1991 Dublin County Council election in South Dublin

An election to the council of the electoral county of South Dublin within Dublin County to Dublin County Council took place on 27 June 1991 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected for a five-year term of office from five local electoral areas on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.^[1] It was one of three electoral counties within Dublin County at this election, the others being Fingal and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. The term was extended twice, first to 1998, then to 1999.^[2][3]

1991 South Dublin County Council election

← 1985 27 June 1991 1999 →
26 seats on the council of the electoral county of South Dublin within Dublin County Council
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour Seats won 7 6 4 Seat change -6 -2 +2   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Progressive Democrats Workers' Party Green Seats won 4 3 1 Seat change +4 +1 +1   Seventh party   Party Independent Seats won 1 Seat change 0
Map showing the area of South Dublin County Council
Council control after election TBD

The electoral county had been established in 1985 as Dublin–Belgard and was renamed South Dublin for these local elections.^[4]

From 1 January 1994, on the coming into effect of the Local Government (Dublin) Act 1993, County Dublin was disestablished as an administrative county, and in its place the electoral counties became three new counties. The councillors listed below became the councillors for South Dublin County Council from that date.^[5]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	7	-6	16,179	29.1
	Fine Gael	6	-2	10,176	18.3
	Labour	4	+2	9,796	17.6
	Progressive Democrats	4	+4	5,080	9.1
	Workers' Party	3	+1	4,842	8.7
	Green	1	+1	3,294	5.9
	Independent	1	0	4,294	7.7
Totals		26	0	53,634	100.0	—

Results by local electoral area

Clondalkin

Clondalkin - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fine Gael	Therese Ridge*	18.3%	1,378	1,431	1,459	1,497	1,563	1,733	1,883
	Progressive Democrats	Colm Tyndall	17.7%	1,332	1,355	1,375	1,447	1,544	1,647	1,863
	Fianna Fáil	Colm McGrath*	14.6%	1,104	1,112	1,136	1,257	1,280	1,316	2,027
	Fianna Fáil	Catherine Sherwin	13.1%	986	1,004	1,028	1,182	1,229	1,259
	Workers' Party	Donna Conlon	8.9%	671	729	809	813	943	1,292	1,356
	Labour	Robert Dowds	8.3%	626	679	711	721	794
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Smyth	5.7%	431	436	441
	Green	Conor Delaney	5.3%	400	436	496	518
	Sinn Féin	Vincent Coffey	4.2%	315	340
	Independent	Maurice Duffy	2.4%	178
	Independent	Maire O'Connor	1.6%	123
Electorate: 20,425   Valid: 7,544 (36.9%)   Spoilt: 63   Quota: 1,887   Turnout: 7,607 (37.2%)

Greenhills

Greenhills - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Labour	Mervyn Taylor TD*	24.1%	1,576
	Workers' Party	Don Tipping*	13.9%	912	966	995	1,020	1,107	1,138	1,306	1,357
	Fine Gael	Michael Keating	11%	720	745	754	875	919	946	1,066	1,126	1,170
	Independent	Bob Byrne	9.3%	611	628	645	651	713	736
	Fianna Fáil	Geraldine O'Connor	8.8%	577	584	586	607	626	767	819
	Fianna Fáil	Margaret Farrell	8.1%	525	537	549	555	580	828	943	1,412
	Labour	Denis Mackin	8%	522	634	648	667	737	755	881	1,040	1,089
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Hanrahan	7.2%	468	479	505	511	523
	Green	Alison Larkin	4.6%	298	308	345	363
	Fine Gael	Michael O'Brien	3.4%	224	228	228
	Sinn Féin	Dessie Early	2.4%	157	162
Electorate: 16,819   Valid: 6,540 (38.9%)   Spoilt: 50   Quota: 1,319   Turnout: 6,590 (39.2%)

Lucan

Lucan - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Independent	Guss O'Connell	14.2%	1,406	1,477	1,532	1,649	1,894	2,032
	Fine Gael	Peter Brady	13.5%	1,336	1,346	1,472	1,549	1,587	1,612	1,619	1,775	1,812	1,987
	Fianna Fáil	Finbarr Hanrahan*	11.3%	1,119	1,126	1,145	1,182	1,215	1,440	1,459	1,514	1,607	2,362
	Fianna Fáil	Liam Lawlor TD*	9.1%	905	910	919	934	950	1,110	1,123	1,173	1,246
	Labour	Eamon Tuffy	8.3%	826	829	834	927	1,000	1,026	1,030	1,211	1,263	1,315	1,430
	Sinn Féin	John McCann	7.9%	783	789	797	808	815	828	830	919
	Labour	John O'Halloran	7.8%	775	781	795	815	884	898	901	1,058	1,379	1,467	1,553
	Workers' Party	Anne Finnegan	6.7%	665	671	677	748	777	799	803
	Fianna Fáil	Deirdre Doherty-Ryan	5.9%	580	591	609	630	675
	Labour	Michael Brennan	5%	497	534	563	598
	Green	Bridin O'Connor	5%	492	512	531
	Fine Gael	Tom Kavanagh	3.1%	311	316
	Independent	Michael Kirwan	2%	200
Electorate: 20,266   Valid: 9,895 (48.8%)   Spoilt: 75   Quota: 1,980   Turnout: 9,970 (49.2%)

Rathfarnam

Rathfarnam - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Ann Ormonde*	19%	1,582	1,584	1,601	1,872
	Fine Gael	Alan Shatter TD*	14.3%	1,191	1,202	1,241	1,286	1,303	1,538	1,671
	Green	Máire Mullarney	14%	1,163	1,176	1,289	1,313	1,327	1,511	1,877
	Fine Gael	Mary Muldoon*	13.96%	1,161	1,166	1,194	1,206	1,213	1,355	1,622
	Fianna Fáil	Damien Fee	10.4%	862	884	897	989	1,142	1,223	1,325
	Independent	Vincent Kenny	9.1%	760	767	832	842	849	944
	Progressive Democrats	Ronnie McBrien	8.6%	719	721	760	778	788
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Riney*	5.8%	479	479	485
	Labour	Billy Byrne	2.7%	227	339
	Labour	Graham Corcoran	1.9%	154
Electorate: 20,175   Valid: 8,318 (41.2%)   Spoilt: 35   Quota: 1,664   Turnout: 8,353 (41.4%)

Tallaght-Oldbawn

Tallaght-Oldbawn - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Fianna Fáil	John Hannon*	22.3%	1,572	1,579	1,590	1,663	1,684	1,915
	Workers' Party	Pat Rabbitte TD*	13.5%	947	967	980	994	1,066	1,102	1,125	1,255	1,472	1,736
	Progressive Democrats	Breda Cass*	12.7%	892	900	916	920	969	998	1,021	1,062	1,131	1,501
	Fine Gael	Senator Larry McMahon*	11.2%	789	799	889	912	942	964	988	1,009	1,083
	Labour	Eamonn Maloney	9.5%	667	677	689	703	741	748	756	801
	Labour	Ned Gibbons	9.4%	663	667	673	676	706	762	775	885	1,271	1,415
	Sinn Féin	Seán Crowe	5.7%	399	436	438	441	461	480	496
	Fianna Fáil	Jim Barry*	5.5%	389	394	395	430	434
	Green	Malachy Murphy	3.7%	259	271	279	280
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Dwan	2.5%	178	179	179
	Fine Gael	Paul Ringland	2.2%	158	159
	Republican Sinn Féin	Peter Cunningham	1.8%	125
Electorate: 14,687   Valid: 6,388 (43.5%)   Spoilt: 89   Quota: 1,598   Turnout: 6,477 (44.1%)

Tallaght-Rathcoole

Tallaght-Rathcoole- 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Workers' Party	Mick Billane	20.3%	1217	1,228	1,264	1,306	1,368	1,488	1,554
	Fianna Fáil	Charlie O'Connor	15.4%	922	987	996	1,019	1,144	1,182	1,216	1,220	1,656
	Progressive Democrats	Catherine Quinn	13.1%	785	786	796	889	934	982	1,199	1,208	1,421
	Fianna Fáil	Jim Daly*	12.3%	741	757	759	764	783	832	904	914
	Labour	Maria Ingle	11.6%	694	700	712	741	815	886	936	954	1,028
	Sinn Féin	Tony Flannery	6.4%	386	390	397	409	429
	Fine Gael	Pat Corcoran	6.4%	384	388	451	463	484	519
	Independent	John O'Mahony	6%	359	363	374	389
	Progressive Democrats	Martin Smith	3.7%	224	226	248
	Fine Gael	Jim Lovett	2.9%	177	178
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Morton	1.9%	114
Electorate: 15,744   Valid: 6,003 (38.1%)   Spoilt: 80   Quota: 1,501   Turnout: 6,083 (38.6%)

Terenure

Terenure- 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	Stanley Laing*	14.4%	1,488	1,503	1,541	1,566	1,585	1,630	1,685	1,768
	Labour	Éamonn Walsh	12.4%	1,278	1,382	1,384	1,527	1,625	1,656	1,678	1,845
	Labour	Senator Pat Upton	11.3%	1,169	1,309	1,352	1,424	1,454	1,492	1,520	1,780
	Progressive Democrats	Cáit Keane	10.9%	1,128	1,159	1,173	1,218	1,267	1,317	1,376	1,542
	Fianna Fáil	Sean Ardagh*	10.4%	1,070	1,075	1,268	1,311	1,540	2,082
	Fine Gael	Martin Lynch*	9.5%	981	992	1,014	1,037	1,051	1,081	1,096	1,163
	Green	Jim Murphy	6.6%	682	751	761	851	880	904	940
	Fianna Fáil	Michael J. Stokes	5.4%	555	564	641	675	848
	Fianna Fáil	Molly Tighe	5.3%	550	559	615	671
	Independent	Seamus Ashe*	5.1%	532	561	566
	Fianna Fáil	Gerry Mullally	4.5%	470	472
	Workers' Party	Deirdre O'Connell	4.2%	430
Electorate: 24,148   Valid: 10,333 (42.8%)   Spoilt: 85   Quota: 1,723   Turnout: 10,418 (43.1%)

References

1. Dublin Electoral Counties Order 1985 (S.I. No. 133 of 1985). Signed on 10 May 1985. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 13 December 2021.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Local Government Act 1991, s. 26: Amendment of Local Government (Reorganisation) Act 1985 (No. 11 of 1991, s. 26). Enacted on 18 May 1991. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 9 December 2021.
5. Local Government (Dublin) Act 1993, s. 12: Membership and cathaoirleach of county councils (No. 31 of 1993, s. 12). Enacted on 21 December 1993. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 13 December 2021.

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