2019 Louth County Council 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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]| Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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| Sinn Féin | 7 |  3
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10,651 | 24.10 | 7.32
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| Fianna Fáil | 7 |  2
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8,624 | 19.51 | 0.48
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| Fine Gael | 5 | 2
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8,891 | 20.12 | 0.56
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| Labour | 3 | 1
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3,501 | 7.92 | 2.95
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| Green | 1 | 1
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2,829 | 6.40 | 2.54
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| Renua | 0 | 
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1,463 | 3.31 | New | |
| Direct Democracy | 0 |
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142 | 0.32 | 1.59
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| United People | 0 |
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134 | 0.30 | New | |
| People Before Profit | 0 |
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101 | 0.23 | 0.06
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| Independent | 6 | 3
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7,854 | 17.77 | 1.27
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| Total | 29 |
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44,190 | 100.00 |
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Results by local electoral area
[edit]^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.
Ardee
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]Results by gender
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]- "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.
References
[edit]- ^ Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 1 (13 June 2018). Report 2018 (PDF). Government Publications. pp. 76–79, 155. ISBN 978-1-4064-2990-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
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- For the initial order see County of Louth Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 (S.I. No. 626 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.
- For the amending order, see County Of Louth Local Electoral Areas And Municipal Districts (Amendment) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 6 of 2019). Signed on 17 January 2019 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 16 April 2019. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 15 May 2019.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 152.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 153.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, pp. 154–155.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 156.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 157.
- ^ Wall, Martin (26 May 2019) [25 May 2019]. "Louth County Council: Fianna Fáil big winners as Sinn Féin loses three seats". The Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 15 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 247.
- ^ McCabe, Donard (17 June 2019). "Former Fianna Fáil candidate Declan Power co-opted to Louth County Council". Dundalk Democrat. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ O'Driscoll, Marc (10 July 2019). "Local councillor Oliver Tully has died". LMFM. Drogheda. Archived from the original on 11 July 2019.
- ^ "Eileen Tully co-opted to Louth County Council". LMFM. Drogheda. 1 September 2019. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ "Our people: Cllr Eileen Tully". Fine Gael. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ Doyle, Simon (25 February 2020). "Three Sinn Féin members co-opted onto Louth and Meath County Councils". LMFM. Drogheda. Archived from the original on 13 September 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ O'Halloran, Marie (4 April 2020). "Seanad election results: Full list of Senators voted in to new Seanad". The Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
- ^ Marc O'Driscoll, Marc (31 March 2020). "McGahon wins Seanad Éireann seat". LMFM. Drogheda. Archived from the original on 2 April 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ Lynch, David (15 July 2020). "John Reilly co-opted onto Louth County Council for Fine Gael". Dundalk Democrat. Dundalk. Archived from the original on 15 July 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ a b O'Connell, Ruth (20 July 2020). "Reilly and McKevitt formally co-opted onto Louth County Council". LMFM. Drogheda. Archived from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ "Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces his 11 Seanad nominees". TheJournal.ie. 27 June 2020. Archived from the original on 30 June 2020. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
- ^ "Paul Bell appointed to Labour Court". Drogheda Life. 9 June 2020. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020.
- ^ Landy, Barry (21 September 2020). "Labour's MacRaghnaill officially co-opted to Louth County Council". LouthNow. Archived from the original on 4 October 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ "Colm Markey confirmed as MEP". European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland. 20 November 2020. Archived from the original on 5 December 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
- ^ O'Driscoll, Marc (16 February 2021). "Rural development top of agenda for Louth's newest councillor". LMFM. Drogheda. Archived from the original on 16 February 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
- ^ "Cllr Fiacra Mac Raghnaill to stand down from Louth County Council". Drogheda Independent. 6 February 2023. Archived from the original on 10 March 2024.
- ^ Roddy, Margaret (21 March 2023). "New Labour councillor Emma Cutlip welcomed to Louth County Council". The Argus (Dundalk). Archived from the original on 10 March 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2024.