1920 Pembroke Urban District Council election

An election to all 15 seats on Pembroke Urban District Council took place on Thursday 15 January 1920 as part of the 1920 Irish local elections. ^[1] Pembroke was divided into two district electoral areas to elect councillors for a three-year term of office. This term was later extended to 1925.

Four candidates, including Dench (previously a nationalist councillor), and Forsyth (a Protestant Home Ruler, and the incumbent council chairman) ran on a Ratepayers Association ticket, which was silent on the national question. Along with keeping rates down, the grouping was committed to improved housing accommodation for the working classes, extending facilities to plotholders, better street lighting, the erection of a Free Carnegie Library, improved technical education, and providing wash houses where necessary. ^[2]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	Candidates	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Irish Unionist	6		7
	Sinn Féin	6		11
	Ratepayers	3		4
	Labour	0		4
	Independent	0		1
Total		15		27	7,487	100%	—
Source: Irish Independent [3] Turnout: 70.84%

^[3]

Results by local electoral area

^  *: Outgoing councillor.

East Ward

East Ward: 7 seats ^{[1] [4] [5]}

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Irish Unionist	John Good [*]	19.60	667
	Sinn Féin	James Maguire	14.28	486
	Irish Unionist	Charles R. Dunbar [*]			467
	Irish Unionist	William McMillan		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	444
	Sinn Féin	Joseph Curran		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	466
	Ratepayers	Thomas Ryan		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	426
	Sinn Féin	Denis Byrne		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	424
	Labour	Thomas Doyle		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	329
	Sinn Féin	Christopher O'Kelly [a]		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	302
	Ratepayers	G. W. Dench, J.P. [*]		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	196
	Sinn Féin	Alice Ginnell		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	179
	Labour	Helen Sophia Chenevix		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	147
	Sinn Féin	Alfred McGloughlin		-	-	-	-	-	-	118
	Independent	John O'Brien		-	-	-	-	-	95
	Labour	Diarmid Joseph O'Leary		-	-	-	51
Electorate: 4,693  Valid: 3,403  Spoilt: 61  Quota: 426  Turnout: 3,464

West Ward

West Ward: 8 seats ^{[1] [3] [4]}

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Irish Unionist	William Beckett [*]	19.27	787
	Ratepayers	Michael Fannin [*]	16.06	656
	Irish Unionist	John Wesley Brittain	10.40	425	665
	Irish Unionist	George Robert Goodfellow	9.50	388
	Sinn Féin	Mary S. Humphreys	9.50	388
	Sinn Féin	Michael Greene	8.69	355
	Sinn Féin	Bartholomew O'Connor	7.91	323
	Irish Unionist	Sir Gabriel Stokes	7.74	316
	Sinn Féin	Michael Stafford	5.70	233
	Labour	J. Edward Nolan	5.56	227
	Ratepayers	William Mills Forsyth, J.P. [*]	5.02	205
	Sinn Féin	Fergus O'Connor	1.79	73	-	-	-
Electorate: 5,876  Valid: 4,085  Spoilt: 71  Quota: 454  Turnout: 4,156

Notes

1. Brother of Seán T. O'Kelly.

References

1. "Municipal elections: Dublin Townships" . Dublin Evening Telegraph. Dublin. 19 January 1920. pp. 1–3.
2. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002093/19200108/038/0002 – via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001715/19200119/137/0006 – via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
4. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001715/19200117/140/0005 – via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
5. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002093/19200115/043/0004 – via British Newspaper Archive.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)