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All 17 seats on Limerick City Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map showing the area of Limerick City Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Limerick City Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of the Irish local elections. 17 councillors were elected from four 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% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fine Gael | 6 | +1 | 7,246 | 34.25 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | 5 | -1 | 5,905 | 27.91 | ||
| Democratic Socialist | 3 | +3 | 3,141 | 14.85 | ||
| Labour | 1 | -3 | 2,477 | 11.71 | ||
| Independent | 2 | 0 | 1,474 | 6.97 | ||
| Totals | 17 | 0 | 21,155 | 100.00 | — | |
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Democratic Socialist | Tim O'Driscoll | 808 | 875 | 907 | 917 | 953 | 983 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | John Quinn* | 794 | 836 | 866 | 900 | 1,314 | |||
| Fine Gael | Tim Leddin | 711 | 719 | 784 | 1,046 | ||||
| Labour | Frank PrendergastTD* | 591 | 625 | 663 | 764 | 859 | 948 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Tony Bromell* | 579 | 625 | 649 | 664 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Eileen Silke | 544 | 554 | 609 | 769 | 816 | 875 | ||
| Fine Gael | John O'Sullivan | 522 | 525 | 606 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Rosarie Moylan | 325 | 336 | ||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Joe Buckley | 104 | |||||||
| Workers' Party | Maria Collins | 86 | |||||||
| Labour | Collette Moloney | 45 | |||||||
| Electorate: 8,841 Valid: 5,109 (58.34%) Spoilt: 49 Quota: 1,022 Turnout: 5,158 | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Gus O'Driscoll* | 1,083 | 1,115 | |||||||||||
| Democratic Socialist | Jan O'Sullivan | 759 | 770 | 950 | 950 | 1,042 | 1,088 | 1,107 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Kevin Kiely | 667 | 693 | 719 | 721 | 740 | 874 | 926 | 949 | 950 | 974 | 975 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Paddy Madden* | 649 | 661 | 670 | 672 | 698 | 743 | 800 | 919 | 919 | 1,169 | |||
| Labour | Mick Lipper* | 582 | 650 | 677 | 684 | 720 | 786 | 801 | 856 | 858 | 921 | 935 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Paddy Kiely* | 513 | 519 | 525 | 526 | 545 | 558 | 597 | 677 | 678 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Larry Cross | 407 | 408 | 416 | 417 | 448 | 489 | 631 | 686 | 692 | 947 | 1,012 | ||
| Fine Gael | Ralph O'Brien | 358 | 360 | 366 | 368 | 378 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Cronin | 344 | 351 | 365 | 365 | 382 | 386 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Daniel Powell | 340 | 375 | 381 | 382 | 401 | 406 | 435 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | Des Long | 588 | 342 | 351 | 354 | |||||||||
| Democratic Socialist | Eleanor Goodison | 293 | 304 | |||||||||||
| Labour | Martin Vaughan | 178 | ||||||||||||
| Labour | John Powell | 72 | ||||||||||||
| Electorate: 11,862 Valid: 6,567 (56.16%) Spoilt: 95 Quota: 1,095 Turnout: 6,662 | ||||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Democratic Socialist | Jim Kemmy * | 1,281 | |||||||||||
| Independent | Joe Harrington | 589 | 667 | 687 | 712 | 801 | 819 | 1,019 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jack Bourke* | 489 | 509 | 514 | 558 | 577 | 583 | 597 | 603 | 867 | 918 | ||
| Labour | Frank Leddin* | 452 | 501 | 504 | 512 | 525 | 545 | 569 | 585 | 626 | 723 | ||
| Fine Gael | Ger Fahy | 448 | 471 | 474 | 478 | 491 | 612 | 635 | 641 | 665 | 864 | ||
| Fine Gael | Peter O'Flaherty | 371 | 396 | 401 | 406 | 417 | 456 | 490 | 502 | 529 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Jimmy Flannery | 346 | 375 | 380 | 422 | 432 | 443 | 461 | 465 | ||||
| Workers' Party | Sean Griffin | 290 | 322 | 341 | 347 | 370 | 379 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Shaun Elder | 208 | 226 | 231 | 235 | 239 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Dan Greaney | 177 | 190 | 196 | 203 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Bernie Meade | 143 | 152 | 152 | |||||||||
| Independent | Tom Clancy | 76 | 86 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 8,632 Valid: 4,870 (57.29%) Spoilt: 75 Quota: 975 Turnout: 4,945 | |||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Pat Kennedy * | 1,019 | ||||||
| Independent | Win Harrington* | 809 | 825 | 867 | 909 | 969 | ||
| Fine Gael | Bobby Byrne* | 738 | 782 | 898 | 924 | |||
| Labour | Tommy Allen* | 557 | 567 | 624 | 639 | 676 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | John O'Connor | 536 | 541 | 559 | 678 | 1,047 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Billy Barry | 371 | 374 | 385 | 516 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Clem Casey* | 327 | 331 | 338 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Seamus Bermingham | 252 | 267 | |||||
| Electorate: 9,230 Valid: 4,609 (50.51%) Spoilt: 213 Quota: 922 Turnout: 4,622 | ||||||||
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