2019 Mayo County Council election

An election to all 30 seats on Mayo County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Mayo was divided into 6 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 Mayo County Council election

← 2014 24 May 2019 2024 →
All 30 seats on Mayo County Council 16 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Sinn Féin Seats won 12 11 1 Seat change 2 1 2   Fourth party   Party Independent Seats won 6 Seat change 1
Results by local electoral area
Council control before election Fianna Fáil Independent Council control after election Fine Gael Independent

Boundary review

Following the recommendations of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, there were significant alterations to the LEAs used at the 2014 Mayo County Council election. Its terms of reference set a maximum LEA size of 7 seats, breached by two of the 2014 LEAs. Other changes reflected population shifts revealed by the 2016 census.^[1][2]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	12	2	23,420	37.25	2.76
	Fianna Fáil	11	1	18,823	29.93	0.65
	Sinn Féin	1	2	4,633	7.37	2.96
	Aontú	0		1,319	2.10	New
	Green	0		628	1.00	0.62
	People Before Profit	0		437	0.69	New
	Renua	0		315	0.50	New
	Social Democrats	0		185	0.29	New
	Labour	0		143	0.23	0.74
	Independent	6	1	12,976	20.64	3.92
Total		30		62,880	100.00

Results by local electoral area

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

Ballina

Ballina: 6 seats^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	John O'Hara[*]	17.30%	2,123
	Independent	Mark Duffy	17.08%	2,095
	Fianna Fáil	Annie May Reape[*]	11.11%	1,363	1,498	1,576	1,599	1,628	1,747	1,772
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Loftus[*]	10.76%	1,320	1,334	1,353	1,356	1,371	1,402	1,655	1,774
	Independent	Seamus Weir[*]	9.53%	1,169	1,220	1,256	1,278	1,321	1,428	1,469	1,646
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Moore	9.01%	1,105	1,116	1,126	1,135	1,161	1,170	1,327	1,436
	Fine Gael	Jarlath Munnelly[*]	7.76%	952	992	1,014	1,035	1,072	1,095	1,186	1,510
	Fine Gael	Kieran Gill	5.85%	718	745	757	763	767	776
	Fine Gael	Aileen Horkan	4.66%	572	638	720	771	783	895	1,042
	Independent	Willie Nolan	3.16%	388	400	448	471	512
	Sinn Féin	Michael Regan	2.27%	279	286	298	319
	Social Democrats	Tracey Smith	1.51%	185	192	215
Electorate: 20,353   Valid: 12,269   Spoilt: 185   Quota: 1,753   Turnout: 12,454 (61.19%)

Belmullet

Belmullet: 3 seats^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2
	Fine Gael	Gerry Coyle[*]	25.52%	1,806
	Fianna Fáil	Paul McNamara[*]	23.96%	1,696	2,095
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Carey	22.66%	1,604	1,753
	Sinn Féin	Teresa Whelan[†]	15.43%	1,092	1,227
	Fine Gael	Breege Grealis	9.26%	655
	Independent	Jay Heneghan	3.17%	224
Electorate: 11,279   Valid: 7,077   Spoilt: 123   Quota: 1,770   Turnout: 7,200 (63.84%)

Castlebar

Castlebar: 7 seats^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Independent	Michael Kilcoyne[*]	18.72%	2,592
	Fianna Fáil	Blackie K. Gavin[*]	12.85%	1,779
	Fianna Fáil	Al McDonnell[*]	10.97%	1,519	1,658	1,661	1,671	1,679	1,697	1,710	1,748
	Fine Gael	Ger Deere	9.23%	1,278	1,387	1,396	1,402	1,412	1,426	1,464	1,492	1,535	1,571	1,653	1,915
	Fine Gael	Cyril Burke	8.61%	1,192	1,258	1,259	1,262	1,270	1,276	1,288	1,303	1,314	1,334	1,395	1,523	1,609
	Fianna Fáil	Martin McLoughlin[†]	6.62%	916	985	990	998	1,000	1,013	1,027	1,042	1,061	1,138	1,236	1,378	1,396
	Fine Gael	Donna Sheridan	5.81%	804	879	880	884	904	928	948	960	1,031	1,103	1,198	1,400	1,450
	Fine Gael	Eugene McCormack	5.24%	725	783	786	789	796	802	819	840	869	956	990
	Independent	Harry Barrett	4.48%	620	733	740	745	775	795	839	874	1,000	1,055	1,189	1,273	1,303
	Sinn Féin	Joe McHale[†]	4.35%	602	665	671	673	678	687	698	725	793	888
	Independent	Gerry Loftus	3.99%	552	587	593	595	601	611	618	643	668
	People Before Profit	Joe Daly	3.16%	437	482	487	488	505	520	530	545
	Renua	Michael Farrington	2.27%	315	333	334	335	340	342	350
	Independent	Aidan Crowley	1.27%	176	207	208	209	215	221
	Labour	Kamal Uddin	1.03%	143	157	159	160
	Independent	Des Walsh	1.03%	142	156	164	165	170
	Independent	Anthony Vesey	0.39%	54	66
Electorate: 23,682   Valid: 13,847   Spoilt: 172   Quota: 1,731   Turnout: 14,019 (59.2%)

Claremorris

Claremorris: 6 seats^[6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fine Gael	Patsy O'Brien[*][a]	22.64%	2,955
	Independent	Richard Finn[*]	13.59%	1,774	1,885
	Fianna Fáil	Damien Ryan[*]	12.04%	1,572	1,898
	Fine Gael	John Cribbin[*]	11.47%	1,497	1,536	1,553	1,694	1,696	1,785
	Fine Gael	Michael Burke[*]	10.83%	1,413	1,722	1,765	1,800	1,821	1,907
	Fine Gael	Tom Connolly[*]	9.24%	1,206	1,314	1,333	1,417	1,419	1,769
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Carty	7.14%	932	963	970	1,120	1,123	1,286
	Sinn Féin	Natasha Warde	5.85%	764	866	964	1,079	1,084
	Aontú	Paul Lawless	5.19%	677	710	748
	Green	Margaret (Mags) Sheehan	2.01%	263	294
Electorate: 21,103   Valid: 13,053   Spoilt: 165   Quota: 1,865   Turnout: 13,218 (62.64%)

Swinford

Swinford: 4 seats^[7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3
	Sinn Féin	Gerry Murray[*]	23.21%	1,896
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Smyth[*]	19.97%	1,631	1,677
	Fine Gael	Neil Cruise[*]	18.50%	1,511	1,525	1,614
	Fianna Fáil	John Caulfield[*]	15.87%	1,296	1,370	1,635
	Fine Gael	Tom Lavin	13.83%	1,130	1,188	1,337
	Aontú	Tommy Horan	7.86%	642	699
	Independent	Sean Forkin	0.76%	62	75
Electorate: 14,276   Valid: 8,168   Spoilt: 129   Quota: 1,634   Turnout: 8,297 (58.92%)

Westport

Westport: 4 seats^[8]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Independent	Christy Hyland[*]	17.03%	1,442	1,475	1,515	1,587	1,711
	Fine Gael	Peter Flynn	14.76%	1,250	1,274	1,347	1,407	1,519	2,015
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Mulroy[*]	14.07%	1,191	1,203	1,230	1,376	1,403	1,572	1,686
	Independent	John (Johno) O'Malley	11.33%	959	983	1,015	1,153	1,238	1,388	1,520
	Fianna Fáil	Chris Maxwell	10.62%	899	918	931	957	1,319	1,396	1,452
	Fine Gael	Austin Francis O'Malley	9.80%	830	855	873	888
	Fine Gael	Teresa McGuire[*]	9.48%	803	816	875	927	1,036
	Independent	Darragh McGee	6.26%	530	546	589
	Green	Cissy Nayiga	4.31%	365	376
	Independent	Shane Fitzgerald	1.36%	115
	Independent	Frank McAlonan	0.97%	82
Electorate: 13,589   Valid: 8,466   Spoilt: 137   Quota: 1,694   Turnout: 8,603 (63.31%)

Footnotes

1. See change below.

Results by gender

2019 Mayo County Council election[9][10] Candidates by gender
Gender	Number of candidates	% of candidates	Elected councillors	% of councillors
Men	53	84.1%	28	93.3%
Women	10	15.9%	2	6.7%
TOTAL	63		30

Changes after 2019

Name	LEA	Elected as		New affiliation		Date
Patsy O'Brien	Claremorris		Fine Gael		Independent	October 2020[11]

References

Sources

• "Mayo County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 13 May 2019. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
• "Local Election Results, 2019". Mayo County Council. Retrieved 18 June 2019. ^{[permanent dead link]}
• "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 158–164. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.

Citations

1. Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 1 (13 June 2018). Report 2018 (PDF). Government Publications. pp. 80–83, 156. ISBN 978-1-4064-2990-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2019.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
2. County of Mayo Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 (S.I. No. 627 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 2 February 2019. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 8 May 2019.
3. DHPLG 2019, p. 158.
4. DHPLG 2019, p. 159.
5. DHPLG 2019, pp. 160–161.
6. DHPLG 2019, p. 162.
7. DHPLG 2019, p. 163.
8. DHPLG 2019, p. 164.
9. Duggan, Marian; Bourke, Keith (27 May 2019) [25 May 2019]. "Mayo County Council: Fine Gael claim four seats in Claremorris". The Irish Times. Dublin. Archived from the original on 15 June 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
10. DHPLG 2019, p. 247.
11. Ryan, Philip (27 October 2020). "Fine Gael councillor expelled from party after seven month internal investigation". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2020.