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The 1960 Cork Corporation election took place on 29 June as part of that year's local election to elect all 21 seats on Cork City Council. This was the last time the entire county borough of Cork formed a single electoral area. The election was conducted by means of the single transferable vote. There were 72 candidates. The count began on 30 June and concluded in the early hours of 3 July after 63 counts.^[1]

Electoral law at the time of the election empowered the Minister for Local Government to split county boroughs into multiple borough electoral areas only if the council requested, which Cork City Council had not done. The Electoral Act 1963 allowed the minister to act unilaterally.^[2] After the 1965 boundary extension, the borough was divided into 6 borough electoral districts.^[3]

At the 1967 local elections, the larger parties increased their proportion of seats.^[4]

Results

Poll details
Registered electors	45,775
Valid votes	22,024
Quota for election	1,002

Summary by party^[1]^[4]
Party	Abbrev	Cands	1st-pref vote	Seats	Change	Notes
Fianna Fáil	FF	16	^{[o 1]}6,732	7	−1
Fine Gael	FG	9	^{[o 2]}3,615	3	0
Labour	Lab	9	3,495	3	−1
Corporation Tenants Association	Ten	6	1,810	2	+2
Ratepayers' Association	RP	7	1,734	2	+2
T.E.A.M.	TEAM	8	1,278	1	+1	"The Emigration Action Movement", a new local group, which merged with Labour by the 1967 election
Cork Civic Party	Civ	8	1,259	1	−1	The party dissolved in 1966 after the 1965 LEA changes.^[5]
Poblacht Chríostúil	PCh	3	209	0	0	Candidates' names were in Irish on the ballot paper.
Sinn Féin	SF	0	0	0	−2	Did not contest the election in Cork.
Independents	Ind	6	1,892	2	0

The first six candidates elected gained the honorific title alderman; the other 15 were "councillors".^[1] Seán McCarthy, John Bermingham and Gus Healy were also elected to Cork County Council from the Cork Rural LEA which bordered the city.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Results by candidate^[1]^[6]^[9]
Name	Party	1st-pref vote	Order elected
Stephen D. Barrett^{[o 3]}	FG	1650	1
John Galvin^{[o 3]}	FF	1486	2
John W. Reidy^{[o 3]}	Ind	1348	3
Seán Casey^{[o 3]}	Lab	1229	4
Sam Allen^{[o 3]}	FF	973	5
Josephine Joyce	RP	774	6
Thomas Pearse Leahy	TEAM	690	7
Anthony Barry^{[o 3]}	FG	339	8
Gus Healy^{[o 3]}	FF	582	9
John Bermingham^{[o 3]}	FG	474	10
Jane Dowdall^{[o 3]}	FF	535	11
James Hickey^{[o 3]}	Lab	553	12
William Kenneally	Ten	531	13
Dan Cronin^{[o 3]}	FF	534	14
Seán McCarthy^{[o 3]}	FF	350	15
Valentine Jago^{[o 3]}	Civ	257	16
J. Barrett	Ten	335	17
J. F. Lucey^{[o 3]}	Ind	335	18
Pearse Wyse	FF	348	19
E. P. Stanley	RP	216	20
Cornelius Desmond^{[o 3]}	Lab	306	21
P. J. O'Donovan	FF	354
C. Burns	Ten	334
D. P. Kelleher^{[o 3]}	FF	333
J. O'Gorman^{[o 3]}	FF	303
John F. O'Dwyer	FG	289
J. Harrington	Lab	285
Con Connolly	Lab	274
Vincent O'Connell	FG	270
G. McCarthy	Ten	265
P. Madden	TEAM	249
T. Power	Ten	247
H. Reid	Lab	242
P. McCarthy	Lab	240
A. Aherne	FF	240
T. Jones	Civ	234
D. Breen	Civ	232
R. G. Sutton	FG	227
M. McMullen	Lab	214
Walter Furlong^{[o 3]}	Civ	210
C. D. Dowman	RP	206
K. Collins	RP	192
J. J. O'Riordan	FF	182
J. J. Kelly	FG	169
M. Mullins	FF	163
J. Quirke	FF	161
Richard Anthony^{[o 3]}	Lab	152
R. Stokes	RP	144
L. Neville	FG	126
C. O'Callaghan	RP	115
Sylvester Cotter	PCh	111
D. Martell	FF	103
J. McCarthy	Ten	98
D. P. Long	TEAM	97
T. O'Sullivan	Ind	95
D. Beavan	Civ	88
C. Cooke	RP	87
M. Donegan	Civ	86
Fred Geaney	FF	85
Maurice O'Connell	Ind	84
R. L. Anthony	Civ	83
S. D. Ó Dubhghaill	PCh	76
F. M. Dooley	FG	71
Frank Mockler	Civ	69
J. J. O'Connell	TEAM	58
P. O'Brien	TEAM	52
W. Murphy	TEAM	52
R. Longfield	TEAM	46
D. O'Leary	TEAM	34
P. Ó hAngusa	PCh	22
James McCarthy	Ind	21
J. Bruton	Ind	9

^ Erroneous total of 6,730 in source.^[4]
^ Erroneous total of 3,595 in source.^[4]
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Outgoing councillor

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Marathon Election Ends In Early Hours". Cork Examiner. 4 July 1960. p. 7.
^ Electoral Act 1963, s. 87: Electoral areas in certain county and other boroughs (No. 19 of 1963, s. 87). Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 18 March 2016.
^ Cork County Borough Electoral Areas Order 1965 (S.I. No. 249 of 1965). Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 18 March 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Moran, John (1972). "Local Elections in Cork City (1929-1967)" (PDF). Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society: 124–133: 131–133. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
^ "Cork Civic Party ceases". The Irish Times. 4 February 1966. p. 8.
^ ^a ^b "Results Of Local Elections". Cork Examiner. 1 July 1960. p. 12.
^ "Cork County Council: (Cork Rural) 1960 Local Election". electionsireland.com. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
^ "Valley Rovers Official Website". sportsmanager.ie. Retrieved 6 January 2020. Sean McCarthy ... was also a Member of Cork County Council for 20 years, and of Cork Corporation for 22 years
^ "Election To County and Urban Councils". Cork Examiner. 1 July 1960. p. 7. "Only One Elected In Fourteen-Hour Count In Cork". Cork Examiner. 2 July 1960. p. 11.