2019 Monaghan County Council election

2019 Monaghan County Council election

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All 18 seats on Monaghan County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Sinn Féin Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Seats won 6 5 4 Seat change 1   Fourth party   Party Independent Seats won 3 Seat change 1
Results by local electoral area

An election to all 18 seats on Monaghan County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Monaghan was divided into 3 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Boundary review

Following the recommendations of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, the boundaries to the LEAs used in the 2014 elections were adjusted with the move of one seat from Ballybay–Clones LEA to Monaghan LEA. ^{[1] [2]}

Overview

Bucking a trend elsewhere Sinn Féin slightly increased their vote in County Monaghan. However this did not prevent the party from losing a seat in the Carrickmacross–Castleblayney LEA but Sinn Féin would still remain the largest party. The Sinn Féin loss was to former Carrickmacross town councillor, Mary Kerr-Conlon. However the Fine Gael vote in County Monaghan fell by over 5%, a consequence of Hugh McElvaney retaining his seat in Ballybay-Clones as an Independent.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Sinn Féin	6	1	9,238	34.38	0.09
	Fine Gael	5		6,568	24.44	5.23
	Fianna Fáil	4		6,609	24.60	0.90
	Green	0		676	2.52	2.12
	Aontú	0		354	1.32	New
	Independent	3	1	3,425	12.75	1.69
Total		18		26,870	100.00

Results by local electoral area

^  *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
^  †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.

Ballybay–Clones

Ballybay–Clones: 5 seats ^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Fianna Fáil	Séamus Coyle [*]	28.57%	2,346
	Sinn Féin	Pat Treanor [*]	17.40%	1,429
	Fine Gael	Richard John Truell [†]	15.89%	1,305	1,525
	Fine Gael	Séan Gilliland [†]	14.42%	1,184	1,412
	Independent	Hugh McElvaney [*]	13.87%	1,139	1,357	1,419
	Sinn Féin	Rosie Smyth O'Harte	9.84%	808	1,119	1,213
Electorate: 14,767  Valid: 8,211  Spoilt: 168  Quota: 1,369  Turnout: 8,379 (57%)

Carrickmacross–Castleblayney

Carrickmacross–Castleblayney: 6 seats ^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Sinn Féin	Colm Carthy [†]	14.60%	1,401
	Sinn Féin	Noel Keelan [*]	14.34%	1,376
	Fine Gael	Aidan Campbell [*]	14.22%	1,364	1,365	1,401
	Fianna Fáil	P.J. O'Hanlon [*]	14.03%	1,346	1,350	1,372
	Sinn Féin	Jackie Crowe [*]	9.87%	947	961	1,005	1,108	1,129	1,173
	Fine Gael	Mary Kerr-Conlon	7.84%	752	755	796	813	1,024	1,237	1,247
	Fianna Fáil	Aoife McCooey	7.66%	735	736	765	868	905	1,192	1,197
	Fianna Fáil	Rory Owen McEvoy	6.42%	616	620	642	677	748
	Fine Gael	Patrick Cassidy	4.28%	411	412	432	441
	Aontú	James Duffy	3.69%	354	354	378
	Green	Conan Connolly	3.03%	291	293
Electorate: 17,286  Valid: 9,593  Spoilt: 192  Quota: 1,371  Turnout: 9,785 (57%)

Monaghan

Monaghan: 7 seats ^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Sinn Féin	Cathy Bennett [*]	14.24%	1,291
	Independent	Seamus Treanor [*]	12.71%	1,152
	Fianna Fáil	Raymond Aughey [†]	12.03%	1,091	1,107	1,109	1,116	1,131	1,151
	Sinn Féin	Brian McKenna [*]	9.91%	898	951	953	954	967	977	1,003	1,004	1,033	1,146
	Fine Gael	David Maxwell [*]	9.39%	851	854	855	855	856	868	942	944	987	1,003	1,281
	Independent	Paudge Connolly [*]	8.10%	734	747	751	757	770	816	839	840	922	990	1,082
	Sinn Féin	Seán Conlon [*]	7.49%	679	711	713	718	753	783	795	798	844	1,018	1,074
	Fianna Fáil	Emer Brennan	5.24%	475	483	484	487	491	506	531	536	602	623	673
	Fine Gael	Barra Flynn	4.80%	435	439	440	444	449	462	524	526	589	595
	Sinn Féin	Catriona Moen	4.51%	409	420	421	421	432	441	456	456	480
	Green	Mícheál Callaghan	4.25%	385	392	393	397	417	428	445	446
	Fine Gael	Fiona McCaffrey Jones	2.93%	266	269	269	271	272	280
	Independent	Thomas Hagan	2.04%	185	188	190	203	225
	Independent	Alvin McGlone	1.69%	153	153	157	163
	Independent	Paddy Grenham	0.44%	40	40	40
	Independent	James Mee	0.24%	22	23	23
Electorate: 18,421  Valid: 9,066  Spoilt: 206  Quota: 1,134  Turnout: 9,272 (50%)

Results by gender

2019 Monaghan County Council election [6] [7] Candidates by gender
Gender	Number of candidates	% of candidates	Elected councillors	% of councillors
Men	26	78.8%	15	83.3%
Women	7	21.2%	3	16.7%
TOTAL	33		18

References

Sources

• "Monaghan County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 14 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
• "2019 Local Elections County Monaghan Final Results". Monaghan County Council. 27 May 2019. Archived from the original on 2 June 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
• "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 174–177. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.

Citations

1. Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 1 (13 June 2018). Report 2018 (PDF). Government Publications. pp. 88–91, 158. ISBN   978-1-4064-2990-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
2. County of Monaghan Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 ( S.I. No. 629 of 2018 ). Signed on 19 December 2018by John Paul Phelan , Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government . Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland . Archived from the original on 3 February 2019.Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 8 May 2019.
3. DHPLG 2019, p. 174.
4. DHPLG 2019, p. 175.
5. DHPLG 2019, p. 176.
6. McArdle, Patsy (27 May 2019) [25 May 2019]. "Monaghan County Council: 'Take your monkey off my back' McElvaney tells RTÉ". The Irish Times . Dublin. Archived from the original on 16 June 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
7. DHPLG 2019, p. 247.