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All 25 seats on Kildare County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map showing the area of Kildare County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Kildare County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of the 1985 Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from five 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 | 10 | +1 | 17,205 | 42.91 | ||
| Fine Gael | 7 | -1 | 9,294 | 23.18 | ||
| Labour | 5 | +1 | 8,563 | 21.36 | ||
| Workers' Party | 1 | +1 | 1,035 | 2.58 | ||
| Sinn Féin | 1 | +1 | 875 | 2.18 | ||
| Independent | 1 | +1 | 3,125 | 7.79 | ||
| Totals | 25 | +4 | 40,335 | 100.00 | — | |
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Labour | Joseph Bermingham TD* | 1,572 | |||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Martin Miley* | 1,102 | 1,115 | 1,162 | 1,186 | 1,515 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Paddy Wright | 875 | 907 | 944 | 988 | 1,071 | 1,085 | 1,105 | 1,126 | ||
| Fine Gael | Reggie Lalor | 767 | 798 | 872 | 989 | 1,066 | 1,077 | 1,585 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Lenore O'Rourke-Glynn | 571 | 585 | 655 | 671 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Rainsford Hendy | 565 | 575 | 614 | 694 | 704 | 706 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Robert Byrne | 555 | 564 | 613 | 697 | 806 | 927 | 982 | 1,063 | ||
| Labour | Michael Cullen* | 434 | 515 | 559 | |||||||
| Independent | Jack McKenna | 203 | 207 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Megan Maguire | 191 | 201 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 11,921 Valid: 6,835 (58.46%) Spoilt: 134 Quota: 1,367 Turnout: 6,969 | |||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Labour | Emmet Stagg * | 2,784 | ||||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Gerry Brady | 1,045 | 1,226 | 1,229 | 1,241 | 1,245 | 1,567 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Bernard Durkan TD* | 1,001 | 1,296 | 1,309 | 1,571 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Jim Gallagher* | 729 | 836 | 846 | 908 | 1,100 | 1,135 | 1,150 | 1,257 | 1,280 | ||
| Workers' Party | Colm Purcell | 722 | 1,226 | 1,282 | 1,293 | 1,299 | 1,331 | 1,340 | 1,413 | |||
| Independent | Finbarr Kelly | 575 | 614 | 626 | 627 | 627 | 690 | 807 | 1,250 | 1,275 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Paul Kelly | 537 | 601 | 606 | 609 | 610 | 639 | 700 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Mairead Byrne | 411 | 508 | 516 | 538 | 541 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Jim Condra | 285 | 380 | 387 | ||||||||
| Independent | Micheal O'Connell | 100 | 137 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 15,118 Valid: 8,189 (54.59%) Spoilt: 53 Quota: 1,365 Turnout: 8,242 | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Sean Reilly* | 1,511 | |||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Liam Doyle | 1,019 | 1,026 | 1,038 | 1,062 | 1,129 | 1,238 | 1,340 | 2,038 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Austin Groome* | 1,011 | 1,017 | 1,050 | 1,111 | 1,147 | 1,623 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | P.J. Sheridan | 817 | 833 | 841 | 851 | 922 | 991 | 1,131 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Fitzpatrick | 715 | 729 | 767 | 787 | 806 | |||||
| Labour | Jim Reilly | 545 | 553 | 609 | 776 | 1,092 | 1,137 | 1,154 | 1,230 | ||
| Labour | Joe McBride | 434 | 441 | 658 | 732 | ||||||
| Labour | Peggy Fox | 393 | 402 | ||||||||
| Fine Gael | Noel Duffy | 372 | 452 | 473 | |||||||
| Electorate: 11,132 Valid: 6,817 (61.94%) Spoilt: 78 Quota: 1,364 Turnout: 6,895 | |||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jimmy O'Loughlin* | 1,158 | 1,168 | 1,176 | 1,200 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Paddy Aspell* | 1,088 | 1,090 | 1,135 | 1,156 | 1,389 | ||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Ó Fearghail | 825 | 832 | 840 | 853 | 1,042 | 1,107 | 1,128 | 1,159 | 1,584 | ||
| Fine Gael | Michael McWey* | 677 | 736 | 908 | 956 | 1,017 | 1,036 | 1,434 | ||||
| Labour | Kieran Coleman | 641 | 659 | 671 | 880 | 929 | 939 | 1,009 | 1,121 | 1,200 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Ted Rooney | 622 | 626 | 634 | 644 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Denis Mahon | 534 | 588 | 593 | 751 | 815 | 911 | 967 | 1,003 | |||
| Labour | Con Carr | 522 | 576 | 591 | ||||||||
| Fine Gael | Margot Conlon | 424 | 509 | 602 | 665 | 677 | 680 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Trudy Jeffers | 346 | 376 | |||||||||
| Fine Gael | Billy Cleary | 333 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 13,776 Valid: 7,170 (52.66%) Spoilt: 85 Quota: 1,196 Turnout: 7,255 | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Paddy Power * | 1,788 | ||||||||||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | John O'Neill* | 1,293 | 1,400 | |||||||||||||||
| Independent | Patsy Lawlor* | 1,253 | 1,270 | 1,330 | 1,331 | 1,388 | ||||||||||||
| Labour | Sen. Timmy Conway * | 774 | 786 | 808 | 808 | 841 | 854 | 926 | 1,023 | 1,024 | 1,042 | 1,225 | 1,332 | 1,485 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Michael Nolan, Snr* | 734 | 746 | 750 | 751 | 757 | 793 | 957 | 966 | 966 | 977 | 1,133 | 1,334 | 1,423 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Billy Hillis | 637 | 643 | 647 | 647 | 655 | 659 | 745 | 754 | 754 | 820 | 841 | 1,003 | 1,033 | 1,063 | 1,120 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Mary Robinson | 523 | 616 | 628 | 634 | 647 | 676 | 688 | 718 | 718 | 883 | 913 | 935 | 986 | 1,003 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Paddy Behan | 523 | 578 | 603 | 605 | 644 | 655 | 669 | 758 | 759 | 936 | 965 | 1,009 | 1,093 | 1,113 | 1,715 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Peter Kavanagh | 493 | 531 | 538 | 541 | 547 | 559 | 564 | 581 | 581 | ||||||||
| Labour | Colm Feeney | 464 | 471 | 478 | 479 | 492 | 546 | 559 | 582 | 582 | 594 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | John Malone | 458 | 483 | 494 | 494 | 505 | 510 | |||||||||||
| Fine Gael | Pat O'Reilly | 455 | 458 | 475 | 475 | 511 | 513 | 603 | 625 | 625 | 633 | 646 | ||||||
| Independent | Norman Croke | 429 | 433 | 441 | 441 | 461 | 551 | 562 | 654 | 654 | 665 | 713 | 723 | |||||
| Independent | Evelyn Bracken | 416 | 422 | 443 | 443 | 497 | 526 | 533 | ||||||||||
| Workers' Party | Dan O'Sullivan | 313 | 317 | 322 | 322 | 330 | ||||||||||||
| Independent | Donal Corcoran | 287 | 292 | 322 | 322 | |||||||||||||
| Independent | Michael Lawlor | 246 | 254 | |||||||||||||||
| Electorate: 20,849 Valid: 11,086 (53.91%) Spoilt: 154 Quota: 1,386 Turnout: 11,240 | ||||||||||||||||||
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