South Dublin County Council election, 1991

27 June 1991

All 26 seats to South Dublin County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fianna Fáil	Fine Gael	Labour Party
Seats won	7	6	4
Seat change	-6	-2	+2

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Party	Progressive Democrats	Workers' Party	Green Party
Seats won	4	3	1
Seat change	+4	+1	+1

	Seventh party

Party	Independent
Seats won	1
Seat change	-

Map showing the area of South Dublin County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to South Dublin County Council took place on 27 June 1991 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	7	-6	16,179	29.1%
	Fine Gael	6	-2	10,176	18.3%
	Labour Party	4	+2	9,796	17.6%
	Progressive Democrats	4	+4	5,080	9.1%
	Workers' Party	3	+1	4,842	8.7%
	Green Party	1	+1	3,294	5.9%
	Independent	1	-	4,294	7.7%
Totals		26	-	53,634	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Clondalkin

Clondalkin - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fine Gael	Therese Ridge*	18.3%	1,378	1,431	1,459	1,497	1,563	1,733	1,883
	Progressive Democrats	Colm Tyndall	17.7%	1,332	1,355	1,375	1,447	1,544	1,647	1,863
	Fianna Fáil	Colm McGrath*	14.6%	1,104	1,112	1,136	1,257	1,280	1,316	2,027
	Fianna Fáil	Catherine Sherwin	13.1%	986	1,004	1,028	1,182	1,229	1,259
	Workers' Party	Donna Conlon	8.9%	671	729	809	813	943	1,292	1,356
	Labour Party	Robert Dowds	8.3%	626	679	711	721	794
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Smyth	5.7%	431	436	441
	Green Party	Conor Delaney	5.3%	400	436	496	518
	Sinn Féin	Vincent Coffey	4.2%	315	340
	Independent	Maurice Duffy	2.4%	178
	Independent	Maire O'Connor	1.6%	123
Electorate: 20,425 Valid: 7,544 (36.9%) Spoilt: 63 Quota: 1,887 Turnout: 7,607 (37.2%)

Greenhills

Greenhills - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Labour Party	Mervyn TaylorTD*	24.1%	1,576
	Workers' Party	Don Tipping*	13.9%	912	966	995	1,020	1,107	1,138	1,306	1,357
	Fine Gael	Michael Keating	11%	720	745	754	875	919	946	1,066	1,126	1,170
	Independent	Bob Byrne	9.3%	611	628	645	651	713	736
	Fianna Fáil	Geraldine O'Connor	8.8%	577	584	586	607	626	767	819
	Fianna Fáil	Margaret Farrell	8.1%	525	537	549	555	580	828	943	1,412
	Labour Party	Denis Mackin	8%	522	634	648	667	737	755	881	1,040	1,089
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Hanrahan	7.2%	468	479	505	511	523
	Green Party	Alison Larkin	4.6%	298	308	345	363
	Fine Gael	Michael O'Brien	3.4%	224	228	228
	Sinn Féin	Dessie Early	2.4%	157	162
Electorate: 16,819 Valid: 6,540 (38.9%) Spoilt: 50 Quota: 1,319 Turnout: 6,590 (39.2%)

Lucan

Lucan - 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	Guss O'Connell	14.2%	1,406	1,477	1,532	1,649	1,894	2,032
	Fine Gael	Peter Brady	13.5%	1,336	1,346	1,472	1,549	1,587	1,612	1,619	1,775	1,812	1,987
	Fianna Fáil	Finbarr Hanrahan*	11.3%	1,119	1,126	1,145	1,182	1,215	1,440	1,459	1,514	1,607	2,362
	Fianna Fáil	Liam LawlorTD*	9.1%	905	910	919	934	950	1,110	1,123	1,173	1,246
	Labour Party	Eamon Tuffy	8.3%	826	829	834	927	1,000	1,026	1,030	1,211	1,263	1,315	1,430
	Sinn Féin	John McCann	7.9%	783	789	797	808	815	828	830	919
	Labour Party	John O'Halloran	7.8%	775	781	795	815	884	898	901	1,058	1,379	1,467	1,553
	Workers' Party	Anne Finnegan	6.7%	665	671	677	748	777	799	803
	Fianna Fáil	Deirdre Doherty-Ryan	5.9%	580	591	609	630	675
	Labour Party	Michael Brennan	5%	497	534	563	598
	Green Party	Bridin O'Connor	5%	492	512	531
	Fine Gael	Tom Kavanagh	3.1%	311	316
	Independent	Michael Kirwan	2%	200
Electorate: 20,266 Valid: 9,895 (48.8%) Spoilt: 75 Quota: 1,980 Turnout: 9,970 (49.2%)

Rathfarnam

Rathfarnam - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fianna Fáil	Ann Ormonde*	19%	1,582	1,584	1,601	1,872
	Fine Gael	Alan ShatterTD*	14.3%	1,191	1,202	1,241	1,286	1,303	1,538	1,671
	Green Party	Máire Mullarney	14%	1,163	1,176	1,289	1,313	1,327	1,511	1,877
	Fine Gael	Mary Muldoon*	13.96%	1,161	1,166	1,194	1,206	1,213	1,355	1,622
	Fianna Fáil	Damien Fee	10.4%	862	884	897	989	1,142	1,223	1,325
	Independent	Vincent Kenny	9.1%	760	767	832	842	849	944
	Progressive Democrats	Ronnie McBrien	8.6%	719	721	760	778	788
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen Riney*	5.8%	479	479	485
	Labour Party	Billy Byrne	2.7%	227	339
	Labour Party	Graham Corcoran	1.9%	154
Electorate: 20,175 Valid: 8,318 (41.2%) Spoilt: 35 Quota: 1,664 Turnout: 8,353 (41.4%)

Tallaght-Oldbawn

Tallaght-Oldbawn - 3 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	John Hannon*	22.3%	1,572	1,579	1,590	1,663	1,684	1,915
	Workers' Party	Pat RabbitteTD*	13.5%	947	967	980	994	1,066	1,102	1,125	1,255	1,472	1,736
	Progressive Democrats	Breda Cass*	12.7%	892	900	916	920	969	998	1,021	1,062	1,131	1,501
	Fine Gael	Senator Larry McMahon*	11.2%	789	799	889	912	942	964	988	1,009	1,083
	Labour Party	Eamonn Maloney	9.5%	667	677	689	703	741	748	756	801
	Labour Party	Ned Gibbons	9.4%	663	667	673	676	706	762	775	885	1,271	1,415
	Sinn Féin	Seán Crowe	5.7%	399	436	438	441	461	480	496
	Fianna Fáil	Jim Barry*	5.5%	389	394	395	430	434
	Green Party	Malachy Murphy	3.7%	259	271	279	280
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Dwan	2.5%	178	179	179
	Fine Gael	Paul Ringland	2.2%	158	159
	Republican Sinn Féin	Peter Cunningham	1.8%	125
Electorate: 14,687 Valid: 6,388 (43.5%) Spoilt: 89 Quota: 1,598 Turnout: 6,477 (44.1%)

Tallaght-Rathcoole

Tallaght-Rathcoole- 3 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Workers' Party	Mick Billane	20.3%	1217	1,228	1,264	1,306	1,368	1,488	1,554
	Fianna Fáil	Charlie O'Connor	15.4%	922	987	996	1,019	1,144	1,182	1,216	1,220	1,656
	Progressive Democrats	Catherine Quinn	13.1%	785	786	796	889	934	982	1,199	1,208	1,421
	Fianna Fáil	Jim Daly*	12.3%	741	757	759	764	783	832	904	914
	Labour Party	Maria Ingle	11.6%	694	700	712	741	815	886	936	954	1,028
	Sinn Féin	Tony Flannery	6.4%	386	390	397	409	429
	Fine Gael	Pat Corcoran	6.4%	384	388	451	463	484	519
	Independent	John O'Mahony	6%	359	363	374	389
	Progressive Democrats	Martin Smith	3.7%	224	226	248
	Fine Gael	Jim Lovett	2.9%	177	178
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Morton	1.9%	114
Electorate: 15,744 Valid: 6,003 (38.1%) Spoilt: 80 Quota: 1,501 Turnout: 6,083 (38.6%)

Terenure

Terenure- 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fine Gael	Stanley Laing*	14.4%	1,488	1,503	1,541	1,566	1,585	1,630	1,685	1,768
	Labour Party	Eamonn Walsh	12.4%	1,278	1,382	1,384	1,527	1,625	1,656	1,678	1,845
	Labour Party	Senator Pat Upton	11.3%	1,169	1,309	1,352	1,424	1,454	1,492	1,520	1,780
	Progressive Democrats	Cáit Keane	10.9%	1,128	1,159	1,173	1,218	1,267	1,317	1,376	1,542
	Fianna Fáil	Sean Ardagh*	10.4%	1,070	1,075	1,268	1,311	1,540	2,082
	Fine Gael	Martin Lynch*	9.5%	981	992	1,014	1,037	1,051	1,081	1,096	1,163
	Green Party	Jim Murphy	6.6%	682	751	761	851	880	904	940
	Fianna Fáil	Michael J. Stokes	5.4%	555	564	641	675	848
	Fianna Fáil	Molly Tighe	5.3%	550	559	615	671
	Independent	Seamus Ashe*	5.1%	532	561	566
	Fianna Fáil	Gerry Mullally	4.5%	470	472
	Workers' Party	Deirdre O'Connell	4.2%	430
Electorate: 24,148 Valid: 10,333 (42.8%) Spoilt: 85 Quota: 1,723 Turnout: 10,418 (43.1%)

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