1991 Offaly County Council election
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All 21 seats on Offaly County Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Map showing the area of Offaly County Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Offaly County Council took place on 27 June 1991 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). This term was extended twice, first to 1998, then to 1999.[1][2]
Results by party
[edit]Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
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Fianna Fáil | 10 | -2 | 10,232 | 41.39 | ||
Fine Gael | 6 | - | 7,699 | 31.14 | ||
Labour | 1 | +1 | 1,686 | 6.82 | ||
Progressive Democrats | 1 | +1 | 1,015 | 4.11 | ||
Independent | 3 | - | 3,221 | 13.03 | ||
Totals | 21 | - | 24,722 | 100.00 | — |
Results by local electoral area
[edit]Birr
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Fine Gael | Tom Enright TD* | 15.5% | 924 | 966 | 1,076 | ||||||
Fianna Fáil | Pat Moylan* | 13.2% | 789 | 823 | 898 | 908 | 1,010 | ||||
Fine Gael | Percy Clendennen | 12.4% | 742 | 760 | 801 | 820 | 876 | 896 | 904 | 906 | |
Fianna Fáil | Seamus Loughnane* | 11.4% | 681 | 725 | 794 | 813 | 1,037 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Pat McLoughney | 11% | 658 | 689 | 732 | 740 | |||||
Fine Gael | Joe Clear* | 11% | 657 | 678 | 749 | 759 | 873 | 896 | 904 | 907 | |
Fianna Fáil | Joe Dooley* | 10.7% | 635 | 688 | 796 | 812 | 999 | ||||
Sinn Féin | John Carroll | 9.6% | 570 | 601 | |||||||
Independent | Neayvn Kavanagh | 5.1% | 304 | ||||||||
Electorate: 9,171 Valid: 5,960 (64.99%) Spoilt: 41 Quota: 994 Turnout: 6,001 (65.43%) |
Edenderry
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Fine Gael | Michael Fox* | 15.6% | 915 | 917 | 937 | 1,038 | |||||
Independent | James Flanagan* | 13.6% | 795 | 844 | 870 | 910 | 942 | 951 | 1,194 | 656 | |
Fianna Fáil | Frank Weir | 12.3% | 718 | 718 | 791 | 806 | 894 | 898 | 920 | 926 | |
Fianna Fáil | Noel Bourke | 11.6% | 681 | 701 | 713 | 733 | 746 | 752 | 904 | 982 | |
Fianna Fáil | Paddy Scully* | 11.6% | 677 | 678 | 684 | 709 | 728 | 747 | 773 | 781 | |
Progressive Democrats | Tom O'Connell | 9.9% | 579 | 597 | 608 | 642 | 660 | 673 | |||
Progressive Democrats | Brigid Emerson | 7.4% | 436 | 438 | 506 | 541 | 675 | 685 | 832 | 867 | |
Fine Gael | Jack Dunne | 6.2% | 361 | 363 | 388 | 425 | |||||
Green | Anthony Dolan | 5.1% | 299 | 305 | 333 | ||||||
Labour | Sean Coughlan | 4.9% | 289 | 292 | |||||||
Independent | William Brereton | 1.9% | 111 | ||||||||
Electorate: 10,007 Valid: 5,861 (58.57%) Spoilt: 73 Quota: 977 Turnout: 5,934 (59.3%) |
Ferbane
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Fine Gael | Connie Hanniffy* | 22.4% | 1,183 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Eamon Dooley* | 18.3% | 966 | ||||
Independent | Johnny Butterfield* | 15.7% | 829 | 886 | |||
Fianna Fáil | Tom Feighery* | 12.8% | 680 | 695 | 804 | 848 | |
Fine Gael | Bernard Corcoran* | 12.7% | 673 | 840 | 1,061 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Patrick Mahon* | 10.3% | 544 | 562 | 602 | 608 | |
Fine Gael | Pat Troy | 7.9% | 417 | 460 | |||
Electorate: 8,914 Valid: 5,292 (59.37%) Spoilt: 55 Quota: 883 Turnout: 5,347 (59.98%) |
Tullamore
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Brian Cowen TD* | 15% | 1,141 | |||||||||
Fianna Fáil | John Flanagan* | 12.5% | 953 | 965 | 981 | 994 | 1,018 | 1,072 | 1,113 | |||
Independent | Thomas Dolan* | 11.1% | 844 | 860 | 875 | 879 | 902 | 926 | 950 | 966 | 1,013 | |
Fine Gael | Tommy McKeigue | 10.9% | 830 | 854 | 855 | 882 | 913 | 946 | 1,057 | 1,118 | ||
Labour | Pat Gallagher | 9.5% | 722 | 742 | 743 | 808 | 842 | 894 | 921 | 1,099 | ||
Fine Gael | Frank Feery* | 9.3% | 708 | 712 | 719 | 722 | 724 | 737 | 798 | 810 | 848 | |
Fianna Fáil | Miriam O'Callaghan* | 9.3% | 706 | 722 | 729 | 747 | 781 | 797 | 816 | 851 | 1,076 | |
Fianna Fáil | Michael Lynam | 5.3% | 403 | 405 | 408 | 412 | 422 | 430 | 441 | 448 | ||
Fine Gael | Kevin Wrafter | 3.8% | 289 | 298 | 299 | 304 | 309 | 310 | ||||
Labour | Laurence Byrne | 3.3% | 250 | 258 | 259 | 270 | 280 | |||||
Labour | Ernest McGuire | 2.9% | 223 | 232 | 233 | 265 | 292 | 360 | 368 | |||
Labour | Seán O'Brien | 2.7% | 202 | 204 | 204 | |||||||
Independent | Anne O'Toole | 2.5% | 193 | 207 | 207 | 219 | ||||||
Independent | Peadar Keeley | 1% | 78 | |||||||||
Independent | May Keeley | 0.5% | 41 | |||||||||
Independent | Nellie Gaffney | 0.3% | 26 | 70 | ||||||||
Electorate: 12,610 Valid: 7,609 (60.34%) Spoilt: 64 Quota: 1,088 Turnout: 7,673 (60.85%) |
References
[edit]- ^ Local Government Act 1994, s. 20: Year of elections to all local authorities (No. 8 of 1994, s. 20). Enacted on 29 April 1994. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
- ^ Local Government Act 1998, s. 10: Amendment of section 20 of Act of 1994 (No. 16 of 1998, s. 10). Enacted on 29 May 1998. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
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