The 1991 Irish local elections were held in all administrative counties and county boroughs on Thursday, 27 June 1991.
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Ireland was divided into local government areas of administrative counties and county boroughs. There was a second tier of boroughs, urban districts and towns with boards of commissioners. The elections were postponed from June 1990.[1] This allowed the Local Government Act 1991 to be passed beforehand. Elections in non-county boroughs and towns were postponed until 1994.[2]
They were the first local elections contested by the Progressive Democrats, which had been founded in December 1985, and the first since Sinn Féin registered as a political party in December 1986.
Results
editSummary
edit| Party | Seats | ± | 1st Pref. votes | FPv%[3] | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 358 | 83
|
531,659 | 37.8 | 7.6
| |
| Fine Gael | 272 | 15
|
372,633 | 26.5 | 3.3
| |
| Labour | 92 |  32
|
149,571 | 10.6 | 2.7
| |
| Progressive Democrats | 37 | 37
|
70,926 | 5.0 | New | |
| Workers' Party | 24 | 4
|
50,996 | 3.6 | 0.4
| |
| Green | 13 | 13
|
32,951 | 2.3 | 1.8
| |
| Sinn Féin | 9 | 1
|
29,903 | 2.1 | 1.0
| |
| Independent Fianna Fáil[a] | 5 | 1
|
12,162 | 0.9 | 0.1
| |
| Republican Sinn Féin[a] | 1 | 1
|
2,517 | 0.2 | New | |
| Donegal Progressive Party | 1 | 
|
1,775 | 0.1 |
| |
| Independent Socialist | 1 |
|
1,456 | 0.1 |
| |
| Christian Principles Party | 0 |
|
1,351 | 0.1 | New | |
| Independent | 78 | 14
|
150,418 | 10.7 | 2.0
| |
| Total | 883 | – | 1,398,729 | 100.0 | ||
By local authority
editFootnotes
editReferences
editSources
edit- "1991 Local Elections". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 12 September 2008.
- Department of the Environment (1991). Local elections, 1991 (PDF).
Citations
edit- ^ Local Elections (Specification of Local Election Year) Order 1990 (S.I. No. 104 of 1990). Signed on 30 April 1990. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
- ^ Local Government Act 1991, s. 14: Postponement of local elections for certain local authorities (No. 11 of 1991, s. 14). Enacted on 18 May 1991. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
- ^ "1991 Local Election". irelandelection.com. Archived from the original on 30 August 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.