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All 21 seats on Longford County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map showing the area of Longford County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Longford County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of the 1985 Irish local elections. 21 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% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 10 | +2 | 7,721 | 46.18 | ||
| Fine Gael | 9 | - | 6,393 | 38.24 | ||
| Independent | 2 | - | 1,961 | 11.73 | ||
| Sinn Féin | 0 | -2 | 645 | 3.86 | ||
| Totals | 21 | - | 16,720 | 100.00 | — | |
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | James Coyle | 26.4% | 839 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Doherty | 23.06% | 733 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Pat Stenson | 16.9% | 537 | 556 | 567 | 627 | 687 | |
| Fine Gael | Andy Dalton | 14% | 445 | 464 | 478 | 546 | 572 | |
| Independent | Bertie Moorhead | 9.5% | 302 | 326 | 338 | 370 | ||
| Fine Gael | Kathleen Murray | 5.07% | 161 | 175 | 179 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Gerry Nevin | 5.07% | 161 | 288 | 344 | 353 | 427 | |
| Electorate: 4,279 Valid: 3,178 (74.27%) Quota: 636 | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fine Gael | James Bannon | 14.45% | 712 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Barney Steele | 14.33% | 706 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Louis J. Belton | 11.75% | 579 | 618 | 628 | 758 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | James Dowler | 11.28% | 556 | 557 | 559 | 588 | 636 | 644 | 647 | |
| Independent | Michael Brennan | 9.9% | 488 | 508 | 559 | 607 | 544 | 654 | 660 | |
| Fine Gael | Adrian Farrell | 9.28% | 457 | 498 | 586 | 626 | 695 | 730 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Paddy Farrell | 9.21% | 454 | 499 | 541 | 547 | 674 | 675 | 676 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Lorcan Connaughton | 5.48% | 270 | 276 | 317 | 332 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Bernard Hackett | 5.38% | 265 | 291 | 293 | |||||
| Independent | Tom Farrell | 4.75% | 234 | 258 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | John Farrell | 4.18% | 206 | |||||||
| Electorate: 6,152 Valid: 4,927 (80.09%) Quota: 704 | ||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Luie McEntire | 32.68% | 853 | |||
| Fine Gael | Gerry Brady | 30.5% | 796 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Mulleady | 19.39% | 506 | 644 | 704 | |
| Sinn Féin | Seán Lynch | 17.43% | 455 | 517 | 600 | |
| Electorate: 3,150 Valid: 2,610 (82.86%) Quota: 653 | ||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Brian Lynch | 29.45% | 713 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Fintan Flood | 24.25% | 587 | 662 | |||
| Fine Gael | Maura Kilbride-Harkin | 22.88% | 554 | 567 | 567 | 606 | |
| Fine Gael | James Reilly | 13.59% | 329 | 338 | 348 | 362 | |
| Fine Gael | Matt Murtagh | 5.52% | 141 | 148 | 153 | 169 | |
| Sinn Féin | Liam Browne | 4.01% | 97 | 100 | 117 | ||
| Electorate: 3,163 Valid: 2,421 (76.54%) Quota: 606 | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Peter Kelly | 21.32% | 764 | |||||||||
| Fine Gael | Seamous Finnan | 14.93% | 535 | 544 | 552 | 571 | 588 | 685 | ||||
| Independent | Peter Murphy | 14.56% | 522 | 538 | 551 | 562 | 583 | 639 | ||||
| Independent | Michael Nevin | 11.58% | 415 | 434 | 462 | 476 | 498 | 522 | 525 | 541 | 545 | |
| Fine Gael | Peter Clarke | 9.68% | 347 | 366 | 369 | 385 | 400 | 533 | 612 | |||
| Fine Gael | Philo Kelly | 9.18% | 329 | 342 | 345 | 370 | 381 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Noel McGeeney | 7.09% | 254 | 291 | 304 | 352 | 471 | 518 | 522 | 542 | 552 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Brewster | 4.55% | 163 | 184 | 191 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Tony Egan | 4.52% | 162 | 192 | 201 | 248 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | Seamus McDonnell | 2.59% | 93 | 95 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 5,154 Valid: 3,584 (69.54%) Quota: 598 | ||||||||||||
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