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2019 Fingal County Council election

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All 40 seats on Fingal County Council 21 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour Seats won 8 7 6 Seat change 1 1 2   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Green Sinn Féin Social Democrats Seats won 5 4 2 Seat change 3 2 2   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Party Solidarity Inds. 4 Change Independent Seats won 1 1 6 Seat change 3 1 4
Results by Local Electoral Area
Council control before election Fianna Fáil Council control after election Fianna Fáil Labour Party Green Party Independent

An election to all 40 seats on Fingal County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of 2019 Irish local elections. Fingal was divided into 7 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of officeon the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Boundary changes

Following a recommendation of the 2018 Boundary Committee, the boundaries of the LEAs were altered from those used in the 2014 elections. Its terms of reference required no change in the total number of councillors but set a lower maximum LEA size of seven councillors, breached by four of Fingal's five 2014 LEAs. Other changes were necessitated by population shifts revealed by the 2016 census.

Overview

Fianna Fáil emerged as the largest party with 8 seats a net gain of 1 seat. The party won 2 seats in each of Swords and Rush–Lusk. Following boundary changes with Brian Dennehy having transferred to Rush–Lusk, the party emerged seatless in Balbriggan, however. Fine Gael also increased their seat numbers by 1 to 7 but failed to win a seat in Swords for another election as well as Rush–Lusk. Labour gained 2 seats to return with 6 seats in total. The Green Party gained 3 seats in Balbriggan, Ongar and Swords to increase their numbers to 5. Cian O'Callaghan and Paul Mulville had joined the Social Democrats in the years pre-election and both retained their seats. Sinn Féin lost 2 seats overall in Balbriggan and in Howth-Malahide. The party fared much better in the LEAs that make up the Dublin West constituency than Dubin Fingal and just took the last seat in Swords. Solidarity had a very poor election in a former heartland returning with just 1 seat.

Punam Rane, elected for Fine Gael in Blanchardstown–Mulhuddart, became Ireland's first Indian-born councillor. The Green gains included a 20-year-old student, Daniel Whooley, elected in Ongar.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	8	1	13,677	17.25	0.67
	Fine Gael	7	1	13,418	16.93	2.24
	Labour	6	2	10,449	13.18	1.87
	Green	5	3	11,154	14.07	8.96
	Sinn Féin	4	2	7,202	9.08	5.51
	Social Democrats	2	2	4,683	5.91	New
	Solidarity	1	3	2,891	3.65	4.36
	Inds. 4 Change	1	1	1,304	1.64	New
	Aontú	0		1,743	2.20	New
	People Before Profit	0	1	263	0.33	1.47
	Independent	6	4	12,474	15.73	9.69
Total		40		79,278	100.00

Results by local electoral area

 *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
 †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.

Balbriggan

Blanchardstown–Mulhuddart

Castleknock

Howth–Malahide

Ongar

Rush–Lusk

Swords

Footnotes

1. ^ See change below.

Results by gender

Changes after 2019

Sources

• "Fingal County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 13 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
• "Local Elections 2019 - The Count". Fingal County Council. Archived from the original on 1 August 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
• "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Government of Ireland. Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 104–111. Retrieved 22 September 2023.

References

1. Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 2 (13 June 2018). Report 2018 (PDF). Government Publications. pp. 26–29, 55. ISBN 978-1-4064-2991-6. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2019.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
2. County of Fingal Local Electoral Areas Order 2018 (S.I. No. 616 of 2018). Signed on 19 December 2018 by John Paul Phelan, Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Archived from the original on 23 November 2019. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 8 May 2019.
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7. "Elections 2019: Local Electoral Area: Howth–Malahide". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
8. "Elections 2019: Local Electoral Area: Ongar". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
9. "Elections 2019: Local Electoral Area: Rush–Lusk". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
10. "Elections 2019: Local Electoral Area: Swords". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
11. DHPLG 2019, p. 247.
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