1991 Offaly County Council election

Part of the 1991 Irish local elections

1991 Offaly County Council election

* * *

| ← 1985 | 27 June 1991 | 1999 →

|
|

* * *

All 21 seats on Offaly County Council
|   | First party  | Second party  | Third party

|
|
|

|  |  |
Party  | Fianna Fáil | Fine Gael | Labour
Seats won  | 10  | 6  | 1
Seat change  | -2  | \-  | +1

* * *

| Fourth party  | Fifth party
|  |
Party  | Progressive Democrats | Independent
Seats won  | 1  | 3
Seat change  | +1  | \-

* * *

Map showing the area of Offaly County Council

* * *

|  | Council control after election

TBD

|

An election to Offaly County Council took place on 27 June 1991 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). This term was extended twice, first to 1998, then to 1999.[1][2]

## Results by party

[edit]

Party  | Seats  | ±  | First Pref. votes  | FPv%  | ±%

|
|
|
|
|

| Fianna Fáil | 10  | -2  | 10,232 | 41.39 |
| Fine Gael | 6  | \-  | 7,699  | 31.14  |
| Labour | 1  | +1  | 1,686  | 6.82  |
| Progressive Democrats | 1  | +1  | 1,015  | 4.11  |
| Independent | 3  | \-  | 3,221  | 13.03  |
Totals | 21 | \-  | 24,722  | 100.00 | —

## Results by local electoral area

[edit]

### Birr

[edit]

Birr- 5 seats  Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count

|
|
|

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
| Fine Gael | Tom Enright TD*  | 15.5%  | 924  | 966  | 1,076 |   |   |   |   |
| Fianna Fáil | Pat Moylan*  | 13.2%  | 789  | 823  | 898  | 908  | 1,010 |   |   |
| Fine Gael | Percy Clendennen  | 12.4%  | 742  | 760  | 801  | 820  | 876  | 896  | 904  | 906
| Fianna Fáil | Seamus Loughnane*  | 11.4%  | 681  | 725  | 794  | 813  | 1,037 |   |   |
| Fianna Fáil | Pat McLoughney  | 11%  | 658  | 689  | 732  | 740  |   |   |   |
| Fine Gael | Joe Clear*  | 11%  | 657  | 678  | 749  | 759  | 873  | 896  | 904  | 907
| Fianna Fáil | Joe Dooley*  | 10.7%  | 635  | 688  | 796  | 812  | 999 |   |   |
| Sinn Féin | John Carroll  | 9.6%  | 570  | 601  |   |   |   |   |   |
| Independent | Neayvn Kavanagh  | 5.1%  | 304  |   |   |   |   |   |   |
Electorate: 9,171   Valid: 5,960 (64.99%)   Spoilt: 41   Quota: 994   Turnout: 6,001 (65.43%)

### Edenderry

[edit]

Edenderry - 5 seats  Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count

|
|
|

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
| Fine Gael | Michael Fox*  | 15.6%  | 915  | 917  | 937  | 1,038 |   |   |   |
| Independent | James Flanagan*  | 13.6%  | 795  | 844  | 870  | 910  | 942  | 951  | 1,194 | 656
| Fianna Fáil | Frank Weir | 12.3%  | 718  | 718  | 791  | 806  | 894  | 898  | 920  | 926
| Fianna Fáil | Noel Bourke | 11.6%  | 681  | 701  | 713  | 733  | 746  | 752  | 904  | 982
| Fianna Fáil | Paddy Scully*  | 11.6%  | 677  | 678  | 684  | 709  | 728  | 747  | 773  | 781
| Progressive Democrats | Tom O'Connell  | 9.9%  | 579  | 597  | 608  | 642  | 660  | 673  |   |
| Progressive Democrats | Brigid Emerson | 7.4%  | 436  | 438  | 506  | 541  | 675  | 685  | 832  | 867
| Fine Gael | Jack Dunne  | 6.2%  | 361  | 363  | 388  | 425  |   |   |   |
| Green | Anthony Dolan  | 5.1%  | 299  | 305  | 333  |   |   |   |   |
| Labour | Sean Coughlan  | 4.9%  | 289  | 292  |   |   |   |   |   |
| Independent | William Brereton  | 1.9%  | 111  |   |   |   |   |   |   |
Electorate: 10,007   Valid: 5,861 (58.57%)   Spoilt: 73   Quota: 977   Turnout: 5,934 (59.3%)

### Ferbane

[edit]

Ferbane- 5 seats  Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count

|
|
|

1 | 2 | 3 | 4
| Fine Gael | Connie Hanniffy*  | 22.4%  | 1,183 |   |   |
| Fianna Fáil | Eamon Dooley*  | 18.3%  | 966 |   |   |
| Independent | Johnny Butterfield*  | 15.7%  | 829  | 886 |   |
| Fianna Fáil | Tom Feighery*  | 12.8%  | 680  | 695  | 804  | 848
| Fine Gael | Bernard Corcoran*  | 12.7%  | 673  | 840  | 1,061 |
| Fianna Fáil | Patrick Mahon*  | 10.3%  | 544  | 562  | 602  | 608
| Fine Gael | Pat Troy  | 7.9%  | 417  | 460  |   |
Electorate: 8,914   Valid: 5,292 (59.37%)   Spoilt: 55   Quota: 883   Turnout: 5,347 (59.98%)

### Tullamore

[edit]

Tullamore - 6 seats  Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count

|
|
|

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
| Fianna Fáil | Brian Cowen TD*  | 15%  | 1,141 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
| Fianna Fáil | John Flanagan*  | 12.5%  | 953  | 965  | 981  | 994  | 1,018  | 1,072  | 1,113 |   |
| Independent | Thomas Dolan*  | 11.1%  | 844  | 860  | 875  | 879  | 902  | 926  | 950  | 966  | 1,013
| Fine Gael | Tommy McKeigue | 10.9%  | 830  | 854  | 855  | 882  | 913  | 946  | 1,057  | 1,118 |
| Labour | Pat Gallagher | 9.5%  | 722  | 742  | 743  | 808  | 842  | 894  | 921  | 1,099 |
| Fine Gael | Frank Feery*  | 9.3%  | 708  | 712  | 719  | 722  | 724  | 737  | 798  | 810  | 848
| Fianna Fáil | Miriam O'Callaghan*  | 9.3%  | 706  | 722  | 729  | 747  | 781  | 797  | 816  | 851  | 1,076
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Lynam  | 5.3%  | 403  | 405  | 408  | 412  | 422  | 430  | 441  | 448  |
| Fine Gael | Kevin Wrafter  | 3.8%  | 289  | 298  | 299  | 304  | 309  | 310  |   |   |
| Labour | Laurence Byrne  | 3.3%  | 250  | 258  | 259  | 270  | 280  |   |   |   |
| Labour | Ernest McGuire  | 2.9%  | 223  | 232  | 233  | 265  | 292  | 360  | 368  |   |
| Labour | Seán O'Brien  | 2.7%  | 202  | 204  | 204  |   |   |   |   |   |
| Independent | Anne O'Toole  | 2.5%  | 193  | 207  | 207  | 219  |   |   |   |   |
| Independent | Peadar Keeley  | 1%  | 78  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
| Independent | May Keeley  | 0.5%  | 41  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
| Independent | Nellie Gaffney  | 0.3%  | 26  | 70  |   |   |   |   |   |   |
Electorate: 12,610   Valid: 7,609 (60.34%)   Spoilt: 64   Quota: 1,088   Turnout: 7,673 (60.85%)

## References

[edit]

1. ^ Local Government Act 1994, s. 20: Year of elections to all local authorities (No. 8 of 1994, s. 20). Enacted on 29 April 1994. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
2. ^ Local Government Act 1998, s. 10: Amendment of section 20 of Act of 1994 (No. 16 of 1998, s. 10). Enacted on 29 May 1998. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.

## External links

[edit]

* Official website
* irishelectionliterature

* v
* t
* e

Elections to Offaly County Council

* 1899
* 1902
* 1905
* 1908
* 1911
* 1914
* 1920
* 1925
* 1928
* 1934
* 1942
* 1948
* 1955
* 1960
* 1967
* 1974
* 1979
* 1985
* 1991
* 1999
* 2004
* 2009
* 2014
* 2019
* 2024

* v
* t
* e

(1985 ←)   1991 Irish local elections   (1994 →)

* Carlow
* Cavan
* Clare
* Cork City
* Cork County
* Donegal
* Dublin City
* Dublin County
* Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown
* Fingal
* South Dublin
* Galway City
* Galway County
* Kerry
* Kildare
* Kilkenny
* Laois
* Leitrim
* Limerick City
* Limerick County
* Longford
* Louth
* Mayo
* Meath
* Monaghan
* Offaly
* Roscommon
* Sligo
* North Tipperary
* South Tipperary
* Waterford City
* Waterford County
* Westmeath
* Wexford
* Wicklow

*[FPv%]: First preference votes percentage
*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template