2019 Wicklow County Council election
An election to Wicklow County Council took place on 24 May 2019 as part of the Irish local elections. 32 councillors were elected from six local electoral areas (LEAs) on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV) for a five-year term of office.
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All 32 seats to Wicklow County Council 17 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map showing the area of Wicklow County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In 2014, there were five LEAs each electing between 6 and 8 councillors. Following the recommendations of the Local Area Boundary Committee Report in June 2018, there are now six LEAs each electing between 4 and 6 councillors.[1][2][3]
Fine Gael increased their seat numbers by 1 to emerge with 9 seats while Fianna Fáil retained 7 seats overall. Fianna Fáil again won 3 seats in Arklow but did secure 2 seats in Baltinglass. However they emerged seatless in both LEAs in Bray. Sinn Féin had a very disappointing election losing 4 seats to emerge 2 seats overall both in Bray the base of the TD John Brady. Several party Councillors had quit since 2014 and Gerry O'Neill and John Snell were both re-elected as Independents. The Greens gained an additional seat to return with 2 seats. Labour returned to the Council with 2 seats in Bray and Wicklow while Jennifer Whitmore won a seat for the Social Democrats in Greystones. While there were a lot of changes Independent numbers reduced by just 1 seat to 9.
Results by party
| Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fine Gael | 9 |  1 |
14,149 | 26.18% | 6.28% | |
| Fianna Fáil | 7 |  |
11,924 | 22.06% | 2.16% | |
| Sinn Féin | 2 |  4 |
4,224 | 7.81% | 8.89% | |
| Green | 2 | 1 |
2,698 | 4.99% | 2.59% | |
| Labour | 2 | 2 |
2,504 | 4.63% | 1.53% | |
| Social Democrats | 1 | 1 |
2,861 | 5.29% | 5.29% | |
| People Before Profit | 0 | |
811 | 1.50% | 0.55% | |
| Aontú | 0 | |
605 | 1.12% | 1.12% | |
| Independent | 9 | 1 |
14,277 | 26.41% | 9.29% | |
| Total | 32 | |
54,054 | 100% | | |
Retiring incumbents
The following members of Wicklow County Council announced in advance of the poll that they would not be seeking re-election:
| LEA | Departing councillor | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltinglass | Tommy Cullen | Independent | |
| Baltinglass | Pat Doran | Fianna Fáil | |
| Bray | Christopher Fox | Independent | |
| Greystones | Gráinne McLoughlin | Fine Gael | |
| Wicklow | Dáire Nolan | Independent | |
| Baltinglass | Jim Ruttle | Independent | |
| Bray | John Ryan | Fine Gael | |
| Bray | Pat Vance | Fianna Fáil | |
Results by electoral area
Arklow
| Arklow - 6 seats[4] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Pat Kennedy* | 24.29% | 2,471 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Pat Fitzgerald* | 18.23% | 1,854 | ||||||||
| Independent | Peir Leonard | 10.16% | 1,033 | 1,068 | 1,106 | 1,178 | 1,257 | 1,370 | 1,466 | ||
| Independent | Miriam Murphy* | 9.26% | 942 | 1,106 | 1,158 | 1,194 | 1,273 | 1,387 | 1,525 | ||
| Fine Gael | Sylvester Bourke* | 8.77% | 892 | 1,054 | 1,089 | 1,107 | 1,121 | 1,136 | 1,425 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Tommy Annesley* | 7.57% | 770 | 1,041 | 1,207 | 1,245 | 1,285 | 1,339 | 1,413 | ||
| Independent | Tommy Breen | 6.33% | 644 | 703 | 754 | 792 | 840 | 950 | 1,012 | ||
| Fine Gael | Chantel Kanowga | 5.60% | 570 | 803 | 813 | 827 | 843 | 885 | |||
| Sinn Féin | John Kelly | 4.65% | 473 | 527 | 541 | 560 | 581 | ||||
| Independent | Mary McDonald* | 2.67% | 272 | 295 | 313 | 331 | |||||
| Independent | Pat Hoey | 2.47% | 251 | 267 | 283 | ||||||
| Electorate: 17,703 Valid: 10,172 Quota: 1,454 Turnout: 57.5% | |||||||||||
Baltinglass
| Baltinglass - 6 seats[5] | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | ||
| Fine Gael | Edward Timmins* | 17.62% | 1,875 | |||||||
| Independent | Gerry O'Neill* | 17.12% | 1,822 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Patsy Glennon | 14.14% | 1,505 | 1,579 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Vincent Blake* | 13.91% | 1,481 | 1,526 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Avril Cronin | 11.01% | 1,172 | 1,346 | 1,447 | 1,495 | 1,529 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | John Mullen | 10.20% | 1,086 | 1,109 | 1,138 | 1,179 | 1,188 | 1,315 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Aidan Kinsella | 7.30% | 777 | 786 | 827 | 870 | 871 | 1,115 | ||
| Social Democrats | Dave McGinn | 6.33% | 674 | 690 | 780 | 850 | 854 | |||
| Independent | Lorraine O'Brien | 2.37% | 252 | 265 | 305 | |||||
| Electorate: 19,530 Valid: 10,644 Quota: 1,521 Turnout: 54.5% | ||||||||||
Bray East
| Bray East - 4 seats[6] | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | Count 8 | Count 9 | ||
| Green | Steven Matthews*† | 24.98% | 1,579 | ||||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Grace McManus | 15.42% | 975 | 1,010 | 1,129 | 1,185 | 1,233 | 1,251 | 1,475 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Aoife Flynn-Kennedy | 8.54% | 540 | 585 | 598 | 638 | 652 | 931 | 961 | 968 | 1,093 | ||
| Labour | Anne Ferris | 8.53% | 539 | 606 | 615 | 680 | 727 | 785 | 859 | 892 | 1,007 | ||
| Independent | Malachai Duddy | 8.18% | 517 | 553 | 572 | 598 | 706 | 757 | 833 | 878 | 1,006 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Chris Walsh | 7.04% | 445 | 469 | 488 | 520 | 553 | 610 | 629 | 646 | |||
| Fine Gael | Edward Whelan | 6.85% | 433 | 456 | 459 | 476 | 518 | ||||||
| People Before Profit | Sharon Briggs | 6.22% | 393 | 413 | 468 | 502 | 538 | 554 | |||||
| Aontú | Brendan Thornhill* | 5.36% | 339 | 355 | 379 | 402 | |||||||
| Independent | Barry Murphy | 4.67% | 295 | 303 | |||||||||
| Social Democrats | Eamonn Moran | 4.22% | 267 | 307 | 328 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 11,636 Valid: 6,322 Quota: 1,265 Turnout: 54.3% | |||||||||||||
Bray West
| Bray West - 4 seats[7] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | ||
| Independent | Joe Behan* | 28.87% | 1,880 | ||||||||
| Fine Gael | Melanie Corrigan | 22.16% | 1,443 | ||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Dermot "Daisy" O'Brien* | 13.99% | 911 | 1,012 | 1,018 | 1,101 | 1,197 | 1,240 | 1,265 | ||
| Independent | Rory O'Connor | 8.77% | 571 | 673 | 696 | 742 | 843 | 984 | 1,175 | ||
| Labour | Ian McGahon | 7.86% | 512 | 593 | 607 | 661 | 694 | 793 | 926 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Sárán Fogarty | 5.37% | 350 | 439 | 453 | 461 | 488 | ||||
| Fine Gael | David Miller | 5.18% | 337 | 406 | 481 | 488 | 503 | 570 | |||
| Aontú | Oliver O'Brien* | 4.08% | 266 | 357 | 360 | 385 | |||||
| People Before Profit | June Maher | 3.72% | 242 | 286 | 291 | ||||||
| Electorate: 12,548 Valid: 6,512 Quota: 1,303 Turnout: 51.9% | |||||||||||
Greystones
| Greystones - 6 seats[8] | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | Count 8 | ||
| Social Democrats | Jennifer Whitmore*†† | 19.58% | 1,920 | |||||||||
| Independent | Tom Fortune* | 14.23% | 1,396 | 1,453 | ||||||||
| Green | Lourda Scott | 11.42% | 1,120 | 1,244 | 1,253 | 1,312 | 1,337 | 1,371 | 1,613 | |||
| Fine Gael | Derek Mitchell* | 11.05% | 1,084 | 1,133 | 1,139 | 1,146 | 1,152 | 1,180 | 1,256 | 1,274 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Gerry Walsh* | 10.54% | 1,034 | 1,068 | 1,070 | 1,073 | 1,100 | 1,248 | 1,334 | 1,348 | ||
| Fine Gael | Alice O'Donnell | 10.22% | 1,002 | 1,084 | 1,088 | 1,093 | 1,095 | 1,119 | 1,177 | 1,200 | ||
| Independent | Mags Crean | 8.19% | 803 | 902 | 915 | 955 | 982 | 991 | 1,226 | 1,308 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Nicola Lawless* | 4.35% | 427 | 442 | 444 | 459 | 476 | 493 | ||||
| Labour | Anna Waithira Burke | 3.78% | 371 | 397 | 401 | 423 | 442 | 465 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Elaine Wills | 2.90% | 284 | 303 | 309 | 311 | 317 | |||||
| Independent | Charlie Keddy | 1.94% | 190 | 192 | 194 | 203 | ||||||
| People Before Profit | Pyper Ludlow | 1.79% | 176 | 187 | 189 | |||||||
| Electorate: 18,414 Valid: 9,807 Quota: 1,402 Turnout: 53.3% | ||||||||||||
Wicklow
| Wicklow - 6 seats[9] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count 1 | Count 2 | Count 3 | Count 4 | Count 5 | Count 6 | Count 7 | ||
| Fine Gael | Shay Cullen* | 21.58% | 2,287 | ||||||||
| Independent | John Snell* | 18.65% | 1,976 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Gail Dunne* | 12.36% | 1,310 | 1,388 | 1,462 | 1,477 | 1,571 | ||||
| Labour | Paul O'Brien | 10.21% | 1,082 | 1,138 | 1,223 | 1,240 | 1,331 | 1,340 | 1,486 | ||
| Fine Gael | Irene Winters* | 9.75% | 1,033 | 1,354 | 1,388 | 1,406 | 1,491 | 1,502 | 1,532 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Anne Gregory | 7.69% | 815 | 944 | 968 | 980 | 1,031 | 1,053 | 1,217 | ||
| Independent | Mary Kavanagh* | 7.36% | 780 | 811 | 897 | 973 | 1,069 | 1,081 | 1,241 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Muireann Dalton | 6.24% | 661 | 688 | 733 | 739 | 790 | 793 | |||
| Independent | Jimmy O'Shaughnessy | 4.34% | 460 | 576 | 671 | 690 | |||||
| Independent | Dáire Fitzgerald | 1.82% | 193 | 208 | 227 | ||||||
| Electorate: 20,545 Valid: 10,597 Quota: 1,514 Turnout: 51.6% | |||||||||||
Changes Since 2019 Local Elections
- †Bray East Green Party Cllr Steven Matthews was elected to the Dáil in the 2020 General Election for the Wicklow Constituency. His wife, Erika Doyle, was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 25 February 2020.[10]
- ††Greystones Social Democrats Cllr Jennifer Whitmore was elected to the Dáil in the 2020 General Election for the Wicklow Constituency. Jodie Neary was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 25 February 2020[11]
References
- "S.I. No. 638/2018 - County of Wicklow Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts Order 2018". 19 December 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- "Local Area Boundary Committee 1 Report 2018" (PDF).
- "Wicklow's Local Electoral Areas and Polling Districts". Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- Wicklow County Council. "Local Election Count Results 2019 - Arklow LEA". Wicklow County Council. Retrieved 14 June 2019 – via data.gov.ie.
- Wicklow County Council. "Local Election Count Results 2019 - Baltinglass LEA". Wicklow County Council. Retrieved 14 June 2019 – via data.gov.ie.
- Wicklow County Council. "Local Election Count Results 2019 - Bray East LEA". Wicklow County Council. Retrieved 14 June 2019 – via data.gov.ie.
- Wicklow County Council. "Local Election Count Results 2019 - Bray West LEA". Wicklow County Council. Retrieved 14 June 2019 – via data.gov.ie.
- Wicklow County Council. "Local Election Count Results 2019 - Greystones LEA". Wicklow County Council. Retrieved 14 June 2019 – via data.gov.ie.
- Wicklow County Council. "Local Election Count Results 2019 - Wicklow LEA". Wicklow County Council. Retrieved 14 June 2019 – via data.gov.ie.
- https://www.independent.ie/regionals/braypeople/news/neary-and-doyle-take-their-seats-in-the-county-council-chamber-39011343.html
- https://www.independent.ie/regionals/braypeople/news/neary-and-doyle-take-their-seats-in-the-county-council-chamber-39011343.html
| Preceded by 2014 Wicklow County Council election |
Wicklow County Council elections | Succeeded by 2024 Wicklow County Council election |
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