2019 Longford County Council election

2019 Longford County Council election
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All 18 seats on Longford County Council
10 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Independent
Seats won 9 6 3
Seat change Increase 1 Decrease 1 Steady
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% ±%
Fine Gael 9 Increase1 7,828 39.27 Decrease2.82
Fianna Fáil 6 Decrease 1 6,471 32.47 Increase0.57
Sinn Féin 0 Steady 912 4.58 Decrease1.97
People Before Profit 0 Steady 96 0.48 New
Independent 3 Steady 4,625 23.20 Increase3.80
Total 18 Steady 19,932 100.00

Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.

Ballymahon

Ballymahon: 6 seats[4]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
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

Granard: 5 seats[5]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
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

Longford: 7 seats[6]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
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

  1. ^ a b See change below.

Results by gender

2019 Longford County Council election[7][8]
Candidates by gender
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
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
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

  1. ^ "Local Election 2019: Results Timeline ... as it happened". Longford County Council. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  2. ^ 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Local Election 2019 — Ballymahon LEA". Longford County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Local Election 2019 — Granard LEA". Longford County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Local Election 2019 — Longford LEA". Longford County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 247.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.