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All 25 seats to Laois County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map showing the area of Laois County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Laois County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from five 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.
| Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 14 | +1 | 12,839 | 51.20 | ||
| Fine Gael | 10 | +1 | 8,271 | 32.98 | ||
| Independent | 1 | - | 2,487 | 9.92 | ||
| Labour | 0 | -1 | 1,063 | 4.24 | ||
| Progressive Democrats | 0 | -1 | - | - | ||
| Totals | 25 | - | 25,076 | 100.0 | — | |
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Kieran Phelan * | 17.24 | 1,347 | |||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Fleming | 13.94 | 1,089 | |||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Joe Fennelly | 12.38 | 967 | 1,044 | ||||||||
| Fine Gael | Michael Lalor* | 11.94 | 933 | 939 | 955 | 958 | 1,011 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Martin Rohan* | 10.15 | 793 | 873 | 917 | 963 | 980 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Marty Phelan* | 8.87 | 693 | 720 | 731 | 732 | 856 | 1,006 | ||||
| Fine Gael | John Bonham | 8.29 | 648 | 657 | 664 | 666 | 696 | 748 | 777 | 794 | 795 | |
| Labour | Larry Kavanagh* | 7.67 | 599 | 615 | 639 | 639 | 663 | 776 | 781 | 793 | 795 | |
| Independent | John King | 5.17 | 404 | 502 | 507 | 515 | 616 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Gina O'Loughlin | 4.36 | 341 | 398 | 403 | 410 | ||||||
| Electorate: 12,812 Valid: 7,814 (60.99%) Spoilt: 116 Quota: 977 Turnout: 7,930 (61.90%) | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fine Gael | James Deegan* | 17.58 | 684 | 692 | 727 | 893 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Ray Cribbin* | 16.55 | 644 | 648 | 653 | 673 | 679 | 859 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Costello | 16.45 | 640 | 642 | 643 | 656 | 660 | 768 | |
| Independent | Michael Turley | 13.83 | 538 | 544 | 566 | 638 | 687 | 803 | |
| Independent | Sam Gee | 11.51 | 448 | 449 | 453 | 497 | 527 | 550 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Theresa Mulhare* | 10.85 | 422 | 423 | 429 | 471 | 490 | ||
| Fine Gael | Mary Lalor | 5.24 | 204 | 206 | 209 | ||||
| Labour | Patrick Fennell | 3.34 | 130 | 151 | 194 | ||||
| Independent | Christine Holohan | 3.06 | 119 | 129 | |||||
| Independent | Frank Byrne | 1.59 | 62 | ||||||
| Electorate: 6,813 Valid: 3,891 (57.11%) Spoilt: 68 Quota: 779 Turnout: 3,959 (58.11%) | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Fine Gael | John Moran* | 19.26 | 718 | 741 | 823 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Rice | 18.62 | 694 | 726 | 835 | ||
| Fine Gael | James Daly* | 16.39 | 611 | 662 | 747 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Mary Wheatley* | 15.83 | 590 | 623 | 683 | 737 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Dick Miller | 12.85 | 479 | 489 | 596 | 625 | |
| Independent | Seamus Martin | 6.28 | 234 | 252 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Anne Cass | 5.77 | 215 | 224 | |||
| Independent | Michael Leech | 4.99 | 186 | ||||
| Electorate: 6,845 Valid: 3,727 (54.45%) Spoilt: 48 Quota: 746 Turnout: 3,775 (55.15%) | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Moloney TD* | 27.52 | 1,123 | ||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Seamus McDonald* | 17.45 | 712 | 870 | |||||
| Fine Gael | David Goodwin | 14.44 | 589 | 617 | 683 | 873 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Joe Digan* | 12.87 | 525 | 558 | 597 | 731 | 743 | 783 | |
| Fine Gael | David Conroy | 10.98 | 448 | 495 | 586 | 674 | 718 | 731 | |
| Fine Gael | Denis Feighery | 10.56 | 431 | 441 | 466 | ||||
| Independent | Pat Bowe | 6.18 | 252 | 282 | |||||
| Electorate: 6,000 Valid: 4,080 (68.00%) Spoilt: 66 Quota: 817 Turnout: 4,146 (69.10%) | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Joe Dunne* | 19.05 | 1,060 | ||||||||||
| Fine Gael | William Aird* | 12.29 | 684 | 712 | 718 | 730 | 750 | 770 | 850 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Charles Flanagan TD* | 9.45 | 526 | 542 | 545 | 554 | 570 | 574 | 630 | 673 | 706 | 735 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Catherine Fitzgerald | 9.35 | 520 | 559 | 563 | 568 | 576 | 593 | 607 | 636 | 639 | 673 | |
| Fine Gael | Mary Sweeney | 8.95 | 498 | 507 | 508 | 515 | 537 | 597 | 641 | 664 | 676 | 702 | |
| Sinn Féin | Brian Stanley | 7.48 | 416 | 422 | 426 | 434 | 461 | 472 | 483 | 540 | 541 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Jerry Lodge* | 7.26 | 404 | 445 | 450 | 466 | 477 | 569 | 596 | 624 | 626 | 695 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Tom Jacob* | 6.34 | 353 | 420 | 423 | 426 | 440 | 491 | 520 | 559 | 563 | 616 | |
| Fine Gael | Kathleen O'Brien | 4.73 | 263 | 271 | 276 | 286 | 297 | 304 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Anthony Lodge | 4.71 | 262 | 286 | 287 | 290 | 297 | ||||||
| Independent | Joe McCormack | 4.15 | 231 | 248 | 254 | 268 | 301 | 317 | 339 | ||||
| Labour | Tom Phelan | 3.07 | 171 | 174 | 184 | 220 | |||||||
| Labour | Brendan Tynan | 1.99 | 111 | 115 | 132 | ||||||||
| Labour | Seán O'Gorman | 0.93 | 52 | 53 | |||||||||
| Independent | Fred Bannan | 0.23 | 13 | 15 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 9,947 Valid: 5,564 (55.94%) Spoilt: 49 Quota: 795 Turnout: 5,613 (56.43%) | |||||||||||||
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