2019 Offaly County Council election

2019 Offaly County Council election

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All 19 seats on Offaly County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Renua Seats won 8 4 1 Seat change 1 1   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Irish Democratic Social Democrats Green Seat change 1 1 1
Results by local electoral area

An election to all 19 seats on Offaly County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Offaly 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

The 2018 LEA Boundary Review Committee recommended no changes to the LEAs used in the 2014 elections. ^{[1] [2]}

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	8		12,423	39.95	5.85
	Fine Gael	4	1	6,730	21.64	4.84
	Renua	1	1	3,196	10.28	New
	Irish Democratic	1	1	1,054	3.39	New
	Social Democrats	1	1	657	2.11	New
	Green	1	1	584	1.88	1.70
	Sinn Féin	0	3	1,423	4.58	12.62
	Independent	3	2	5,028	16.17	13.73
Total		19		31,095	100.00

Results by local electoral area

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

Birr

Birr: 6 seats ^{[3] [4]}

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Renua	John Leahy [*] [lower-alpha 1]	19.22%	2,277
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Ormond [*]	14.60%	1,729
	Fine Gael	John Clendennen [*]	11.23%	1,330	1,408	1,417	1,551	1,580	1,665	1,676	1,717
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Dooley [*]	9.39%	1,112	1,181	1,183	1,185	1,247	1,269	1,275	1,293	1,439	1,633
	Independent	John Carroll [*]	8.41%	996	1,018	1,030	1,059	1,084	1,161	1,116	1,346	1,447	1,770
	Fine Gael	Hughie Egan	7.40%	877	934	936	970	981	994	994	1,004	1,129	1,156
	Fianna Fáil	Bernie Fanneran	6.04%	715	731	739	783	839	884	893	985	1,031
	Social Democrats	Clare Claffey	5.55%	657	712	731	745	894	940	942	1,036	1,159	1,300
	Sinn Féin	Seán Maher [†]	4.55%	539	559	572	593	608	640	642
	Independent	Joe Wynne	4.22%	500	573	580	593	620	681	682	737
	Fianna Fáil	Alan Kenny	3.26%	386	412	412	418
	Fine Gael	Marian Pilkington	2.76%	327	338	352
	Renua	Monica Barnwell	2.52%	298	452	461	489	498
	Independent	Habibul Mukhtiar	0.86%	102	105
Electorate: 21,198  Valid: 11,845  Spoilt: 160  Quota: 1,693  Turnout: 12,005 (56.63%)

Edenderry

Edenderry: 6 seats ^{[5] [6]}

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Eddie Fitzpatrick [*]	20.89%	1,714
	Independent	John Foley [*]	17.85%	1,464
	Fine Gael	Liam Quinn [*]	11.24%	922	981	1,025	1,053	1,222
	Fine Gael	Noel Cribbin [*]	9.58%	786	834	871	956	963	972	1,068
	Fianna Fáil	Robert McDermott	8.24%	676	724	771	957	1,187
	Sinn Féin	Alan Davy	7.28%	597	629	664	690	718	727
	Green	Pippa Hackett [lower-alpha 1]	7.12%	584	629	739	787	840	860	991
	Independent	Fergus McDonnell	6.72%	551	570	626	705	746	758	948
	Fianna Fáil	Christine Traynor	5.55%	455	546	590
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Daly	5.53%	454	567	573	648
Electorate: 16,809  Valid: 8,203  Spoilt: 141  Quota: 1,172  Turnout: 8,344 (49.64%)

Tullamore

Tullamore: 7 seats ^{[7] [8]}

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Moran [*]	13.92%	1,538
	Fianna Fáil	Declan Harvey [*]	12.84%	1,418
	Fine Gael	Neil Feighery	11.08%	1,224	1,229	1,240	1,350	1,352	1,435
	Fianna Fáil	Danny Owens [*]	10.70%	1,182	1,219	1,228	1,263	1,269	1,346	1,356	1,472
	Irish Democratic	Ken Smollen [lower-alpha 1]	9.54%	1,054	1,089	1,139	1,194	1,197	1,301	1,305	1,428
	Fianna Fáil	Tony McCormack [†]	9.45%	1,044	1,066	1,081	1,162	1,175	1,227	1,230	1,328
	Independent	Sean O'Brien	8.07%	892	897	945	1,018	1,023	1,089	1,097	1,231
	Fine Gael	Deirdre Fox	6.63%	732	738	757	850	853	896	921	1,007
	Renua	Brendan Galvin	5.62%	621	624	644	674	677	728	732
	Fine Gael	Bernard Westman	4.82%	532	537	552
	Independent	John Bracken	4.73%	523	557	609	636	638
	Sinn Féin	Anne Marie Ennis	2.60%	287	292
Electorate: 21,946  Valid: 11,047  Spoilt: 161  Quota: 1,381  Turnout: 11,208 (51.07%)

Footnotes

1. See change below.

Results by gender

2019 Offaly County Council election [9] [10] Candidates by gender
Gender	Number of candidates	% of candidates	Elected councillors	% of councillors
Men	28	77.8%	17	89.5%
Women	8	22.2%	2	10.5%
TOTAL	36		19

Changes after 2019

Changes in affiliation

Name	LEA	Elected as		New affiliation		Date
John Leahy	Birr		Renua		Independent	11 June 2019 [11]
Ken Smollen	Tullamore		Irish Democratic		Independent	October 2020

Co-options

Party		Outgoing	LEA	Reason	Date	Co-optee
	Green	Pippa Hackett	Edenderry	Elected to the 25th Seanad on the Agricultural Panel on 1 November 2019 [12]	19 November 2019	Mark Hackett [13]
	Independent	Ken Smollen	Tullamore	Ill health [14]	19 September 2023	Sandy Feehan-Smollen [15]

References

Sources

• "Offaly County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 13 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
• "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 178–180. 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. 91–93. ISBN   978-1-4064-2990-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
2. County of Offaly Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 ( S.I. No. 630 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 .Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 8 May 2019.
3. "Local Election 24 May 2019 — Constituency of Birr LEA" (PDF). Offaly County Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
4. DHPLG 2019, p. 178.
5. "Local Election 24 May 2019 — Constituency of Edenderry LEA" (PDF). Offaly County Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
6. DHPLG 2019, p. 179.
7. "Local Election 24 May 2019 — Constituency of Tullamore LEA" (PDF). Offaly County Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
8. DHPLG 2019, p. 180.
9. "Offaly County Council: Big blow for Sinn Féin while Greens claim first seat". The Irish Times . Dublin. 26 May 2019 [25 May 2019]. Archived from the original on 18 June 2021. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
10. DHPLG 2019, p. 247.
11. Duffy, Rónán (11 June 2019). "Renua's leader quits the party, leaving it with no elected representatives". TheJournal.ie . Archived from the original on 9 June 2021.
12. Murphy, David (1 November 2019). "Green Party's Pippa Hackett elected to the Seanad". RTÉ News . Archived from the original on 9 June 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
13. Kelly, Justin (19 November 2019). "Husband replaces wife in Offaly County Council seat". Offaly Express . Portlaoise. Archived from the original on 9 June 2021.
14. Grennan, Geraldine (11 September 2023). "Ken Smollen announces "difficult decision" to resign from Offaly County Council". Offaly Independent . Archived from the original on 27 October 2023. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
15. Clarke, Kamron (19 September 2023). "New Councillor Co-Opted To Offaly County Council". Midlands 103 . Retrieved 27 October 2023.