1994 Irish local elections
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The 1994 Irish local elections for borough and town councillors and commissioners were held on Thursday, 9 June 1994.[fn 1] Elections to county and city councils had been held in 1991. The municipal elections were postponed in 1991 to allow passage of the Local Government Act, 1994, under which the boundaries of many towns were altered.[1] The 1994 European Parliament election, Údarás na Gaeltachta election, and Dáil by-elections in Dublin South-Central and Mayo West were held on the same day.
Results
The total electorate was 429,431, from which 251,605 votes were cast, giving a turnout of 58.59%. There were 2,555 spoilt votes.
| Party | First pref. votes |
% FPV | Seats | % seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="width: 5px; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | | Fianna Fáil | 83,580 | 33.56 | 273 | 36.69 |
| style="width: 5px; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | | Fine Gael | 48,871 | 19.62 | 174 | 23.39 |
| style="width: 5px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (Ireland)" | | Labour Party | 31,697 | 12.73 | 77 | 10.35 |
| style="width: 5px; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" | | Sinn Féin | 9,865 | 3.96 | 24 | 3.23 |
| style="width: 5px; background-color: #3333CC;" data-sort-value="Progressive Democrats" | | Progressive Democrats | 8,077 | 3.24 | 18 | 2.42 |
| style="width: 5px; background-color: #C700C7;" data-sort-value="Democratic Left (Ireland)" | | Democratic Left | 6,264 | 2.52 | 11 | 1.48 |
| style="width: 5px; background-color: #99CC33;" data-sort-value="Green Party (Ireland)" | | Green Party | 2,807 | 1.13 | 6 | 0.81 |
| style="width: 5px; background-color: #97285B;" data-sort-value="South Kerry Independent Alliance" | | South Kerry Independent | 531 | 0.21 | 1 | 0.13 |
| style="width: 5px; background-color: #D73D3D;" data-sort-value="Workers' Party (Ireland)" | | [[Workers' Party (Ireland)|Template:Workers' Party (Ireland)/meta/shortname]] | 456 | 0.18 | 1 | 0.13 |
| style="width: 5px; background-color: #ffe4e1;" data-sort-value="Natural Law Party" | | Natural Law | 17 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 |
| style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician (Ireland)" | | [[Independent politician (Ireland)|Template:Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/shortname]] | 56,885 | 22.84 | 159 | 21.37 |
| Total | 249,050 | 100.00 | 744 | 100.00 | |
Details
| Town | Council [fn 2] |
Seats [fn 3] |
FF | FG | Lab | SF | PD | DL | Green | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clonmel | Borough | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||
| Drogheda | Borough | 12 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Kilkenny | Borough[fn 4] | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Sligo | Borough | 12 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Wexford | Borough | 12 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Arklow | UD | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Athlone | UD | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Athy | UD | 9 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Ballina | UD | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Ballinasloe | UD | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| Birr | UD | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Bray | UD | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Buncrana | UD | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Bundoran | UD | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |||||
| Carlow | UD | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Carrickmacross | UD | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3[fn 5] | |||||
| Carrick-on-Suir | UD | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Cashel | UD | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Castlebar | UD | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Castleblayney | UD | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Cavan | UD | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Clonakilty | UD | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Clones | UD | 9 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Cobh | UD | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Dundalk | UD | 12 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Dungarvan | UD | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Ennis | UD | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Enniscorthy | UD | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Fermoy | UD | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Kells | UD | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Killarney | UD | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3[fn 6] | ||||
| Kilrush | UD | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Kinsale | UD | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Letterkenny | UD | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Listowel | UD | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Longford | UD | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| Macroom | UD | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Mallow | UD | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Midleton | UD | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Monaghan | UD | 9 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Naas | UD | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Navan | UD | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Nenagh | UD | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| New Ross | UD | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Skibbereen | UD | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Templemore | UD | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | |||||
| Thurles | UD | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Tipperary | UD | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Tralee | UD | 12 | 3[fn 7] | 2[fn 7] | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Trim | UD | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Tullamore | UD | 9 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Westport | UD | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| Wicklow | UD | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Youghal | UD | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||
| Ardee | Comm | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Balbriggan | Comm | 9 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Ballybay | Comm | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Ballyshannon | Comm | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | |||||
| Bandon | Comm | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Bantry | Comm | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Belturbet | Comm | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| Boyle | Comm | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| Cootehill | Comm | 9 | 5 | 4 | ||||||
| Edenderry | Comm | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Gorey | Comm | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Granard | Comm | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |||||
| Greystones | Comm | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Kilkee | Comm | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Leixlip | Comm | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Lismore | Comm | 9 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Loughrea | Comm | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Mountmellick | Comm | 9 | 6 | 3 | ||||||
| Muine Bheag | Comm | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Mullingar | Comm | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Newbridge | Comm | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Passage West | Comm | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Portlaoise | Comm | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Shannon | Comm | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Tramore | Comm | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Tuam | Comm | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Footnotes
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- ↑ Section 17 of the Local Government Act 1994 (Public Act No. 8 of 1994). Act of the Irish Parliament.; Local Government (Boundaries) (Town Elections) Regulations 1994 (S.I. No. 114/1994). Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland.
