2019 Longford County Council election
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All 18 seats on Longford County Council 10 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Results by Local Electoral Area |
An election to all 18 seats on Longford County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Longford was divided into 3 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
The votes were counted in St. Mary's Community Centre, Edgeworthstown. Counting began on Saturday 25 May, and ended at 9.25 p.m. 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.[1]
Boundary review
Following the recommendations of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, there was a revision to the LEAs used at the 2014 elections, with an adjustment in boundaries and the transfer of one seat from Granard to Longford LEA.[2][3]
Results by party
Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | 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 | ![]() | |
Total | 18 | ![]() | 19,932 | 100.00 |
Results by local electoral area
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.
Ballymahon
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Fine Gael | Paul Ross[*] | 18.33% | 1,217 | ||||||||
Independent | Mark Casey[*] | 14.99% | 995 | ||||||||
Fianna Fáil | Mick Cahill[*] | 11.25% | 747 | 807 | 825 | 830 | 855 | 873 | 938 | 1,024 | |
Fianna Fáil | Pat O'Toole[*] | 10.08% | 669 | 689 | 727 | 728 | 772 | 796 | 849 | 895 | |
Fine Gael | Colm Murray[*] | 9.54% | 633 | 705 | 713 | 718 | 740 | 750 | 859 | 927 | |
Fine Gael | Gerard Farrell[*] | 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[*][a] | 17.94% | 1,183 | |||||||||
Fine Gael | Paraic Brady[*] | 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[*] | 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[†][a] | 15.71% | 1,053 | |||||||||
Fine Gael | Peggy Nolan[*] | 11.06% | 741 | 763 | 765 | 776 | 779 | 796 | 808 | 841 | ||
Fine Gael | Gerry Hagan[†] | 10.89% | 730 | 748 | 749 | 753 | 755 | 788 | 824 | 833 | 842 | |
Fine Gael | John Browne[*] | 10.33% | 692 | 706 | 707 | 712 | 715 | 746 | 767 | 813 | 854 | |
Independent | Gerry Warnock[*] | 9.83% | 659 | 689 | 693 | 701 | 722 | 736 | 756 | 778 | 899 | |
Fianna Fáil | Seamus Butler[*] | 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[*] | 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%) |
Footnotes
- ^ a b See change below.
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 after 2019
Co-options
Party | Outgoing | LEA | Reason | Date | Co-optee | |
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Fianna Fáil | Joe Flaherty | Longford | Elected to the 33rd Dáil at the 2020 general election[9] | 25 February 2020 | Uruemu Adejinmi[10] | |
Fine Gael | Micheál Carrigy | Granard | Elected to the 26th Seanad at the 2020 Seanad election[11] | 16 May 2020 | Colin Dalton[12] |
Changes in affiliation
Name | LEA | Elected as | New affiliation | Date | ||
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Gerard Farrell | Ballymahon | Fine Gael | Independent | March 2024 |
References
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.
Citations
- ^ "Local Election 2019: Results Timeline ... as it happened". Longford County Council. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ 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 (PDF) from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ County of Longford Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 (S.I. No. 625 of 2018). Signed on 19 December 2018 by John Paul Phelan, Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Archived from the original on 3 February 2019. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 8 May 2019.
- ^ "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 June 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.