Wicklow County Council election, 1991

27 June 1991

All 24 seats to Wicklow County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fianna Fáil	Labour Party	Fine Gael
Seats won	9	5	4
Seat change	-4	+1	-1

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Party	Workers' Party	Green Party	Independent
Seats won	1	1	4
Seat change	-	+1	+3

Map showing the area of Wicklow County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Wicklow County Council took place on 27 June 1991 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 24 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for an eight-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	9	-4	12,521	32.16%
	Labour Party	5	+1	7,474	19.20%
	Fine Gael	4	-1	5,696	14.63%
	Workers' Party	1	-	2,077	5.33%
	Green Party	1	+1	960	2.47%
	Independent	4	+3	8,221	21.12%
Totals		24	-	38,934	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Arklow

Arklow - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Fianna Fáil	Dr. Bill O'Connell*	14.1%	1,267	1,311
	Independent	Vincent McElheron	13.4%	1,205	1,262	1,268	1,290
	Labour Party	Kevin Ryan	12.02%	1,079	1,084	1,084	1,096	1,138	1,152	1,158	1,352
	Fine Gael	Vincent Blake*	11.3%	1,020	1,022	1,022	1,056	1,076	1,101	1,107	1,127	1,140
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Doran*	10.9%	977	978	978	1,005	1,011	1,016	1,074	1,087	1,090
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Keenan*	10.2%	914	921	923	945	972	986	1,132	1,195	1,212
	Fine Gael	Thomas Honan	7.5%	671	682	688	705	740	847	919	1,143	1,176
	Labour Party	Sean Wolohan	6.2%	557	587	589	606	665	712	847
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Sweeney*	4.9%	440	449	457	477	488	513
	Progressive Democrats	Michael Horsman	2.7%	241	248	248	265	275
	Workers' Party	Michael Keogh	2.5%	225	227	227	231
	Independent	Catherine Byrne	2.4%	212	218	219
	Independent	Denis Kinsella	2.1%	190
Electorate: 13,865 Valid: 8,998 (64.9%) Spoilt: 94 Quota: 1,286 Turnout: 9,092 (65.58%)

Baltinglass

Baltinglass - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Independent	Jim Ruttle*	31%	1,905
	Fine Gael	Godfrey TimminsTD*	19.4%	1,190	1,310	1,346	1,380	1,453	1,854
	Labour Party	Tommy Cullen	17.5%	1,077	1,113	1,169	1,182	1,241	1,333	1,431
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh O'Keeffe*	11.2%	687	718	730	922	977	1,041	1,140
	Fine Gael	Pascal Deering	7.5%	460	514	608	653	688
	Sinn Féin	Gerry O'Neill	4.9%	302	342	365	377
	Fianna Fáil	Ann McGrath	4.3%	266	307	323
	Independent	Adrian Williams	3.7%	229	264
	Independent	Michael Scanlon	0.4%	27	39
Electorate: 8,688 Valid: 6,143 (70.71%) Spoilt: 29 Quota: 1,536 Turnout: 6,172 (71.04%)

Bray

Bray - 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	Count 11	Count 12	Count 13
	Workers' Party	Liz McManus*	12.7%	1,047	1,063	1,083	1,194
	Labour Party	John Byrne*	11.9%	978	979	1,053	1,070	1,070	1,094	1,209
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Lawlor*	9.3%	767	769	770	780	781	803	813	816	824	839	933	972	1,167
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Behan	8.4%	687	691	695	700	700	722	739	741	752	785	844	871	981
	Fine Gael	Senator Shane Ross	7.8%	642	650	660	665	665	703	715	717	898	965	989	1,011	1,058
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Keyes	7.3%	602	606	608	629	631	641	653	657	673	690	750	791
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Vance*	7%	576	580	585	593	593	618	635	637	656	684	802	841	1,055
	Independent	Jane Murphy*	7%	574	576	582	592	593	643	666	668	701	776	816	863	929
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Ledwidge*	4.6%	379	380	381	386	386	404	407	408	420	436
	Sinn Féin	Gerry McDonnell	4.5%	371	373	376	393	394	398	410	412	415	442	446
	Green Party	Barry Ahern	3.6%	297	300	310	315	316	329	358	372	396
	Fine Gael	Michael Kennedy	3.5%	286	290	293	299	299	330	337	338
	Workers' Party	Dermot Tobin	3.1%	259	264	266	302	313	328
	Workers' Party	Anne Egan	3.1%	256	256	264
	Progressive Democrats	Ciarán Murphy*	3%	250	291	294	296	297
	Labour Party	Carmel McKenna	3%	153	156
	Progressive Democrats	Michael Noble	1.2%	101
Electorate: 18,096 Valid: 8,225 (45.45%) Spoilt: 79 Quota: 1,176 Turnout: 8,304 (45.89%)

Greystones

Greystones - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Fianna Fáil	Johnny Fox*	17.2%	1,205	1,215	1,225	1,277	1,306	1,335	1,425
	Fianna Fáil	Dick RocheTD*	14.4%	1,008	1,014	1,033	1,042	1,055	1,099	1,169	1,326	1,368
	Independent	George Jones*	13.6%	955	968	1,011	1,017	1,050	1,161	1,248	1,527
	Independent	John Leeson*	13.2%	921	925	946	991	995	1,038	1,053	1,092	1,131
	Independent	Jack Murnane	9.7%	679	696	713	724	770	818	893
	Green Party	Nuala Ahern	9.5%	663	671	704	735	751	865	989	1,237	1,283
	Fine Gael	Breda Allen	6.2%	436	440	464	469	474
	Labour Party	Charlie Keddy	5.9%	411	413	420	451	561	606
	Labour Party	Joseph Sweeney	3.4%	241	251	258	271
	Progressive Democrats	Joseph Lalor	2.7%	188	190
	Workers' Party	Christy Devlin	2.6%	181	213	214
	Workers' Party	James Hogan	1.6%	109
Electorate: 13,644 Valid: 6,997 (51.28%) Spoilt: 60 Quota: 1,400 Turnout: 7,057 (51.72%)

Wicklow

Wicklow - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Labour Party	Liam KavanaghTD*	22.5%	1,927
	Fianna Fáil	Joe JacobTD*	16.6%	1,422	1,453
	Independent	Susan Phillips*	11.3%	966	1,016	1,017	1,068	1,121	1,226	1,396	1,530
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Doyle	9.7%	835	845	847	852	855	862	1,025	1,311
	Labour Party	Frank Hynes*	8.5%	726	879	885	902	1,058	1,129	1,199	1,277
	Fine Gael	Mary Miley	7.6%	652	667	671	829	925	954	1,035	1,078
	Progressive Democrats	John Larkin	6.2%	532	559	559	582	593	612
	Fianna Fáil	John Giff*	5.7%	489	538	545	586	599	715	772
	Independent	Robert Kearns	4.2%	358	409	410	458	475
	Fine Gael	Ollie Lalor	4%	339	382	382
	Labour Party	Joseph O'Shaughnessy	3.8%	325	394	397	411
Electorate: 14,988 Valid: 8,571 (57.19%) Spoilt: 85 Quota: 1,429 Turnout: 8,656 (57.75%)

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