2019 Longford County Council election

2019 Longford County Council election

24 May 2019
All 18 seats on Longford County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Independent Seats won 9 6 3 Seat change 1 1
Results by Local Electoral Area

An election to all 18 seats on Longford County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Longford 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).

The votes were counted in St. Mary's Community Centre, Edgeworthstown. Counting began on Saturday 25 May, and ended at 9.25 p.m. on Tuesday 28 May when returning officer Nora O'Farrell declared the last 4 councillors to be elected in the Ballymahon LEA, where there had been a recount.^[1]

Boundary review

Following the recommendations of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, there was a revision to the LEAs used at the 2014 elections, with an adjustment in boundaries and the transfer of one seat from Granard to Longford LEA.^[2][3]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	9	1	7,828	39.27	2.82
	Fianna Fáil	6	1	6,471	32.47	0.57
	Sinn Féin	0		912	4.58	1.97
	People Before Profit	0		96	0.48	New
	Independent	3		4,625	23.20	3.80
Total		18		19,932	100.00

Results by local electoral area

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

Ballymahon

Ballymahon: 6 seats^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	Paul Ross[*]	18.33%	1,217
	Independent	Mark Casey[*]	14.99%	995
	Fianna Fáil	Mick Cahill[*]	11.25%	747	807	825	830	855	873	938	1,024
	Fianna Fáil	Pat O'Toole[*]	10.08%	669	689	727	728	772	796	849	895
	Fine Gael	Colm Murray[*]	9.54%	633	705	713	718	740	750	859	927
	Fine Gael	Gerard Farrell[*]	9.37%	622	651	656	675	687	692	715	867
	Fianna Fáil	Brigid Duffy	7.55%	501	554	556	558	562	580	593	640
	Fianna Fáil	John Kenny	6.31%	419	427	431	438	442	448	499
	Independent	Tony Moran	4.90%	325	331	350	353	405	448
	Sinn Féin	Geraldine Ryan	2.95%	196	204	211	213	224
	Independent	Charlie McMonagle	2.73%	181	186	206	209
	Independent	P.J. Walsh	2.00%	133	138
Electorate: 11,204   Valid: 6,638   Spoilt: 94   Quota: 949   Turnout: 6,732 (60.09%)

Granard

Granard: 5 seats^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Independent	Turlough 'Pott' McGovern	19.41%	1,280
	Fine Gael	Micheál Carrigy[*][a]	17.94%	1,183
	Fine Gael	Paraic Brady[*]	13.15%	867	881	899	943	1,025	1,053	1,235
	Fine Gael	Garry Murtagh	11.07%	730	747	764	803	876	912	942	980	1,123
	Fianna Fáil	P.J. Reilly[*]	9.83%	648	710	720	760	816	957	1,008	1,029	1,070
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Murphy	5.92%	390	397	399	412	424	452	524	565	708
	Sinn Féin	Mark Maguire	5.46%	360	370	373	387	420	456	486	514
	Fianna Fáil	Amanda Duffy	4.52%	298	304	306	372	386	421
	Independent	Grace Kearney	4.41%	291	331	338	359	383
	Fine Gael	Frank Kilbride	4.25%	280	297	307	334
	Fianna Fáil	Victor Connell	4.03%	266	274	289
Electorate: 10,032   Valid: 6,593   Spoilt: 104   Quota: 1,099   Turnout: 6,697 (66.76%)

Longford

Longford: 7 seats^[6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Flaherty[†][a]	15.71%	1,053
	Fine Gael	Peggy Nolan[*]	11.06%	741	763	765	776	779	796	808	841
	Fine Gael	Gerry Hagan[†]	10.89%	730	748	749	753	755	788	824	833	842
	Fine Gael	John Browne[*]	10.33%	692	706	707	712	715	746	767	813	854
	Independent	Gerry Warnock[*]	9.83%	659	689	693	701	722	736	756	778	899
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Butler[*]	9.79%	656	700	702	705	708	718	737	779	792
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Monaghan	8.60%	576	609	613	627	634	645	695	736	781
	Independent	Mae Sexton[*]	7.07%	474	484	484	488	493	496	510	528	586
	Sinn Féin	Tena Keown	5.31%	356	369	383	390	411	411	418	437
	Fianna Fáil	Uruemu Adejinmi	3.70%	248	265	268	269	279	284	292
	Independent	Seamus Gallagher	2.33%	156	161	163	174	184	201
	Fine Gael	Gerard Cooney	1.98%	133	137	138	147	149
	People Before Profit	Barbara Smyth	1.43%	96	97	99	106
	Independent	Tony Reilly	1.33%	89	91	92
	Independent	Julie O'Reilly	0.42%	28	29
	Independent	George Breaden	0.21%	14	15
Electorate: 12,356   Valid: 6,701   Spoilt: 112   Quota: 838   Turnout: 6,813 (55.14%)

Footnotes

1. See change below.

Results by gender

2019 Longford County Council election[7][8] Candidates by gender
Gender	Number of candidates	% of candidates	Elected councillors	% of councillors
Men	29	74.4%	17	94.4%
Women	10	25.6%	1	5.6%
TOTAL	39		18

Changes after 2019

Co-options

Party		Outgoing	LEA	Reason	Date	Co-optee
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Flaherty	Longford	Elected to the 33rd Dáil at the 2020 general election[9]	25 February 2020	Uruemu Adejinmi[10]
	Fine Gael	Micheál Carrigy	Granard	Elected to the 26th Seanad at the 2020 Seanad election[11]	16 May 2020	Colin Dalton[12]

Changes in affiliation

Name	LEA	Elected as		New affiliation		Date
Gerard Farrell	Ballymahon		Fine Gael		Independent	March 2024

References

Sources

• "Longford County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 14 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
• "Results 2019". Longford County Council. Archived from the original on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
• "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 147–150. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.

Citations

1. "Local Election 2019: Results Timeline ... as it happened". Longford County Council. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
2. Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 1 (13 June 2018). Report 2018 (PDF). Government Publications. pp. 72–75, 154. ISBN 978-1-4064-2990-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
3. County of Longford Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 (S.I. No. 625 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.
4. "Local Election 2019 — Ballymahon LEA". Longford County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
5. "Local Election 2019 — Granard LEA". Longford County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
6. "Local Election 2019 — Longford LEA". Longford County Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 June 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
7. "Longford County Council: Four days of counting finally produces results". The Irish Times. Dublin. 27 May 2019 [25 May 2019]. Archived from the original on 15 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
8. DHPLG 2019, p. 247.
9. Keena, Colm (10 February 2020). "Election 2020: Joe Flaherty (Fianna Fáil) Longford-Westmeath – Elected 10th count". The Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
10. Cosgrove, Liam (9 March 2020). "History is made as Uruemu Adejinmi is co-opted onto Longford County Council". Longford Leader. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020.
11. O'Halloran, Marie (4 April 2020). "Seanad election results: Full list of Senators voted in to new Seanad". Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
12. Walsh, Alan (16 May 2020). "Fine Gael seat stays in Ballinalee as Colin Dalton elected to replace Senator Micheál Carrigy on Longford County Council". Longford Leader. Archived from the original on 31 May 2020. Retrieved 8 June 2021.