Limerick City Council election, 1999

10 June 1999

All 17 seats to Limerick City Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fianna Fáil	Fine Gael	Labour Party
Seats won	6	5	3
Seat change	+4	+1	-2

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Party	Independent	Progressive Democrats	Workers' Party
Seats won	3	0	0
Seat change	+1	-3	-1

Map showing the area of Limerick City Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Limerick City Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 17 councillors were elected from four electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.1

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	6	+4	4,994	27.56%
	Fine Gael	5	+1	4,737	26.15%
	Labour Party	3	-2	3,388	18.70%
	Independent	3	+1	3,384	18.68%
	Progressive Democrats	0	-3	1,265	6.98%
	Workers' Party	0	-1	0	0
Totals		17	-	18,118	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Limerick No.1

Limerick No.1 - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Power	18.42	1,041
	Labour Party	John Ryan*	11.89	672	682	691	745	776	791	804	839	945
	Independent	Kathleen Leddin	10.88	615	627	639	645	656	711	756	815	830	966
	Fine Gael	Michael Hourigan	10.56	597	605	619	624	630	654	689	737	749	858
	Fianna Fáil	John Cronin	9.57	541	553	554	560	575	593	603	664	810	862
	Fine Gael	Kevin Kiely	8.95	506	508	513	529	550	555	561	569	625	657
	Fianna Fáil	Tim O'Driscoll	5.73	324	333	339	363	384	390	397	450
	Progressive Democrats	Tom Frawley	5.47	309	316	326	329	331	352	464	488	502
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon O'Brien	4.53	256	281	286	288	293	309	332
	Progressive Democrats	Anne O'Keeffe	4.46	252	258	262	265	266	275
	Independent	Mary Collins	2.88	163	166	180	184	196
	Sinn Féin	Padraig Malone	2.53	143	144	149	156
	Labour Party	Seán Flanagan	2.42	137	138	139
	Independent	Barney Sheehan	1.72	97	99
Electorate: 11,623 Valid: 5,653 (48.64%) Spoilt: 52 Quota: 943 Turnout: 5,705 (49.08%)

Limerick No.2

Limerick No.2 - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	Labour Party	Jan O'SullivanTD*	18.42	1,041
	Independent	John Gilligan*	21.37	877
	Fianna Fáil	Kieran O'Hanlon*	16.23	666	680	691	708	728	744	818	888
	Fianna Fáil	Larry Cross	9.63	395	401	408	428	437	458	516	550	573	658
	Fine Gael	Eddie Butler	6.78	278	290	295	304	381	425	439	471	475	543
	Fianna Fáil	Jim McMahon	5.05	207	210	213	223	228	235
	Progressive Democrats	Billy Morgan	4.17	171	175	178	189	200	266	299	336	356
	Labour Party	Peggy Kirwan	4.17	171	197	207	236	247	254	283
	Fine Gael	Annette Burke-McGreen	3.80	156	164	167	171
	Progressive Democrats	Mary Lane Kelly	3.66	150	159	162	174	193
	Independent	Gerry Hannan	1.58	65	66	73
	Green Party	Aine McCarthy	1.44	59	63	67
Electorate: 8,867 Valid: 4,103 (46.27%) Spoilt: 51 Quota: 821 Turnout: 4,154 (46.85%)

Limerick No.3

Limerick No.3 - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11
	Independent	Michael Kelly	22.27	914
	Fine Gael	Ger Fahy	16.87	692	699	701	707	730	740	757	808	828
	Fianna Fáil	Jack Bourke*	12.62	518	526	529	533	539	550	563	599	713	717	781
	Fine Gael	Diarmuid Scully	12.45	511	514	517	523	529	532	598	626	729	730	756
	Labour Party	Seamus Houlihan*	7.70	316	328	330	333	357	382	389	433	452	453	598
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Ryan	6.29	258	260	262	268	273	280	318	337
	Labour Party	John Boland	5.99	246	271	277	287	296	337	344	396	409	409
	Labour Party	Derek Mulcahy	5.53	227	232	235	235	236	243	254
	Independent	Jim Hickey	4.21	173	175	177	184	188	191
	Labour Party	Tony Clancy	2.02	83	96	104	106	114
	Labour Party	Michael Hartnett	2.02	83	85	89	92
	Independent	Noel Hannon	1.12	46	56	58
	Natural Law	Raymond McInerney	0.93	38	41
Electorate: 8,676 Valid: 4,105 (47.31%) Spoilt: 61 Quota: 822 Turnout: 4,166 (48.02%)

Limerick No.4

Limerick No.4 - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fine Gael	Pat Kennedy*	24.49	1,010
	Fine Gael	Maria Byrne	23.93	987
	Labour Party	Joe Leddin	9.99	412	456	501	519	536	558	599	743
	Progressive Democrats	Paddy Hynes	9.29	383	419	434	452	494	521	560	645
	Independent	Win Harrington	7.66	316	359	408	429	458	478	519
	Fianna Fáil	Dick Sadlier*	7.42	306	327	348	350	362	406	616	723
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Connor	6.60	272	285	294	297	307	401
	Fianna Fáil	John McGrath	5.09	210	224	233	240	247
	Republican Sinn Féin	Des Long	3.59	148	155	161	170
	Independent	Ger Cusack	1.94	80	87	95
Electorate: 9,113 Valid: 4,124 (45.25%) Spoilt: 62 Quota: 825 Turnout: 4,186 (45.93%)

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