2019 Leitrim County Council election

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

2019 Leitrim County Council election

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All 18 seats on Leitrim County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Sinn Féin Seats won 6 6 2 Seat change 2 2   Fourth party   Party Independent Seats won 4 Seat change
Results by Local Electoral Area

Boundary review

Following the recommendations of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, no changes were made to the LEAs used in the 2014 elections.^[1][2]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	6		6,128	34.39	0.71
	Fine Gael	6	2	4,394	24.66	2.63
	Sinn Féin	2	2	3,061	17.18	2.01
	Green	0		389	2.18	New
	Renua	0		43	0.24	New
	Independent	4		3,806	21.36	1.52
Total		18		17,821	100.00

Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.

Ballinamore

Ballinamore: 6 seats^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy O'Rourke^[*]	20.87%	1,365
	Fianna Fáil	Caillian Ellis^[*]	14.57%	953
	Sinn Féin	Brendan Barry^[*]	11.70%	765	781	787	790	855	981
	Fine Gael	Enda McGloin	11.52%	753	772	777	778	882	888	890	895
	Fine Gael	Ita Reynolds-Flynn	10.63%	695	816	821	825	855	950
	Sinn Féin	Pat Gilhooley	9.73%	636	673	675	678	700	807	841	845
	Independent	Gerry Dolan^[*]	8.63%	564	628	650	653	786	835	845	851
	Independent	Sean Wynne	6.10%	399	436	455	456
	Sinn Féin	Caroline Mulvey	5.18%	339	457	464	467	492
	Renua	Oisín O'Dwyer	0.66%	43	55
	Independent	Denis O'Brien	0.41%	27	34
Electorate: 9,892   Valid: 6,539   Spoilt: 74   Quota: 935   Turnout: 6,613 (66.85%)

Carrick-on-Shannon

Carrick-on-Shannon: 6 seats^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Sean McGowan^[*]	14.96%	847
	Independent	Enda Stenson^[*]	12.88%	729	737	768	810
	Fine Gael	Thomas Mulligan	12.19%	690	696	708	720	737	824
	Fianna Fáil	Fintan Cox	11.29%	639	642	659	667	703	737	738
	Fine Gael	Finola Armstrong-Maguire^[*]	10.87%	615	616	645	670	727	752	754
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy Farrell	9.72%	550	556	583	611	658	737	742
	Independent	Des Guckian^[*]	9.36%	530	538	548	577	639	751	758
	Sinn Féin	Séadhna Logan^[*]	7.17%	406	408	428	440	481
	Independent	Yvonne Hollidge	4.73%	268	270	289	321
	Independent	Sean Wynne	3.43%	194	195	203
	Green	Leslie O'Hora	1.82%	103	104
	Independent	Denis O'Brien	1.57%	89	89
Electorate: 9,027   Valid: 5,660   Spoilt: 69   Quota: 809   Turnout: 5,729 (63.47%)

Manorhamilton

Manorhamilton: 6 seats^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Bohan^[*]	16.67%	937
	Sinn Féin	Padraig Fallon^[*]	16.28%	915
	Fianna Fáil	Justin Warnock^[*]	14.89%	837
	Fine Gael	Frank Dolan^[*]	12.54%	705	749	768	828
	Independent	Felim Gurn^[*]	12.33%	693	733	769	798	808
	Fine Gael	Seán McDermott^[*]	11.76%	661	676	695	767	778
	Independent	Jamie Murphy	5.57%	313	322	340	360	366
	Green	Bláithín Gallagher	5.09%	286	306	320	345	351
	Fine Gael	John Joe Dowdican	4.89%	275	280	285
Electorate: 9,058   Valid: 5,622   Spoilt: 71   Quota: 804   Turnout: 5,693 (62.85%)

Results by gender

2019 Leitrim County Council election^[6]^[7] Candidates by gender
Gender	Number of candidates	% of candidates	Elected councillors	% of councillors
Men	26	81.3%	15	83.3%
Women	6	18.8%	3	16.7%
TOTAL	32		18

References

Sources

• "Leitrim County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 13 May 2019. from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
• "Election Results 2019". Leitrim County Council. from the original on 13 June 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
• (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 144–146. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.

Citations

1. Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 1 (13 June 2018). Report 2018 (PDF). Government Publications. pp. 62–64, 149. ISBN 978-1-4064-2990-9. (PDF) from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2019.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
2. County of Leitrim Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 (S.I. No. 623 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. from the original on 23 November 2019. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 8 May 2019.
3. "Local Election 2019 — Ballinamore LEA" (PDF). Leitrim County Council. (PDF) from the original on 6 September 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
4. "Local Election 2019 — Carrick-on-Shannon LEA" (PDF). Leitrim County Council. (PDF) from the original on 6 September 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
5. "Local Election 2019 — Manorhamilton LEA" (PDF). Leitrim County Council. (PDF) from the original on 6 September 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
6. McGreevy, Ronan (26 May 2019) [25 May 2019]. "Leitrim County Council: Only three women councillors in 18-seat chamber". The Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 12 June 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
7. DHPLG 2019, p. 247.