1985 Roscommon County Council election
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An election to Roscommon County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from six electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a six-year term of office.
Results by party
Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
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Fianna Fáil | 13 | +1 | 13,230 | 44.86 | ||
Fine Gael | 8 | -4 | 10,648 | 36.10 | ||
Independent | 5 | +4 | 4,661 | 15.8 | ||
Sinn Féin | 0 | -1 | 948 | 3.21 | ||
Totals | 26 | - | 29,495 | 100.0 | — |
Results by Electoral Area
Athlone
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Michael Finneran* | 1,522 | ||||||
Fine Gael | Liam NaughtenTD* | 1,379 | ||||||
Independent | Patrick Lenihan* | 1,274 | ||||||
Fianna Fáil | Jim Morris | 448 | 825 | 870 | 905 | 1,091 | ||
Fine Gael | John Joe Grenham* | 387 | 437 | 627 | 840 | 884 | ||
Fine Gael | Willie Nestor | 208 | 259 | 359 | ||||
Electorate: 6,686 Valid: 5,218 (78.79%) Spoilt: 50 Quota: 1,044 Turnout: 5,268 |
Ballaghadreen
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
Fine Gael | Senator John Connor | 881 | ||||||
Fianna Fáil | Patrick Dooney* | 795 | 806 | 951 | ||||
Fine Gael | Michael Scally | 636 | 793 | 819 | 821 | 832 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Paul Lynch | 633 | 656 | 762 | 833 | 834 | ||
Independent | Tom McGarry* | 568 | 652 | 818 | 830 | 834 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Hubert Maxwell | 479 | 508 | |||||
Fine Gael | Michael Gilligan* | 332 | ||||||
Electorate: 6,498 Valid: 4,325 (67.04%) Spoilt: 31 Quota: 866 Turnout: 4,356 |
Boyle
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Sean DohertyTD* | 1,263 | ||||||||
Fianna Fáil | Sean McQuaid | 652 | 758 | 797 | 843 | 977 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Colm O'Donnell* | 595 | 696 | 718 | 765 | 862 | 926 | |||
Fine Gael | Thomas Egan* | 574 | 595 | 705 | 748 | 760 | 761 | 830 | ||
Fine Gael | Charlie Hopkins | 514 | 528 | 573 | 619 | 624 | 625 | 680 | ||
Fine Gael | Charles Duignan* | 500 | 523 | 557 | 575 | 606 | 608 | 909 | ||
Fine Gael | John Beirne* | 444 | 458 | 480 | 499 | 579 | 579 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Timothy Cooney | 327 | 379 | 383 | 421 | |||||
Sinn Féin | Kevin Earley | 296 | 310 | 319 | ||||||
Fine Gael | Connie Fallon | 283 | 292 | |||||||
Electorate: 7,103 Valid: 5,448 (77.64%) Spoilt: 67 Quota: 909 Turnout: 5,515 |
Castlerea
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Independent | Patrick Moylan* | 714 | 755 | 845 | ||||||
Fine Gael | Michael McGreal | 579 | 601 | 625 | 634 | 691 | 711 | 713 | ||
Independent | Paddy Concannon* | 550 | 553 | 556 | 556 | 668 | 780 | 837 | ||
Fine Gael | Tom Callaghan* | 526 | 528 | 528 | 529 | 588 | 657 | 681 | ||
Independent | Tony Waldron | 473 | 481 | 489 | 493 | |||||
Fianna Fáil | John Costello* | 443 | 446 | 516 | 528 | 665 | 957 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Liam Satchwell | 429 | 434 | 498 | 503 | 579 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Gerard Regan | 263 | 271 | |||||||
Independent | Michael Mitchell | 96 | ||||||||
Electorate: 5,412 Valid: 4,074 (76.07%) Spoilt: 43 Quota: 815 Turnout: 4,117 |
Roscommon
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Terry LeydenTD* | 1,101 | |||||||
Independent | Eithne Quinn | 986 | |||||||
Fianna Fáil | Anthony Murray | 609 | 655 | 670 | 756 | 824 | 930 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Des Bruen* | 549 | 632 | 654 | 786 | 806 | 830 | ||
Fine Gael | Patrick Walshe* | 515 | 529 | 549 | 580 | 722 | 901 | ||
Fine Gael | John T. Kirwan | 446 | 453 | 464 | 473 | 526 | |||
Fine Gael | Tom Hunt* | 402 | 418 | 433 | 472 | 581 | 742 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Seamus Keane | 382 | 394 | 403 | 429 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Seamus McDermott | 316 | 359 | 367 | |||||
Electorate: 7,607 Valid: 5,312 (70.28%) Spoilt: 34 Quota: 886 Turnout: 5,346 |
Strokestown
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Senator Brian Mullooly* | 1,259 | ||||||
Fine Gael | Seán Beirne | 773 | 765 | 831 | 1,054 | |||
Fine Gael | Seamus Scott* | 674 | 683 | 801 | 925 | 961 | ||
Sinn Féin | Dermot Mullooly* | 652 | 698 | 799 | 881 | 917 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Eugene Murphy | 632 | 729 | 975 | 1,130 | |||
Fine Gael | Frank Curley | 629 | 637 | 652 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Sean Neary | 533 | 582 | |||||
Electorate: 6,498 Valid: 5,118 (79.32%) Spoilt: 36 Quota: 1,024 Turnout: 5,154 |
External links
- Official website[permanent dead link]
- Irishelectionliterature
- Department of the Environment, Ireland (28 January 2010). "Local elections, 1985 : election results and transfer of votes in respect of each county, and county borough council : and election statistics relating to all local authorities" (PDF). Department of the Environment. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
Preceded by Roscommon County Council election, 1979 |
Roscommon County Council elections | Succeeded by 1991 Roscommon County Council election |