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All 20 seats on Sligo County Council 11 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||
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 Map showing the area of Sligo County Council | ||||||||||
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An election to Sligo County Council took place on 4 June 1920 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 20 councillors were elected from 5 electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.
Sinn Féin won every seat for election, and also won a massive majority of the vote. [1]
| Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
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| Sinn Féin | 20 | 13,617 | 91.92 | |||
| Independent Nationalist | 0 | 318 | 2.15 | |||
| Sligo Ratepayers Association | 0 | 388 | 2.62 | |||
| Independent | 0 | 491 | 3.31 | |||
| Totals | 20 | 14,814 | 100.00 | — | ||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Alex McCabe | 1,056 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Bernard Conlon | 1,040 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | John J. McMorrow | 944 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Thomas O'Donnell | 868 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Michael Finn | 322 | 439 | 684 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Michael Gray | 316 | 523 | 607 | 841 | ||
| Independent Nationalist | Patrick McManamy | 189 | 226 | 244 | 254 | ||
| Independent | James Wynne | 26 | 30 | 32 | 38 | ||
| Independent | Patrick Gildea | 15 | 23 | 31 | 42 | ||
| Electorate: 9,285 Valid: 4,776 (51.44%) Spoilt: 145 Quota: 683 Turnout: 4,921 (53.00%) | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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| 1 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | John P. Brennan | Unopposed | Unopposed | |
| Sinn Féin | James Gilligan | Unopposed | Unopposed | |
| Sinn Féin | John Mullarkey | Unopposed | Unopposed | |
| Sinn Féin | Thomas Murricane | Unopposed | Unopposed | |
| Electorate: 5,378 Valid: Quota: | ||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||
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| 1 | 2 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Michael J. Hanley | 1,194 | |||
| Sinn Féin | John C. Clancy | 914 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Dudley M. Hanley | 818 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Daniel Kilcullen | 687 | 1,086 | ||
| Independent | A. J. Crichton | 148 | 155 | ||
| Independent Nationalist | Peter Cawley | 129 | 138 | ||
| Electorate: 5,302 Valid: 3,890 (73.37%) Spoilt: 106 Quota: 779 Turnout: 3,996 (75.37%) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | John Hennigan | 1,256 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | Patrick J. Rooney | 957 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | John Lynch | 957 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | Denis Leonard | 876 | Elected | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Laurence McHugh | 707 | Elected | |||||
| Sinn Féin | James McGowan | 705 | Elected | |||||
| Independent | John Jinks | 302 | ||||||
| Sligo Ratepayers Association | Percy Kerr | 186 | ||||||
| Sligo Ratepayers Association | Henry Wood-Martin | 126 | ||||||
| Sligo Ratepayers Association | Patrick Jordan | 76 | ||||||
| Electorate: 8,077 Valid: 6,148 (76.12%) Spoilt: 203 Quota: 879 Turnout: 6,351 (78.63%) | ||||||||
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