2019 Roscommon County Council election
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All 18 seats on Roscommon County Council 10 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to all 18 seats on Roscommon County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Roscommon 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). Only three political parties (Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin) fielded candidates in County Roscommon, the fewest of any local government area in the 2019 local elections.
Boundary review[edit]
Following the recommendations of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, no changes were made to the LEAs used at the 2014 Roscommon County Council election.[1][2]
Results by party[edit]
| Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 6 |  2
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10,129 | 33.13 | 1.40
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| Fine Gael | 2 | 1
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4,961 | 16.23 | 6.19
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| Sinn Féin | 1 | 
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2,273 | 7.43 | 0.68
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| Independent | 9 |  3
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13,209 | 43.21 | 10.15
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| Total | 18 |
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30,572 | 100.0 | ||
Results by local electoral area[edit]
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.
Athlone[edit]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Independent | Tony Ward[*] | 18.86% | 1,864 | |||||||
| Independent | Ivan Connaughton[*][a] | 16.10% | 1,591 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | John Naughten[*] | 14.82% | 1,465 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Keogh[*] | 10.22% | 1,010 | 1,096 | 1,102 | 1,120 | 1,197 | 1,262 | 1,483 | |
| Independent | Donal Kilduff | 8.89% | 879 | 955 | 972 | 1,002 | 1,098 | 1,134 | 1,264 | |
| Independent | Laurence Fallon[*] | 8.25% | 815 | 926 | 941 | 1,021 | 1,063 | 1,159 | 1,307 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Seamus Kelly | 7.12% | 704 | 734 | 737 | 750 | 768 | 935 | 1,058 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Malachy Hand | 6.71% | 663 | 752 | 756 | 780 | 804 | 846 | ||
| Fine Gael | Ger Grehan | 4.52% | 447 | 469 | 471 | 479 | 496 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Joe Harney | 3.83% | 379 | 405 | 410 | 416 | ||||
| Independent | Derek McCabe | 0.67% | 66 | 76 | ||||||
| Electorate: 15,168 Valid: 9,883 Spoilt: 138 Quota: 1,412 Turnout: 10,021 (66.07%) | ||||||||||
Boyle[edit]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Cummins[*] | 20.50% | 2,124 | |||||||
| Independent | Valerie Byrne[*] | 15.84% | 1,641 | |||||||
| Sinn Féin | Michael Patrick Mulligan[*] | 13.81% | 1,431 | 1,477 | 1,489 | |||||
| Independent | Tom Crosby | 9.82% | 1,017 | 1,054 | 1,082 | 1,109 | 1,139 | 1,243 | 1,421 | |
| Fine Gael | Liam Callaghan[†] | 9.65% | 1,000 | 1,066 | 1,103 | 1,114 | 1,286 | 1,372 | 1,526 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Joe Murphy[†] | 7.75% | 803 | 937 | 965 | 970 | 1,076 | 1,113 | 1,228 | |
| Fine Gael | Keith Suffin | 6.00% | 622 | 843 | 851 | 870 | 897 | 955 | 1,076 | |
| Fine Gael | Andrew Reynolds | 5.64% | 584 | 616 | 643 | 652 | 665 | 703 | ||
| Independent | Sajjad (Saj) Hussain | 5.09% | 527 | 552 | 562 | 592 | 643 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Aidan Sampey | 4.74% | 491 | 554 | 556 | 561 | ||||
| Independent | Mary O'Donnell | 1.15% | 119 | 137 | 148 | |||||
| Electorate: 18,037 Valid: 10,359 Spoilt: 201 Quota: 1,480 Turnout: 10,560 (58.55%) | ||||||||||
Roscommon[edit]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Paschal Fitzmaurice[*] | 18.99% | 1,962 | |||||
| Independent | Kathleen Shanagher[*] | 14.13% | 1,460 | 1,469 | 1,482 | |||
| Independent | Anthony (Tony) Waldron | 12.90% | 1,333 | 1,426 | 1,493 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Orla Leyden[*] | 11.61% | 1,199 | 1,241 | 1,247 | 1,287 | 1,469 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Marty McDermott | 11.36% | 1,173 | 1,195 | 1,203 | 1,234 | 1,394 | |
| Independent | Nigel Dineen [*] | 9.70% | 1,002 | 1,159 | 1,203 | 1,414 | 1,542 | |
| Fine Gael | Gerry Coffey | 8.16% | 843 | 892 | 934 | 978 | 1,074 | |
| Independent | Domnick Connolly | 6.14% | 634 | 647 | 673 | 726 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Séamus O'Brien | 4.48% | 463 | 534 | 585 | |||
| Independent | Padraig Morris | 1.79% | 185 | 210 | ||||
| Independent | John Groarke | 0.74% | 76 | 81 | ||||
| Electorate: 17,450 Valid: 10,330 Spoilt: 165 Quota: 1,476 Turnout: 10,495 (60.14%) | ||||||||
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ See change below.
Results by gender[edit]
| 2019 Roscommon County Council election[6][7] Candidates by gender | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
Changes after 2019[edit]
Changes in affiliation[edit]
| Name | Electoral area | Elected as | New affiliation | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigel Dineen | Roscommon | Independent | Independent Ireland | March 2024 | ||
Co-option[edit]
| Party | Outgoing | Electoral area | Reason | Date | Co-optee | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Ivan Connaughton | Athlone | Resignation | April 2021 | Emer Kelly | |
Sources[edit]
- "Roscommon County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 14 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- "LE19: Live tallies and results from the Roscommon Count Centre". Shannonside FM. 26 May 2019. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
References[edit]
- ^ Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 1 (13 June 2018). Report 2018 (PDF). Government Publications. pp. 96–99, 160. 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) - ^ County of Roscommon Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 (S.I. No. 631 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 2 February 2019. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 8 May 2019.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 181.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 182.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 183.
- ^ "Roscommon County Council: Independents dominate throughout county". The Irish Times. Dublin. 27 May 2019 [25 May 2019]. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 247.