2019 South Dublin County Council election

A South Dublin County Council election was held in South Dublin in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. All 40 councillors were elected for a five-year term of office from 7 local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote.

2019 South Dublin County Council election

24 May 2019
All 40 seats to South Dublin County Council 21 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Sinn Féin Seats won 8 / 40 7 / 40 6 / 40 Seat change 3 3   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Green Party Labour Party Solidarity Seats won 4 / 40 2 / 40 2 / 40 Seat change 3 2 1   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Party Social Democrats People Before Profit Independent Seats won 1 / 40 1 / 40 9 / 40 Seat change 1 2 1
Map showing the area of South Dublin County Council
Council control before election Sinn Féin Labour Party Green Party Council control after election Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Green Party

The 2018 LEA boundary review committee replaced the LEAs used in the 2014 elections. Its terms of reference required no change in the total number of councillors but set a lower maximum LEA size of seven councillors, exceeded by two of the 2014 LEAs. Other changes were necessitated by population shifts revealed by the 2016 census.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	8	3	14,931	19.02%	5.65%
	Fine Gael	7		13,735	17.49%	0.54%
	Sinn Féin	6	3	9,106	11.60%	12.36%
	Green Party	4	3	7,559	9.63%	7.46%
	Labour Party	2	2	6,604	8.41%	1.80%
	Solidarity	2	1	3,832	4.88%	0.28%
	Social Democrats	1	1	3,880	4.94%	4.94%
	People Before Profit	1	2	2,997	3.82%	0.90%
	Aontú	0		659	0.84%	0.84%
	Renua	0		631	0.80%	0.80%
	Inds. 4 Change	0		392	0.50%	0.50%
	Workers' Party	0		227	0.29%	0.93%
	Independent	9	1	13,190	16.80%	4.35%
Totals		40		78,513	100%

Candidates by LEA

Clondalkin

Clondalkin — 7 Seats[1]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fine Gael	Emer Higgins[c 1]†††	17.36%	1,966
	Independent	Francis Timmons[c 1]	11.45%	1,297	1,327	1,368	1,468
	Independent	Eoin Ó Broin	10.22%	1,158	1,192	1,229	1,309	1,330	1,416
	Fianna Fáil	Trevor Gilligan[c 1]	8.93%	1,011	1,076	1,086	1,123	1,127	1,149	1,499
	Labour Party	Robert Dowds	8.44%	956	1,003	1,009	1,044	1,049	1,060	1,183	1,211
	Green Party	Peter Kavanagh	8.17%	925	979	1,011	1,107	1,116	1,155	1,229	1,250
	Fine Gael	Kenny Egan[c 1]	8.12%	920	1,166	1,174	1,203	1,206	1,231	1,366	1,400
	Fianna Fáil	Cathal O'Donoghue	7.01%	794	835	842	853	854	866
	Sinn Féin	William Joseph Carey	6.78%	768	774	783	867	872	1,396	1,431
	Sinn Féin	Lisa Kinsella-Coleman	6.37%	722	738	747	828	833
	People Before Profit	Kevin Creagh	5.27%	597	601	628
	Inds. 4 Change	David Moore	1.28%	145	151
	Independent	Shakeel Jeeroburkan	0.60%	68	69
Electorate: 29,616   Valid: 11,327   Spoilt: 417   Quota: 1,416   Turnout: 11,744 (39.65%)

Firhouse–Bohernabreena

Firhouse–Bohernabreena — 5 Seats[2]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fianna Fáil	Deirdre O'Donovan[c 1]	21.00%	2,344
	Green Party	Francis Noel Duffy[c 1]††††	16.34%	1,823	1,889
	Fine Gael	Brian Lawlor[c 2]	15.66%	1,748	1,838	1,842	2,087
	Fianna Fáil	Emma Murphy[c 2]	13.89%	1,550	1,757	1,766	1,805	1,864
	Independent	Alan Edge	7.20%	804	843	845	866	883	1,005	1,188	1,429
	Sinn Féin	Sarah Holland[c 1]	6.50%	725	732	734	737	744	875	958
	Social Democrats	Rob Hunter	5.71%	637	656	659	671	689	861	1,090	1,386
	Labour Party	Aideen Carberry	5.30%	591	617	623	637	738	756
	Solidarity	Jess Spear	5.01%	559	567	568	580	584
	Fine Gael	Becky Smith	3.40%	379	400	401
Electorate: 25,877   Valid: 11,160   Spoilt: 356   Quota: 1,861   Turnout: 11,516 (44.5%)

Lucan

Lucan — 5 Seats[3]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11
	Independent	Paul Gogarty[c 1]	15.82%	1,509	1,534	1,571	1,595
	Fine Gael	Vicki Casserly[c 1]	13.80%	1,316	1,328	1,340	1,353	1,368	1,422	1,474	1,522	1,523	2,032
	Independent	Liona O'Toole[c 1]	11.53%	1,100	1,119	1,147	1,188	1,258	1,298	1,399	1,589	1,591
	Labour Party	Joanna Tuffy	9.23%	880	907	916	926	952	1,015	1,136	1,223	1,224	1,350	1,517
	Fianna Fáil	Ed O'Brien[c 1]	8.46%	807	814	839	844	867	1,084	1,129	1,163	1,163	1,252	1,352
	Fine Gael	Caroline Brady	7.54%	719	728	737	747	761	823	850	874
	Social Democrats	Anne-Marie McNally	5.90%	563	574	577	594	651	693	796	989	990	1,037	1,121
	Fianna Fáil	Caitríona McClean	5.72%	546	559	573	577	600
	People Before Profit	Kellie Sweeney	5.13%	489	504	508	544	681	708	790
	Green Party	Vanessa Mulhall	4.97%	474	503	526	549	608	645
	Sinn Féin	Derren Ó Brádaigh	4.96%	473	476	482	529
	Inds. 4 Change	Ruth Nolan[c 1][n 1]	2.59%	247	249	255
	Renua	Howard Hughes	2.41%	230	234
	Independent	Anwar Ul Haq Malik	1.94%	185
Electorate: 21,723   Valid: 9,538   Spoilt: 192   Quota: 1,590   Turnout: 9,730 (44.79%)

Palmerstown–Fonthill

Palmerstown–Fonthill — 5 Seats[4]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11
	Sinn Féin	Mark Ward[c 2]†	17.14%	1,460
	Independent	Alan Hayes	11.50%	980	980	1,002	1,060	1,109	1,131	1,161	1,238	1,295	1,322	1,385
	Independent	Guss O'Connell[c 1]	10.14%	864	865	887	923	951	981	1,008	1,062	1,131	1,165	1,274
	People Before Profit	Madeleine Johansson[c 2]	8.65%	737	741	753	764	803	892	959	1,026	1,122	1,245	1,289
	Fianna Fáil	Shane Moynihan	8.38%	714	715	730	735	739	758	783	802	827	987	1,169
	Fine Gael	Derek Keating	7.39%	630	630	650	657	664	679	704	744	760	803
	Independent	Paul Gogarty	7.00%	596	597	608	631	649	683	720	791	844	902	1,090
	Fianna Fáil	Jonathan Graham[c 1]	6.60%	562	566	570	577	586	595	597	632	655
	Sinn Féin	Danny O'Brien[c 1]	4.54%	387	411	418	423	448	476	502	523
	Labour Party	David Eaton	3.91%	333	334	350	367	397	407	460
	Green Party	David Morrison	3.64%	310	310	323	333	341	360
	Inds. 4 Change	Ruth Nolan[c 1][n 1]	3.52%	300	301	312	317	330
	Workers' Party	David Gardiner	2.66%	227	228	233
	Independent	Stephen Dunne	2.58%	220	220	231
	Independent	Sikandar Jahanzab	2.35%	200	201
Electorate: 25,112   Valid: 8,520   Spoilt: 395   Quota: 1,421   Turnout: 8,915 (35.5%)

Rathfarnham–Templeogue

Rathfarnham–Templeogue — 7 Seats[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Green Party	William Priestley††††††	14.10%	2,868
	Independent	Ronan McMahon[c 1]	12.19%	2,480	2,511	2,531	2,565
	Labour Party	Pamela Kearns[c 1]	10.91%	2,220	2,269	2,283	2,333	2,355	2,396	2,544
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Foley[c 1]	8.53%	1,735	1,746	1,752	1,767	1,782	1,866	1,911	1,995	2,127
	Fine Gael	Mary Seery Kearney†††††	7.85%	1,597	1,617	1,621	1,628	1,806	1,843	1,868	2,286	2,504
	Social Democrats	Carly Bailey	7.03%	1,431	1,489	1,539	1,640	1,647	1,688	2,145	2,174	2,428
	Fine Gael	David McManus	6.60%	1,342	1,367	1,377	1,383	1,518	1,597	1,620	2,023	2,280
	Labour Party	Paddy Cosgrave	5.77%	1,174	1,214	1,228	1,249	1,282	1,314	1,356	1,438
	Fianna Fáil	Yvonne Collins	5.73%	1,635	1,654	1,664	1,682	1,727	1,835	1,861	1,950	2,171
	Fine Gael	Conor McMahon[c 2]	4.84%	984	997	998	1,004	1,171	1,212	1,228
	Solidarity	Stephen Nugent	3.61%	734	746	905	1,071	1,074	1,150
	Aontú	John Phelan	3.24%	659	669	678	714	722
	Fine Gael	Lynn McCrave	3.08%	626	639	642	647
	Sinn Féin	Robert Russell[c 2]	2.54%	516	524	547
	People Before Profit	John Flanagan	1.68%	341	357
Electorate: 40,863   Valid: 20,342   Spoilt: 506   Quota: 2,543   Turnout: 20,848 (51.02%)

Tallaght Central

Tallaght Central — 6 Seats[6]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11
	Fianna Fáil	Charlie O'Connor[c 1]	17.11%	2,018
	Independent	Mick Duff[c 1]	12.57%	1,483	1,530	1,590	1,614	1,727
	Sinn Féin	Cathal King[c 1]	10.68%	1,260	1,279	1,292	1,308	1,331	1,335	1,358	1,744
	Green Party	Liam Sinclair	7.69%	907	934	976	1,017	1,084	1,094	1,168	1,195	1,206	1,269	1,561
	Fianna Fáil	Teresa Costello	6.87%	810	874	914	926	957	960	1,238	1,270	1,278	1,326	1,563
	Fine Gael	Teresa Duffy	6.57%	775	797	827	837	894	900	990	1,007	1,009	1,040
	Solidarity	Kieran Mahon[c 1]	6.41%	756	764	784	857	881	885	899	941	956	1,461	1,521
	Social Democrats	Sandra Ruiz	6.19%	730	746	766	845	890	896	925	961	970	1,056	1,198
	Solidarity	Mick Murphy[c 1]	5.89%	695	713	724	812	846	851	869	923	937
	Sinn Féin	Cora McCann[c 2]	4.93%	581	599	607	640	663	665	678
	Fianna Fáil	Declan Burke	4.51%	532	589	620	622	647	649
	Labour Party	Denis Mackin	3.82%	450	467	482	490
	Renua	Anne Marie Condren	3.40%	401	408
	People Before Profit	Laura O'Reilly	3.36%	396	409	423
Electorate: 29,367   Valid: 11,794   Spoilt: 449   Quota: 1,685   Turnout: 12,243 (41.69%)

Tallaght South

Tallaght South — 5 Seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Sinn Féin	Paddy Holohan††	14.95%	872	893	906	922	969	971	1,048
	Fine Gael	Baby Pereppadan	12.57%	733	756	804	899	914	914	966	984
	Sinn Féin	Dermot Richardson[c 1]	12.24%	714	733	743	775	794	795	836	854
	Solidarity	Sandra Fay	11.03%	643	669	690	722	984
	Sinn Féin	Louise Dunne[c 1]	10.77%	628	639	648	677	693	693	783	839
	Social Democrats	Marie Corr	8.90%	519	529	583	619	641	641	786	786
	Solidarity	Brian Leech[c 1]	7.63%	445	467	479	490
	People Before Profit	Emma Hendrick[c 2]	7.49%	437	457	486	521	597	605
	Fianna Fáil	Fiona Nolan	5.88%	343	360	390
	Green Party	Suzanne McEneaney	4.32%	252	268
	Independent	Ray Kelly	4.22%	246
Electorate: 22,494   Valid: 5,832   Spoilt: 220   Quota: 973   Turnout: 6,052 (27%)

Footnotes

1. Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
2. Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.

References

Footnotes

1. Ruth Nolan stood in two LEAs.

Changes since election

• † Palmerstown-Fonthill Sinn Féin Cllr Mark Ward was elected to Dáil Éireann in the 2019 Dublin Mid-West by-election on 30 November 2019. On 13 January Lisa Kinsella-Colman was o-opted to fill the vacancy.
• †† Tallaght South Sinn Féin Cllr Paddy Holohan was suspended from the party on 17 January 2020 following comments he made claiming underage girls were having sex with men and then blackmailing them for money.[7] He had previously been criticised for comments made where he made disparaging remarks about Taoiseach Varadkar's Indian heritage and said that in his opinion he was not a "family man."
• ††† Clondalkin Fine Gael Cllr Emer Higgins was elected to Dáil Eireann in the 2020 General Election for Dublin Mid-West. On 25 February 2020 Shirley O'Hara was co-opted to fill the vacancy.
• †††† Firhouse-Bohernabreena Green Party Cllr Francis Noel Duffy was elected as a TD for Dublin South-West at the 2020 General Election. On 25 February 2020 Clare O'Byrne was co-opted to fill the vacancy.
• ††††† Rathfarnam-Templeogue Fine Gael Cllr Mary Seery-Kearney was nominated to the Seanad in June 2020. A co-option will take place in due course.
• †††††† Rathfarnam-Templeogue Green Party Cllr William Priestly resigned as a Cllr on 10 August citing poor pay and conditions having been offered a Civil Servant role in An Garda Síochána.[8] A co-option will take place in due course.

Sources

• "South Dublin County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
• Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 2 (13 June 2018). "Report 2018" (PDF). Government Publications. pp. 34–37, 57. ISBN 978-1-4064-2991-6. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
• Phelan, John Paul (19 December 2018). "S.I. No. 633/2018 - County of South Dublin Local Electoral Areas Order 2018". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Retrieved 8 May 2019.

Citations

1. South Dublin County Council tweets on 25–26 May 2019: Eighth, Seventh, Sixth, Fifth, Fourth (and correction), Third, Second, First Counts.
2. South Dublin County Council tweets on 25–26 May 2019: Eighth, Seventh, Sixth, Fifth, Fourth, Third, Second, First Counts.
3. South Dublin County Council tweets on 25–26 May 2019: Eleventh, Tenth, Ninth, Eighth, Seventh, Sixth, Fifth, Fourth, Third (and correction), Second, First Counts.
4. South Dublin County Council tweets on 25–26 May 2019: Eleventh, Tenth, Ninth, Eighth, Seventh, Sixth, Fifth, Fourth, Fourth, Second, First Counts.
5. South Dublin County Council tweets on 25–26 May 2019: Ninth, Eighth, Seventh, Fifth, Fourth, Third, Second, First Counts.
6. South Dublin County Council tweets on 25–26 May 2019: Eleventh, Tenth, Ninth, Eighth, Seventh, Sixth, Fifth, Fourth, Third, Second, First Counts.
7. https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/paddy-holohan-suspended-from-sinn-fein-following-sexual-extortion-comments-976042.html
8. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/green-party-councillor-quits-citing-poor-pay-and-conditions-39437121.html?fbclid=IwAR0pT-DYhTasMSdzJInP_HZ67Ky2i9KHKlGyQhWjkWSbBp1Z4ae_j3Vahqc