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All 26 seats on Kilkenny County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map showing the area of Kilkenny County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Kilkenny County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of the 1985 Irish local elections. 26 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 | 11 | - | 14,722 | 44.77 | ||
| Fine Gael | 10 | - | 11,631 | 35.37 | ||
| Labour | 3 | -1 | 3,509 | 10.67 | ||
| Workers' Party | 1 | - | 1,644 | 5.00 | ||
| Independent | 1 | +1 | 1,370 | 4.17 | ||
| Totals | 26 | - | 32,886 | 100.00 | — | |
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Mary Hilda Cavanagh* | 1,078 | 1,087 | 1,092 | 1,274 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Murphy* | 1,058 | 1,063 | 1,097 | 1,188 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Martin Fitzpatrick* | 959 | 959 | 1,009 | 1,022 | 1,029 | 1,115 | 1,117 | ||
| Labour | Dick Brennan* | 851 | 946 | 1,044 | 1,067 | 1,074 | 1,146 | 1,149 | ||
| Fine Gael | Thomas Coogan | 680 | 734 | 776 | 950 | 1,043 | 1,135 | 1,149 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Martin Gibbons | 660 | 666 | 743 | 799 | 807 | 1,109 | 1,121 | ||
| Fine Gael | Kieran Brennan | 529 | 558 | 566 | ||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Patricia Owens | 442 | 464 | 586 | 599 | 601 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Charles Brennan | 432 | 454 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | John Brennan | 249 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 9,852 Valid: 6,938 (71.42%) Spoilt: 98 Quota: 1,157 Turnout: 7,036 | ||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Kieran Crotty TD* | 1,007 | 1,056 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Sen. Michael Lanigan * | 838 | 850 | 851 | 860 | 891 | 918 | 990 | 1,007 | ||
| Labour | Seamus Pattison TD* | 800 | 826 | 834 | 863 | 940 | 974 | 1,073 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael McGuinness* | 753 | 758 | 758 | 772 | 795 | 816 | 881 | 892 | ||
| Independent | John Bolger | 559 | 581 | 585 | 603 | 663 | 714 | 869 | 895 | ||
| Independent | John Dalton | 298 | 304 | 306 | 361 | 372 | 554 | ||||
| Independent | Ken Coogan | 266 | 269 | 270 | 327 | 333 | |||||
| Workers' Party | Noel O'Farrell | 198 | 201 | 201 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Tom Crotty | 195 | 217 | 243 | 250 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Geraldine Maher | 151 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 8,160 Valid: 5,065 (63.87%) Spoilt: 147 Quota: 1,014 Turnout: 5,212 | |||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Liam Aylward TD* | 1,785 | ||||||||||
| Fine Gael | Dick Dowling TD* | 1,212 | ||||||||||
| Workers' Party | Sean Walsh* | 1,145 | ||||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Eamonn Meade* | 824 | 950 | 952 | 954 | 958 | 967 | 1,028 | 1,087 | |||
| Fine Gael | Andy Cotterell* | 654 | 708 | 754 | 759 | 764 | 840 | 890 | 958 | 991 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Dermot Kavanagh | 544 | 618 | 626 | 630 | 634 | 640 | 643 | 660 | 860 | ||
| Fine Gael | John Maher | 513 | 549 | 566 | 573 | 576 | 651 | 858 | 974 | 988 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Thomas Walsh | 477 | 579 | 588 | 590 | 611 | 615 | 618 | 635 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Dick Dunphy * | 430 | 704 | 708 | 719 | 727 | 771 | 780 | 834 | 1,071 | ||
| Labour | Desmond Scahill | 326 | 347 | 354 | 441 | 459 | 469 | 505 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Mick Wall | 315 | 327 | 337 | 344 | 346 | 382 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Joe Cummins | 226 | 241 | 272 | 278 | 284 | ||||||
| Labour | John Mahon | 127 | 134 | 138 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 12,979 Valid: 8,588 (70.14%) Spoilt: 119 Quota: 1,074 Turnout: 8,707 | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | James Brett* | 1,189 | ||||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Breda Somers | 768 | 790 | 821 | 828 | 834 | 1,075 | 1,103 | 1,114 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Fenlon* | 636 | 650 | 670 | 692 | 808 | 920 | 958 | 965 | 993 | ||
| Labour | Michael O'Brien* | 629 | 631 | 729 | 740 | 968 | 1,029 | 1,184 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Billy Ireland* | 626 | 628 | 643 | 717 | 742 | 789 | 963 | 987 | 1,241 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | John Fennelly* | 579 | 598 | 622 | 622 | 631 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Philip Brennan* | 571 | 576 | 582 | 634 | 665 | 676 | 797 | 812 | 1,086 | ||
| Fine Gael | Tom Maher* | 568 | 576 | 583 | 647 | 650 | 665 | 737 | 751 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Tom Quinn | 553 | 559 | 564 | 627 | 637 | 732 | 762 | 767 | 812 | ||
| Fine Gael | Joe Prendergast | 463 | 464 | 498 | 614 | 638 | 662 | |||||
| Labour | John Bolger | 445 | 445 | 479 | 486 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Frank Prendergast | 427 | 428 | 431 | ||||||||
| Workers' Party | Joe Doyle | 301 | 302 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 11,440 Valid: 7,755 (68.77%) Spoilt: 122 Quota: 1,108 Turnout: 7,867 | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Phil Hogan * | 1,377 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Pat Millea | 664 | 739 | 766 | 803 | 847 | 889 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Thomas Brennan* | 581 | 609 | 646 | 696 | 749 | 827 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | John McGuinness | 550 | 566 | 614 | 686 | 732 | 761 | ||
| Fine Gael | Margaret Tynan * | 414 | 632 | 654 | 765 | 1,156 | |||
| Fine Gael | Thomas Vaughan | 376 | 478 | 501 | 592 | ||||
| Labour | Luke Boyle | 331 | 356 | 410 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Bobby Byrne | 247 | 251 | ||||||
| Electorate: 7,523 Valid: 4,540 (60.93%) Spoilt: 44 Quota: 909 Turnout: 4,584 | |||||||||
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