Cavan County Council election, 1999

10 June 1999

All 25 seats to Cavan County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fianna Fáil	Fine Gael	Sinn Féin
Seats won	13	9	2
Seat change	+2	-	+2

	Fourth party

Party	Independent
Seats won	1
Seat change	-4

Map showing the area of Cavan County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Cavan County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from four electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	13	+2	12,476	45.58
	Fine Gael	9	-	10,166	37.14
	Sinn Féin	2	+2	2,330	8.51
	Independent	1	-4	1,873	6.84
Totals		25	-	27,369	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Bailieborough

Bailieborough - 7 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Fine Gael	Joe O'Reilly*	15.81	1,264
	Fine Gael	Aidan Boyle*	14.32	1,145
	Fianna Fáil	Clifford Kelly*	12.34	987	991	995	1,116
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Giles*	10.49	839	867	875	893	900	997	1,079
	Sinn Féin	Paddy McDonald	7.98	632	656	667	701	711	763	792	798	804
	Fianna Fáil	Francis McDermott	7.48	598	606	616	661	675	798	827	852	870
	Independent	Winston Turner*	7.13	570	613	630	719	750	796	1,089
	Fianna Fáil	Turlough Smith	7.13	570	602	609	623	626	770	849	896	912
	Independent	Fred Kettyle	7.00	560	601	608	635	642	653
	Fianna Fáil	Philomena Keenan	5.95	476	483	521	539	546
	Fine Gael	Johnny Sherlock	3.73	298	374	408
	Christian Solidarity	Damien Kivlehan	0.71	57	58	67
Electorate: 12,368 Valid: 7,996 (64.65%) Spoilt: 108 Quota: 1,000 Turnout: 8,104 (65.52%)

Ballyjamesduff

Ballyjamesduff - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fine Gael	Paddy O'Reilly*	16.95	1,040
	Fianna Fáil	Danny Brady*	14.46	887
	Fianna Fáil	Francie Fitzsimons*	14.23	873	896
	Fine Gael	Dessie Boylan*	12.96	795	831	838	865	986
	Fine Gael	Robert Faussett	12.05	547	583	585	619	627	651	896
	Sinn Féin	Pauline Tully-McCauley	9.76	546	554	555	584	683	715	835
	Fine Gael	Philip Miney*	7.97	489	505	505	516	536	557
	Fianna Fáil	Kate Soden	7.16	439	473	481	501	603	618	659
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Galligan	5.98	367	371	371	376
	Christian Solidarity	Tony Smith	2.48	152	158	159
Electorate: 10,390 Valid: 6,135 (59.05%) Spoilt: 136 Quota: 877 Turnout: 6,271 (60.36%)

Belturbet

Belturbet - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Smith*	18.33	1,061
	Fianna Fáil	Eddie Feeley*	14.87	861	889	911	926	1,007
	Fine Gael	Peter McVitty	12.30	712	728	822	859	939	959	999
	Fianna Fáil	Anthony Vesey*	11.09	642	660	667	765	856	865	1,077
	Fine Gael	Maura Maguire-Lynch	10.40	602	608	651	715	741	744	925
	Fianna Fáil	Cormac O'Donnell	8.81	510	521	525	542	576	585
	Fine Gael	Seamus Fitzpatrick	7.60	440	442	478	554	589	590	627
	Sinn Féin	Peadar Neary	6.63	384	390	400	429
	Independent	Matthew Fitzpatrick*	6.06	351	353	365
	Fine Gael	Eamon Dolan	3.90	226	233
Electorate: 8,363 Valid: 5,789 (69.22%) Spoilt: 80 Quota: 965 Turnout: 5,869 (70.18%)

Cavan

Cavan - 7 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fianna Fáil	Diarmuid Wilson	15.28	1,138
	Fine Gael	Andrew Boylan*	12.93	963
	Fine Gael	Madeleine Argue	11.76	876	894	903	917	947
	Sinn Féin	Charlie Boylan	14.67	768	783	785	800	815	817	834
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Conaty*	10.24	763	815	818	832	877	880	899	971
	Fianna Fáil	T.P. Smith*	9.88	736	797	800	812	821	822	829	879
	Fianna Fáil	Gerry Murray*	9.79	729	742	743	747	751	751	802	921
	Fine Gael	Paddy O'Reilly*	6.99	521	543	550	565	601	605	717	795
	Independent	Dolores Smith*	5.26	392	403	404	441	474	476	514
	Fine Gael	Jim Courtney	3.33	248	250	253	253	259	262
	Labour Party	Des Cullen	2.38	177	184	185	203
	Green Party	Mary McAdam	1.85	138	143	144
Electorate: 13,204 Valid: 7,449 (56.41%) Spoilt: 125 Quota: 932 Turnout: 7,574 (57.36%)

External links

Official website

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