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The 1920 Kildare County Council election was held on Friday, 4 June 1920.
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The 1920 Kildare County Council election was held on Friday, 4 June 1920.
| Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
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| Sinn Féin | 14 | 4,637 | 53.96 | |||
| Labour | 5 | 2,405 | 27.99 | |||
| Independent | 1 | 1,551 | 18.05 | |||
| Totals | 20 | 8,593 | 100.00 | — | ||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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| 1 | ||||
| Labour | C. J. Supple | 504 | ||
| Sinn Féin | W. Mahon | 312 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Patrick Dooley | 205 | ||
| Sinn Féin | George Harbourne | 177 | ||
| Independent | James Flynn | 125 | ||
| Labour | M. Tomlinson | 120 | ||
| Sinn Féin | W. Murray* | 115 | ||
| Sinn Féin | J. J. Kehoe | 103 | ||
| Independent | R. Wright* | 94 | ||
| Independent | John Conlan* | 84 | ||
| Independent | Thomas Hickey* | 23 | ||
| Electorate: 4,093 Valid: 1,862 Spoilt: 114 Quota: 373 Turnout: 1,976 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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| 1 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | E. Moran | 547 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Nicholas Hanagan | 415 | ||
| Labour | James Cregan | 368 | ||
| Labour | Arthur Murphy | 290 | ||
| Independent | Chas. Bergin* | 249 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Francis Doran | 224 | ||
| Labour | Chr. Kenny | 211 | ||
| Independent | James Sunderland* | 91 | ||
| Electorate: 4,321 Valid: 2,395 Spoilt: 145 Quota: 400 Turnout: 2,540 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
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| Sinn Féin | Daniel Buckley | 754 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | James O'Connor | 396 | 486 | |||
| Sinn Féin | T. Harris | 360 | 542 | |||
| Independent | M. Fitzsimons | 301 | 312 | 313 | ||
| Sinn Féin | John Lawler | 210 | 215 | 228 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Nicholas Travers | 198 | 220 | 248 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Mark Carroll | 170 | 206 | 207 | ||
| Labour | J. J. J. Flanagan | 147 | 155 | |||
| Independent | E. Farrell | 50 | 62 | |||
| Independent | T. Lacy | 50 | 52 | 53 (eliminated) | ||
| Electorate: 4,741 Spoilt: 140 Quota: 440 Turnout: 2,776 | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Labour | Michael Smyth | 508 | |||||||
| Sinn Féin | Thomas Doran | 313 | 329 | 337 | 347 | 347 | 454 | ||
| Sinn Féin | J. Fitzgerald | 293 | 305 | 310 | 340 | 343 | 370 | ||
| Labour | Hugh Colohan | 257 | 361 | 363 | 376 | ||||
| Independent | Henry C. Fay* | 152 | 155 | 168 | 196-elim | ||||
| Independent | George Wolfe* | 137 | 138 | 159 | 196 | 197 | 221 | ||
| Independent | P. J. Doyle* | 123 | 126 | 141-elim | |||||
| Independent | Joseph O'Connor* | 72 | 75-elim | ||||||
| Electorate: 3,626 Valid: 1,700 Spoilt: 157 Quota: 372 Turnout: 1,857 | |||||||||
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