2019 Monaghan County Council election

2019 Monaghan County Council election
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All 18 seats on Monaghan County Council
10 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Sinn Féin Fine Gael Fianna Fáil
Seats won 6 5 4
Seat change Decrease 1 Steady Steady
  Fourth party
 
Party Independent
Seats won 3
Seat change Increase 1
Results by local electoral area

An election to all 18 seats on Monaghan County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Monaghan was divided into 3 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

Following the recommendations of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, the boundaries to the LEAs used in the 2014 elections were adjusted with the move of one seat from Ballybay–Clones LEA to Monaghan LEA.[1][2]

Overview

Bucking a trend elsewhere Sinn Féin slightly increased their vote in County Monaghan. However this did not prevent the party from losing a seat in the Carrickmacross–Castleblayney LEA but Sinn Féin would still remain the largest party. The Sinn Féin loss was to former Carrickmacross town councillor, Mary Kerr-Conlon. However the Fine Gael vote in County Monaghan fell by over 5%, a consequence of Hugh McElvaney retaining his seat in Ballybay-Clones as an Independent.

Results by party

Party Seats ± 1st pref FPv% ±%
Sinn Féin 6 Decrease1 9,238 34.38 Increase0.09
Fine Gael 5 Steady 6,568 24.44 Decrease5.23
Fianna Fáil 4 Steady 6,609 24.60 Increase0.90
Green 0 Steady 676 2.52 Increase2.12
Aontú 0 Steady 354 1.32 New
Independent 3 Increase 1 3,425 12.75 Increase1.69
Total 18 Steady 26,870 100.00 Steady

Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.

Ballybay–Clones

Ballybay–Clones: 5 seats[3]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3
Fianna Fáil Séamus Coyle[*] 28.57% 2,346    
Sinn Féin Pat Treanor[*] 17.40% 1,429    
Fine Gael Richard John Truell[†] 15.89% 1,305 1,525  
Fine Gael Séan Gilliland[†] 14.42% 1,184 1,412  
Independent Hugh McElvaney[*] 13.87% 1,139 1,357 1,419
Sinn Féin Rosie Smyth O'Harte 9.84% 808 1,119 1,213
Electorate: 14,767   Valid: 8,211   Spoilt: 168   Quota: 1,369   Turnout: 8,379 (57%)  

Carrickmacross–Castleblayney

Carrickmacross–Castleblayney: 6 seats[4]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Sinn Féin Colm Carthy[†] 14.60% 1,401            
Sinn Féin Noel Keelan[*] 14.34% 1,376            
Fine Gael Aidan Campbell[*] 14.22% 1,364 1,365 1,401        
Fianna Fáil P.J. O'Hanlon[*] 14.03% 1,346 1,350 1,372        
Sinn Féin Jackie Crowe[*] 9.87% 947 961 1,005 1,108 1,129 1,173  
Fine Gael Mary Kerr-Conlon 7.84% 752 755 796 813 1,024 1,237 1,247
Fianna Fáil Aoife McCooey 7.66% 735 736 765 868 905 1,192 1,197
Fianna Fáil Rory Owen McEvoy 6.42% 616 620 642 677 748    
Fine Gael Patrick Cassidy 4.28% 411 412 432 441      
Aontú James Duffy 3.69% 354 354 378        
Green Conan Connolly 3.03% 291 293          
Electorate: 17,286   Valid: 9,593   Spoilt: 192   Quota: 1,371   Turnout: 9,785 (57%)  

Monaghan

Monaghan: 7 seats[5]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Sinn Féin Cathy Bennett[*] 14.24% 1,291                    
Independent Seamus Treanor[*] 12.71% 1,152                    
Fianna Fáil Raymond Aughey[†] 12.03% 1,091 1,107 1,109 1,116 1,131 1,151          
Sinn Féin Brian McKenna[*] 9.91% 898 951 953 954 967 977 1,003 1,004 1,033 1,146  
Fine Gael David Maxwell[*] 9.39% 851 854 855 855 856 868 942 944 987 1,003 1,281
Independent Paudge Connolly[*] 8.10% 734 747 751 757 770 816 839 840 922 990 1,082
Sinn Féin Seán Conlon[*] 7.49% 679 711 713 718 753 783 795 798 844 1,018 1,074
Fianna Fáil Emer Brennan 5.24% 475 483 484 487 491 506 531 536 602 623 673
Fine Gael Barra Flynn 4.80% 435 439 440 444 449 462 524 526 589 595  
Sinn Féin Catriona Moen 4.51% 409 420 421 421 432 441 456 456 480    
Green Mícheál Callaghan 4.25% 385 392 393 397 417 428 445 446      
Fine Gael Fiona McCaffrey Jones 2.93% 266 269 269 271 272 280          
Independent Thomas Hagan 2.04% 185 188 190 203 225            
Independent Alvin McGlone 1.69% 153 153 157 163              
Independent Paddy Grenham 0.44% 40 40 40                
Independent James Mee 0.24% 22 23 23                
Electorate: 18,421   Valid: 9,066   Spoilt: 206   Quota: 1,134   Turnout: 9,272 (50%)  

Results by gender

2019 Monaghan County Council election[6][7]
Candidates by gender
Gender Number of
candidates 		% of
candidates 		Elected
councillors 		% of
councillors
Men 26 78.8% 15 83.3%
Women 7 21.2% 3 16.7%
TOTAL 33   18  

References

Sources

  • "Monaghan County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 14 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  • "2019 Local Elections County Monaghan Final Results". Monaghan County Council. 27 May 2019. Archived from the original on 2 June 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  • "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 174–177. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.

Citations

  1. ^ Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 1 (13 June 2018). Report 2018 (PDF). Government Publications. pp. 88–91, 158. ISBN 978-1-4064-2990-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2019.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ County of Monaghan Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 (S.I. No. 629 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 3 February 2019. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 8 May 2019.
  3. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 174.
  4. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 175.
  5. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 176.
  6. ^ McArdle, Patsy (27 May 2019) [25 May 2019]. "Monaghan County Council: 'Take your monkey off my back' McElvaney tells RTÉ". The Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 16 June 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  7. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 247.