2019 Carlow County Council election

An election to all 18 seats on Carlow County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Carlow was divided into three local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

2019 Carlow County Council election

← 2014 24 May 2019 2024 →
18 seats on Carlow County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	49.4% 2.9%[1]
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour Seats won 6 6 2 Seat change 1   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Sinn Féin People Before Profit Independent Seats won 1 1 2 Seat change 2 1
Results by local electoral area
Council control after election TBD

Boundary review

At the 2014 Carlow County Council election, there were two LEAs, of 10 and 8 seats. The terms of reference of the 2018 local electoral area boundary committee required a maximum of seven councillors in each LEA. Following the recommendations of committee, County Carlow was divided into three LEAs.^[2][3]

Overview

Fianna Fáil gained an additional seat to emerge level with Fine Gael on 6 seats apiece and a higher share of the vote. Sinn Féin lost two seats, and Cllr John Cassin was re-elected as an Independent. Labour retained two seats, while Adrienne Wallace, who contested South for Solidarity–People Before Profit in the European Parliament election held on the same day, gained a seat for the party.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	6	1	7,244	33.55	4.65
	Fine Gael	6		6,769	31.35	4.35
	Labour	2		1,910	8.85	4.35
	Sinn Féin	1	2	1,817	8.41	4.29
	People Before Profit	1	1	448	2.07	New
	Aontú	0		310	1.44	New
	Renua	0		288	1.33	New
	Independent	2		2,807	13.00	1.00
Total		18		21,593	100.00

Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.

Carlow

Carlow: 7 Seats^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fianna Fáil	Fintan Phelan[*]	23.26%	1,711
	Fianna Fáil	Andrea Dalton[†]	14.76%	1,086
	Fine Gael	Fergal Browne[*]	12.10%	890	1,052
	Fianna Fáil	Ken Murnane[†]	10.78%	793	994
	Fine Gael	Tom O'Neill	7.33%	539	627	664	693	721	734	747	785	830
	Independent	John Cassin[*]	7.16%	527	600	630	644	671	688	761	829	902
	People Before Profit	Adrienne Wallace	6.09%	448	522	549	586	599	617	701	763	814
	Fine Gael	Wayne Fennell	5.87%	432	508	541	558	604	613	630	686	745
	Aontú	Mary Hande	4.21%	310	345	360	367	377	385	406	422
	Sinn Féin	Ciarán Dooley	3.28%	241	261	267	271	283	288
	Independent	Bernard Jennings	3.18%	234	270	280	293	303	307	326
	Labour	Kevin Byrne	1.97%	145	171	179	186
Electorate: 16,425   Valid: 7,356   Spoilt: 121   Quota: 920   Turnout: 7,477 (45.52%)

Muinebeag

Muinebeag: 5 Seats^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fine Gael	Tommy Kinsella[*]	23.06%	1,617
	Labour	Willie Quinn[*]	14.02%	983	1,147	1,271
	Sinn Féin	Andy Gladney[*]	14.48%	1,015	1,054	1,147	1,175
	Fine Gael	Michael Doran[*]	12.32%	864	916	944	951	1,185
	Fianna Fáil	Arthur McDonald[*]	12.17%	853	893	967	981	1,153
	Fianna Fáil	Josie Daly	9.63%	675	698	798	812	910
	Fine Gael	Denis Foley[*]	7.17%	503	595	626	634
	Independent	David O'Brien	3.58%	251	264
	Fianna Fáil	Philip Gahan	3.57%	250	275
Electorate: 13,175   Valid: 7,011   Spoilt: 133   Quota: 1,169   Turnout: 7,144 (54.22%)

Tullow

Tullow: 6 Seats^[6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fianna Fáil	John Pender[*]	20.01%	1,446
	Independent	Charlie Murphy[*]	19.32%	1,396
	Fine Gael	Brian O'Donoghue[*]	11.87%	858	927	942	955	1,050
	Labour	William Paton[*]	10.82%	782	878	904	933	1,046
	Fine Gael	John Murphy[*]	9.65%	697	740	839	891	1,006	1,018	1,163
	Fianna Fáil	John McDonald	5.95%	430	547	610	628	657	660	782	833
	Sinn Féin	Jim Deane[*]	7.76%	561	588	610	639	673	674	783	795
	Independent	Billy Nolan	5.52%	399	417	500	573	596	597
	Fine Gael	Maria Ansbro	5.11%	369	400	414	457
	Renua	Helena Byrne	3.99%	288	300	341
Electorate: 14,840   Valid: 7,226   Spoilt: 86   Quota: 1,033   Turnout: 7,312 (49.27%)

Results by gender

2019 Carlow County Council election[7][8] Candidates by gender
Gender	Number of candidates	% of candidates	Elected councillors	% of councillors
Men	26	83.9%	16	88.9%
Women	5	16.1%	2	11.1%
TOTAL	31		18

Changes after 2019

Changes in affiliation

Name	LEA	Elected as		New affiliation		Date
William Paton	Tullow		Labour		Independent	February 2024
John Cassin	Carlow		Independent		Independent Ireland	May 2024

References

Sources

• "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 66–68. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
• "Carlow County Council – Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 13 May 2019. Archived from the original on 11 September 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
• "State of the Poll". Carlow County Council. 25 May 2019. Archived from the original on 13 September 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2019.

Citations

1. "Carlow County Council – Local Election candidates". Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 15 May 2019. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
2. Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 1 (13 June 2018). Report 2018 (PDF). Government Publications. pp. 20–23, 141. ISBN 978-1-4064-2990-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2023.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
3. County of Carlow Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 (S.I. No. 610 of 2018). Signed on 19 December 2018 by John Paul Phelan, Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 8 May 2019.
4. DHPLG 2019, p. 66.
5. DHPLG 2019, p. 67.
6. DHPLG 2019, p. 68.
7. "Carlow County Council: People Before Profit claim seat for first time". The Irish Times. Dublin. 27 May 2019 [25 May 2019]. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021.
8. DHPLG 2019, p. 247.