2019 Sligo County Council election
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A Sligo County Council election was held in County Sligo 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 kept the two municipal districts used in the 2014 elections, while transferring one seat from Ballymote–Tubbercurry to Sligo and splitting the latter into two LEAs.[1] The changes were enacted by statutory instrument (S.I.) No. 632/2018.[2]
A total of 35 candidates contested the county's 18 seats,[3] of whom fifteen were outgoing councillors.[4] Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael each had nine candidates. Sinn Féin had three, Solidarity/People Before Profit had two, while and one each for the Labour Party, Green Party and Renua. The nine independent candidates included Declan Bree, who was County Sligo's longest serving councillor. Thirteen of the fifteen candidates who were outgoing councillors were re-elected,[4] including Bree who was first elected in to both the County Council and Sligo Borough Council.[3]
Several seats were decided by very narrow margins, and result was that Fine Gael gained three seats to become the largest party, with six seats. Fianna Fáil lost three seats, and the other group totals were unchanged.[5] The long-serving Bree was re-elected in the Sligo–Strandhill LEA.[6]
Results by party[]
Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
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Fine Gael | 6 | ![]() |
10,171 | 30.30 | ![]() | |
Fianna Fáil | 5 | ![]() |
9,599 | 28.59 | ![]() | |
Sinn Féin | 2 | ![]() |
2,752 | 8.20 | ![]() | |
People Before Profit | 1 | ![]() |
1,332 | 3.97 | ![]() | |
Inds. 4 Change | 1 | ![]() |
1,550 | 4.62 | New | |
Labour | 0 | ![]() |
470 | 1.40 | ![]() | |
Renua | 0 | ![]() |
315 | 0.94 | New | |
Green | 0 | ![]() |
175 | 0.52 | New | |
United Left | 0 | ![]() |
N/A | N/A | N/A | |
Independent | 3 | ![]() |
7,187 | 21.41 | ![]() | |
Totals | 18 | ![]() |
33,571 | 100.0 | ![]() |
Results by local electoral area[]
Ballymote–Tubbercurry[]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Paul Taylor[c 1] | 11.80% | 1,886 | 1,900 | 2,076 | ||||||||
Independent | Joe Queenan[c 1] | 10.86% | 1,737 | 1,763 | 1,773 | 1,775 | 1,806 | 1,822 | 2,158 | ||||
Independent | Michael Clarke[c 1] | 9.77% | 1,562 | 1,603 | 1,614 | 1,615 | 1,664 | 1,693 | 2,076 | ||||
Fine Gael | Gerard Mullaney | 9.53% | 1,523 | 1,551 | 1,556 | 1,557 | 1,565 | 1,635 | 1,747 | 1,798 | 1,819 | 1,853 | |
Fine Gael | Dara Mulvey[c 1] | 9.36% | 1,497 | 1,538 | 1,583 | 1,584 | 1,624 | 1,931 | 2,062 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Martin Baker[c 1] | 8.96% | 1,432 | 1,472 | 1,510 | 1,521 | 1,535 | 1,793 | 1,821 | 1,869 | 1,895 | 1,902 | |
Fine Gael | Blair Feeney | 7.54% | 1,206 | 1,219 | 1,221 | 1,221 | 1,227 | 1,241 | |||||
Independent | Willie Gormley | 6.54% | 1,046 | 1,098 | 1,175 | 1,186 | 1,455 | 1,743 | 1,786 | 1,804 | 1,821 | 1,826 | |
Fianna Fáil | Keith Henry[c 2] | 6.39% | 1,022 | 1,050 | 1,092 | 1,109 | 1,146 | ||||||
Fine Gael | Martin Connolly | 6.32% | 1,011 | 1,019 | 1,193 | 1,214 | 1,732 | 1,783 | 1,868 | 1,893 | 1,906 | 1,923 | |
Independent | Barry Gallagher | 5.93% | 948 | 998 | 1,097 | 1,109 | |||||||
Fianna Fáil | Romuald Mullarkey | 4.33% | 692 | 699 | |||||||||
Sinn Féin | Daniel Gallagher | 2.66% | 425 | ||||||||||
Electorate: 24,389 Valid: 15,989 Spoilt: 198 Quota: 1,999 Turnout: 16,187 (66.37%) |
Sligo–Drumcliff[]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Thomas Healy[c 1] | 15.11% | 1,370 | 1,402 | 1,437 | 1,610 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Dónal Gilroy | 13.87% | 1,257 | 1,279 | 1,322 | 1,435 | 1,450 | 1,534 | ||
Fine Gael | Thomas Walsh | 13.46% | 1,220 | 1,236 | 1,252 | 1,322 | 1,339 | 1,613 | ||
Independent | Marie Casserly[c 1] | 12.94% | 1,173 | 1,211 | 1,250 | 1,460 | 1,504 | 1,688 | ||
Fine Gael | Tom Fox | 11.45% | 1,038 | 1,049 | 1,060 | 1,112 | 1,116 | 1,320 | 1,375 | |
Fianna Fáil | Seamus Kilgannon[c 1] | 10.20% | 925 | 941 | 964 | 1,052 | 1,063 | 1,168 | 1,217 | |
Fine Gael | Ciara McLoughlin | 9.27% | 840 | 857 | 873 | 926 | 934 | |||
People Before Profit | Nigel Gallagher | 4.78% | 433 | 475 | 491 | |||||
Fianna Fáil | Colm McGurran | 3.66% | 332 | 333 | 348 | |||||
Independent | Amanda Gallagher | 2.84% | 257 | 267 | ||||||
Inds. 4 Change | Corey Whyte | 2.23% | 202 | |||||||
Electorate: 16,154 Valid: 9,065 Spoilt: 127 Quota: 1,511 Turnout: 9,192 (56.9%) |
Sligo–Strandhill[]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Inds. 4 Change | Declan Bree[c 1] | 15.83% | 1,348 | ||||||
Fianna Fáil | Tom Macsharry[c 1] | 12.23% | 1,042 | 1,053 | 1,125 | 1,140 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Rosaleen O'Grady[c 1] | 11.87% | 1,011 | 1,016 | 1,057 | 1,069 | 1,145 | 1,217 | |
Sinn Féin | Chris MacManus[c 2] | 11.24% | 957 | 967 | 988 | 1,012 | 1,099 | 1,167 | |
Fine Gael | Blaine Gaffney | 10.81% | 921 | 926 | 958 | 971 | 1,016 | 1,100 | |
Fine Gael | Sinead Maguire[c 1] | 10.74% | 915 | 942 | 976 | 984 | 1,022 | 1,203 | |
People Before Profit | Gino O'Boyle[c 2] | 10.56% | 899 | 925 | 944 | 976 | 1,061 | 1,164 | |
Labour | Nessa Cosgrove | 5.52% | 470 | 537 | 567 | 583 | 606 | ||
Independent | Jim McGarry | 5.45% | 464 | 470 | 495 | 506 | |||
Renua | Finbarr Filan | 3.70% | 315 | 320 | |||||
Green | Miranda O'Donnell | 2.05% | 175 | ||||||
Electorate: 16,754 Valid: 8,517 Spoilt: 133 Quota: 1,217 Turnout: 8,650 (51.63%) |
Results by gender[]
2019 Sligo County Council election[5][12] Candidates by gender | ||||
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Gender | Number of candidates |
% of candidates |
Elected councillors |
% of councillors |
Men | 29 | 87.9% | 15 | 83.3% |
Women | 4 | 12.1% | 3 | 16.7% |
TOTAL | 33 | 18 |
Footnotes[]
Sources[]
- "Sligo County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 13 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- "Count Results". Elections 2019. Sligo County Council. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 184–186. 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. 100–103, 161. 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. 632/2018 — County of Sligo Local Electoral Areas Order 2018". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ a b Deering, Paul (18 May 2019). "Thirty five candidates fighting for 18 seats Seven parties with candidates in the field along with independents across three areas". Sligo Champion. Sligo. Archived from the original on 18 May 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ a b DHPLG 2019, p. 248.
- ^ a b McDonagh, Marese (27 May 2019). "Sligo County Council results: 'Democracy has made statement,' says Joe Queenan". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
- ^ a b DHPLG 2019, p. 186.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 184.
- ^ "Local elections 2019 — Ballymote–Tubbercurry Results". sligococo.ie. Sligo County Council. Archived from the original on 21 July 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 185.
- ^ "Local elections 2019 — Sligo-Drumcliff Results". sligococo.ie. Sligo County Council. Archived from the original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ "Local elections 2019 — Sligo-Strandhill Results". sligococo.ie. Sligo County Council. Archived from the original on 18 July 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 247.
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