2019 Longford County Council election
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All 18 seats to Longford County Council 10 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||
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A Longford County Council election was held in County Longford in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. All 18 councillors were elected for a five-year term of office from 3 local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote.
The 2018 LEA boundary review committee kept the LEAs used in the 2014 elections, adjusting their boundaries and transferring one seat from Granard to Longford LEA.[1] The new boundaries were enacted by Statutory Instrument (SI) S.I. No. 625/2018.[2]
The votes were counted in St. Mary's Community Centre, Edgeworthstown. Counting began on Saturday 25 May 25, and ended at 9.25pm on Tuesday 28 May when returning officer Nora O'Farrell declared the last 4 councillors to be elected in the Ballymahon LEA, where there had been a recount.[3]
Results by party
Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
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Fine Gael | 9 | ![]() |
7,828 | 39.27 | ![]() | |
Fianna Fáil | 6 | ![]() |
6,471 | 32.47 | ![]() | |
Sinn Féin | 0 | ![]() |
912 | 4.58 | ![]() | |
People Before Profit | 0 | ![]() |
96 | 0.48 | New | |
Independent | 3 | ![]() |
4,625 | 23.20 | ![]() | |
Totals | 18 | ![]() |
19,932 | 100.0 |
Results by local electoral area
Ballymahon
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Fine Gael | Paul Ross[c 1] | 18.33% | 1,217 | ||||||||
Independent | Mark Casey[c 1] | 14.99% | 995 | ||||||||
Fianna Fáil | Mick Cahill[c 1] | 11.25% | 747 | 807 | 825 | 830 | 855 | 873 | 938 | 1,024 | |
Fianna Fáil | Pat O'Toole[c 1] | 10.08% | 669 | 689 | 727 | 728 | 772 | 796 | 849 | 895 | |
Fine Gael | Colm Murray[c 1] | 9.54% | 633 | 705 | 713 | 718 | 740 | 750 | 859 | 927 | |
Fine Gael | Gerard Farrell[c 1] | 9.37% | 622 | 651 | 656 | 675 | 687 | 692 | 715 | 867 | |
Fianna Fáil | Brigid Duffy | 7.55% | 501 | 554 | 556 | 558 | 562 | 580 | 593 | 640 | |
Fianna Fáil | John Kenny | 6.31% | 419 | 427 | 431 | 438 | 442 | 448 | 499 | ||
Independent | Tony Moran | 4.90% | 325 | 331 | 350 | 353 | 405 | 448 | |||
Sinn Féin | Geraldine Ryan | 2.95% | 196 | 204 | 211 | 213 | 224 | ||||
Independent | Charlie McMonagle | 2.73% | 181 | 186 | 206 | 209 | |||||
Independent | P.J. Walsh | 2.00% | 133 | 138 | |||||||
Electorate: 11,204 Valid: 6,638 Spoilt: 94 Quota: 949 Turnout: 6,732 (60.09%) |
Granard
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Independent | Turlough 'Pott' McGovern | 19.41% | 1,280 | |||||||||
Fine Gael | Micheál Carrigy[c 1]†† | 17.94% | 1,183 | |||||||||
Fine Gael | Paraic Brady[c 1] | 13.15% | 867 | 881 | 899 | 943 | 1,025 | 1,053 | 1,235 | |||
Fine Gael | Garry Murtagh | 11.07% | 730 | 747 | 764 | 803 | 876 | 912 | 942 | 980 | 1,123 | |
Fianna Fáil | P.J. Reilly[c 1] | 9.83% | 648 | 710 | 720 | 760 | 816 | 957 | 1,008 | 1,029 | 1,070 | |
Fianna Fáil | Joe Murphy | 5.92% | 390 | 397 | 399 | 412 | 424 | 452 | 524 | 565 | 708 | |
Sinn Féin | Mark Maguire | 5.46% | 360 | 370 | 373 | 387 | 420 | 456 | 486 | 514 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Amanda Duffy | 4.52% | 298 | 304 | 306 | 372 | 386 | 421 | ||||
Independent | Grace Kearney | 4.41% | 291 | 331 | 338 | 359 | 383 | |||||
Fine Gael | Frank Kilbride | 4.25% | 280 | 297 | 307 | 334 | ||||||
Fianna Fáil | Victor Connell | 4.03% | 266 | 274 | 289 | |||||||
Electorate: 10,032 Valid: 6,593 Spoilt: 104 Quota: 1,099 Turnout: 6,697 (66.76%) |
Longford
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Joe Flaherty[c 2]† | 15.71% | 1,053 | |||||||||
Fine Gael | Peggy Nolan[c 1] | 11.06% | 741 | 763 | 765 | 776 | 779 | 796 | 808 | 841 | ||
Fine Gael | Gerry Hagan[c 2] | 10.89% | 730 | 748 | 749 | 753 | 755 | 788 | 824 | 833 | 842 | |
Fine Gael | John Browne[c 1] | 10.33% | 692 | 706 | 707 | 712 | 715 | 746 | 767 | 813 | 854 | |
Independent | Gerry Warnock[c 1] | 9.83% | 659 | 689 | 693 | 701 | 722 | 736 | 756 | 778 | 899 | |
Fianna Fáil | Seamus Butler[c 1] | 9.79% | 656 | 700 | 702 | 705 | 708 | 718 | 737 | 779 | 792 | |
Fianna Fáil | Martin Monaghan | 8.60% | 576 | 609 | 613 | 627 | 634 | 645 | 695 | 736 | 781 | |
Independent | Mae Sexton[c 1] | 7.07% | 474 | 484 | 484 | 488 | 493 | 496 | 510 | 528 | 586 | |
Sinn Féin | Tena Keown | 5.31% | 356 | 369 | 383 | 390 | 411 | 411 | 418 | 437 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Uruemu Adejinmi | 3.70% | 248 | 265 | 268 | 269 | 279 | 284 | 292 | |||
Independent | Seamus Gallagher | 2.33% | 156 | 161 | 163 | 174 | 184 | 201 | ||||
Fine Gael | Gerard Cooney | 1.98% | 133 | 137 | 138 | 147 | 149 | |||||
People Before Profit | Barbara Smyth | 1.43% | 96 | 97 | 99 | 106 | ||||||
Independent | Tony Reilly | 1.33% | 89 | 91 | 92 | |||||||
Independent | Julie O'Reilly | 0.42% | 28 | 29 | ||||||||
Independent | George Breaden | 0.21% | 14 | 15 | ||||||||
Electorate: 12,356 Valid: 6,701 Spoilt: 112 Quota: 838 Turnout: 6,813 (55.14%) |
Results by gender
2019 Longford County Council election[7][8] Candidates by gender | ||||
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Gender | Number of candidates |
% of candidates |
Elected councillors |
% of councillors |
Men | 29 | 74.4% | 17 | 94.4% |
Women | 10 | 25.6% | 1 | 5.6% |
TOTAL | 39 | 18 |
Changes Since 2019 Local Elections
- †Longford Fianna Fáil Cllr Joe Flaherty was elected as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Longford–Westmeath at the 2020 general election.[9] Remu Adejinmi was co-opted to fill the vacancy.[10]
- ††Granard Fine Gael Cllr Micheál Carrigy was elected to the Seanad in April 2020 on the Industrial and Commercial Panel.[11] Colin Dalton was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 16 May 2020.[12]
Footnotes
Sources
- "Longford County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 14 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- "Results 2019". Longford County Council. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 147–150. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
References
- ^ Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 1 (13 June 2018). "Report 2018" (PDF). Government Publications. pp. 72–75, 154. ISBN 978-1-4064-2990-9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ Phelan, John Paul (19 December 2018). "S.I. No. 625/2018 — County of Longford Local Electoral Areas Order 2018". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ "Local Election 2019: Results Timeline ....as it happened". Longford County Council. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ "Local Election 2019 — Ballymahon LEA". Longford County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ "Local Election 2019 — Granard LEA". Longford County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ "Local Election 2019 — Longford LEA". Longford County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ "Longford County Council: Four days of counting finally produces results". The Irish Times. Dublin. 27 May 2019 [25 May 2019]. Archived from the original on 15 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 247.
- ^ Keena, Colm (10 February 2020). "Election 2020: Joe Flaherty (Fianna Fáil) Longford-Westmeath – Elected 10th count". The Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ Cosgrove, Liam (9 March 2020). "History is made as Uruemu Adejinmi is co-opted onto Longford County Council". Longford Leader. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020.
- ^ O'Halloran, Marie (4 April 2020). "Seanad election results: Full list of Senators voted in to new Seanad". Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
- ^ Walsh, Alan (16 May 2020). "Fine Gael seat stays in Ballinalee as Colin Dalton elected to replace Senator Micheál Carrigy on Longford County Council". Longford Leader. Archived from the original on 31 May 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2021.