2019 Roscommon County Council election

2019 Roscommon County Council election
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All 18 seats on Roscommon County Council
10 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Sinn Féin
Seats won 6 2 1
Seat change Decrease 2 Decrease 1 Steady
  Fourth party
 
Party Independent
Seats won 9
Seat change Increase 3
Results by local electoral area

An election to all 18 seats on Roscommon County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Roscommon 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). Only three political parties (Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin) fielded candidates in County Roscommon, the fewest of any local government area in the 2019 local elections.

Boundary review

Following the recommendations of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, no changes were made to the LEAs used at the 2014 Roscommon County Council election.[1][2]

Results by party

Party Seats ± 1st pref FPv% ±%
Fianna Fáil 6 Decrease2 10,129 33.13 Decrease1.40
Fine Gael 2 Decrease1 4,961 16.23 Decrease6.19
Sinn Féin 1 Steady 2,273 7.43 Decrease0.68
Independent 9 Increase3 13,209 43.21 Increase10.15
Total 18 Steady 30,572 100.0

Results by local electoral area

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

Athlone

Athlone: 6 seats[3]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Independent Tony Ward[*] 18.86% 1,864            
Independent Ivan Connaughton[*][a] 16.10% 1,591            
Fine Gael John Naughten[*] 14.82% 1,465            
Fianna Fáil John Keogh[*] 10.22% 1,010 1,096 1,102 1,120 1,197 1,262 1,483
Independent Donal Kilduff 8.89% 879 955 972 1,002 1,098 1,134 1,264
Independent Laurence Fallon[*] 8.25% 815 926 941 1,021 1,063 1,159 1,307
Fianna Fáil Seamus Kelly 7.12% 704 734 737 750 768 935 1,058
Fianna Fáil Malachy Hand 6.71% 663 752 756 780 804 846  
Fine Gael Ger Grehan 4.52% 447 469 471 479 496    
Sinn Féin Joe Harney 3.83% 379 405 410 416      
Independent Derek McCabe 0.67% 66 76          
Electorate: 15,168   Valid: 9,883   Spoilt: 138   Quota: 1,412   Turnout: 10,021 (66.07%)  

Boyle

Boyle: 6 seats[4]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Fianna Fáil John Cummins[*] 20.50% 2,124            
Independent Valerie Byrne[*] 15.84% 1,641            
Sinn Féin Michael Patrick Mulligan[*] 13.81% 1,431 1,477 1,489        
Independent Tom Crosby 9.82% 1,017 1,054 1,082 1,109 1,139 1,243 1,421
Fine Gael Liam Callaghan[†] 9.65% 1,000 1,066 1,103 1,114 1,286 1,372 1,526
Fianna Fáil Joe Murphy[†] 7.75% 803 937 965 970 1,076 1,113 1,228
Fine Gael Keith Suffin 6.00% 622 843 851 870 897 955 1,076
Fine Gael Andrew Reynolds 5.64% 584 616 643 652 665 703  
Independent Sajjad (Saj) Hussain 5.09% 527 552 562 592 643    
Fianna Fáil Aidan Sampey 4.74% 491 554 556 561      
Independent Mary O'Donnell 1.15% 119 137 148        
Electorate: 18,037   Valid: 10,359   Spoilt: 201   Quota: 1,480   Turnout: 10,560 (58.55%)  

Roscommon

Roscommon: 6 seats[5]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5
Fianna Fáil Paschal Fitzmaurice[*] 18.99% 1,962        
Independent Kathleen Shanagher[*] 14.13% 1,460 1,469 1,482    
Independent Anthony (Tony) Waldron 12.90% 1,333 1,426 1,493    
Fianna Fáil Orla Leyden[*] 11.61% 1,199 1,241 1,247 1,287 1,469
Fianna Fáil Marty McDermott 11.36% 1,173 1,195 1,203 1,234 1,394
Independent Nigel Dineen [*] 9.70% 1,002 1,159 1,203 1,414 1,542
Fine Gael Gerry Coffey 8.16% 843 892 934 978 1,074
Independent Domnick Connolly 6.14% 634 647 673 726  
Sinn Féin Séamus O'Brien 4.48% 463 534 585    
Independent Padraig Morris 1.79% 185 210      
Independent John Groarke 0.74% 76 81      
Electorate: 17,450   Valid: 10,330   Spoilt: 165   Quota: 1,476   Turnout: 10,495 (60.14%)  

Footnotes

  1. ^ See change below.

Results by gender

2019 Roscommon County Council election[6][7]
Candidates by gender
Gender Number of
candidates 		% of
candidates 		Elected
councillors 		% of
councillors
Men 29 87.9% 15 83.3%
Women 4 12.1% 3 16.7%
TOTAL 33   18  

Changes after 2019

Changes in affiliation

Name LEA Elected as New affiliation Date
Nigel Dineen Roscommon Independent Independent Ireland March 2024

Co-option

Party Outgoing LEA Reason Date Co-optee
Independent Ivan Connaughton Athlone Resignation April 2021 Emer Kelly

Sources

  • "Roscommon County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 14 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  • "LE19: Live tallies and results from the Roscommon Count Centre". Shannonside FM. 26 May 2019. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  • "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.

References

  1. ^ Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 1 (13 June 2018). Report 2018 (PDF). Government Publications. pp. 96–99, 160. 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 Roscommon Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 (S.I. No. 631 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.
  3. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 181.
  4. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 182.
  5. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 183.
  6. ^ "Roscommon County Council: Independents dominate throughout county". The Irish Times. Dublin. 27 May 2019 [25 May 2019]. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021.
  7. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 247.