An election to all 29 seats on Louth County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Louth was divided into 5 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).
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All 29 seats on Louth County Council 15 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Results by local electoral area | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Following a recommendation of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, the local electoral areas in County Louth were altered. The committee's terms of reference required a maximum number of councillors of 7 seats, which had been breached by the 10-seat Drogheda LEA used at the 2014 Louth County Council election. There were boundary adjustments in other LEAs to reflect by population shifts revealed by the 2016 census.[1] The boundary committee recommended that Dundalk be designated a borough district. This was implemented in the initial statutory instrument, but reversed as being contrary to the terms of the Local Government Act 2001.[2]
Following the elections Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil emerged as the joint largest party with 7 seats. Sinn Féin lost 1 seat in Dundalk and 2 in Drogheda. Fianna Fáil gained a seat from Sinn Féin and also from the Green Party in Dundalk. Accounting for the defection of Kevin Callan after 2014, Fine Gael returned with 5 seats, a loss of 2 seats overall. The Labour Party increased their numbers by 1 seat to 3 by gaining another seat in Drogheda.
Kevin Callan won a seat in each of the 2 Drogheda LEAs. He chose to sit for Drogheda Urban. The casual vacancy was filled at a meeting of the council on 17 June 2019 by Declan Power, who had run for Fianna Fáil in 2019 but who had since quit the party.
Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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Sinn Féin | 7 | 3 | 10,651 | 24.10 | 7.32 | |
Fianna Fáil | 7 | 2 | 8,624 | 19.51 | 0.48 | |
Fine Gael | 5 | 2 | 8,891 | 20.12 | 0.56 | |
Labour | 3 | 1 | 3,501 | 7.92 | 2.95 | |
Green | 1 | 1 | 2,829 | 6.40 | 2.54 | |
Renua | 0 | 1,463 | 3.31 | New | ||
Direct Democracy | 0 | 142 | 0.32 | 1.59 | ||
United People | 0 | 134 | 0.30 | New | ||
People Before Profit | 0 | 101 | 0.23 | 0.06 | ||
Independent | 6 | 3 | 7,854 | 17.77 | 1.27 | |
Total | 29 | 44,190 | 100.00 |
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Fine Gael | Dolores Minogue[*] | 15.28% | 1,404 | |||||||||
Fine Gael | Colm Markey[*][a] | 15.11% | 1,388 | |||||||||
Sinn Féin | Pearse McGeough[*] | 10.96% | 1,007 | 1,011 | 1,018 | 1,040 | 1,055 | 1,113 | 1,411 | |||
Independent | Jim Tenanty[*] | 10.40% | 955 | 978 | 983 | 1,048 | 1,178 | 1,295 | 1,396 | |||
Fianna Fáil | John Sheridan | 9.47% | 870 | 877 | 887 | 902 | 933 | 976 | 996 | 1,114 | 1,131 | |
Independent | Hugh D. Conlon[a] | 8.35% | 767 | 771 | 786 | 825 | 842 | 911 | 928 | 1,054 | 1,099 | |
Fianna Fáil | Fintan Malone | 7.07% | 649 | 661 | 664 | 685 | 757 | 808 | 851 | 917 | 949 | |
Green | Seán Connolly | 5.54% | 509 | 514 | 519 | 557 | 577 | 635 | 652 | |||
Sinn Féin | Brendan McKenna | 5.36% | 492 | 500 | 501 | 515 | 553 | 576 | ||||
Independent | Kevin Carroll | 4.57% | 420 | 426 | 428 | 483 | 512 | |||||
Fine Gael | Finnan McCoy | 4.42% | 406 | 423 | 448 | 464 | ||||||
Independent | Albert D. Byrne | 2.07% | 190 | 192 | 194 | |||||||
Independent | Enda Murray | 1.40% | 129 | 132 | ||||||||
Electorate: 20,007 Valid: 9,186 Spoilt: 281 Quota: 1,313 Turnout: 9,467 (47.32%) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Fine Gael | Oliver Tully[*][a] | 16.62% | 965 | 971 | 1,005 | 1,060 | 1,173 | |||
Labour | Michelle Hall | 16.60% | 964 | 977 | 1,000 | 1,035 | 1,095 | 1,097 | 1,214 | |
Independent | Kevin Callan[*][a] | 15.43% | 896 | 912 | 937 | 1,048 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Tom Cunningham[*] | 11.42% | 663 | 672 | 708 | 730 | 765 | 765 | 1,113 | |
Sinn Féin | Leanne Saurin | 10.38% | 603 | 616 | 628 | 651 | 689 | 690 | ||
Renua | Eamon Sweeney | 9.78% | 568 | 579 | 591 | 620 | 727 | 732 | 787 | |
Fianna Fáil | Richard Cooney | 8.21% | 477 | 479 | 561 | 585 | ||||
Independent | Frank Godfrey[*] | 5.46% | 317 | 323 | 343 | |||||
Fianna Fáil | Declan Power | 4.46% | 259 | 261 | ||||||
United People | Jeffrey Rudd | 0.88% | 51 | |||||||
Direct Democracy | Patrick Greene | 0.77% | 45 | |||||||
Electorate: 13,070 Valid: 5,808 Spoilt: 123 Quota: 1,162 Turnout: 5,931 (45.62%) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||
Labour | Paul Bell[*][a] | 14.76% | 1,292 | |||||||||||
Labour | Pio Smith[*] | 14.22% | 1,245 | 1,255 | ||||||||||
Sinn Féin | Joanna Byrne[†] | 10.54% | 923 | 927 | 939 | 959 | 975 | 1,109 | 1,129 | 1,372 | ||||
Independent | Kevin Callan[*] | 10.25% | 897 | 902 | 905 | 913 | 936 | 951 | 996 | 1,012 | 1,030 | 1,124 | 1,292 | |
Fianna Fáil | James Byrne | 9.10% | 797 | 801 | 804 | 804 | 807 | 816 | 838 | 848 | 853 | 1,076 | 1,251 | |
Independent | Paddy McQuillan | 8.78% | 769 | 774 | 793 | 819 | 858 | 875 | 907 | 943 | 993 | 1,035 | 1,086 | |
Fine Gael | Richie Culhane[*] | 6.64% | 581 | 583 | 585 | 587 | 593 | 596 | 623 | 629 | 634 | 671 | ||
Independent | Frank Godfrey[*] | 5.92% | 518 | 523 | 525 | 527 | 551 | 560 | 646 | 664 | 681 | 772 | 881 | |
Fianna Fáil | Anthony Moore | 5.78% | 506 | 507 | 510 | 511 | 521 | 524 | 577 | 586 | 589 | |||
Renua | Michael O'Dowd | 3.45% | 302 | 304 | 309 | 314 | 354 | 359 | ||||||
Sinn Féin | David Saurin[†] | 3.19% | 279 | 280 | 290 | 295 | 303 | 367 | 373 | |||||
Sinn Féin | Kenneth Flood[*] | 2.98% | 261 | 262 | 265 | 271 | 278 | |||||||
Renua | Maria McCabe | 1.19% | 104 | 105 | 107 | 111 | ||||||||
People Before Profit | Angus Macdonald | 1.15% | 101 | 101 | 101 | |||||||||
Direct Democracy | Christopher Faulkner | 1.11% | 97 | 97 | 108 | 117 | ||||||||
United People | Jeffrey Rudd | 0.95% | 83 | 83 | ||||||||||
Electorate: 20,424 Valid: 8,755 Spoilt: 241 Quota: 1,251 Turnout: 8,496 (44.05%) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Antóin Watters[†] | 16.48% | 1,563 | ||||||
Fine Gael | John McGahon[*][a] | 14.31% | 1,357 | ||||||
Fianna Fáil | Erin McGreehan[a] | 12.14% | 1,151 | 1,216 | 1,222 | 1,237 | 1,535 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Seán Kelly | 11.30% | 1,072 | 1,077 | 1,157 | 1,216 | 1,297 | 1,361 | |
Fianna Fáil | Conor Keelan[*] | 10.66% | 1,011 | 1,015 | 1,052 | 1,089 | 1,221 | 1,279 | |
Sinn Féin | Edel Corrigan[*] | 9.82% | 931 | 1,005 | 1,588 | ||||
Green | Eoin Daly | 8.68% | 823 | 834 | 875 | 976 | 1,112 | 1,180 | |
Fine Gael | Roisin Duffy | 8.53% | 809 | 823 | 832 | 844 | |||
Sinn Féin | Eugene Garvey | 8.09% | 767 | 802 | |||||
Electorate: 20,308 Valid: 9,484 Spoilt: 254 Quota: 1,355 Turnout: 9,738 (48.55%) |
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
Independent | Maeve Yore[*] | 15.52% | 1,701 | |||||||||
Green | Marianne Butler[*] | 13.66% | 1,497 | |||||||||
Sinn Féin | Ruairí Ó Murchú[†][a] | 12.99% | 1,423 | |||||||||
Fine Gael | Maria Doyle[*] | 12.28% | 1,346 | 1,409 | ||||||||
Sinn Féin | Tomás Sharkey[*] | 10.37% | 1,136 | 1,185 | 1,201 | 1,264 | 1,289 | 1,333 | 1,336 | 1,825 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Liam Reilly[*] | 9.87% | 1,082 | 1,131 | 1,142 | 1,155 | 1,157 | 1,229 | 1,233 | 1,262 | 1,300 | |
Fianna Fáil | Emma Coffey[†] | 6.84% | 750 | 805 | 836 | 885 | 888 | 1,006 | 1,021 | 1,098 | 1,181 | |
Fine Gael | Linus English | 5.80% | 635 | 660 | 679 | 701 | 702 | 778 | 792 | 806 | 832 | |
Sinn Féin | Anne Campbell[†] | 5.50% | 603 | 621 | 638 | 674 | 695 | 755 | 758 | |||
Renua | Niamh Boyle | 4.46% | 489 | 524 | 544 | 602 | 603 | |||||
Independent | Oliver Morgan | 2.69% | 295 | 332 | 345 | |||||||
Electorate: 23,841 Valid: 10,957 Spoilt: 267 Quota: 1,370 Turnout: 11,224 (47.08%) |
2019 Louth County Council election[8][9] Candidates by gender | ||||
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Gender | Number of candidates |
% of candidates |
Elected councillors |
% of councillors |
Men | 46 | 76.7% | 20 | 69.0% |
Women | 14 | 23.3% | 9 | 31.0% |
TOTAL | 60 | 29 |
Party | Outgoing | Electoral area | Reason | Date | Co-optee | |
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Independent | Kevin Callan | Drogheda Rural | Elected for two areas; chose to sit for Drogheda Urban | June 2019 | Declan Power[10] | |
Fine Gael | Oliver Tully | Drogheda Rural | Death on 9 July 2019[11] | 16 September 2019 | Eileen Tully[12][13] | |
Sinn Féin | Ruairí Ó Murchú | Dundalk South | Elected for Louth to the 33rd Dáil at the 2020 general election | 24 February 2020 | Kevin Meenan[14] | |
Fine Gael | John McGahon | Dundalk–Carlingford | Elected for the Cultural and Educational Panel to the 26th Seanad at the 2020 Seanad election[15][16] | 20 July 2020 | John Reilly[17][18] | |
Fianna Fáil | Erin McGreehan | Dundalk–Carlingford | Nominated by the Taoiseach to the 26th Seanad[19] | 20 July 2020 | Andrea McKevitt[18] | |
Labour | Paul Bell | Drogheda Urban | Resigned on 28 June 2020 on his appointment to the Labour Court[20] | 21 September 2020 | Fiachra Mac Raghnaill[21] | |
Fine Gael | Colm Markey | Ardee | Co-opted to the European Parliament[22] | 16 February 2021 | Paula Butterly[23] | |
Independent | Hugh Conlon | Ardee | Death | July 2021 | Bernie Conlon | |
Labour | Fiachra Mac Raghnaill | Drogheda Urban | Resigned on 6 February 2023[24] | 21 March 2023 | Emma Cutlip Gallagher[25] |
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