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18 seats on Cavan County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Results by Local Electoral Area | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An election to all 18 seats on Cavan County Council took place on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. Councillors were elected for a five-year term of office from three local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote. The 2018 boundary review committee did not recommend any alteration to the LEAs which had been in place in County Cavan at the 2014 election. [1] [2]
Sinn Féin lost all but one of its seats. Fianna Fáil gained a seat, to give a total of eight seats. Independent candidate Brendan Fay was elected and became the first Independent councillor in the county since 1999. Fine Gael returned with the same number of seats as at the previous election.
| Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 8 |  1 | 12,492 | 38.92 |  1.56 | |
| Fine Gael | 7 |  | 10,712 | 33.37 | 3.29 | |
| Sinn Féin | 1 | 3 | 3,974 | 12.38 | 5.79 | |
| Aontú | 1 | 1 | 2,482 | 7.73 | New | |
| Labour | 0 | | 705 | 2.20 | 1.61 | |
| People Before Profit | 0 | | 498 | 1.55 | New | |
| Independent | 1 | 1 | 1,236 | 3.85 | 0.21 | |
| Total | 18 | | 32,099 | 100.00 | | |
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Aontú | Sarah O'Reilly [†] | 14.93% | 1,704 | ||||||||
| Fine Gael | Val Smith [*] | 10.07% | 1,150 | 1,158 | 1,163 | 1,173 | 1,263 | 1,512 | 1,643 | ||
| Fine Gael | Carmel Brady [*] | 8.94% | 1,021 | 1,035 | 1,038 | 1,064 | 1,152 | 1,206 | 1,505 | 1,669 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Clifford Kelly [*] | 11.94% | 1,363 | 1,365 | 1,369 | 1,425 | 1,448 | 1,543 | 1,557 | 1,611 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Aiden Fitzpatrick | 7.93% | 905 | 910 | 917 | 1,042 | 1,101 | 1,274 | 1,380 | 1,502 | |
| Sinn Féin | Paddy McDonald | 6.76% | 772 | 782 | 801 | 941 | 980 | 1,005 | 1,075 | 1,500 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Francis McDermott | 8.14% | 929 | 930 | 936 | 1,009 | 1,131 | 1,214 | 1,302 | 1,353 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Gerry Murray | 6.88% | 785 | 791 | 794 | 822 | 829 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Bridget Boyle | 6.84% | 781 | 804 | 807 | 824 | 883 | 916 | 938 | ||
| Fine Gael | John O'Hare | 5.79% | 661 | 665 | 670 | 699 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Shirley Hall | 5.52% | 630 | 642 | 652 | 714 | 860 | 880 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | P.J. Barry | 5.26% | 601 | 606 | 614 | ||||||
| Labour | Mary Roche | 1.00% | 114 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 20,421 Valid: 11,416 Spoilt: 249 Quota: 1,631 Turnout: 11,665 (57.12%) | |||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Trevor Smith | 16.20% | 1,826 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Shane P. O'Reilly [*] [lower-alpha 1] | 15.11% | 1,703 | |||||
| Fine Gael | T.P. O'Reilly | 13.98% | 1,576 | 1,635 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Winston Bennett [*] | 13.28% | 1,497 | 1,527 | 1,533 | 1,544 | 1,694 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Craig Lovett | 11.45% | 1,290 | 1,356 | 1,389 | 1,446 | 1,642 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Philip "The Gunner" Brady [*] | 11.78% | 1,328 | 1,339 | 1,360 | 1,375 | 1,489 | |
| Sinn Féin | Noel Connell [*] | 7.13% | 804 | 826 | 840 | 1,171 | 1,307 | |
| Aontú | Gráinne McPhillips | 6.90% | 778 | 796 | 808 | 842 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Geraldine Harten | 4.16% | 469 | 478 | 484 | |||
| Electorate: 20,222 Valid: 11,271 Spoilt: 204 Quota: 1,611 Turnout: 11,475 (56.75%) | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Paul Feeley [*] | 15.02% | 1,414 | |||||||
| Independent | Brendan Fay | 13.13% | 1,236 | 1,237 | 1,241 | 1,265 | 1,349 | |||
| Fine Gael | Madeleine Argue | 13.02% | 1,225 | 1,289 | 1,294 | 1,337 | 1,392 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Patricia Walsh | 11.26% | 1,060 | 1,067 | 1,075 | 1,113 | 1,176 | 1,389 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Smith [*] | 11.84% | 1,114 | 1,124 | 1,150 | 1,155 | 1,174 | 1,244 | 1,246 | |
| Fine Gael | Peter McVitty [*] | 10.14% | 954 | 1,007 | 1,020 | 1,027 | 1,039 | 1,144 | 1,159 | |
| Sinn Féin | Damien Brady [*] | 7.63% | 718 | 722 | 729 | 922 | 1,006 | 1,096 | 1,106 | |
| Labour | Liam van der Spek | 6.28% | 591 | 608 | 611 | 643 | 761 | |||
| People Before Profit | Emmett Smith | 5.29% | 498 | 500 | 502 | 567 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Daniel Downey [†] | 4.57% | 430 | 434 | 435 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Seán McKiernan, Jnr. | 1.83% | 172 | |||||||
| Electorate: 18,308 Valid: 9,412 Spoilt: 188 Quota: 1,345 Turnout: 9,600 (52.44%) | ||||||||||
| 2019 Cavan County Council election [6] [7] Candidates by gender | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | Number of candidates | % of candidates | Elected councillors | % of councillors |
| Men | 24 | 72.7% | 14 | 77.8% |
| Women | 9 | 27.3% | 4 | 22.2% |
| TOTAL | 33 | 18 | ||
| Name | Electoral area | Elected as | New affiliation | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shane P. O'Reilly | Ballyjamesduff | Fianna Fáil | Independent | June 2020 [8] | ||
| Shane P. O'Reilly | Ballyjamesduff | Independent | Independent Ireland | February 2024 [9] | ||
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