2019 Louth County Council election

2019 Louth County Council election
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All 29 seats on Louth County Council
15 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Fianna Fáil Sinn Féin Fine Gael
Seats won 7 7 5
Seat change Increase 2 Decrease 3 Decrease 2
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Party Labour Green Independent
Seats won 3 1 6
Seat change Increase 1 Decrease 1 Increase 3
Results by local electoral area
Council control after election

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An election to all 29 seats on Louth County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Louth was divided into 5 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).

Boundary review

Following a recommendation of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, the local electoral areas in County Louth were altered. The committee's terms of reference required a maximum number of councillors of 7 seats, which had been breached by the 10-seat Drogheda LEA used at the 2014 Louth County Council election. There were boundary adjustments in other LEAs to reflect by population shifts revealed by the 2016 census.[1] The boundary committee recommended that Dundalk be designated a borough district. This was implemented in the initial statutory instrument, but reversed as being contrary to the terms of the Local Government Act 2001.[2]

Overview

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 chose to sit for Drogheda Urban. The casual vacancy was filled at a meeting of the 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 ± 1st pref FPv% ±%
Sinn Féin 7 Decrease3 10,651 24.10 Decrease7.32
Fianna Fáil 7 Increase2 8,624 19.51 Increase0.48
Fine Gael 5 Decrease2 8,891 20.12 Decrease0.56
Labour 3 Increase1 3,501 7.92 Increase2.95
Green 1 Decrease1 2,829 6.40 Increase2.54
Renua 0 Steady 1,463 3.31 New
Direct Democracy 0 Steady 142 0.32 Decrease1.59
United People 0 Steady 134 0.30 New
People Before Profit 0 Steady 101 0.23 Increase0.06
Independent 6 Increase3 7,854 17.77 Increase1.27
Total 29 Steady 44,190 100.00 Steady

Results by local electoral area

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

Ardee

Ardee: 6 seats[3]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Fine Gael Dolores Minogue[*] 15.28% 1,404                
Fine Gael Colm Markey[*][a] 15.11% 1,388                
Sinn Féin Pearse McGeough[*] 10.96% 1,007 1,011 1,018 1,040 1,055 1,113 1,411    
Independent Jim Tenanty[*] 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[a] 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

Drogheda Rural: 4 seats[4]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Fine Gael Oliver Tully[*][a] 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[*][a] 15.43% 896 912 937 1,048      
Sinn Féin Tom Cunningham[*] 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[*] 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

Drogheda Urban: 6 seats[5]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Labour Paul Bell[*][a] 14.76% 1,292                    
Labour Pio Smith[*] 14.22% 1,245 1,255                  
Sinn Féin Joanna Byrne[†] 10.54% 923 927 939 959 975 1,109 1,129 1,372      
Independent Kevin Callan[*] 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[*] 6.64% 581 583 585 587 593 596 623 629 634 671  
Independent Frank Godfrey[*] 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[†] 3.19% 279 280 290 295 303 367 373        
Sinn Féin Kenneth Flood[*] 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

Dundalk–Carlingford: 6 seats[6]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6
Sinn Féin Antóin Watters[†] 16.48% 1,563          
Fine Gael John McGahon[*][a] 14.31% 1,357          
Fianna Fáil Erin McGreehan[a] 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[*] 10.66% 1,011 1,015 1,052 1,089 1,221 1,279
Sinn Féin Edel Corrigan[*] 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

Dundalk South: 7 seats[7]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Independent Maeve Yore[*] 15.52% 1,701                
Green Marianne Butler[*] 13.66% 1,497                
Sinn Féin Ruairí Ó Murchú[†][a] 12.99% 1,423                
Fine Gael Maria Doyle[*] 12.28% 1,346 1,409              
Sinn Féin Tomás Sharkey[*] 10.37% 1,136 1,185 1,201 1,264 1,289 1,333 1,336 1,825  
Fianna Fáil Liam Reilly[*] 9.87% 1,082 1,131 1,142 1,155 1,157 1,229 1,233 1,262 1,300
Fianna Fáil Emma Coffey[†] 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[†] 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%)  

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h See change below.

Results by gender

2019 Louth County Council election[8][9]
Candidates by gender
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 after 2019

Party Outgoing LEA Reason Date Co-optee
Independent Kevin Callan Drogheda Rural Elected for two areas; chose to sit for Drogheda Urban June 2019 Declan Power[10]
Fine Gael Oliver Tully Drogheda Rural Death on 9 July 2019[11] 16 September 2019 Eileen Tully[12][13]
Sinn Féin Ruairí Ó Murchú Dundalk South Elected for Louth to the 33rd Dáil at the 2020 general election 24 February 2020 Kevin Meenan[14]
Fine Gael John McGahon Dundalk–Carlingford Elected for the Cultural and Educational Panel to the 26th Seanad at the 2020 Seanad election[15][16] 20 July 2020 John Reilly[17][18]
Fianna Fáil Erin McGreehan Dundalk–Carlingford Nominated by the Taoiseach to the 26th Seanad[19] 20 July 2020 Andrea McKevitt[18]
Labour Paul Bell Drogheda Urban Resigned on 28 June 2020 on his appointment to the Labour Court[20] 21 September 2020 Fiachra Mac Raghnaill[21]
Fine Gael Colm Markey Ardee Co-opted to the European Parliament[22] 16 February 2021 Paula Butterly[23]
Independent Hugh Conlon Ardee Death July 2021 Bernie Conlon
Labour Fiachra Mac Raghnaill Drogheda Urban Resigned on 6 February 2023[24] 21 March 2023 Emma Cutlip Gallagher[25]

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.

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  3. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 152.
  4. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 153.
  5. ^ DHPLG 2019, pp. 154–155.
  6. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 156.
  7. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 157.
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