Category Archives: Local Elections 2014

“For those not about to rock, we salute you”: County and City Councillors who will be stepping down at the 2024 Local Elections

Posted on February 20, 2024 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 20th February 2024 This post lists all of the City/County Councillors who will be retiring at the 2024 Local Elections – as opposed to the version of this post for 2014 elections, it will not list the names … Continue reading →

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City and County Councillors who will be stepping down at (not contesting) the 2019 Local Elections

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh 18th October 2018 This post lists all of the City/County Councillors who will be retiring at the May 24th 2019 Local Elections – as opposed to the version of this post for 2014 elections, it will not list … Continue reading →

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City and County Council Members – Co-options and Changes since the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 6th July 2016 (with subsequent updates) The 2014 Local Elections resulted in the election of 949 City and County Councillors. Since that election, I have estimated that 129 of the successful candidates in these elections, or candidates who … Continue reading →

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Dail constituency support estimates: Combining 2014 Local Election results and Opinion Poll-generated support estimates

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 7th August 2015 As you may know, I try to regularly carry out what I term a constituency-level analysis of opinion poll figures, as and when these are released, to try and decipher what these might mean in … Continue reading →

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Poll Toppers at the 2014 Local (City and County Council) Elections

Posted on June 26, 2015 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 26th June 2015 In the lead up to, and in the immediate aftermath of, the 2011 General Election, I produced a post reviewing the poll toppers in each of the different constituencies at the 2007 General Election and their … Continue reading →

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Which parties/groupings control the City and County Councils?

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 23rd June 2014 A month has now passed since the holding of the 2014 Local and European elections and the spoils of victory have now been fought over and divided in most cases (although the first meeting of … Continue reading →

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Papering Over The Cracks? Fine Gael’s performance at the May 23rd elections

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 16th June 2014 Fine Gael got lucky on a number of accounts at the May 23rd elections.

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Their Day Has Come? Reviewing Sinn Fein’s Local and European elections performances

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 12th June 2014 Apart from the successes associated with the Independents and Others groupings, there is no doubt that Sinn Fein were the big winners in the May 23rd 2014 elections, winning seats in each of the European … Continue reading →

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(Non) Party On? A review of the electoral performance of Independent candidates on May 23rd

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 11th June 2014 The May 23rd elections were always going to be good elections for the Non Party/Independent candidates grouping.

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Perspectives on the Ballybay-Clones electoral area

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 4th June 2014 The sudden death on Election Day of Fine Gael County Councillor, Owen Bannigan – Ar dheis dé go raibh a anam – lead to the cancellation of the local election vote for the Ballybay-Clones electoral area … Continue reading →

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