Waterford County Council election, 1999

10 June 1999

All 23 seats to Waterford County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fianna Fáil	Fine Gael	Labour Party
Seats won	11	8	3
Seat change	+1	-1	-

	Fourth party	Fifth party

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

Map showing the area of Waterford County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Waterford County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 23 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	11	+1	10,351	41.64%
	Fine Gael	8	-1	7,914	31.84%
	Labour Party	3	-	3,874	15.59%
	Independent	1	+1	1,581	6.36%
	Workers' Party	0	-1	320	1.29%
Totals		23	-	24,857	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Dungarvan

Dungarvan - 7 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
	Fine Gael	John Deasy	14.08	1,083
	Fine Gael	Tom Higgins	11.11	855	888	909	959	963
	Labour Party	Billy Kyne*	8.32	640	649	665	691	702	751	794	813	927	969
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Kenneally*	8.28	637	641	643	648	712	722	785	865	887	978
	Labour Party	Fiachra O Ceillchair*	8.27	636	645	661	681	690	724	755	841	893	929
	Labour Party	Lar Hart*	6.77	521	526	550	560	562	587	601	623	693	710
	Fine Gael	Daniel Leahy*	5.90	454	462	464	468	502	542	555	579	591
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Cronin	5.85	450	452	459	461	560	569	604	670	682	824
	Fianna Fáil	Nuala Ryan	5.65	435	440	446	467	487	511	594	642	728	754
	Independent	Michael O'Riordan	4.95	381	388	396	409	418	455	487	504
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus O'Donnell	4.71	362	362	364	370	387	401	415
	Fianna Fáil	Austin Flynn*	3.73	287	293	300	335	345	363
	Fine Gael	Damien Geoghegan	3.60	277	298	312	336	340
	Fianna Fáil	Paud O'Keeffe	4.03	310	311	315	319
	Independent	Damien Dillon	2.94	226	231	236
	Independent	Dan Dineen	1.81	139	143
Electorate: 12,456 Valid: 7,693 (61.76%) Spoilt: 92 Quota: 962 Turnout: 7,785 (62.50%)

Kilmacthomas

Kilmacthomas - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Cunningham*	24.27	727
	Labour Party	Ger Barron	21.77	652	752
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Leahy*	21.60	647	741
	Fine Gael	Oliver Coffey*	16.46	493	693
	Fine Gael	Eddie Rockett	15.89	476
Electorate: 5,456 Valid: 2,995 (54.89%) Spoilt: 35 Quota: 749 Turnout: 3,030 (55.54%)

Lismore

Lismore - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Fianna Fáil	Ollie Wilkinson*	38.57	1,859
	Fine Gael	Nora Flynn*	16.76	808	1,048
	Fine Gael	Willie McDonnell*	13.17	635	726	882	908
	Fianna Fáil	James Tobin	12.24	590	827	907	936
	Fianna Fáil	Dick Tobin	9.79	472	689	846	874
	Labour Party	Bernard Leddy	9.46	456	565
Electorate: 8,058 Valid: 4,820 (59.82%) Spoilt: 61 Quota: 965 Turnout: 4,881 (60.57%)

Suir

Suir - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fianna Fáil	Kieran O'Ryan*	24.29	818	827	876
	Fine Gael	Mary Greene*	21.56	726	729	732	799	937
	Labour Party	Victor Bowers	15.24	513	540	595	631	669	690	693
	Fine Gael	Paudie Coffey	14.26	480	486	518	564	621	688	700
	Fianna Fáil	Oliver O'Hara	8.38	282	285	348	423
	Independent	Bobby Moore	7.93	267	271	280
	Fianna Fáil	Michael O'Brien	6.59	222	224
	Sinn Féin	Jackie Whelan	1.75	59
Electorate: 5,534 Valid: 3,367 (60.84%) Spoilt: 52 Quota: 842 Turnout: 3,419 (61.78%)

Tramore

Tramore - 6 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
	Fine Gael	John Carey*	13.57	812	814	818	825	918
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Cowman*	12.04	720	732	803	883
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Daly	11.33	678	680	706	714	730	734	761	822	829	838
	Fianna Fáil	Geoff Power*	10.03	600	602	612	625	632	637	697	738	743	748
	Fine Gael	Lola O'Sullivan	7.94	475	505	545	572	686	716	765	912
	Labour Party	Paddy O'Callaghan*	7.62	456	469	490	542	566	571	621	716	728	734
	Independent	Betty Twomey	6.85	410	439	456	499	537	541	651	760	793	801
	Progressive Democrats	Michael Flynn	6.47	387	410	444	473	509	520	571
	Green Party	Michael Power	6.20	371	376	384	417	436	440
	Fine Gael	Maurice Cummins	5.68	340	344	365	374
	Workers' Party	Eddie Walsh	5.35	320	324	336
	Fianna Fáil	Ben Gavin	4.26	255	276
	Independent	Ted O'Keeffe	2.64	158
Electorate: 12,013 Valid: 5,982 (49.80%) Spoilt: 71 Quota: 855 Turnout: 6,053 (50.39%)

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