1919 Sligo Corporation election

1919 Sligo Corporation election
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All 24 seats on Sligo Corporation
13 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Sligo Ratepayers Association Sinn Féin Irish Labour
Seats won 8 7 4
Map showing results by electoral area
Council control after election

No overall control

An election for all 24 members of Sligo Corporation took place on 15 January 1919, using the single transferable vote (STV). Urban districts in Ireland held annual elections on 15 January each year under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, using plurality voting to replace a cohort of one-third or one-quarter of their councillors.[1] Those elections for 1915–19 were postponed while the First World War was still in progress.[2]

Sligo Corporation Act 1918
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to amend the provisions for the local management of the borough of Silgo and to extend the rating powers of the Corporation of the borough and to extend the power of the Corporation to borrow and re-borrow moneys and to provide for the payment by the Corporation of the expenses incurred in meeting the demands of the county council of the county of Sligo and to confer on the Local Government Board for Ireland further powers of control in regard to the performance of their respective duties by the Corporation and the officers thereof and to amend the provisions relating to the election and duration in office of the aldermen and councillors of the borough and for other purposes.
Citation8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xxiii
Dates
Royal assent30 July 1918
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Sligo election was held under the Sligo Corporation Act 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. xxiii), a local act passed in the UK Parliament under the sponsorship of the Sligo Ratepayers Association (SRA), an alliance of Protestants and businessmen which opposed the actions of the outgoing corporation.[3][4] The election under the 1918 act was exempt from the general postponement.[5]

In the 1919 election, the SRA ran a slate of 18 candidates (11 Protestant and 7 Catholic) and won 8 seats; Sinn Féin, Labour, and an Independent Nationalist had a majority of 13 seats between them.[6] It was the second STV election ever in Ireland; the first was in Dublin University at the November 1918 Westminster election. The outcome was seen as a vindication of STV, which was adopted for all Irish local authorities by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1919, in time for the 1920 local elections.[3] The 1918 act envisaged triennial elections in Sligo,[7] as the 1919 act did throughout Ireland. In the event, the Irish War of Independence, Irish Civil War, and aftermath meant the next local elections were postponed until 1925.[8]

Results by party

Results by party[9]
Party Seats ± First Pref. votes FPv% ±%
Sligo Ratepayers Association 8 823 37.27
Sinn Féin 7 674 30.53
Labour 4 414 18.75
Other 5 300 13.59
Totals 24 2,208 100.00 —

Results by Ward

East Ward

East Ward - 8 seats[9][10]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Sinn Féin Dudley M. Hanley 160
Sinn Féin Luke Gilligan 87
Sinn Féin Thomas H. Fitzpatrick 73 94
Independent Patrick White 71 83
Labour Michael Nevin 56 64 65 67 67 69 70 70 75 93
Labour James Gray 53 56 57 58 58 60 60 62 65 72 74 74 75 76
Sligo Ratepayers Association Young Warren 51 52 53 53 55 55 58 65 65 65 66 66 98
Sligo Ratepayers Association James J. Nelson 41 42 42 42 42 42 43 48 49 50 50 50
Sligo Ratepayers Association Bernard McDonagh 35 39 41 42 43 44 46 48 49 50 50 51 63 79
Labour William J. Reilly 25 28 30 31 32 32 32 32 36
Sinn Féin Henry Monson 23 42 46 47 47 49 51 52 56 61 67 68 70 70
Labour Peter Costello 18 20 21 21 21 21 21
Sligo Ratepayers Association Hugh Sinclair 16 18 18 18 18 18
Sligo Ratepayers Association William Conmy 8 10 10 10 10 10
Sligo Ratepayers Association Thomas Mahon 5 6 7 7 7
Labour Bart O'Riordan 4 4 4 4
Electorate: 946   Valid: 726 (%)   Quota: 81  

North Ward

North Ward - 8 seats[9][10]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Independent John Jinks 123
Independent John Lynch 72
Sligo Ratepayers Association Arthur Jackson 55 59 60 62              
Sligo Ratepayers Association Henry Wood-Martin 53 55 55 56 57 59 60 60 61 61 61
Sinn Féin Frank Nally 43 49 50 50 50 53 53 55 55 58 62
Independent James Devins 32 46 47 47 47 49 49 54 54 55 57
Sinn Féin James Costello 31 35 37 40 40 40 41 43 43 48 52
Sligo Ratepayers Association James Campbell 30 35 35 36 36 37 39 39 39 41 44
Labour Peter Heraghty 22 31 32 32 32 33 38 40 40 41 54
Labour James Kelly 19 26 29 29 29 30 30 30 32 34
Labour Pat Derrig 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 16
Sinn Féin John Feeney 12 14 14 14 14 14 14
Sinn Féin William J. Kelly 12 14 16 16 16 16 18 18 19
Sligo Ratepayers Association Thomas Begley 9 11 11 11 11 12
Sligo Ratepayers Association Thomas Flanagan 7 10 10 11 11
Sligo Ratepayers Association John Noone 7 9 9
Electorate: 769   Valid: 542 (70.48%)   Quota: 61  

West Ward

West Ward - 8 seats[9][10]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Sligo Ratepayers Association Henry Campbell-Perry 169
Labour Henry Depew 94 96 96 100 100 104 106
Sligo Ratepayers Association James Connolly 91 95 95 95 96 99 106
Sligo Ratepayers Association Percy Campbell Kerr 82 112
Sligo Ratepayers Association Edward J. Tighe 79 91 96 97 97 104 110
Independent William Hande 56 59 59 60 61 64 64 64 69 75 94
Sinn Féin John Hughes 56 57 57 57 58 61 62 63 65 73
Sinn Féin William J. Feeney 55 56 56 56 59 61 65 65 71 86 90
Sligo Ratepayers Association James Hamilton 51 53 54 56 56 58 71 75 77 80 89
Sinn Féin Patrick J. Flanagan 44 44 44 44 46 46 47 47 61 78 107
Sinn Féin Jordan Roche 40 44 44 44 45 46 48 48 59
Sinn Féin Samuel Tarrant 38 39 39 40 41 43 44 44
Sligo Ratepayers Association John Finan 34 37 38 38 39 40
Labour John Lambert 18 19 19 23 32
Labour Thomas D. Howley 18 18 18 20
Labour Andrew Thompson 15 15 15
Electorate: 1,344   Valid: 940 (69.94%)   Quota: 105  

Sources

  • Local Government Board for Ireland (1920). Annual report for the year ended 31st March, 1919. Command papers. Vol. Cmd.578.
  • "8 & 9 Geo.V c.xxiii(P) Sligo Corporation Act, 1918". The local and private acts passed in the eighth and ninth years of the reign of His Majesty King George the fifth : being the eighth session of the thirtieth parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland : with an index. Eyre & Spottiswoode for William Richard Codling. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  • "Proportional representation" (PDF). Sligo County Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2015.

References

  1. ^ "Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, Section 94 (9)–(10)". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  2. ^ Local Government Board for Ireland (1920) p.ii
  3. ^ a b Deignan, Patrick (May–June 2009). "PR & the Sligo borough election of 1919". History Ireland. 17 (3). Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  4. ^ Local Government Board for Ireland (1920) p.ix
  5. ^ Local Government Board for Ireland (1920), pp. ix–x
  6. ^ Padraig Deignan (10 June 2009). "Sligo Protestants and the Borough Election of January 1919". The Sligo Champion.
  7. ^ Sligo Corporation Act 1918, §10(1)
  8. ^ Corcoran, Donal (December 2009). "Public Policy in an emerging state: The Irish Free State 1922-25". Irish Journal of Public Policy. 1 (1). University College Cork. ISSN 2009-1117. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  9. ^ a b c d "Old Local Election Results". Irish Election Literature. 28 October 2011. p. Sligo Corporation Local Election Results 1919 to 2009. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  10. ^ a b c Sligo Champion - Saturday 25 January 1919, pg.8, Tables of Results of the Sligo Municipal Elections
Preceded by
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