford County and City: http://www.waterfordcoco.ie/en/services/registerofelectors/localeuelections2014/

Listings of the officially nominated candidates for the five Waterford electoral areas can be viewed here.

Westmeath: http://www.westmeathcoco.ie/en/ourservices/yourcouncil/elections2014/

The Westmeath County Council website now has lists of the officially nominated candidates for the three electoral areas of Athlone, Mullingar-Coole and Mullingar-Kilbeggan. The polling scheme for Westmeath County is located here.

(The Westmeath returning officer has produced a list of polling places in the county, which may prove useful – this may be found here.)

Wexford: http://www.wexford.ie/wex/Departments/CorporateServices/LocalElections/ The Council website now has listings of the officially nominated candidates for the four electoral areas in the county and the links to these may be found here.  (The Wexford People (print version) contained a list of the officially nominated candidates in the week after the close of nominations and Wexford electoral area details on the different local election candidates posts on this site have been updated accordingly.)

Wicklow: http://www.wicklow.ie/local-elections-2014  A link to the officially nominated candidates for the Wicklow electoral areas may be found here. The polling scheme for Wicklow County is located here.