2019 Offaly County Council election
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An Offaly County Council election was held in County Offaly in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. All 19 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 made no changes to the LEAs used in the 2014 elections.[1]
Results by party[]
Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
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Fianna Fáil | 8 | ![]() |
12,423 | 39.95 | ![]() | |
Fine Gael | 4 | ![]() |
6,730 | 21.64 | ![]() | |
Renua | 1 | ![]() |
3,196 | 10.28 | New | |
Irish Democratic | 1 | ![]() |
1,054 | 3.39 | New | |
Social Democrats | 1 | ![]() |
657 | 2.11 | New | |
Green | 1 | ![]() |
584 | 1.88 | ![]() | |
Sinn Féin | 0 | ![]() |
1,423 | 4.58 | ![]() | |
Independent | 3 | ![]() |
5,028 | 16.17 | ![]() | |
Totals | 19 | ![]() |
31,095 | 100.0 |
Results by local electoral area[]
Birr[]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
Renua | John Leahy[c 1]† | 19.22% | 2,277 | ||||||||||
Fianna Fáil | Peter Ormond[c 1] | 14.60% | 1,729 | ||||||||||
Fine Gael | John Clendennen[c 1] | 11.23% | 1,330 | 1,408 | 1,417 | 1,551 | 1,580 | 1,665 | 1,676 | 1,717 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Eamon Dooley[c 1] | 9.39% | 1,112 | 1,181 | 1,183 | 1,185 | 1,247 | 1,269 | 1,275 | 1,293 | 1,439 | 1,633 | |
Independent | John Carroll[c 1] | 8.41% | 996 | 1,018 | 1,030 | 1,059 | 1,084 | 1,161 | 1,116 | 1,346 | 1,447 | 1,770 | |
Fine Gael | Hughie Egan | 7.40% | 877 | 934 | 936 | 970 | 981 | 994 | 994 | 1,004 | 1,129 | 1,156 | |
Fianna Fáil | Bernie Fanneran | 6.04% | 715 | 731 | 739 | 783 | 839 | 884 | 893 | 985 | 1,031 | ||
Social Democrats | Clare Claffey | 5.55% | 657 | 712 | 731 | 745 | 894 | 940 | 942 | 1,036 | 1,159 | 1,300 | |
Sinn Féin | Seán Maher[c 2] | 4.55% | 539 | 559 | 572 | 593 | 608 | 640 | 642 | ||||
Independent | Joe Wynne | 4.22% | 500 | 573 | 580 | 593 | 620 | 681 | 682 | 737 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Alan Kenny | 3.26% | 386 | 412 | 412 | 418 | |||||||
Fine Gael | Marian Pilkington | 2.76% | 327 | 338 | 352 | ||||||||
Renua | Monica Barnwell | 2.52% | 298 | 452 | 461 | 489 | 498 | ||||||
Independent | Habibul Mukhtiar | 0.86% | 102 | 105 | |||||||||
Electorate: 21,198 Valid: 11,845 Spoilt: 160 Quota: 1,693 Turnout: 12,005 (56.63%) |
Edenderry[]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Eddie Fitzpatrick[c 1] | 20.89% | 1,714 | |||||||
Independent | John Foley[c 1] | 17.85% | 1,464 | |||||||
Fine Gael | Liam Quinn[c 1] | 11.24% | 922 | 981 | 1,025 | 1,053 | 1,222 | |||
Fine Gael | Noel Cribbin[c 1] | 9.58% | 786 | 834 | 871 | 956 | 963 | 972 | 1,068 | |
Fianna Fáil | Robert McDermott | 8.24% | 676 | 724 | 771 | 957 | 1,187 | |||
Sinn Féin | Alan Davy | 7.28% | 597 | 629 | 664 | 690 | 718 | 727 | ||
Green | Pippa Hackett†† | 7.12% | 584 | 629 | 739 | 787 | 840 | 860 | 991 | |
Independent | Fergus McDonnell | 6.72% | 551 | 570 | 626 | 705 | 746 | 758 | 948 | |
Fianna Fáil | Christine Traynor | 5.55% | 455 | 546 | 590 | |||||
Fianna Fáil | Pat Daly | 5.53% | 454 | 567 | 573 | 648 | ||||
Electorate: 16,809 Valid: 8,203 Spoilt: 141 Quota: 1,172 Turnout: 8,344 (49.64%) |
Tullamore[]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Frank Moran[c 1] | 13.92% | 1,538 | ||||||||
Fianna Fáil | Declan Harvey[c 1] | 12.84% | 1,418 | ||||||||
Fine Gael | Neil Feighery | 11.08% | 1,224 | 1,229 | 1,240 | 1,350 | 1,352 | 1,435 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Danny Owens[c 1] | 10.70% | 1,182 | 1,219 | 1,228 | 1,263 | 1,269 | 1,346 | 1,356 | 1,472 | |
Irish Democratic | Ken Smollen | 9.54% | 1,054 | 1,089 | 1,139 | 1,194 | 1,197 | 1,301 | 1,305 | 1,428 | |
Fianna Fáil | Tony McCormack[c 2] | 9.45% | 1,044 | 1,066 | 1,081 | 1,162 | 1,175 | 1,227 | 1,230 | 1,328 | |
Independent | Sean O'Brien | 8.07% | 892 | 897 | 945 | 1,018 | 1,023 | 1,089 | 1,097 | 1,231 | |
Fine Gael | Deirdre Fox | 6.63% | 732 | 738 | 757 | 850 | 853 | 896 | 921 | 1,007 | |
Renua | Brendan Galvin | 5.62% | 621 | 624 | 644 | 674 | 677 | 728 | 732 | ||
Fine Gael | Bernard Westman | 4.82% | 532 | 537 | 552 | ||||||
Independent | John Bracken | 4.73% | 523 | 557 | 609 | 636 | 638 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Anne Marie Ennis | 2.60% | 287 | 292 | |||||||
Electorate: 21,946 Valid: 11,047 Spoilt: 161 Quota: 1,381 Turnout: 11,208 (51.07%) |
Results by gender[]
2019 Offaly County Council election[8][9] Candidates by gender | ||||
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Gender | Number of candidates |
% of candidates |
Elected councillors |
% of councillors |
Men | 28 | 77.8% | 17 | 89.5% |
Women | 8 | 22.2% | 2 | 10.5% |
TOTAL | 36 | 19 |
Changes since 2019[]
- † Birr Renua Cllr John Leahy resigned from the party on 11 June 2019 and became an Independent following the party's poor electoral performance in the 2019 local elections.[10] He has said he will retire from politics in 2021.
- †† Edenderry Green Party Cllr Pippa Hackett was elected to the Seanad on the Agricultural Panel on 1 November 2019,[11] to fill the vacancy arising from Grace O'Sullivan being elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Her husband Mark Hackett was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 19 November 2019.[12]
Footnotes[]
Sources[]
- "Offaly County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 13 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- Phelan, John Paul (19 December 2018). "S.I. No. 630/2018 — County of Offaly Local Electoral Areas Order 2018". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 178–180. 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. 91–93. ISBN 978-1-4064-2990-9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2018. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ "Local Election 24 May 2019 — Constituency of Birr LEA" (PDF). Offaly County Council. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 178.
- ^ "Local Election 24 May 2019 — Constituency of Edenderry LEA" (PDF). Offaly County Council. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 179.
- ^ "Local Election 24 May 2019 — Constituency of Tullamore LEA" (PDF). Offaly County Council. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 180.
- ^ "Offaly County Council: Big blow for Sinn Féin while Greens claim first seat". The Irish Times. Dublin. 26 May 2019 [25 May 2019]. Archived from the original on 16 June 2021.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 247.
- ^ Duffy, Rónán (11 June 2019). "Renua's leader quits the party, leaving it with no elected representatives". TheJournal.ie. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021.
- ^ Murphy, David (1 November 2019). "Green Party's Pippa Hackett elected to the Seanad Updated". RTÉ News. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ Kelly, Justin (19 November 2019). "Husband replaces wife in Offaly County Council seat". Offaly Express. Portlaoise. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021.
Categories:
- 2019 Irish local elections
- Offaly County Council elections