2019 Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council election

A Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council election was held in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. Forty councillors were elected for a five-year term of office from six local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote.

2019 Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council election

24 May 2019
All 40 seats to Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council 21 seats needed for a majority
Party Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Green Seats won 13 7 6 Seat change 2 1 4   Party Labour People Before Profit Social Democrats Seats won 6 2 1 Seat change 1 1 1   Party Independent Seats won 5 Seat change 1
Map showing the area of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council
Council control after election TBD

Following a recommendation of the 2018 Boundary Committee, the boundaries of the LEAs were altered from those used in the 2014 elections.[1][2] Its terms of reference required no change in the total number of councillors but set a lower maximum LEA size of seven councillors, requiring a change to the eight-seat Dún Laoghaire LEA. Other changes were necessitated by population shifts revealed by the 2016 census.

Uniquely after 2019 Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown became Ireland's first 50:50 gender-neutral Council. Fine Gael remained the largest party gaining an additional 2 seats while seeing a slight reduction in vote-share. Fianna Fáil lost a seat in Stillorgan to return 7 in total and saw a slight reduction in vote share. The main winners in Dún Laoghaire were the Greens who won 6 seats and saw all 6 of their candidates elected in the process. They topped the poll in 4 of the 6 LEAs. Labour gained a seat in Dun Laoghaire but lost seats in Stillorgan and Glencullen-Sandyford to reduce their numbers to 6 seats overall. Solidarity-People Before Profit lost a seat in Dún Laoghaire to only return with 2 seats while Sinn Féin had a terrible election losing all 3 of their seats.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	13	2	21,156	27.30%	0.85%
	Fianna Fáil	7	1	13,634	17.59%	1.07%
	Green	6	4	15,234	19.66%	12.69%
	Labour	6	1	9,132	11.78%	1.36%
	People Before Profit	2	1	5,108	6.59%	1.31%
	Social Democrats	1	1	1,267	1.63%	1.63%
	Sinn Féin	0	3	2,656	3.43%	6.22%
	Aontú	0		728	0.94%	0.94%
	Éirígí	0		631	0.81%	0.81%
	Independent	5	1	7,959	10.27%	5.27%
Total		40		77,505	100%

Candidates by LEA

Blackrock

Blackrock — 6 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Green	Séafra Ó Faoláin	24.95%	3,128
	Fine Gael	Marie Baker[c 1]	16.76%	2,101
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Hanafin[c 1]	14.72%	1,846
	Fine Gael	Barry Ward[c 1][c 2]	9.62%	1,206	1,464	1,564	1,568	1,628	1,638	1,677	2,420
	Fianna Fáil	Kate Feeney[c 1]	8.74%	1,096	1,285	1,331	1,354	1,447	1,476	1,532	1,657	1,873
	Fine Gael	Rebecca Molloy	6.14%	770	980	1,048	1,054	1,097	1,104	1,133
	Labour	Deirdre Kingston[c 1]	5.12%	642	893	916	928	979	983	1,156	1,217	1,412
	People Before Profit	Lola Hynes	4.73%	593	729	735	814	867	869
	Social Democrats	Sinéad Gibney	4.40%	552	754	766	805	873	875	1,189	1,238	1,283
	Independent	Reji Chacko Jacob	3.17%	397	504	516	536
	Sinn Féin	Grainne Ferris	1.64%	206	229	231
Electorate: 26,344   Valid: 12,537   Spoilt: 271   Quota: 1,792   Turnout: 12,808 (48.62%)

Dundrum

Dundrum — 7 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Green	Daniel Dunne[c 3]	19.63%	2,897
	Independent	Sean McLoughlin	10.88%	1,606	1,660	1,700	1,743	1,838	1,920
	Fianna Fáil	Shay Brennan[c 1]	10.07%	1,487	1,549	1,566	1,612	1,629	1,770	1,843	1,847
	Fine Gael	Anna Grainger	8.54%	1,261	1,377	1,382	1,415	1,432	1,461	1,488	1,490	1,908
	Fianna Fáil	Olivia Buckley	7.54%	1,113	1,178	1,184	1,211	1,231	1,288	1,328	1,334	1,442
	Fine Gael	Pat Hand[c 1]	6.90%	1,019	1,081	1,086	1,121	1,135	1,170	1,216	1,216
	Labour	Peter O'Brien[c 1]	6.66%	983	1,258	1,299	1,327	1,475	1,506	1,660	1,667	1,762
	Fine Gael	Jim O'Leary	6.53%	964	1,035	1,041	1,081	1,098	1,210	1,233	1,239	1,536
	Independent	Anne Colgan[c 3]	6.16%	909	1,015	1,031	1,078	1,172	1,303	1,482	1,508	1,598
	Aontú	Liam Coughlan	4.93%	728	757	771	805	828
	Éirígí	Brian Leeson	4.27%	631	673	719	730	852	903
	People Before Profit	Eoghan Pádraig Ó Ceannabháin	3.49%	515	625	701	727
	Independent	Seamas O'Neill[c 1]	2.38%	351	383	401
	Sinn Féin	Sorcha Nic Cormaic[c 1]	2.01%	297	324
Electorate: 30,064   Valid: 14,761   Spoilt: 384   Quota: 1,846   Turnout: 15,145 (50.38%)

Dún Laoghaire

Dún Laoghaire — 7 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Green	Ossian Smyth[c 1]††	20.16%	3,147
	Fianna Fáil	Cormac Devlin[c 1]†††	17.20%	2,684
	Fine Gael	John Bailey[c 1]†	9.64%	1,504	1,594	1,690	1,702	1,735	1,759	1,778	1,900	1,996
	Labour	Juliet O'Connell	9.63%	1,503	1,761	1,835	1,868	2,192
	Fine Gael	Lorraine Hall	8.58%	1,339	1,465	1,520	1,526	1,567	1,603	1,611	1,747	1,819	1,832
	People Before Profit	Melissa Halpin[c 1]	6.84%	1,067	1,194	1,228	1,315	1,355	1,388	1,825	1,889	2,127
	Fine Gael	Mary Fayne[c 1]	6.07%	947	1,018	1,072	1,080	1,117	1,153	1,166	1,266	1,323	1,338
	Independent	Michael Merrigan[c 1]	4.90%	765	824	862	908	934	949	1,002	1,053
	Social Democrats	Dave Quinn	4.58%	715	949	970	995	1,035	1,102	1,181	1,283	1,476	1,564
	Fianna Fáil	Justin Moylan	3.50%	547	593	885	903	928	936	951
	People Before Profit	Dave O'Keeffe[c 3]	3.45%	538	611	634	717	730	751
	Labour	Valerie McDermott	3.21%	501	594	623	633
	Sinn Féin	Séamus Mac Floinn	2.26%	352	370	386
Electorate: 33,876   Valid: 15,609   Spoilt: 409   Quota: 1,952   Turnout: 16,018 (47.28%)

Glencullen–Sandyford

Glencullen–Sandyford — 7 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Labour	Lettie McCarthy[c 1]	22.01%	2,269
	Green	Deirdre Ní Fhloinn†††††	15.51%	1,599
	Independent	Michael Fleming	11.87%	1,224	1,455
	Fine Gael	Emma Louise Blain[c 3]	9.69%	999	1,115	1,160	1,184	1,193	1,257	1,305
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Murphy[c 1]	8.19%	844	974	994	1,025	1,028	1,120	1,357
	Independent	Lynsey McGovern[c 1]	6.02%	621	728	784	809	895	1,016	1,087	1,110	1,219
	Fine Gael	Kazi Ahmed	5.99%	618	713	759	780	796	843	894	912	1,334
	Fianna Fáil	Ben Stafford	5.19%	535	603	605	617	636	664
	Fine Gael	Sandra Stewart	4.98%	513	587	638	647	652	683	716	732
	Sinn Féin	Shaun Tracey	4.69%	484	535	554	558	656	673	762	773	788
	Independent	Kevin Daly	3.57%	368	436	457	490	507
	People Before Profit	Ruth O'Connor	2.28%	235	275	325	332
Electorate: 27,705   Valid: 10,309   Spoilt: 222   Quota: 1,289   Turnout: 10,531 (38.01%)

Killiney–Shankill

Killiney–Shankill — 7 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Green	Una Power	16.63%	2,193
	Labour	Carrie Smyth[c 1]	12.81%	1,689
	Fine Gael	Jennifer Carroll MacNeill††††	12.21%	1,610	1,691
	People Before Profit	Hugh Lewis[c 1]	8.66%	1,142	1,198	1,201	1,204	1,251	1,291	1,796
	Fine Gael	Jim Gildea[c 3]	8.13%	1,072	1,104	1,112	1,117	1,132	1,189	1,206	1,210	1,706
	Sinn Féin	Shane O'Brien[c 1]	8.03%	1,059	1,082	1,083	1,084	1,097	1,111	1,179	1,249	1,285
	Labour	Denis O'Callaghan[c 1]	7.99%	1,053	1,160	1,163	1,181	1,202	1,267	1,358	1,414	1,565
	Fine Gael	Frank McNamara	7.14%	942	1,004	1,017	1,021	1,051	1,133	1,159	1,167
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Clark	5.51%	726	744	745	747	816	1,166	1,179	1,193	1,344
	Fianna Fáil	Helena Kelly	5.21%	687	723	731	734	761
	People Before Profit	Danielle O'Rourke	5.07%	669	770	774	777	811	856
	Independent	Sandra Archer	2.62%	345	373	374	375
Electorate: 30,387   Valid: 13,187   Spoilt: 381   Quota: 1,649   Turnout: 13,568 (44.65%)

Stillorgan

Stillorgan — 6 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	Barry Saul[c 1]	21.40%	2,376
	Green	Eva Elizabeth Dowling	20.45%	2,270
	Fine Gael	Maeve O'Connell	11.46%	1,272	1,571	1,698
	Fianna Fáil	Dónal Smith[c 3]	10.30%	1,143	1,228	1,278	1,292	1,302	1,367	1,392	1,488
	Fianna Fáil	Liam Dockery[c 1]	8.34%	926	980	1,023	1,035	1,045	1,099	1,128	1,210
	Independent	Deirdre Donnelly[c 1]	8.34%	926	1,009	1,090	1,122	1,128	1,247	1,410	1,641
	Fine Gael	John Kennedy[c 3]	5.79%	643	809	877	889	945	1,040	1,066	1,282
	Labour	Paul Gordon	4.43%	492	530	697	726	743	801	968
	Independent	Gearóid O'Keeffe	4.03%	447	494	527	548	551
	People Before Profit	Rachael Prendergast Spollen	3.14%	349	358	447	553	559	607
	Sinn Féin	Rosie Ní Laoghaire	2.32%	258	266	291
Electorate: 22,993   Valid: 11,102   Spoilt: 231   Quota: 1,587   Turnout: 11,333 (49.29%)

Changes Since 2019

• † Dún Laoghaire Fine Gael Cllr John Bailey died on 9 July 2019 after a battle with motor neuron disease.[3] Mary Fayne was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 14 October 2019.
• †† Dún Laoghaire Green Party Cllr Ossian Smyth was elected as a TD for Dún Laoghaire at the 2020 General Election. Tom Kivlehan was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 24 February 2020.
• ††† Dún Laoghaire Fianna Fáil Cllr Cormac Devlin was elected as a TD for Dún Laoghaire at the 2020 General Election. Justin Moylan was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 24 February 2020.
• †††† Killiney-Shankill Fine Gael Cllr Jennifer Carroll MacNeill was elected as a TD for Dún Laoghaire at the 2020 General Election. Frank McNamara was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 24 February 2020.
• ††††† Glencullen-Sandyford Cllr Deirdre Ní Fhloinn resigned her council seat on 12 October 2020. Oisín O'Connor was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 14 December 2020.

Footnotes

1. Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
2. Elected to Seanad Éireann in April 2020.
3. Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.

References

Citations

1. Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 2 (13 June 2018). "Report 2018" (PDF). Government Publications. pp. 22–25, 54. ISBN 978-1-4064-2991-6. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
2. Phelan, John Paul (19 December 2018). "S.I. No. 615/2018 - County of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Local Electoral Areas Order 2018". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Retrieved 8 May 2019.
3. https://www.thejournal.ie/john-bailey-death-rip-4717835-Jul2019/

Sources

• "Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 5 May 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
• "Election of members of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council [Nominations]" (PDF). Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council. 4 May 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
• "Local Elections 2019 Latest Results". Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. 20 May 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.