1999 Roscommon County Council election

1999 Roscommon County Council election

10 June 1999
All 26 seats to Roscommon County Council
First party Second party Third party   Party Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Progressive Democrats Seats won 12 9 1 Seat change +1 -1 +1   Fourth party   Party Independent Seats won 4 Seat change -1
Map showing the area of Roscommon County Council
Council control after election TBD

An election to Roscommon County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from six local electoral areas for a five-year term of office on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	12	+1	11,134	38.95
	Fianna Fáil	9	-1	10,529	36.83
	Progressive Democrats	1	+1	771	2.69
	Independent	4	-1	5,846	20.45
Totals		26	-	28,586	100.00	—

Results by local electoral area

Athlone

Athlone - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Senator Michael Finneran*	26.28	1,462
	Fine Gael	Denis Naughten TD*	23.91	1,330
	Fine Gael	Ollie Moore	9.44	525	618	735	796	857	1,083
	Fianna Fáil	Anthony Geraghty	8.61	479	602	623	652	749	916	953
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran	8.27	460	583	652	681	707	789	809
	Fine Gael	John Dooley	7.71	429	447	543	555	635
	Independent	Eugene Costello	7.05	392	492	541	584	651	711	771
	Independent	Tony Ward	5.88	327	366	389	402
	Independent	Tom Naughton	2.86	159	197	224
Electorate: 8,441   Valid: 5,563 (65.90%)   Spoilt: 53   Quota: 928   Turnout: 5,616 (66.53%)

Ballaghadreen

Ballaghadreen - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Fine Gael	Senator John Connor*	25.90	1,034
	Fine Gael	Michael Scally*	20.69	826
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy McGarry	16.03	640	668	801
	Progressive Democrats	Hugh Lynn	14.63	584	665	763
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Lynch*	14.38	574	600	690
	Fianna Fáil	John Mulvihil	8.39	335	435
Electorate: 6,436   Valid: 3,993 (62.04%)   Spoilt: 59   Quota: 799   Turnout: 4,052 (62.96%)

Boyle

Boyle - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fine Gael	Frank Feighan	19.82	1,090
	Fine Gael	Charlie Hopkins*	12.16	669	682	692	699	705	727	821	854	887
	Fine Gael	Kitty Duignan*	10.49	577	607	621	654	688	706	718	832	911
	Fine Gael	Gerry Garvey	9.93	546	559	613	618	623	665	677	792	816
	Fianna Fáil	John Cummins	9.56	526	546	580	613	670	685	699	706	819
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Gaffney	7.75	426	433	444	459	470	535	640	678	726
	Independent	Paddy Mulvey	5.11	281	287	291	301	310	331
	Fianna Fáil	Padraig McWeeney	5.00	275	276	299	300	307
	Independent	Paddy Mulvey	4.95	272	275	295	303	310	404	426
	Labour	Tommy Egan	5.10	256	287	300	345	431	437	467	480
	Independent	Francis Geelan	3.49	192	216	220	264
	Progressive Democrats	Gerard Tivnan	3.40	187	208	213
	Fianna Fáil	Tommie Bourke	2.78	153	154
	Green	Vincent Beirne	2.38	50	53
Electorate: 7,827   Valid: 5,500 (70.27%)   Spoilt: 48   Quota: 917   Turnout: 5,548 (70.88%)

Castlerea

Castlerea - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Independent	Danny Burke*	28.83	927
	Fine Gael	Michael McGreal*	27.19	874
	Fine Gael	John Murray*	20.34	654	702	728	780
	Fianna Fáil	Breege Flanagan	14.06	452	514	718	736
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Sloyan	9.58	308	321
Electorate: 4,845   Valid: 3,215 (66.36%)   Spoilt: 39   Quota: 804   Turnout: 3,254 (67.14%)

Roscommon

Roscommon - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Independent	Tom Foxe*	22.01	1,224
	Fianna Fáil	Terry Leyden	16.15	898	946
	Fianna Fáil	Des Bruen*	12.23	680	744	749	939
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Connaughton*	11.56	643	670	673	698	931
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy Kilduff	10.36	576	604	608	637
	Fine Gael	Gerry Donnelly*	9.58	533	556	557	652	884
	Fine Gael	Dominick Connolly*	9.51	529	576	578	733	792
	Fine Gael	Brian Keenan	8.60	478	538	542
Electorate: 8,326   Valid: 5,561 (66.79%)   Spoilt: 47   Quota: 927   Turnout: 5,608 (67.36%)

Strokestown

Strokestown- 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Independent	Tom Crosby*	27.66	1,315
	Fine Gael	Seán Beirne*	16.70	794	854	971
	Independent	Gene Byrne*	16.26	757	813	858	970
	Fianna Fáil	Eugene Murphy*	19.78	699	813	922	1,115
	Fianna Fáil	Gerry Thompson	10.69	508	551	559	622
	Fianna Fáil	John Quinn	9.15	435	458	469
	Fine Gael	Mamie Gearty	5.17	246	314
Electorate: 6,573   Valid: 4,754 (70.12%)   Spoilt: 42   Quota: 951   Turnout: 4,796 (71.13%)

External links

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