1979 Irish local elections
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The 1979 Irish local elections were held in all the counties, cities and towns of Ireland on Thursday, 7 June 1979, on the same day as the first direct elections to the European Parliament.
Results
[edit]Total seats
[edit]Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv%[1] | ±% | |
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Fianna Fáil | 328 | 24 | 529,909 | 39.0 | 0.8 | |
Fine Gael | 292 | 12 | 469,074 | 34.6 | 0.9 | |
Labour | 75 | 4 | 160,684 | 11.8 | 0.9 | |
Sinn Féin (Provisional)[a] | 11 | 4 | 21,273 | 1.6 | 0.2 | |
Sinn Féin The Workers' Party | 7 | 1 | 31,238 | 2.3 | 1.0 | |
Independent Fianna Fáil | 4 | 10,245 | 0.8 | 0.2 | ||
Protestant Association | 2 | 1,912 | 0.1 | 0.1 | ||
Donegal Progressive Party | 1 | 1,728 | 0.1 | New | ||
Independent Socialist Party | 1 | 1 | 675 | 0.0 | New | |
Independent | 48 | 25 | 120,166 | 8.5 | 0.5 | |
Total | 1,421,494 | 100 | — |
Counties and cities
[edit]Authority | FF | FG | Lab | SF (P) | SFWP | Other | Total | ||||||
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Carlow | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||
Cavan | 12 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 25 | ||||||||
Clare | 17 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 31 | |||||||
Cork City | 13 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 31 | |||||||
Cork County | 23 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 47 | |||||||
Donegal | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 [b] | 23 | ||||||
Dublin City | 12 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 6 [c] | 45 | |||||||
Dublin | 12 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 36 | ||||||||
Galway | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 30 | |||||||
Kerry | 14 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 26 | |||||||
Kildare | 9 | 8 | 4 | 21 | |||||||||
Kilkenny | 11 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 26 | ||||||||
Laois | 11 | 12 | 2 | 25 | |||||||||
Leitrim | 11 | 9 | 1 | 21 | |||||||||
Limerick City | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 17 | ||||||||
Limerick County | 15 | 11 | 1 | 27 | |||||||||
Longford | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 21 | ||||||||
Louth | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 26 | ||||||
Mayo | 15 | 16 | 31 | ||||||||||
Meath | 13 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 29 | ||||||||
Monaghan | 9 | 8 | 3 [d] | 20 | |||||||||
Offaly | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||
Roscommon | 12 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 26 | ||||||||
Sligo | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 24 | ||||||||
Tipperary North | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||
Tipperary South | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 26 | ||||||||
Waterford City | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 15 | |||||||
Waterford County | 9 | 11 | 1 | 21 | |||||||||
Westmeath | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 23 | ||||||||
Wexford | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 21 | ||||||||
Wicklow | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21 |
- Notes
- ^ Not a registered party.
- ^ Includes 1 member of the Donegal Progressive Party.
- ^ Five of the six non-party members of Dublin Corporation were elected as Community candidates, including Tony Gregory, Seán Dublin Bay Loftus and Carmencita Hederman.
- ^ Two of the three non-party Monaghan councillors were nominated by the Protestant Association.[2]
Boroughs
[edit]Authority | FF | FG | Lab | PSF | SFWP | Other | Total | ||||||
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Clonmel | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | ||||||||
Drogheda | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | ||||||||
Dún Laoghaire | 3 | 8 | 4 | 15 | |||||||||
Galway | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 12 | ||||||||
Kilkenny | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | ||||||||
Sligo | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | ||||||||
Wexford | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 |
References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- "1979 Local Elections". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 February 2008.
- Department of the Environment (1980). Local elections, 1979 : election results and transfer of votes in respect of each county, and county borough council : and election statistics relating to all local authorities (PDF). Official publications. Vol. Prl.9322. Dublin: Stationery Office. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
Citations
[edit]- ^ "1979 Local Election".
- ^ "Newly-elected members of the county councils". The Irish Times. 12 June 1979. Archived from the original on 13 October 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2011.