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2019 Sligo County Council election

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All 18 seats on Sligo County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Sinn Féin Seats won 6 5 2 Seat change 3 3   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party People Before Profit Inds. 4 Change Independent Seats won 1 1 3 Seat change 1
Results by local electoral area

An election to all 18 seats on Sligo County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Sligo was divided into 3 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).

Boundary review

At the 2014 Sligo County Council election, County Sligo was divided into two local electoral areas, both of which breached upper limit of 7 seats in the terms of reference of the 2018 LEA boundary review. Following its recommendations, the boundaries were redrawn to create three LEAs.

Overview

A total of 35 candidates contested the county's 18 seats, of whom fifteen were outgoing councillors. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael each had nine candidates. Sinn Féin had three, Solidarity/People Before Profit had two, while and one each for the Labour Party, Green Party and Renua. The nine independent candidates included Declan Bree, who was County Sligo's longest serving councillor. Thirteen of the fifteen candidates who were outgoing councillors were re-elected, including Bree who was first elected in 1974 to both the County Council and Sligo Borough Council.

Several seats were decided by very narrow margins, and result was that Fine Gael gained three seats to become the largest party, with six seats. Fianna Fáil lost three seats, and the other group totals were unchanged. The long-serving Bree was re-elected in the Sligo–Strandhill LEA.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	6	3	10,171	30.30	5.40
	Fianna Fáil	5	3	9,599	28.59	1.11
	Sinn Féin	2		2,752	8.20	2.10
	People Before Profit	1		1,332	3.97	1.37
	Inds. 4 Change	1	1	1,550	4.62	New
	Labour	0		470	1.40	2.70
	Renua	0		315	0.94	New
	Green	0		175	0.52	0.52
	United Left	0	1	N/A	N/A	N/A
	Independent	3		7,187	21.41	0.99
Total		18		33,571	100.00

Results by local electoral area

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

Ballymote–Tubbercurry

The Fine Gael director of elections made a formal complaint about the large increase in the number of postal votes cast — 252 compared to 131 in the same district in the 2014 election and 20 and 17 in the other two districts in 2019. The ensuing Garda investigation into potential electoral fraud was still ongoing in February 2022.

Sligo–Drumcliff

Sligo–Strandhill

Footnotes

1. See change below.

Results by gender

Changes after 2019

Co-options

References

Sources

• "Sligo County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 13 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
• "Count Results". Elections 2019. Sligo County Council. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
• "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 184–186. 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. 100–103, 161. 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 Sligo Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 (S.I. No. 632 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. ^ Deering, Paul (18 May 2019). "Thirty five candidates fighting for 18 seats Seven parties with candidates in the field along with independents across three areas". Sligo Champion. Sligo. Archived from the original on 18 May 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
4. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 248.
5. ^ McDonagh, Marese (27 May 2019). "Sligo County Council results: 'Democracy has made statement,' says Joe Queenan". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 10 June 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
6. ^ DHPLG 2019, p. 186.
7. DHPLG 2019, p. 184.
8. "Local elections 2019 — Ballymote–Tubbercurry Results". sligococo.ie. Sligo County Council. Archived from the original on 21 July 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
9. Mhonacháin, Sorcha Ní (22 February 2022). "Inquiry into alleged electoral fraud in Sligo-Leitrim". Retrieved 22 February 2022.
10. McDonagh, Marese (24 May 2019). "Local election result may be challenged amid electoral fraud allegations". The Irish Times. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
11. DHPLG 2019, p. 185.
12. "Local elections 2019 — Sligo-Drumcliff Results". sligococo.ie. Sligo County Council. Archived from the original on 22 July 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
13. "Local elections 2019 — Sligo-Strandhill Results". sligococo.ie. Sligo County Council. Archived from the original on 18 July 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
14. DHPLG 2019, p. 247.

• 2019 Irish local elections
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