1920 Cork Corporation election

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Elections to the Cork Corporation took place on Thursday 15 January 1920 as part of that year's Irish local elections. [1]

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Campaign

The Labour vote was split between the Cork and District Labour Council and the more militant Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU); the latter formed an electoral alliance with Sinn Féin, whose MPs elected in December 1918 had proclaimed an Irish Republic in January 1919. Polling day was marred by scenes of violence between supporters of Sinn Féin and ex-servicemen. [2]

Results by party

PartyCandidatesSeats±First Pref. votesFPv%±%
Sinn Féin–ITGWU [3] 5430Increase2.svg
Irish Nationalist 3314Decrease2.svg
Cork Ratepayers' Association 224
Cork and District Labour Council 123Increase2.svg
Ex-Soldiers & Sailors 2
Independent 373
Totals16056100.0—

Results by local electoral area

The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1919 introduced the single transferable vote, so the seven wards used in previous council elections were revised into seven borough electoral areas (BEAs). Four inner wards were merged into one BEA, two outer wards were split into two and three BEAs, and one was retained as a BEA. [4] The first two candidates elected in each area would be styled "alderman", the rest "councillor". [5]

Central

37 candidates. Wards: Centre, North Centre, South Centre, and West.

Central: 10 seats [6]
PartyCandidateFPv%Count
1
Sinn Féin J. J. Walsh MP [n 1]
Ratepayers Richard Beamish [n 2]
Irish Nationalist Daniel Gamble [n 3]
Sinn Féin Terence MacSwiney MP
Sinn Féin Prof Alfred O'Rahilly
Irish Nationalist Thomas Stack [n 2]
Ratepayers William Desmond [n 3] [n 4]
Labour CouncilJeremiah Kelleher [n 5]
Sinn Féin John Fitzpatrick
Irish Nationalist William F. O'Connor [n 6] [n 4]
Irish Nationalist R. H. Tilson [n 3]
Irish Nationalist Cornelius Desmond [n 3]
Irish Nationalist John Dunlea [n 3]
Irish Nationalist Denis Cullinane [n 3]
Irish Nationalist Denis Buckley [n 3] [n 4]
Irish Nationalist John Murphy [n 3]
Sinn Féin Richard Hawkins
Sinn Féin John Jennings
Sinn Féin Francis Keogh
Sinn Féin Cornelius O'Donovan [n 7]
Sinn Féin Timothy Francis O'Leary
Sinn Féin Denis O'Neill
RatepayersDaniel Williams [n 3] [n 8]
RatepayersT. H. G. Wallis
RatepayersDaniel Humphreys
Labour CouncilJohn Hurley [n 9]
Independent William Hart [n 3]
Independent Jeremiah Lane [n 3]
Independent Patrick J. Bradley [n 3]
Independent Eugene Buckley
Independent John Callanan [n 3]
Independent Cornelius Curtin [n 10]
Independent John Hurley [n 9]
Independent John Hoare
Independent Mortimer Kelleher [n 11]
Independent Cornelius O'Donovan [n 7]
Independent Robert Joseph Warren
Quota: 

    North-East

    26 candidates

    North-East: 10 seats [6]
    PartyCandidateFPv%Count
    1
    Sinn Féin William Stockley
    Irish Nationalist James Daly
    Sinn Féin Anne Sutton
    Irish Nationalist Daniel Horgan [n 3] [n 12]
    Irish Nationalist Michael Joseph O'Riordan
    Sinn Féin Robert Day
    RatepayersSir John Scott
    RatepayersJames Thomas Mulligan
    Sinn Féin Seán O'Leary
    Sinn Féin Seán French
    Irish Nationalist Matthew Kenneally [n 3]
    Irish Nationalist Cornelius Mullanny [n 2]
    Sinn Féin Ed. Goggin
    Sinn Féin Stephen Heffernan
    Sinn Féin Paul O'Flynn
    RatepayersA. M. Cole, JP
    RatepayersSimon Spiro, JP
    RatepayersJohn Ronan
    RatepayersClarence de Foubert
    RatepayersDaniel Williams [n 3] [n 8]
    Independent Patrick Clarke
    Independent William Dalton
    Independent Denis Mack [n 13]
    Independent Maurice O'Carroll
    Independent Robert Edwin Roberts
    Independent Edward E. Whitaker
    Quota: 

      North-West No.1

      23 candidates; covering Sunday's Well area

      North-West No.1: 7 seats [7]
      PartyCandidateFPv%Count
      1
      Sinn Féin Frederick J. Murray
      Sinn Féin Tadhg Barry [n 14]
      Labour CouncilPatrick J. Murphy
      Irish Nationalist William F. O'Connor [n 6] [n 4]
      Sinn Féin James Allen
      Sinn Féin Thomas Daly
      Independent Michael Joseph O'Callaghan
      Irish Nationalist John Joseph Doherty
      Irish Nationalist Patrick Keane
      Irish Nationalist Patrick F. O'Sullivan [n 3] [n 15]
      Sinn Féin Patrick O'Sullivan [n 15]
      Sinn Féin James Purcell
      Sinn Féin James Walsh [n 1]
      RatepayersThomas Andrews
      RatepayersR. A. Atkins
      RatepayersHenry Dawson
      Labour CouncilJohn O'Connor
      Independent Cornelius Curtin [n 10]
      Independent Mortimer Kelleher [n 11]
      Independent Daniel Lynch
      Independent Laurence Prior
      Independent John Roche
      Independent James Walsh [n 1]
      Quota: 306  

        North-West No.2

        13 candidates; covering Shandon area.

        North-West No.2: 6 seats [7]
        PartyCandidateFPv%Count
        1
        Sinn Féin Edmond Coughlan
        Sinn Féin Patrick Higgins
        Irish Nationalist John Francis O'Sullivan [n 16]
        Irish Nationalist Patrick F. O'Sullivan [n 3] [n 15]
        Sinn Féin Simon Daly
        Ex-Soldiers & SailorsTimothy O'Neill
        Irish Nationalist Daniel Horgan [n 3] [n 12]
        Irish Nationalist Patrick Stack [n 3]
        Sinn Féin John Kelleher
        Sinn Féin Henry Lorton
        Sinn Féin John O'Keeffe
        RatepayersMichael D. Spillane [n 17]
        Independent John Flynn
        Independent Joseph Leonard
        Quota: 306 [9]  

          North-West No.3

          18 candidates; covering Blackpool area

          North-West No. 3: 6 seats [6]
          PartyCandidateFPv%Count
          1
          Sinn Féin Tomás Mac Curtain
          Sinn Féin Denis Lucey
          Ex-Soldiers & SailorsGerald Byrne [n 18]
          Sinn Féin Mícheál Ó Cuill (Michael O'Quill)
          Sinn Féin Thomas Patrick Forde
          Labour Council Michael Egan [n 3]
          Irish Nationalist Edward A. Lyons
          Irish Nationalist Charles Whelan
          Sinn Féin Timothy Gearan
          Sinn Féin Bartholomew Quinlan
          RatepayersMichael D. Spillane [n 17]
          Labour CouncilCornelius Hobart
          Labour CouncilThomas Walsh
          Independent Mortimer Kelleher [n 11]
          Independent Denis Mack [n 13]
          Independent John McAuley [n 3]
          Independent Daniel O'Leary
          Independent Michael O'Connell
          Quota: 306 [9]  

            South No.1

            30 candidates

            South No. 1: 11 seats [7]
            PartyCandidateFPv%Count
            1
            Sinn Féin Charles Coughlan
            Sinn Féin Seán O'Sullivan [n 16]
            Ind. Nationalist John (Seán) Cronin [n 2] [n 19]
            Sinn Féin John (Seán) Good
            Irish Nationalist John Horgan [n 3]
            Sinn Féin Jeremiah Kelleher [n 5]
            Irish Nationalist Simon Mahony [n 3]
            Irish Nationalist William F. O'Connor [n 6] [n 4]
            Sinn Féin Liam (William) Russell [n 20]
            Sinn Féin John F. Sheehan [n 21]
            Sinn Féin Maurice Walsh
            Irish Nationalist Jeremiah Ahern
            Irish Nationalist David Murphy
            Irish Nationalist Simon Mahony
            Irish Nationalist James O'Connell [n 3]
            Sinn Féin William Kenneally
            Sinn Féin Michael Landy
            Sinn Féin Michael Murphy
            Sinn Féin Frank O'Neill
            RatepayersRobert Pulvertaft
            Labour CouncilJames Harty
            Labour CouncilWilliam Waldrock
            Labour CouncilJohn Donovan
            Independent Thomas Donovan
            Independent Fred Howe
            Independent E. Magner
            Independent John O'Sullivan [n 16]
            Independent William James Russell [n 20]
            Independent John Sheehan [n 21]
            Independent Daniel Sheehan
            Quota: 306 [9]  

              South No.2

              18 candidates

              South No.2: 6 seats [7] [10]
              PartyCandidateFPv%Count
              1
              Sinn Féin Liam de Róiste MP697
              Ind. Nationalist Sir Edward Fitzgerald, 1st baronet [n 2] 474
              Sinn Féin Daniel Barry
              Sinn Féin Stephen John O'Riordan
              Irish Nationalist John Desmond
              Irish Nationalist William Ellis [n 3]
              Irish Nationalist John McCarthy
              Sinn Féin Stephen Harrington
              Sinn Féin Denis Hegarty
              Sinn Féin P. Austin O'Riordan
              RatepayersThomas Farrington
              RatepayersThomas A. Callanan
              Labour CouncilWilliam Byrne
              Labour CouncilMartin Hawkins
              Ex-Soldiers & SailorsGerald Byrne [n 18]
              Ind. Nationalist John (Seán) Cronin [n 2] [n 19]
              Independent Joseph O'Brien
              Independent Joseph Parfrey
              Quota: 306 [9]  

                Subsequent changes

                William F. O'Connor, having been returned in three BEAs, chose to represent North-West No.1, triggering by-elections in the other two BEAs on 10 March, both won by Sinn Féin candidates: Barry Egan defeated Jeremiah Lane in the Central ward, while Donal O'Callaghan was returned unopposed in South No.1. Ten subsequent by-elections returned: Joseph Hennessy, Madeline Hegarty, William Kenneally, Michael Moroney, Cornelius Neenan, Seán Nolan, Michael O'Donovan, Paul O'Flynn, James O'Riordan, and Jeremiah Walsh. Among the vacancies filled were several deaths related to the Irish War of Independence: Tomás Mac Curtain (assassinated by Royal Irish Constabulary members on 20 March 1920), his successor as Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney (died on hunger strike on 25 October 1920), and Tadhg Barry (shot in Ballykinlar Camp, 15 November 1921). [11]

                In 1924 the Cumann na nGaedheal government dissolved the city council for misgovernment, after which the corporation was administered by an unelected commissioner. The next Free State local elections, originally scheduled for 1923, were repeatedly postponed until 1925. The city council was excluded from the 1925 and 1928 local elections and not restored until 1929, reduced to 21 councillors, with the entire county borough forming a single 21-seat electoral area. [12]

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                Footnotes

                1. 1 2 3 The two candidates in North-West No.1 BEA named James Walsh and the James Joseph Walsh in Central BEA were three different people.
                2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Outgoing alderman
                3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Outgoing councillor
                4. 1 2 3 4 5 The following Nationalists in Centre BEA were also endorse by the Ratepayers: Denis Buckley, William F. O'Connor, and William Desmond.
                5. 1 2 Two different men named Jeremiah Kelleher were elected: a Labour candidate and outgoing alderman from Gillabbey Terrace in Central BEA, and a Sinn Féin candidate from Lough Road in South No.1 BEA.
                6. 1 2 3 William F. O'Connor, the incumbent Lord Mayor, was returned in three electoral areas.
                7. 1 2 There were two candidates named Cornelius O'Donovan in Central BEA.
                8. 1 2 Daniel Williams ran in Central and North-East BEAs.
                9. 1 2 Two men named John Hurley ran in Central BEA.
                10. 1 2 Cornelius Curtin ran in Central and North-West No.1 BEAs.
                11. 1 2 3 Mortimer Kelleher ran in Central, North-West No.1 and North-West No.3 BEAs.
                12. 1 2 Daniel Horgan ran in North-East and North-West No.2 BEAs.
                13. 1 2 Denis Mack ran in both North-East and North-West No.3 BEAs.
                14. ↑ Tadhg Barry was a union official representing the ITGWU portion of the join ITGWU–Sinn Fein ticket. [8]
                15. 1 2 3 Patrick F. O'Sullivan of Dominick Street ran in North-West No.1 and No.2 BEAs; Patrick O'Sullivan of St. Mary's Terrace, Fair Hill, ran in North-West No.1 BEA.
                16. 1 2 3 Seán O'Sullivan, John Francis O'Sullivan and John O'Sullivan were different people.
                17. 1 2 Michael D. Spillane ran in North-West No.2 and No.3 BEAs.
                18. 1 2 Gerald Byrne ran in both North-West No.3 and South No.2 BEAs.
                19. 1 2 John (Seán) Cronin ran in South No.1 and No.2 BEAs.
                20. 1 2 William (Liam) Russell and William James Russell were different people.
                21. 1 2 John F. Sheehan and John Sheehan were different people.

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