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).
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All 18 seats on Monaghan County Council 10 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Results by local electoral area | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boundary review edit
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 edit
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 edit
| Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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| Sinn Féin | 6 |  1
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9,238 | 34.38 |  0.09
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| Fine Gael | 5 | 
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6,568 | 24.44 | 5.23
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| Fianna Fáil | 4 |
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6,609 | 24.60 | 0.90
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| Green | 0 |
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676 | 2.52 | 2.12
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| Aontú | 0 |
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354 | 1.32 | New | |
| Independent | 3 | 1
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3,425 | 12.75 | 1.69
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| Total | 18 |
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26,870 | 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.
Ballybay–Clones edit
| 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 edit
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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| 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 edit
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||
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| 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 edit
| 2019 Monaghan County Council election[6][7] Candidates by gender | ||||
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| 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 edit
Sources edit
- "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 edit
- ^ 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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ County of Monaghan Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 (S.I. No. 629 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 3 February 2019. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 8 May 2019.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 174.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 175.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 176.
- ^ 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.
- ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 247.