Corr spent more than € 7 per vote
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FINE Gael's Tom O'Leary may have spent the biggest amount of any candidate in the Balbriggan local election ward, however the most telling statistic belongs to Joe Corr. The former Green Party councillor's expenses totalled € 11,555, meaning he spent approximately € 7.54 for each of the 1,531 first preference votes he received.
The entire total came from donations and fundraising, with Oldtown businessman Joseph Dennigan and Rush farmer, David Langan, each contributing € 1,000.
'You can't really break that into a total per vote,' Cllr Corr told the Fingal Independent.
'It's purely speculation on how much success that will bring you.
' The election was based on national issues and certainly not on my track record for the previous five years. You spend the money and you take your chance – you don't go out seeking value for money.'
Charts
Cllr O'Leary meanwhile topped the spending charts, with a total outlay of € 12,358 – € 5,348 on posters and € 4,555 on other election literature - of which € 9,600 came from other sources, with € 2,758 of personal spending.
Fianna Fáil's Stephen O'Connell was the third highest, spending some € 7,938, broken into € 3,570 of his own funding, with € 4,357 coming from elsewhere.
Mayor of Fingal, Cllr Ciaran Byrne, was the fourth biggest spender, forking out € 7,610 of his own money on his successful campaign, while Independent Cllr May McKeon, retained her seat after a € 7,206 expen€ 3,582 coming her own diture, from pocket.
Socialist Party candidate Terry Kelleher's € 6,861 spend included his successful election to the Town Council, while Labour's Cllr Ken Farrell topped the poll, after spending € 6,535, with € 4,035 coming from other sources.
Independent Sean Brown forked € 4,935 of his own finance during his campaign, while another non-party runner, Cllr David O'Connor, retained his seat after shelling out € 3,721 of his own funding. Town Council members Dermot Murray (€ 4,396), Larry Dunne (€ 3,327) and Grainne Kilmurry (€ 2,800) were each unsuccessful in their county council campaigns, along with Sinn Fein's Fergus Byrne, who spent € 1,420 on a dual-election run.
