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]
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18 seats on Cavan County Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Results by Local Electoral Area | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overview
editSinn 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.
Results by party
edit| Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 8 |  1
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12,492 | 38.92 |  1.56
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| Fine Gael | 7 | 
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10,712 | 33.37 | 3.29
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| Sinn Féin | 1 | 3
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3,974 | 12.38 | 5.79
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| Aontú | 1 | 1
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2,482 | 7.73 | New | |
| Labour | 0 |
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705 | 2.20 | 1.61
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| People Before Profit | 0 |
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498 | 1.55 | New | |
| Independent | 1 | 1
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1,236 | 3.85 | 0.21
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| Total | 18 |
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32,099 | 100.00 |
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Results by local electoral area
edit^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.
Bailieborough–Cootehill
edit| 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%) | |||||||||||
Ballyjamesduff
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Trevor Smith | 16.20% | 1,826 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Shane P. O'Reilly[*][a] | 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%) | ||||||||
Cavan–Belturbet
edit| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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| 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%) | ||||||||||
Footnotes
edit- ^ Change in affiliation after 2019; see below.
Results by gender
edit| 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 | ||
Changes
edit| Name | LEA | 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] | ||
References
edit- ^ Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 1 (13 June 2018). Report 2018 (PDF). Government Publications. pp. 24–27, 142. ISBN 978-1-4064-2990-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ County of Cavan Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 (S.I. No. 611 of 2018). Signed on 19 December 2018 by 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 23 January 2020. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
- ^ "Local Election 2019 — Bailieborough-Cootehill LEA" (PDF). Cavan County Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "Local Election 2019 — Ballyjamesduff LEA" (PDF). Cavan County Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "Local Election 2019 — Cavan–Belturbet LEA" (PDF). Cavan County Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "Cavan County Council: Sinn Féin prevent wipeout but lose three seats". The Irish Times. Dublin. 26 May 2019 [25 May 2019]. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 247.
- ^ "Reaction to FF Cllr's resignation". The Anglo-Celt. 18 June 2020. Archived from the original on 22 June 2020.
- ^ Meehan, Stella (28 February 2024). "New rural party announces first candidate for local elections". Agriland.
Sources
edit- "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Government of Ireland. Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 69–71. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
- "Cavan County Council – Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 13 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- "Local Election Count - News - Cavan County Council". Cavan County Council. 26 May 2019. Archived from the original on 4 June 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2019.