1920 Wicklow County Council election

The 1920 Wicklow County Council election was held on Friday, 4 June 1920.

Council results

Party		Seats	±	Seats %	Votes	Votes %	±%
	Sinn Féin	14					New
	Lab-Sinn Féin	3
	Farmers' Association	2
	Irish Nationalist	1
	Independent	0
Totals		20		100.0	8,287	100%

Results by electoral division

Arklow

Arklow - 6 seats[1][2]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Sinn Féin	Felix O'Rafferty		575
	Sinn Féin	James Byrne		560	elected
	Sinn Féin	William Grainger		403	-	elected
	Labour-Sinn Féin	William Doyle		422	-	-	elected
	Sinn Féin	Andrew Kinsella		311	-	-	-	elected
	Farmers' Association	Daniel Condren		255	-	-	-	-	elected
	Independent	Arthur Bernard Brennan		197
	Farmers' Association	Robert Wynne Coates		242
	Farmers' Association	John Valentine Cahan		168
	Farmers' Association	George Thomas Hopkins		118
	Farmers' Association	Tobias Kinsella		157
	Sinn Féin	Daniel New		271
	Independent	Edmond C. Walsh		27
Electorate: -   Valid: 3,766   Spoilt: 229   Quota: 539   Turnout: 3,983

Baltinglass

Baltinglass - 4 seats[2][3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Sinn Féin	Patrick Healy		uncontested
	Sinn Féin	Daniel McEvoy		uncontested
	Sinn Féin	John Joseph Metcalfe		uncontested
	Sinn Féin	Edward O'Neill		uncontested

Bray

Bray - 5 seats[2][1]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Sinn Féin	Joseph Campbell		488
	Labour-Sinn Féin	John Redmond		408
	Sinn Féin	Patrick Murphy		307	-	elected
	Sinn Féin	Joseph Lynch		284	elected
	Irish Nationalist	Martin Langton		276	-	-	elected
	Irish Nationalist	John Storey		122
Electorate: -   Valid: 1,885   Spoilt: 171   Quota: 315   Turnout: 2,056 (slightly over 50%)

Wicklow

Wicklow - 5 seats[2][4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Sinn Féin	Robert Childers Barton		643
	Labour-Sinn Féin	James Everett		588
	[[|N/A]]	David H. Haskins		231
	Sinn Féin	Dulcibella Barton		226
	Sinn Féin	Christopher M. Byrne		221	-	-	-	440
	Farmers' Association	William Byrne		206	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	elected
	Sinn Féin	Bernard Kelly		179	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	elected
	[[|N/A]]	James Byrne		120
	[[|N/A]]	John Fleming		97
	[[|N/A]]	Andrew Halpin		86
	[[|N/A]]	Wilfred Tighe		21
	[[|N/A]]	Richard Wilson		18
Electorate: -   Valid: 2,636   Spoilt: 277   Quota: 440   Turnout: 2,913

Notes

1.^ Barton, who was also MP for West Wicklow, was imprisoned in Portland Prison at the time of the election.

2.^ Dulcibella Barton withdrew from the election, although she withdrew too late for her name to be removed from voting papers.

3.^ Byrne was at the time on the run.

References

1. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001874/19200605/105/0005 (subscription required)
2. "Notice of Result of Elections: Wicklow County Council; Election of county councillors for the above in the year 1920". Wicklow County Council. 4 June 1920.
3. Description of four as "Sinn Feiners"
4. "The Elections: Wicklow County Electoral Area". Wicklow People. 12 June 1920.