1999 Kildare County Council election

1999 Kildare County Council election

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All 25 seats to Kildare County Council
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Labour Fine Gael Seats won 9 5 5 Seat change +1 +2 -2   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Progressive Democrats Independent Green Seats won 2 4 0 Seat change 0 +2 -1   Seventh party Eighth party   Party Sinn Féin Workers' Party Seats won 0 0 Seat change -1 -1
Map showing the area of Kildare County Council
Council control after election TBD

An election to Kildare County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from six local electoral areas on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV) for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	9	+1	15,485	33.78
	Labour	5	+2	8,771	19.14
	Fine Gael	5	-2	8,095	17.66
	Progressive Democrats	2	0	1,685	3.68
	Independent	4	+2	9,551	20.84
	Green	0	-1	1,744	3.80
	Sinn Féin	0	-1	506	1.10
	Workers' Party	0	-1	0	N/A
Totals		25	0	45,837	100.00	—

Results by local electoral area

Athy

Athy - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Labour	Jack Wall TD	20.93	1,382
	Fine Gael	Rainsford Hendy*	19.25	1,271	1,286	1,393	1,419	1,590	1,785
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Miley*	17.81	1,176	1,187	1,210	1,292	1,563	2,313
	Fianna Fáil	Mark Dalton	16.04	1,059	1,068	1,092	1,197	1,400
	Fianna Fáil	Vincent Corcoran	11.07	731	754	756	759
	Sinn Féin	Paddy Wright*	7.66	506	521	541
	Fine Gael	John Lynch	3.74	247	250
	Labour	Mags O'Brien	3.48	230
Electorate: 12,461  Valid: 6,602 (52.98%)  Spoilt: 130  Quota: 1,651  Turnout: 6,732 (54.02%)

Celbridge

Celbridge - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Independent	Kate Walsh	43.14	2,167
	Labour	Emmet Stagg TD	25.14	1,263
	Fianna Fáil	Geraldine Conway	9.14	459	617	646	713	786	1,120
	Fianna Fáil	Gay Boylan	7.39	371	531	560	600	672
	Green	Marie Percival	4.06	204	380	411
	Fine Gael	Mark Clinton	4.04	203	309	424	497
	Independent	Mairead Byrne	3.96	199	391	425	551	723	929
	Fine Gael	Brian Mullarkey	3.13	157	276
Electorate: 11,182  Valid: 5,023 (44.92)  Spoilt: 35  Quota: 1,256  Turnout: 5,058 (45.23%)

Clane

Clane - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Fitzpatrick	17.26	1,352	1,385	1,406	1,426	1,477	1,498	1,510	1,546	1,578
	Independent	Tony McEvoy	17.25	1,351	1,365	1,380	1,438	1,514	1,717
	Fianna Fáil	P.J. Sheridan*	13.06	1,023	1,030	1,038	1,062	1,078	1,106	1,121	1,296	1,354
	Fine Gael	Jim Reilly*	12.05	944	951	1,001	1,026	1,192	1,236	1,256	1,692
	Fine Gael	Brendan Weld	9.37	734	743	756	796	837	917	948
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Davey	8.23	645	647	664	751	810	986	1,015	1,134	1,169
	Independent	John Nealon	6.50	509	511	514	594	667
	Independent	Bernie Holton	5.45	427	432	538	583
	Labour	Rose Murphy	4.61	361	417	502
	Labour	Garry Stynes	4.21	330	350
	Labour	Joan Mooney	2.02	158
Electorate: 16,438  Valid: 7,834 (47.66%)  Spoilt: 113  Quota: 1,567  Turnout: 7,947 (48.35%)

Kildare

Kildare - 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Ó Fearghail *	16.32	1,737
	Fianna Fáil	Fiona O'Loughlin	14.02	1,492	1,546
	Fine Gael	Fionnuala Dukes	10.02	1,067	1,099	1,101	1,102	1,126	1,170	1,245	1,300	1,391	1,458	1,683
	Progressive Democrats	Senator John Dardis *	9.11	970	979	980	981	999	1,019	1,029	1,116	1,154	1,247	1,344
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Neill*	8.81	938	962	968	972	980	1,002	1,004	1,063	1,213	1,349	1,423
	Labour	Jim Keane*	7.96	847	860	860	860	927	954	970	1,004	1,055	1,090	1,274
	Fine Gael	Michael Nolan, Snr*	6.84	728	730	731	731	744	759	795	860	880	1,072	1,112
	Independent	Francis Browne*	6.13	653	673	673	674	681	694	718	763	944	1,006
	Fianna Fáil	Breda Connolly	5.48	583	609	610	611	617	626	673	699
	Independent	Seamus Finn	5.35	569	571	573	574	592	615	619	726	737
	Independent	Murty Aspell	4.79	510	515	519	519	536	553	553
	Fine Gael	Allan Foxe	2.07	220	224	224	224	228	229
	Labour	Tom Ennis	1.84	206	208	208	208
	Independent	Percy Podger	1.00	196	204	212	213	217
	Independent	Harry Price	0.27	29	29
Electorate: 25,040  Valid: 10,745 (42.51%)  Spoilt: 126  Quota: 1,521  Turnout: 10,871 (43.02%)

Leixlip

Leixlip - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Kelly	21.53	1,437
	Labour	Catherine Murphy *	19.24	1,284	1,311	1,366
	Labour	John McGinley*	16.54	1,104	1,107	1,158	1,355
	Fine Gael	Senan Griffin*	15.33	1,023	1,029	1,110	1,257
	Labour	Colm Purcell*	13.81	922	937	965	1,091
	Green	Leo Armstrong	8.25	551	555	626
	Fianna Fáil	Laura Canning	5.30	354	400
Electorate: 16,315  Valid: 6,675 (40.91%)  Spoilt: 75  Quota: 1,336  Turnout: 6,750 (41.37%)

Naas

Naas - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Independent	Anthony Lawlor *	16.32	1,209	1,323	1,333	1,358	1,414	1,473	1,575
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Power TD	11.85	1,061	1,135	1,146	1,171	1,223	1,280	1,338	1,346	1,828
	Fine Gael	Billy Hillis	10.12	906	912	916	943	949	1,239	1,298	1,309	1,340	1,368	1,371
	Independent	Mary Glennon	11.85	875	1,180	1,228	1,284	1,363	1,517
	Progressive Democrats	Timmy Conway *	7.99	715	724	735	775	848	905	977	991	1,171	1,278	1,283
	Fianna Fáil	Willie Callaghan	7.94	711	767	771	800	870	910	945	950
	Labour	Paddy McNamara	7.64	684	699	705	727	752	777
	Fine Gael	Pat O'Reilly	6.65	595	600	606	614	664
	Green	J.J. Power*	6.64	594	617	634	794	841	864	1,042	1,064	1,147	1,213	1,230
	Independent	Seamus Moore	5.62	462	468	474	483
	Green	Louise Burchall	4.41	395	403	410
	Independent	Anthony Egan	4.41	395	397
	Fianna Fáil	Liam Kelly	3.98	356
Electorate: 22,432  Valid: 8,950 (39.90%)  Spoilt: 102  Quota: 1,492  Turnout: 9,052 (40.35%)

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