1999 Carlow County Council election

1999 Carlow County Council election
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All 21 seats to Carlow County Council
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour
Seats won 9 7 3
Seat change - - -1
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Party Progressive Democrats Green
Seats won 1 1
Seat change - +1
Map showing the area of Carlow County Council
Council control after election

TBD

An election to Carlow County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from five 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).

Results by party

Party Seats ± First Pref. votes FPv% ±%
Fianna Fáil 9 - 6,397 35.25
Fine Gael 7 - 5,501 30.31
Labour 3 -1 3,193 17.59
Progressive Democrats 1 - 793 4.37
Green 1 +1 658 3.63
Totals 21 - 18,149 100.00 —

Results by local electoral area

Borris

Borris - 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3
Green Mary White 21.98 582 627 700
Labour Michael Meaney* 20.73 549 584 647
Fine Gael Michael Doyle* 19.45 515 550 604
Fianna Fáil Dolores Barron 16.99 450 509 654
Fianna Fáil Siobhan Minchin 13.18 349 365  
Independent Bridie Lawlor 7.67 203    
Electorate: 4,591   Valid: 2,648 (57.68%)   Spoilt: 34   Quota: 663   Turnout: 2,682 (58.42%)  

Carlow No.1

Carlow No.1 - 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4
Fianna Fáil Jimmy Murnane* 22.78 519 537 655  
Fianna Fáil Joe McDonald 19.80 451 482 517 546
Fine Gael Declan Alcock* 16.68 380 471 556 599
Labour Des Hurley* 15.14 345 370    
Progressive Democrats Senator Jim Gibbons Jnr 14.93 340 395 457 469
Fine Gael Colette Fennelly 10.67 243      
Electorate: 4,869   Valid: 2,278 (46.79%)   Spoilt: 44   Quota: 570   Turnout: 2,322 (47.69%)  

Carlow No.2

Carlow No.2 - 5 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6
Fine Gael John Browne TD* 17.39 625          
Fine Gael Michael Abbey* 16.72 601          
Fianna Fáil M.J. Nolan TD* 14.30 514 523 565 569 624  
Progressive Democrats Walter Lacey* 12.60 453 468 508 516 622  
Fianna Fáil Rody Kelly 10.77 387 400 443 447 499 511
Labour Tony O'Sullivan 9.54 343 359 386 391    
Fianna Fáil Nicholas Carpenter* 9.10 327 348 400 404 468 480
Fianna Fáil Jennifer Murnane-O'Connor 6.12 220 232        
Independent Conor Dowling 3.45 124          
Electorate: 8,791   Valid: 3,594 (40.88%)   Spoilt: 65   Quota: 600   Turnout: 3,659 (41.62%)  

Muinebheag

Muinebheag - 5 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Labour Jim Townsend* 15.23 671 706 719 727 754    
Fianna Fáil Enda Nolan* 13.30 586 588 590 621 633 691 776
Fine Gael Denis Foley 12.48 550 552 558 578 640 677 748
Fianna Fáil Arthur McDonald* 10.92 481 483 495 540 562 634 690
Labour John Clarke 10.05 443 456 468 508 516 528 582
Fine Gael Mary McDonald* 9.01 397 405 413 417 486 537 675
Independent Martin Nevin 7.99 352 355 382 391 410 490  
Fianna Fáil Eddie Cullen 7.47 329 337 344 348 360    
Fine Gael John Hughes 5.38 237 240 243 247      
Fianna Fáil Paddy Kiely 3.95 174 176 179        
Independent John McNally 2.32 102 176 179        
Labour Liz Dunne 1.91 84            
Electorate: 8,148   Valid: 4,406 (54.07%)   Spoilt: 77   Quota: 735   Turnout: 4,483 (55.02%)  

Tullow

Tullow - 5 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Labour William Paton 18.11 842              
Fine Gael Fred Hunter* 14.54 676 684 691 712 768 915    
Fianna Fáil John Pender* 14.00 651 660 673 718 735 825    
Fine Gael Michael Deering* 13.31 619 627 639 649 690 860    
Fianna Fáil Noel Kennedy 10.71 498 502 505 516 522 531 545 564
Fianna Fáil P.J. Kavanagh 9.92 461 464 468 498 601 627 651 688
Fine Gael Pat O'Toole* 8.52 396 412 431 454 506      
Fine Gael Michael Murphy 5.64 262 263 266 298        
Independent Billy Nolan 3.61 168 188 194          
Green Danny Kelly 1.63 76              
Electorate: 8,611   Valid: 4,649 (53.99%)   Spoilt: 72   Quota: 775   Turnout: 4,721 (54.83%)