1979 Irish local elections
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Nationwide local authority elections
1979 Irish local elections| First party | Second party | Third party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leader | Jack Lynch | Garret FitzGerald | Frank Cluskey |
| Party | Fianna Fáil | Fine Gael | Labour |
| Leader since | 9 November 1966 | 1977 | 1977 |
| Seats won | 328 | 292 | 75 |
| Seat change | Decrease 24 | Increase 12 | Decrease 4 |
| Popular vote | 529,909 | 469,074 | 160,684 |
| Percentage | 39.0% | 34.6% | 11.8% |
| Swing | Decrease 0.8% | Increase 0.8% | Decrease 0.9% |
| Fourth party | Fifth party | Sixth party | |
| Leader | Ruairí Ó Brádaigh | Tomás Mac Giolla | Neil Blaney |
| Party | Sinn Féin (Provisional) | Sinn Féin The Workers' Party | Independent Fianna Fáil |
| Leader since | October 1970 | 14 October 1962 | 1972 |
| Seats won | 11 | 7 | 4 |
| Seat change | Increase 4 | Increase 1 | Steady |
| Popular vote | 21,273 | 31,238 | 10,245 |
| Percentage | 1.6% | 2.3% | 0.8% |
| Swing | Decrease 0.2% | Increase 1.0% | Decrease 0.2% |
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The 1979 Irish local elections were held in all the counties, cities and towns of Ireland on Thursday, 7 June 1979, on the same day as the first direct elections to the European Parliament.
Results
[edit ]Total seats
[edit ]| Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv%[1] | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 328 | Decrease 24 | 529,909 | 39.0 | Decrease0.8 | |
| Fine Gael | 292 | Increase 12 | 469,074 | 34.6 | Increase0.9 | |
| Labour | 75 | Decrease 4 | 160,684 | 11.8 | Decrease0.9 | |
| Sinn Féin (Provisional) [a] | 11 | Increase 4 | 21,273 | 1.6 | Decrease0.2 | |
| Sinn Féin The Workers' Party | 7 | Increase 1 | 31,238 | 2.3 | Decrease1.0 | |
| Independent Fianna Fáil | 4 | Steady | 10,245 | 0.8 | Decrease0.2 | |
| Protestant Association | 2 | Steady | 1,912 | 0.1 | Decrease0.1 | |
| Donegal Progressive Party | 1 | Steady | 1,728 | 0.1 | New | |
| Independent Socialist Party | 1 | Increase 1 | 675 | 0.0 | New | |
| Independent | 48 | Decrease 25 | 120,166 | 8.5 | Decrease0.5 | |
| Total | 1,421,494 | 100 | — | |||
Counties and cities
[edit ]| Authority | FF | FG | Lab | SF (P) | SFWP | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||
| Cavan | 12 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 25 | ||||||||
| Clare | 17 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 31 | |||||||
| Cork City | 13 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 31 | |||||||
| Cork County | 23 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 47 | |||||||
| Donegal | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 [b] | 23 | ||||||
| Dublin City | 12 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 6 [c] | 45 | |||||||
| Dublin | 12 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 36 | ||||||||
| Galway | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 30 | |||||||
| Kerry | 14 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 26 | |||||||
| Kildare | 9 | 8 | 4 | 21 | |||||||||
| Kilkenny | 11 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 26 | ||||||||
| Laois | 11 | 12 | 2 | 25 | |||||||||
| Leitrim | 11 | 9 | 1 | 21 | |||||||||
| Limerick City | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 17 | ||||||||
| Limerick County | 15 | 11 | 1 | 27 | |||||||||
| Longford | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 21 | ||||||||
| Louth | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 26 | ||||||
| Mayo | 15 | 16 | 31 | ||||||||||
| Meath | 13 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 29 | ||||||||
| Monaghan | 9 | 8 | 3 [d] | 20 | |||||||||
| Offaly | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||
| Roscommon | 12 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 26 | ||||||||
| Sligo | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 24 | ||||||||
| Tipperary North | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||
| Tipperary South | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 26 | ||||||||
| Waterford City | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 15 | |||||||
| Waterford County | 9 | 11 | 1 | 21 | |||||||||
| Westmeath | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 23 | ||||||||
| Wexford | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 21 | ||||||||
| Wicklow | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21 | |||||||
- Notes
- ^ Not a registered party.
- ^ Includes 1 member of the Donegal Progressive Party.
- ^ Five of the six non-party members of Dublin Corporation were elected as Community candidates, including Tony Gregory, Seán Dublin Bay Loftus and Carmencita Hederman.
- ^ Two of the three non-party Monaghan councillors were nominated by the Protestant Association.[2]
Boroughs
[edit ]| Authority | FF | FG | Lab | PSF | SFWP | Other | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clonmel | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | ||||||
| Drogheda | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | ||||||
| Dún Laoghaire | 3 | 8 | 4 | 15 | |||||||
| Galway | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 12 | ||||||
| Kilkenny | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | ||||||
| Sligo | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | ||||||
| Wexford | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | |||||
References
[edit ]Sources
[edit ]- "1979 Local Elections". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 February 2008.
- Department of the Environment (1980). Local elections, 1979 : election results and transfer of votes in respect of each county, and county borough council : and election statistics relating to all local authorities (PDF). Official publications. Vol. Prl.9322. Dublin: Stationery Office. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
Citations
[edit ]- ^ "1979 Local Election".
- ^ "Newly-elected members of the county councils". The Irish Times. 12 June 1979. Archived from the original on 13 October 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2011.