1991 Monaghan County Council election

1991 Monaghan County Council election
All 20 seats on Monaghan County Council
	Map showing the area of Monaghan County Council
	Council control after election ; TBD;

An election to Monaghan County Council took place on 27 June 1991 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 20 councillors were elected from four local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). This term was extended twice, first to 1998, then to 1999.^[1]^[2]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	8	-2	9,777	40.12%
	Fine Gael	7	0	7,981	32.75%
	Sinn Féin	2	0	3,396	13.94%
	Independent	3	+2	2,964	12.16%
Totals		20	0	24,367	100.00%	—

Carrickmacross - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	Bill Cotter TD*	22.4%	1,435
	Fianna Fáil	Pádraig McNally*	18.7%	1,198
	Fianna Fáil	Rosaleen O'Hanlon*	14.3%	917	965	1,024	1,087
	Fine Gael	Patrick Jones*	12.6%	808	1,031	1,041	1,092
	Independent	Peter Murphy	9.6%	615	647	653	691	698	704	802	926
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Freeman	8%	515	532	556	584	591	596	659	873
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Meegan	5.7%	367	382	403	435	440	445	509
	Sinn Féin	Brian Meegan	4.7%	303	312	316	348	353	356
	Workers' Party	Francis O'Donoghue	3.9%	249	272	272
Electorate: 9,384 Valid: 6,407 (68.28%) Spoilt: 53 Quota: 1,068 Turnout: 6,460 (68.84%)

Castleblayney- 5 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Senator Francis O'Brien*	19.1%	1,105
	Fine Gael	Arthur Carville*	18.6%	1,080
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Hughes*	15.2%	879	911	929	944	1,044
	Fine Gael	John F. Conlan*	13.4%	777	805	841	939	1,002
	Fine Gael	Adam Armstrong	12.2%	710	716	757	781	811	828	847
	Fianna Fáil	Olivia Keenan	10.3%	598	650	661	714	797	836	852
	Sinn Féin	Malachy Woods	6.4%	370	378	383	456
	Independent	Talbot Duffy	4.8%	280	292	294
Electorate: 8,853 Valid: 5,799 (65.5%) Spoilt: 59 Quota: 967 Turnout: 5,858 (65.87%)

Clones - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3
	Fianna Fáil	Jimmy Leonard TD*	25.9%	1,314
	Fine Gael	Hugh McElvaney*	18.8%	952	986	1,035
	Independent	Walter Pringle	18%	913	938	1,037
	Fine Gael	Seymour Crawford	17.9%	910	936	973
	Sinn Féin	Pat Treanor*	14.4%	732	755	832
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick McKenna*	4.7%	239	429
	Independent	Joseph Duffy	0.2%	12	13
Electorate: 7,736 Valid: 5,072 (65.56%) Spoilt: 52 Quota: 1,015 Turnout: 5,124 (66.24%)

Monaghan - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	Sinn Féin	Caoimhghin O Caolain*	16.8%	1,193
	Fianna Fáil	Patsy Treanor*	15.9%	1,127
	Fianna Fáil	Willie McKenna*	14.4%	1,019
	Fine Gael	Stephen McAree*	12.7%	899	905	921	978	1,269
	Independent	Noel Maxwell	12.4%	877	882	887	925	969
	Sinn Féin	Brian McKenna	11.3%	798	942	953	1,003	1,017
	Fianna Fáil	Matt Caulfield	7%	499	507	574	617	644
	Fine Gael	Timothy O'Hanrahan	5.8%	410	417	425	443
	Independent	Plunkett McKenna	3.8%	267	277	284
Electorate: 11,830 Valid: 7,089 (59.92%) Spoilt: 77 Quota: 1,013 Turnout: 7,166 (60.57%)

^ Local Government Act 1994, s. 20: Year of elections to all local authorities (No. 8 of 1994, s. 20). Enacted on 29 April 1994. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
^ Local Government Act 1998, s. 10: Amendment of section 20 of Act of 1994 (No. 16 of 1998, s. 10). Enacted on 29 May 1998. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.