Roscommon County Council election, 1999

10 June 1999

All 26 seats to Roscommon County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fine Gael	Fianna Fáil	Progressive Democrats
Seats won	12	9	1
Seat change	+1	-1	+1

	Fourth party

Party	Independent
Seats won	4
Seat change	-1

Map showing the area of Roscommon County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Roscommon County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from six electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	12	+1	11,134	38.95%
	Fianna Fáil	9	-1	10,529	36.83%
	Progressive Democrats	1	+1	771	2.69%
	Independent	4	-1	5,846	20.45%
Totals		26	-	28,586	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Athlone

Athlone - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fianna Fáil	Senator Michael Finneran*	26.28	1,462
	Fine Gael	Denis NaughtenTD*	23.91	1,330
	Fine Gael	Ollie Moore	9.44	525	618	735	796	857	1,083
	Fianna Fáil	Anthony Geraghty	8.61	479	602	623	652	749	916	953
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran	8.27	460	583	652	681	707	789	809
	Fine Gael	John Dooley	7.71	429	447	543	555	635
	Independent	Eugene Costello	7.05	392	492	541	584	651	711	771
	Independent	Tony Ward	5.88	327	366	389	402
	Independent	Tom Naughton	2.86	159	197	224
Electorate: 8,441 Valid: 5,563 (65.90%) Spoilt: 53 Quota: 928 Turnout: 5,616 (66.53%)

Ballaghadreen

Ballaghadreen - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3
	Fine Gael	Senator John Connor*	25.90	1,034
	Fine Gael	Michael Scally*	20.69	826
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy McGarry	16.03	640	668	801
	Progressive Democrats	Hugh Lynn	14.63	584	665	763
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Lynch*	14.38	574	600	690
	Fianna Fáil	John Mulvihil	8.39	335	435
Electorate: 6,436 Valid: 3,993 (62.04%) Spoilt: 59 Quota: 799 Turnout: 4,052 (62.96%)

Boyle

Boyle - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Fine Gael	Frank Feighan	19.82	1,090
	Fine Gael	Charlie Hopkins*	12.16	669	682	692	699	705	727	821	854	887
	Fine Gael	Kitty Duignan*	10.49	577	607	621	654	688	706	718	832	911
	Fine Gael	Gerry Garvey	9.93	546	559	613	618	623	665	677	792	816
	Fianna Fáil	John Cummins	9.56	526	546	580	613	670	685	699	706	819
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Gaffney	7.75	426	433	444	459	470	535	640	678	726
	Independent	Paddy Mulvey	5.11	281	287	291	301	310	331
	Fianna Fáil	Padraig McWeeney	5.00	275	276	299	300	307
	Independent	Paddy Mulvey	4.95	272	275	295	303	310	404	426
	Labour Party	Tommy Egan	5.10	256	287	300	345	431	437	467	480
	Independent	Francis Geelan	3.49	192	216	220	264
	Progressive Democrats	Gerard Tivnan	3.40	187	208	213
	Fianna Fáil	Tommie Bourke	2.78	153	154
	Green Party	Vincent Beirne	2.38	50	53
Electorate: 7,827 Valid: 5,500 (70.27%) Spoilt: 48 Quota: 917 Turnout: 5,548 (70.88%)

Castlerea

Castlerea - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Independent	Danny Burke*	28.83	927
	Fine Gael	Michael McGreal*	27.19	874
	Fine Gael	John Murray*	20.34	654	702	728	780
	Fianna Fáil	Breege Flanagan	14.06	452	514	718	736
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Sloyan	9.58	308	321
Electorate: 4,845 Valid: 3,215 (66.36%) Spoilt: 39 Quota: 804 Turnout: 3,254 (67.14%)

Roscommon

Roscommon - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Independent	Tom Foxe*	22.01	1,224
	Fianna Fáil	Terry Leyden	16.15	898	946
	Fianna Fáil	Des Bruen*	12.23	680	744	749	939
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Connaughton*	11.56	643	670	673	698	931
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy Kilduff	10.36	576	604	608	637
	Fine Gael	Gerry Donnelly*	9.58	533	556	557	652	884
	Fine Gael	Dominick Connolly*	9.51	529	576	578	733	792
	Fine Gael	Brian Keenan	8.60	478	538	542
Electorate: 8,326 Valid: 5,561 (66.79%) Spoilt: 47 Quota: 927 Turnout: 5,608 (67.36%)

Strokestown

Strokestown- 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Independent	Tom Crosby*	27.66	1,315
	Fine Gael	Seán Beirne*	16.70	794	854	971
	Independent	Gene Byrne*	16.26	757	813	858	970
	Fianna Fáil	Eugene Murphy*	19.78	699	813	922	1,115
	Fianna Fáil	Gerry Thompson	10.69	508	551	559	622
	Fianna Fáil	John Quinn	9.15	435	458	469
	Fine Gael	Mamie Gearty	5.17	246	314
Electorate: 6,573 Valid: 4,754 (70.12%) Spoilt: 42 Quota: 951 Turnout: 4,796 (71.13%)

External links

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