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All 32 seats on Clare County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map showing the area of Clare County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Clare County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 32 councillors were elected from six local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). This term was extended for a further year, to 1991. [1]
| Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 17 | 0 | 23,382 | 53.52 | ||
| Fine Gael | 8 | -1 | 10,232 | 23.42 | ||
| Labour | 2 | 0 | 2,256 | 5.16 | ||
| Independent | 5 | +2 | 7,629 | 17.46 | ||
| Totals | 32 | +1 | 43,393 | 100.0 | — | |
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Independent | Tommy Brennan | 1,007 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Frank Barrett | 827 | 845 | 864 | 892 | 917 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Bobby Burke | 673 | 693 | 716 | 741 | 777 | 825 | ||
| Fine Gael | Michael Howard * | 627 | 648 | 679 | 772 | 1,044 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Peter Considine | 606 | 627 | 642 | 661 | 691 | 742 | ||
| Fine Gael | Angela Coughlan | 334 | 345 | 368 | 422 | ||||
| Labour | Flan Honan | 228 | 238 | 280 | |||||
| Workers' Party | Dermot Hayes | 186 | 194 | ||||||
| Electorate: 8,261 Valid: 4,488 (55.11%) Spoilt: 65 Quota: 898 Turnout: 4,553 | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Tony Killeen | 1,284 | ||||||||
| Fine Gael | Frank Henchy* | 1,120 | 1,127 | 1,134 | 1,472 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Enda Mulkere | 1,029 | 1,052 | 1,060 | 1,081 | 1,128 | 1,135 | 1,440 | ||
| Labour | Martin Lafferty* | 1,027 | 1,036 | 1,043 | 1,216 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jimmy Nagle* | 932 | 951 | 955 | 1,009 | 1,057 | 1,086 | 1,730 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Jack Lynch* | 887 | 946 | 956 | 994 | 1,044 | 1,062 | |||
| Fine Gael | Bill Slattery | 645 | 649 | 652 | ||||||
| Independent | Joseph Meehan | 47 | 48 | |||||||
| Electorate: 9,782 Valid: 6,971 (71.72%) Spoilt: 45 Quota: 1,162 Turnout: 7,016 | ||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Independent | John Minogue* | 1,545 | ||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Colm Wiley* | 1,385 | ||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Joe Gorman | 1,295 | 1,360 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Patrick Bugler* | 1,208 | 1,266 | 1,497 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Tony McMahon* | 1,197 | 1,221 | 1,248 | 1,278 | 1,286 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Begley | 1,038 | 1,044 | 1,131 | 1,150 | 1,201 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Harry Brannn* | 885 | 900 | 1,251 | 1,361 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Eoin Maloney | 726 | 777 | |||||
| Electorate: 13,372 Valid: 9,279 (69.89%) Spoilt: 367 Quota: 1,326 Turnout: 9,346 | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | P.J. Kelly | 1,099 | 1,106 | 1,203 | 1,219 | 1,220 | 1,275 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Bill Chambers | 1,084 | 1,108 | 1,234 | 1,280 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Madeleine Taylor-QuinnTD* | 955 | 1,079 | 1,091 | 1,213 | 1,217 | 1,301 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Jackie Keane* | 872 | 923 | 1,039 | 1,059 | 1,061 | 1,081 | 1,085 | 1,452 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Keating* | 820 | 846 | 877 | 998 | 1,006 | 1,135 | 1,143 | 1,249 | |||
| Independent | William O'Looney | 756 | 771 | 772 | 803 | 804 | 991 | 1,021 | 1,090 | 1,157 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Flynn | 562 | 584 | 625 | 660 | 666 | ||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Martin Foran* | 556 | 585 | 594 | 693 | 700 | 816 | 819 | 866 | 901 | ||
| Independent | Sean Maloney | 551 | 585 | 589 | ||||||||
| Fine Gael | Sean Ryan | 547 | 607 | 682 | 726 | 730 | 771 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Timmy McMahon | 514 | 519 | |||||||||
| Fine Gael | Annette Burke | 410 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 11,784 Valid: 8,726 (74.54%) Spoilt: 58 Quota: 1,247 Turnout: 8,784 | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Independent | P.J. Burke* | 1,408 | |||||||
| Independent | Christy Curtin* | 1,249 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | James Breen | 1,038 | 1,082 | 1,102 | 1,128 | 1,147 | 1,320 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Flan Garvey | 974 | 1,010 | 1,024 | 1,044 | 1,053 | 1,133 | ||
| Fine Gael | Donal CareyTD* | 883 | 908 | 929 | 1,175 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Haulie Daly | 756 | 767 | 788 | 794 | 798 | 830 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Hillery | 617 | 668 | 672 | 752 | 792 | 1,165 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Timothy Sexton | 603 | 657 | 659 | 707 | 736 | |||
| Fine Gael | P.J. Meade | 404 | 436 | 447 | |||||
| Independent | Basil Minihane | 65 | 69 | ||||||
| Independent | Frank McTigue | 36 | 39 | ||||||
| Electorate: 11,177 Valid: 8,033 (72.42%) Spoilt: 61 Quota: 1,148 Turnout: 8,094 | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Pat McMahon* | 1,103 | ||||||||||
| Labour | Patricia McCarthy* | 1,001 | 1,006 | 1,026 | 1,074 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Sean Driscoll | 977 | 991 | 1,002 | 1,015 | 1,103 | ||||||
| Fianna Fáil | PJ Cunningham | 568 | 586 | 631 | 632 | 648 | 662 | 705 | 769 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Hillery | 544 | 561 | 577 | 593 | 636 | 666 | 702 | 863 | 1,267 | ||
| Fine Gael | Sonny Scanlon | 419 | 421 | 446 | 519 | 526 | 528 | 790 | 868 | 1,050 | ||
| Independent | John Murray | 404 | 407 | 427 | 427 | 540 | 554 | 594 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Mary Donnelly | 382 | 390 | 409 | 440 | 454 | 457 | |||||
| Independent | Brigid Makowski | 372 | 372 | 380 | 382 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Joan Reddan | 229 | 231 | 237 | ||||||||
| Independent | JJ McCabe | 189 | 191 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 9,767 Valid: 6,188 (63.36%) Quota: 1,032 | ||||||||||||
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