2019 Louth County Council election
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A Louth County Council election was held in County Louth in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. All 29 councillors were elected for a five-year term of office from 5 local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote.
The 2018 LEA boundary review committee altered the divisions used in the 2014 elections by splitting the ten-seat Drogheda Borough District into two LEAs. Its terms of reference required no change in the total number of councillors but set a lower maximum LEA size of seven councillors. Other LEA seat allocations were unchanged but boundary adjustments were necessitated by population shifts revealed by the 2016 census.[1] The changes were enacted by statutory instrument (S.I.) No. 626/2018[2] and tweaked by S.I. No. 6/2019.[3]
Following the elections Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil emerged as the joint largest party with 7 seats. Sinn Féin lost 1 seat in Dundalk and 2 in Drogheda. Fianna Fáil gained a seat from Sinn Féin and also from the Green Party in Dundalk. Accounting for the defection of Kevin Callan after 2014, Fine Gael returned with 5 seats, a loss of 2 seats overall. The Labour Party increased their numbers by 1 seat to 3 by gaining another seat in Drogheda.
Kevin Callan won a seat in each of the 2 Drogheda LEAs. He will now have to decide which one he wishes to represent. The casual vacancy was filled at a meeting of the full Council on 17 June 2019 by Declan Power, who had run for Fianna Fáil in 2019 but who had since quit the party.
Results by party
Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
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Sinn Féin | 7 | ![]() |
10,651 | 24.10 | ![]() | |
Fianna Fáil | 7 | ![]() |
8,624 | 19.51 | ![]() | |
Fine Gael | 5 | ![]() |
8,891 | 20.12 | ![]() | |
Labour | 3 | ![]() |
3,501 | 7.92 | ![]() | |
Green | 1 | ![]() |
2,829 | 6.40 | ![]() | |
Renua | 0 | ![]() |
1,463 | 3.31 | New | |
Direct Democracy | 0 | ![]() |
142 | 0.32 | ![]() | |
United People | 0 | ![]() |
134 | 0.30 | New | |
People Before Profit | 0 | ![]() |
101 | 0.23 | ![]() | |
Independent | 6 | ![]() |
7,854 | 17.77 | ![]() | |
Totals | 29 | ![]() |
44,190 | 100% | ![]() |
Results by local electoral area
Ardee
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Fine Gael | Dolores Minogue[c 1] | 15.28% | 1,404 | |||||||||
Fine Gael | Colm Markey[c 1]††††††† | 15.11% | 1,388 | |||||||||
Sinn Féin | Pearse McGeough[c 1] | 10.96% | 1,007 | 1,011 | 1,018 | 1,040 | 1,055 | 1,113 | 1,411 | |||
Independent | Jim Tenanty[c 1] | 10.40% | 955 | 978 | 983 | 1,048 | 1,178 | 1,295 | 1,396 | |||
Fianna Fáil | John Sheridan | 9.47% | 870 | 877 | 887 | 902 | 933 | 976 | 996 | 1,114 | 1,131 | |
Independent | Hugh D. Conlon | 8.35% | 767 | 771 | 786 | 825 | 842 | 911 | 928 | 1,054 | 1,099 | |
Fianna Fáil | Fintan Malone | 7.07% | 649 | 661 | 664 | 685 | 757 | 808 | 851 | 917 | 949 | |
Green | Seán Connolly | 5.54% | 509 | 514 | 519 | 557 | 577 | 635 | 652 | |||
Sinn Féin | Brendan McKenna | 5.36% | 492 | 500 | 501 | 515 | 553 | 576 | ||||
Independent | Kevin Carroll | 4.57% | 420 | 426 | 428 | 483 | 512 | |||||
Fine Gael | Finnan McCoy | 4.42% | 406 | 423 | 448 | 464 | ||||||
Independent | Albert D. Byrne | 2.07% | 190 | 192 | 194 | |||||||
Independent | Enda Murray | 1.40% | 129 | 132 | ||||||||
Electorate: 20,007 Valid: 9,186 Spoilt: 281 Quota: 1,313 Turnout: 9,467 (47.32%) |
Drogheda Rural
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Fine Gael | Oliver Tully[c 1]†† | 16.62% | 965 | 971 | 1,005 | 1,060 | 1,173 | |||
Labour | Michelle Hall | 16.60% | 964 | 977 | 1,000 | 1,035 | 1,095 | 1,097 | 1,214 | |
Independent | Kevin Callan[c 1]† | 15.43% | 896 | 912 | 937 | 1,048 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Tom Cunningham[c 1] | 11.42% | 663 | 672 | 708 | 730 | 765 | 765 | 1,113 | |
Sinn Féin | Leanne Saurin | 10.38% | 603 | 616 | 628 | 651 | 689 | 690 | ||
Renua | Eamon Sweeney | 9.78% | 568 | 579 | 591 | 620 | 727 | 732 | 787 | |
Fianna Fáil | Richard Cooney | 8.21% | 477 | 479 | 561 | 585 | ||||
Independent | Frank Godfrey[c 1] | 5.46% | 317 | 323 | 343 | |||||
Fianna Fáil | Declan Power | 4.46% | 259 | 261 | ||||||
United People | Jeffrey Rudd | 0.88% | 51 | |||||||
Direct Democracy | Patrick Greene | 0.77% | 45 | |||||||
Electorate: 13,070 Valid: 5,808 Spoilt: 123 Quota: 1,162 Turnout: 5,931 (45.62%) |
Drogheda Urban
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||
Labour | Paul Bell[c 1]†††††† | 14.76% | 1,292 | |||||||||||
Labour | Pio Smith[c 1] | 14.22% | 1,245 | 1,255 | ||||||||||
Sinn Féin | Joanna Byrne[c 2] | 10.54% | 923 | 927 | 939 | 959 | 975 | 1,109 | 1,129 | 1,372 | ||||
Independent | Kevin Callan[c 1] | 10.25% | 897 | 902 | 905 | 913 | 936 | 951 | 996 | 1,012 | 1,030 | 1,124 | 1,292 | |
Fianna Fáil | James Byrne | 9.10% | 797 | 801 | 804 | 804 | 807 | 816 | 838 | 848 | 853 | 1,076 | 1,251 | |
Independent | Paddy McQuillan | 8.78% | 769 | 774 | 793 | 819 | 858 | 875 | 907 | 943 | 993 | 1,035 | 1,086 | |
Fine Gael | Richie Culhane[c 1] | 6.64% | 581 | 583 | 585 | 587 | 593 | 596 | 623 | 629 | 634 | 671 | ||
Independent | Frank Godfrey[c 1] | 5.92% | 518 | 523 | 525 | 527 | 551 | 560 | 646 | 664 | 681 | 772 | 881 | |
Fianna Fáil | Anthony Moore | 5.78% | 506 | 507 | 510 | 511 | 521 | 524 | 577 | 586 | 589 | |||
Renua | Michael O'Dowd | 3.45% | 302 | 304 | 309 | 314 | 354 | 359 | ||||||
Sinn Féin | David Saurin[c 2] | 3.19% | 279 | 280 | 290 | 295 | 303 | 367 | 373 | |||||
Sinn Féin | Kenneth Flood[c 1] | 2.98% | 261 | 262 | 265 | 271 | 278 | |||||||
Renua | Maria McCabe | 1.19% | 104 | 105 | 107 | 111 | ||||||||
People Before Profit | Angus Macdonald | 1.15% | 101 | 101 | 101 | |||||||||
Direct Democracy | Christopher Faulkner | 1.11% | 97 | 97 | 108 | 117 | ||||||||
United People | Jeffrey Rudd | 0.95% | 83 | 83 | ||||||||||
Electorate: 20,424 Valid: 8,755 Spoilt: 241 Quota: 1,251 Turnout: 8,496 (44.05%) |
Dundalk–Carlingford
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Antóin Watters[c 2] | 16.48% | 1,563 | ||||||
Fine Gael | John McGahon[c 1]†††† | 14.31% | 1,357 | ||||||
Fianna Fáil | Erin McGreehan††††† | 12.14% | 1,151 | 1,216 | 1,222 | 1,237 | 1,535 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Seán Kelly | 11.30% | 1,072 | 1,077 | 1,157 | 1,216 | 1,297 | 1,361 | |
Fianna Fáil | Conor Keelan[c 1] | 10.66% | 1,011 | 1,015 | 1,052 | 1,089 | 1,221 | 1,279 | |
Sinn Féin | Edel Corrigan[c 1] | 9.82% | 931 | 1,005 | 1,588 | ||||
Green | Eoin Daly | 8.68% | 823 | 834 | 875 | 976 | 1,112 | 1,180 | |
Fine Gael | Roisin Duffy | 8.53% | 809 | 823 | 832 | 844 | |||
Sinn Féin | Eugene Garvey | 8.09% | 767 | 802 | |||||
Electorate: 20,308 Valid: 9,484 Spoilt: 254 Quota: 1,355 Turnout: 9,738 (48.55%) |
Dundalk South
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Independent | Maeve Yore[c 1] | 15.52% | 1,701 | |||||||||
Green | Marianne Butler[c 1] | 13.66% | 1,497 | |||||||||
Sinn Féin | Ruairí Ó Murchú[c 2]††† | 12.99% | 1,423 | |||||||||
Fine Gael | Maria Doyle[c 1] | 12.28% | 1,346 | 1,409 | ||||||||
Sinn Féin | Tomás Sharkey[c 1] | 10.37% | 1,136 | 1,185 | 1,201 | 1,264 | 1,289 | 1,333 | 1,336 | 1,825 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Liam Reilly[c 1] | 9.87% | 1,082 | 1,131 | 1,142 | 1,155 | 1,157 | 1,229 | 1,233 | 1,262 | 1,300 | |
Fianna Fáil | Emma Coffey[c 2] | 6.84% | 750 | 805 | 836 | 885 | 888 | 1,006 | 1,021 | 1,098 | 1,181 | |
Fine Gael | Linus English | 5.80% | 635 | 660 | 679 | 701 | 702 | 778 | 792 | 806 | 832 | |
Sinn Féin | Anne Campbell[c 2] | 5.50% | 603 | 621 | 638 | 674 | 695 | 755 | 758 | |||
Renua | Niamh Boyle | 4.46% | 489 | 524 | 544 | 602 | 603 | |||||
Independent | Oliver Morgan | 2.69% | 295 | 332 | 345 | |||||||
Electorate: 23,841 Valid: 10,957 Spoilt: 267 Quota: 1,370 Turnout: 11,224 (47.08%) |
Results by gender
2019 Louth County Council election[9][10] Candidates by gender | ||||
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Gender | Number of candidates |
% of candidates |
Elected councillors |
% of councillors |
Men | 46 | 76.7% | 20 | 69.0% |
Women | 14 | 23.3% | 9 | 31.0% |
TOTAL | 60 | 29 |
Changes Since 2019
- † Drogheda Rural Independent Cllr Kevin Callan resigned his seat on 17 June 2019 as he had been elected for both LEAs. Former Fianna Fáil candidate, Declan Power, was co-opted to fill the vacancy.[11]
- †† Drogheda Rural Fine Gael Cllr Oliver Tully died on 9 July 2019.[12] On 16 September 2019 his widow Eileen Tully was co-opted to fill the vacancy.[13][14]
- ††† Dundalk South Sinn Féin Cllr Ruairí Ó Murchú was elected as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth at the 2020 general election. Former Cllr Kevin Meenan was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 24 February 2020.[15]
- †††† Dundalk-Carlingford Fine Gael Cllr John McGahon was elected to the Seanad on the Cultural and Educational Panel on 31 March 2020.[16][17] John Reilly was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 20 July 2020.[18][19]
- ††††† Dundalk-Carlingford Fianna Fáil Cllr Erin McGreehan was nominated by the Taoiseach to the Seanad in June 2020.[20] Andrea McKevitt was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 20 July 2020.[19]
- †††††† Drogheda Labour Cllr Paul Bell resigned his seat on 28 June 2020 upon his appointment by the Government to the Labour Court.[21] On 21 September 2020 Fiachra MacRaghnaill was co-opted to fill the vacancy.[22]
- ††††††† Ardee Fine Gael Cllr Colm Markey was co-opted as a Member of the European Parliament on 20 November 2020 following the appointment of Mairead McGuinness MEP as an EU Commissioner.[23] Paula Butterly was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 16 February 2021.[24]
Footnotes
Sources
- "Louth County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 14 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- "Local Elections Results 2019". Louth County Council. Retrieved 18 June 2019.[permanent dead link]
- "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 152–157. 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. 76–79, 155. 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. 626/2018 — County of Louth Local Electoral Areas Order 2018". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ Phelan, John Paul (17 January 2019). "S.I. No. 6/2019 — County Of Louth Local Electoral Areas And Municipal Districts (Amendment) Order 2019". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 152.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 153.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, pp. 154–155.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 156.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 157.
- ^ Wall, Martin (26 May 2019) [25 May 2019]. "Louth County Council: Fianna Fáil big winners as Sinn Féin loses three seats". The Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 15 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 247.
- ^ McCabe, Donard (17 June 2019). "Former Fianna Fáil candidate Declan Power co-opted to Louth County Council". Dundalk Democrat. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ O'Driscoll, Marc (10 July 2019). "Local councillor Oliver Tully has died". LMFM. Drogheda. Archived from the original on 11 July 2019.
- ^ "Eileen Tully co-opted to Louth County Council". LMFM. Drogheda. 1 September 2019. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ "Our people: Cllr Eileen Tully". Fine Gael. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ Doyle, Simon (25 February 2020). "Three Sinn Féin members co-opted onto Louth and Meath County Councils". LMFM. Drogheda. Archived from the original on 13 September 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Marc O'Driscoll, Marc (31 March 2020). "McGahon wins Seanad Éireann seat". LMFM. Drogheda. Archived from the original on 22 April 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ Lynch, David (15 July 2020). "John Reilly co-opted onto Louth County Council for Fine Gael". Dundalk Democrat. Dundalk. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ a b O'Connell, Ruth (20 July 2020). "Reilly and McKevitt formally co-opted onto Louth County Council". LMFM. Drogheda. Archived from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ "Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces his 11 Seanad nominees". TheJournal.ie. 27 June 2020. Archived from the original on 30 June 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
- ^ "Paul Bell appointed to Labour Court". Drogheda Life. 9 June 2020. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020.
- ^ Landy, Barry (21 September 2020). "Labour's MacRaghnaill officially co-opted to Louth County Council". LouthNow. Archived from the original on 4 October 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ "Colm Markey confirmed as MEP". European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland. 20 November 2020. Archived from the original on 5 December 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
- ^ O'Driscoll, Marc (16 February 2021). "Rural development top of agenda for Louth's newest councillor". LMFM. Drogheda. Archived from the original on 16 February 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.