2019 Irish local elections

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This article is about the Republic of Ireland. For Northern Ireland, see 2019 Northern Ireland local elections.
2019 Irish local elections
← 2014 24 May 2019 2024 →
949 County and City Council Seats
Opinion polls
Turnout 50.12% Decrease 1.58pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Micheál Martin Leo Varadkar Mary Lou McDonald
Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Sinn Féin
Leader since 26 January 2011 2 June 2017 10 February 2018
Last election 267 235 159
Seats won 279 255 81
Seat change Increase12 Increase20 Decrease78
Popular vote 467,407 438,494 164,637
Percentage 26.92% 25.26% 9.48%
Swing Increase1.72% Increase1.34% Decrease5.68%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Brendan Howlin Eamon Ryan Catherine Murphy
Róisín Shortall
Party Labour Party Green Party Social Democrats
Leader since 20 May 2016 27 May 2011 15 July 2015
Last election 51 12 New party
Seats won 57 49 19
Seat change Increase6 Increase37 New party
Popular vote 99,500 96,315 39,644
Percentage 5.73% 5.55% 2.28%
Swing Decrease1.41% Increase3.95% New party
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
S-PBP
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I4C
Leader Collective leadership Peadar Tóibín None
Party Solidarity–People Before Profit Aontú Independents 4 Change
Leader since n/a 28 January 2019 n/a
Last election 28[lower-alpha 1] New party 0
Seats won 11 (Sol 4) (PBP 7) 3 3
Seat change Decrease17 New party Increase3
Popular vote 32,883 (Sol 10,911) (PBP 21,972) 25,660 8,626
Percentage 1.89% (Sol 0.64%) (PBP 1.29%) 1.48% 0.5%
Swing Decrease1.11% (Sol Decrease0.60%) (PBP Decrease0.41%) New party Increase0.39%
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The 2019 Irish local elections were held in all local authorities in Ireland on Friday, 24 May 2019, on the same day as the 2019 European Parliament election and a referendum easing restrictions on divorce.[1][2] Each local government area is divided into local electoral areas (LEAs) where three to seven councillors are elected on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.[3]

Administrative boundary changes

There was one change to the local government areas since the 2014 elections, with a transfer of land from County Cork to Cork city under the Local Government Act 2019.[4]

Reviews of the county boundaries near Drogheda,[5][6] Athlone,[7][8] and Carlow (Graiguecullen)[9][10] recommended no change. A review recommending transfer of Ferrybank from Kilkenny County Council to Waterford City and County Council was rejected by minister Simon Coveney after objections from Kilkenny.[11][12]

Two Local Electoral Area Boundary Committees were established in 2017 under the Local Government Reform Act 2014 and reported on 13 June 2018.[13] The government accepted all recommendations and the boundaries of municipal districts and LEAs were consequently revised by statutory instruments signed on 19 December 2018 by John Paul Phelan, Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government.[14] In 2014, most districts had a single LEA and all LEAs (except for Cork city) had between 6 and 10 councillors, whereas from 2019 LEAs had between 3 and 7 councillors and some large municipal districts on the west coast had two LEAs to account for the greater distances involved for elected representatives.

Under the 2014 Act, the municipal districts containing the area of the former borough councils of Clonmel, Drogheda, Sligo and Wexford are designated as borough districts.[15] The Boundary Committee proposed also designating census towns over 30,000 as borough districts, which would include the towns of Bray, Navan and Dundalk. A change to this designation was made by statutory instrument but was later reversed as incompatible with the 2014 Act.[16]

Mayoral plebiscites

Plebiscites took place in Cork City Council, Limerick City and County Council and Waterford City and County Council on whether to create the office of directly elected mayors with executive functions who will act as an ex officio member and chair of the council.[17][18] These plebiscites were held under Part 6 of the Local Government Act 2019.[4] The proposal was approved in Limerick City and County and rejected in both Cork City and Waterford City and County.[19]

Election timetable

The elections were held in accordance with the Local Elections Regulations 1995 as amended.[20][21] Relevant dates are as follows:

Campaign

Fine Gael head office issued a pre-election circular to its candidates on strategy for negotiating post-election power-sharing deals with other parties or groups.[26] It prohibits deals with Sinn Féin, except where a council shares power across all groups (typically via D'Hondt method allocation of posts).[26]

Garda inquiries were launched in relation to an unusually large number of postal vote applications in the Ballymote–Tubbercurry LEA,[27] and alleged irregularities around 200 names added to the supplementary electoral register in the Killarney LEA.[28]

Ellie Kisyombe, a Malawi-born refugee running for the Social Democrats in Dublin's North Inner City LEA, was retained after a review of inconsistencies in her account of her asylum history and time in direct provision, which caused several party members to resign in protest.[29] The principal of Cadamstown national school in County Kildare was criticised for a letter to parents praising Fianna Fáil councillors over those of Fine Gael in dealing with the school.[30]

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar stated after the poll that news of a personal injury claim taken by Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey in the week preceding the elections had caused reputational damage to Fine Gael.[31]

Opinion polls

Last date
of polling		 Polling firm / Commissioner Sample
size		 FG FF SF Lab S–PBP SD GP RI Aon IA O/I
17 April 2019 Red C/The Sunday Business Post[32] 1,000 27 20 15 5 <1 1 5 <1 <1 4 23[lower-alpha 2]

Results by party

Republican Sinn Féin and Independent Left are not registered parties; therefore their candidates appear on the ballot as Non-Party.

People Before Profit and Solidarity candidates ran under the electoral alliance Solidarity–People Before Profit.

Party Seats ± 1st pref FPv% ±%
style="width: 5px; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | Fianna Fáil 279 Increase12 467,736 26.92 Increase1.72
style="width: 5px; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | Fine Gael 255 Increase20 439,317 25.29 Increase1.34
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" | Sinn Féin 81 Decrease78 164,307 9.46 Decrease5.68
style="width: 5px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (Ireland)" | Labour Party 57 Increase6 99,502 5.73 Decrease1.41
style="width: 5px; background-color: #99CC33;" data-sort-value="Green Party (Ireland)" | Green Party 49 Increase37 96,313 5.54 Increase3.95
style="width: 5px; background-color: #752F8B;" data-sort-value="Social Democrats (Ireland)" | Social Democrats 19 New 39,642 2.28 New
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:People Before Profit/meta/color;" data-sort-value="People Before Profit" | [[People Before Profit|Template:People Before Profit/meta/shortname]] 7 Decrease 7 21,972 1.29 Decrease 0.41
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Solidarity (Ireland)/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Solidarity (Ireland)" | [[Solidarity (Ireland)|Template:Solidarity (Ireland)/meta/shortname]] 4 Decrease 10 10,911 0.64 Decrease 0.60
style="width: 5px; background-color: #44532A;" data-sort-value="Aontú" | Aontú 3 New 25,662 1.48 New
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFC0CB;" data-sort-value="Independents 4 Change" | Independents 4 Change 3 Increase3 9,055 0.52 Increase0.39
style="width: 5px; background-color: Yellow;" data-sort-value="Renua" | [[Renua|Template:Renua/meta/shortname]] 1 New 10,115 0.58 New
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FA8072;" data-sort-value="Workers and Unemployed Action" | Workers and Unemployed Action 1 Steady 2,621 0.15 Increase0.04
style="width: 5px; background-color: #D73D3D;" data-sort-value="Workers' Party (Ireland)" | [[Workers' Party (Ireland)|Template:Workers' Party (Ireland)/meta/shortname]] 1 Steady 2,620 0.15 Decrease0.03
style="width: 5px; background-color: #97285B;" data-sort-value="Kerry Independent Alliance" | Kerry Independent Alliance 1 Steady 1,983 0.11 Decrease0.01
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Independent Left (Ireland)/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Independent Left (Ireland)" | Independent Left 1 New 1,808 0.10 New
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Irish Democratic Party" | Irish Democratic Party 1 New 1,054 0.06 New
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Republican Sinn Féin" | Republican Sinn Féin 1 Steady 971 0.06 Decrease0.03
style="width: 5px; background-color: #568203;" data-sort-value="Éirígí" | Éirígí 0 Steady 1,547 0.09 Decrease0.09
style="width: 5px; background-color: Template:Housing Rights and Reform Alliance/meta/color;" data-sort-value="Housing Rights and Reform Alliance" | HRRA 0 Steady 1,462 0.08 Increase0.08
style="width: 5px; background-color: #87CEFA;" data-sort-value="Direct Democracy Ireland" | Direct Democracy 0 Steady 585 0.03 Decrease0.18
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="United People" | United People 0 Steady 134 0.01 Increase0.01
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician (Ireland)" | [[Independent politician (Ireland)|Template:Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/shortname]] 185 Decrease7 338,091 19.56 Decrease3.24
Totals 949 — 1,737,408 100.00 —
Electorate: 3,535,450 Total votes: 1,772,026 Spoilt votes: 34,618 (1.95%) Turnout: 50.12%
Source: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government

Results by council

Authority FF FG SF Lab GP SD PBP Sol I4C Aon Ren WUA WP RSF Kerry Independent Alliance IDP IND Total Details
Carlow 6 6 1 2 1 2 18 Details
Cavan 8 7 1 1 1 18 Details
Clare 13 8 1 1 5 28 Details
Cork 18 20 2 2 2 1 10 55 Details
Cork City 8 7 4 1 4 1 1 5 31 Details
Donegal 12 6 10 1 8 37 Details
Dublin City 11 9 8 8 10 5 2 1 9 63 Details
Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown 7 13 6 6 1 2 5 40 Details
Fingal 8 7 4 6 5 2 1 1 6 40 Details
Galway 15 11 1 1 1[lower-alpha 3] 10 39 Details
Galway City 5 3 1 2 1 6 18 Details
Kerry 10 7 4 2 1 9 33 Details
Kildare 12 11 1 5 3 4 4 40 Details
Kilkenny 11 9 2 1 1 24 Details
Laois 6 7 2 1 3 19 Details
Leitrim 6 6 2 4 18 Details
Limerick 12 14 2 3 2 1 6 40 Details
Longford 6 9 3 18 Details
Louth 7 5 7 3 1 6 29 Details
Mayo 11 12 1 6 30 Details
Meath 12 12 3 1 1 1 10 40 Details
Monaghan 4 5 6 3 18 Details
Offaly 8 4 1 1 1 1 3 19 Details
Roscommon 6 2 1 9 18 Details
Sligo 5 6 2 1 1 3 18 Details
South Dublin 8 7 6 2 4 1 1 2 9 40 Details
Tipperary 9 12 2 1 1 15 40 Details
Waterford 7 7 6 4 2 6 32 Details
Westmeath 9 5 2 2 2 20 Details
Wexford 12 9 2 2 1 8 34 Details
Wicklow 7 9 2 2 2 1 9 32 Details
Total 279 255 81 57 49 19 7 4 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 186 949

Non-Irish candidates

All foreigners residing in Ireland can run and vote in local elections, irrespective of their residence status. This also includes asylum-seekers.[33] In 2019, 31 non-Irish candidates ran in the election, originating from countries such as Nigeria, Poland, Romania, Lithuania. Four managed to win seats.[34] Members of the largest minority in Ireland, the Polish were less active as candidates than in previous elections in 2009 and 2014. While in those years, 9 Polish candidates ran each time, in 2019 the number was only 3. None won a seat.[35]

See also

Footnotes

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