2019 Carlow County Council election

2019 Carlow County Council election

after-content-x4 Map showing the area of Carlow County Council

Council control after election TBD

A Carlow County Council election was held in County Carlow in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year’s local elections. All 18 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 recommended significant changes to the LEAs used in the 2014 elections due to terms of references requiring a maximum of seven councillors in each LEA and changes in population revealed in the 2016 census.^[1] These changes were made by the Minister of State with special responsibility for Local Government and Electoral Reform John Paul Phelan.^[2]

Fianna Fáil gained an additional seat to emerge level with Fine Gael on 6 seats apiece and a higher share of the vote. Sinn Féin had a poor election losing two seats, and Cllr John Cassin was re-elected as an Independent. Labour retained two seats, while Adrienne Wallace, who contested Ireland South for Solidarity–People Before Profit in the European Parliament election held on the same day, gained a seat for the party.

Results by party[edit]

Results by local electoral area[edit]

Carlow[edit]

Carlow — 7 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fianna Fáil	Fintan Phelan[a]	23.26%	1,711
	Fianna Fáil	Andrea Dalton[b]	14.76%	1,086
	Fine Gael	Fergal Browne[a]	12.10%	890	1,052
	Fianna Fáil	Ken Murnane[b]	10.78%	793	994
	Fine Gael	Tom O’Neill	7.33%	539	627	664	693	721	734	747	785	830
	Independent	John Cassin[a]	7.16%	527	600	630	644	671	688	761	829	902
	People Before Profit	Adrienne Wallace	6.09%	448	522	549	586	599	617	701	763	814
	Fine Gael	Wayne Fennell	5.87%	432	508	541	558	604	613	630	686	745
	Aontú	Mary Hande	4.21%	310	345	360	367	377	385	406	422
	Sinn Féin	Ciarán Dooley	3.28%	241	261	267	271	283	288
	Independent	Bernard Jennings	3.18%	234	270	280	293	303	307	326
	Labour	Kevin Byrne	1.97%	145	171	179	186
Electorate: 16,425   Valid: 7,356   Spoilt: 121   Quota: 920   Turnout: 7,477 (45.52%)

Muinebeag[edit]

Muinebeag — 5 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fine Gael	Tommy Kinsella[a]	23.06%	1,617
	Labour	Willie Quinn[a]	14.02%	983	1,147	1,271
	Sinn Féin	Andy Gladney[a]	14.48%	1,015	1,054	1,147	1,175
	Fine Gael	Michael Doran[a]	12.32%	864	916	944	951	1,185
	Fianna Fáil	Arthur McDonald[a]	12.17%	853	893	967	981	1,153
	Fianna Fáil	Josie Daly	9.63%	675	698	798	812	910
	Fine Gael	Denis Foley[a]	7.17%	503	595	626	634
	Independent	David O’Brien	3.58%	251	264
	Fianna Fáil	Philip Gahan	3.57%	250	275
Electorate: 13,175   Valid: 7,011   Spoilt: 133   Quota: 1,169   Turnout: 7,144 (54.22%)

Tullow[edit]

Tullow — 6 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fianna Fáil	John Pender[a]	20.01%	1,446
	Independent	Charlie Murphy[a]	19.32%	1,396
	Fine Gael	Brian O’Donoghue[a]	11.87%	858	927	942	955	1,050
	Labour	William Paton[a]	10.82%	782	878	904	933	1,046
	Fine Gael	John Murphy[a]	9.65%	697	740	839	891	1,006	1,018	1,163
	Fianna Fáil	John McDonald	5.95%	430	547	610	628	657	660	782	833
	Sinn Féin	Jim Deane[a]	7.76%	561	588	610	639	673	674	783	795
	Independent	Billy Nolan	5.52%	399	417	500	573	596	597
	Fine Gael	Maria Ansbro	5.11%	369	400	414	457
	Renua	Helena Byrne	3.99%	288	300	341
Electorate: 14,840   Valid: 7,226   Spoilt: 86   Quota: 1,033   Turnout: 7,312 (49.27%)

Results by gender[edit]

2019 Carlow County Council election[6] Candidates by gender
Gender	Number of candidates	% of candidates	Elected councillors	% of councillors
Men	26	83.9%	16	88.9%
Women	5	16.1%	2	11.1%
TOTAL	31		18

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