An election to all 24 seats on Kilkenny County Council took place on 23 May 2014 as part of the 2014 Irish local elections, a reduction from 26 seats at the 2009 election. County Kilkenny was divided into 3 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). In addition, Kilkenny Borough Council was abolished.
Fianna Fáil became the largest party securing 10 seats, a gain of 3. Fine Gael, by contrast, had a very poor set of results and lost 5 of their seats returning with 7 seats in all. Sinn Féin broke through in the county winning 3 seats, while Labour retained just 2 seats on the council. Malcolm Noonan of the Greens was re-elected in Kilkenny city and Independents secured the final seat.
Results by party Party Seats ± ±% 10+314,55037.2 7-511,70529.9 3+33,8539.9 2-34,36211.2 101,3723.5 102,8277.2Total24-2 38,669100.0—
Results by local electoral area
Castlecomer
Kilkenny City-East
Kilkenny City-West
Piltown
Changes Co-options
Changes in affiliation
References
Sources
External links Kilkenny County Council