2019 Kildare County Council election

An election to all 40 seats on Kildare County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Kildare was divided into 8 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

2019 Kildare County Council election

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All 40 seats on Kildare County Council 21 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour Seats won 12 11 5 Seat change 2   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Social Democrats Green Sinn Féin Seats won 4 3 1 Seat change 4 3 4   Seventh party   Party Independent Seats won 4 Seat change 5
Results by Local Electoral Area

Posters in Ardclough (part of the Celbridge LEA)

Boundary review

Following a recommendation of the 2018 Boundary Committee, the boundaries of the LEAs were altered from those used in the 2014 elections.^[1][2] Its terms of reference required no change in the total number of councillors but set a lower maximum LEA size of seven councillors, exceeded by three of the five 2014 LEAs. Other changes were necessitated by population shifts revealed by the 2016 census.

Overview

Fianna Fáil remained the largest party with 12 seats although they saw a slight reduction in vote share. Fine Gael increased their vote share by over 2% and also gained an extra 2 seats to have a total of 11. Labour retained their 5 seats on the council. The Social Democrats benefitted from the presence of Catherine Murphy in the County and saw 4 gains with the party winning seats in Clane, Leixlip, Naas and Newbridge. The Green Party returned to the council with 3 seats; its 3 gains coming from Celbridge, Maynooth and Naas.

Sinn Féin lost 4 seats overall as its vote share fell by 67% and the party only came home with 1 seat. Partly due to retirements Independents saw a net loss of 5 seats.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	12		17,614	25.67	0.73
	Fine Gael	11	2	16,964	24.72	3.82
	Labour	5		8,774	12.79	0.61
	Social Democrats	4	4	4,600	6.70	New
	Green	3	3	4,945	7.21	6.09
	Sinn Féin	1	4	3,060	4.46	7.44
	Aontú	0		636	0.93	New
	People Before Profit	0		314	0.46	0.55
	Renua	0		190	0.28	New
	Independent	4	5	11,522	16.79	5.91
Total		40		68,619	100.00

Results by local electoral area

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

Athy

Athy: 5 seats^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Labour	Mark Wall[*][a]	26.97%	2,489
	Fine Gael	Ivan Keatley[*]	15.99%	1,476	1,536	1,580
	Labour	Aoife Breslin[*]	15.47%	1,428	2,026
	Fianna Fáil	Brian Dooley[†]	10.43%	963	1,033	1,137	1,165	1,172	1,216	1,389	1,586
	Fianna Fáil	Emmet Kane	6.08%	561	590	608	618	621	684
	Fianna Fáil	Veralouise Behan	5.89%	544	591	631	663	664	766	1,044	1,216
	Sinn Féin	Thomas Redmond[*]	5.88%	543	604	719	785	791	871	912	1,003
	Independent	Tony McNamee	5.76%	532	542	554	601	605
	Fine Gael	Ciara O'Keeffe	4.80%	443	496	573	622	634	719	774
	Social Democrats	Samantha Kenny	2.72%	251	271	316
Electorate: 19,330   Valid: 9,230   Spoilt: 219   Quota: 1,539   Turnout: 9,449 (48.88%)

Celbridge

Celbridge: 4 seats^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Coleman[†]	22.38%	1,493
	Independent	Íde Cussen[*]	12.62%	842	877	902	927	981	1,075	1,151	1,276
	Green	Vanessa Liston	12.20%	814	832	839	864	905	952	1,093	1,297
	Independent	Brendan Young[*]	10.64%	710	726	751	792	837	898	978	1,146
	Labour	Ciara Galvin	9.94%	663	683	691	708	736	786	971	1,155
	Social Democrats	Stephen Marken	9.75%	650	665	680	706	730	765	840
	Fine Gael	Philip Slattery	8.73%	582	606	618	625	656	682
	Independent	Michael Beirne	4.71%	314	326	341	355	395
	Independent	Peter Kavanagh	4.03%	269	277	297	306
	Sinn Féin	John Paul Monks	2.71%	181	186	192
	Independent	Tony Murray	2.28%	152	157
Electorate: 15,383   Valid: 6,670   Spoilt: 133   Quota: 1,335   Turnout: 6,803 (44.22%)

Clane

Clane: 5 seats^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Fine Gael	Brendan Weld[*]	15.10%	1,255	1,269	1,310	1,338	1,393
	Fianna Fáil	Daragh Fitzpatrick[*]	14.12%	1,173	1,181	1,208	1,366	1,399
	Independent	Pádraig McEvoy[*]	13.45%	1,118	1,137	1,179	1,220	1,309	1,381	1,385	1,387
	Social Democrats	Aidan Farrelly	12.79%	1,063	1,084	1,113	1,147	1,209	1,326	1,331	1,332	1,745
	Fine Gael	Brendan Wyse	10.25%	852	861	889	905	922	944	945	948	1,032	1,119
	Fine Gael	Seamus Langan	8.80%	731	740	762	778	784	803	803	803	857	913
	Green	Eoin Hallissey	7.22%	600	622	636	664	713	781	784	785
	Sinn Féin	Marc Gibbs	4.60%	382	393	415	427	445
	Fianna Fáil	Daniel Keenan	4.21%	350	361	372
	Aontú	Una O'Connor	3.81%	317	354	382	394
	Independent	Thomas Hogan	3.36%	279	289
	Renua	Séamus Ó Riain	2.29%	190
Electorate: 18,527   Valid: 8,310   Spoilt: 168   Quota: 1,386   Turnout: 8,478 (45.76%)

Kildare

Kildare: 5 seats^[6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Suzanne Doyle[*]	24.50%	1,847
	Fianna Fáil	Anne Connolly	16.48%	1,242	1,482
	Fine Gael	Kevin Duffy	14.62%	1,102	1,147	1,173	1,350
	Fine Gael	Mark Stafford[*]	13.07%	985	1,090	1,124	1,161	1,299
	Sinn Féin	Patricia Ryan[a]	9.02%	680	708	721	874	1,006	1,081	1,096
	Independent	Declan Crowe	8.90%	671	753	797	853	1,029	1,047	1,074
	Green	Colette Newman	6.79%	512	573	603	673
	Labour	Paul Hutchinson	6.62%	499	528	549
Electorate: 17,272   Valid: 7,538   Spoilt: 161   Quota: 1,257   Turnout: 7,699 (44.58%)

Leixlip

Leixlip: 3 seats^[7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fine Gael	Joe Neville[*]	25.54%	1,596
	Fianna Fáil	Bernard Caldwell[*]	16.91%	1,057	1,066	1,105	1,369	1,574
	Social Democrats	Nuala Killeen	16.00%	1,000	1,004	1,135	1,226	1,498
	Independent	Anthony Larkin[*]	13.74%	859	867	962	1,051	1,234
	Fianna Fáil	Valerie Colton	10.22%	639	643	669
	Labour	Mairéad Beades	10.03%	627	633	707	816
	Green	Jason W. Kenny	2.96%	185	186
	Sinn Féin	Anthony Doyle	2.38%	149	149
	Independent	Sean Gill	1.34%	84	84
	Independent	Michael Reidy	0.86%	54	55
Electorate: 13,174   Valid: 6,250   Spoilt: 86   Quota: 1,563   Turnout: 6,336 (48.09%)

Maynooth

Maynooth: 5 seats^[8]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Fianna Fáil	Naoise Ó Cearúil[*]	16.40%	1,341	1,405
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Ward[*]	15.95%	1,304	1,339	1,354	1,455
	Labour	Angela Feeney	13.45%	1,100	1,197	1,206	1,434
	Fine Gael	Tim Durkan[*]	13.44%	1,099	1,134	1,139	1,234
	Fine Gael	Rioana Mulligan	11.60%	949	985	986	1,088
	Green	Peter Hamilton	11.38%	931	1,047	1,053	1,304
	Independent	Teresa Murray[*]	10.17%	832	962	967
	Sinn Féin	Réada Cronin[*]	6.24%	510
	Independent	John Reid	1.37%	112
Electorate: 17,928   Valid: 8,178   Spoilt: 187   Quota: 1,364   Turnout: 8,365 (46.66%)

Naas

Naas: 7 seats^[9]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Green	Vincent P. Martin[a]	12.01%	1,462	1,505	1,521	1,596
	Fine Gael	Fintan Brett[*]	10.42%	1,269	1,277	1,283	1,289	1,291	1,302	1,313	1,374	1,510	1,583
	Fine Gael	Evie Sammon	9.95%	1,211	1,233	1,236	1,254	1,257	1,305	1,309	1,357	1,667
	Fianna Fáil	Brian Larkin	8.25%	1,004	1,012	1,055	1,064	1,067	1,098	1,122	1,146	1,219	1,229
	Independent	Seamie Moore[*]	7.98%	971	982	996	1,037	1,038	1,172	1,325	1,370	1,491	1,512
	Fianna Fáil	Carmel Kelly[†]	7.80%	950	963	1,078	1,082	1,084	1,109	1,150	1,422	1,495	1,505
	Social Democrats	Bill Clear	7.60%	925	947	966	1,012	1,034	1,070	1,153	1,250	1,319	1,332
	Labour	Anne Breen[*]	7.53%	917	926	945	960	965	1,009	1,049	1,281	1,392	1,410
	Fine Gael	Darren Scully[*]	7.23%	880	884	894	902	905	932	971	1,000
	Labour	Fergus Carpenter	6.94%	845	858	867	884	886	900	936
	Independent	Gerard Dunne	3.58%	436	448	453	484	487
	Independent	Sorcha O'Neill[*]	3.54%	431	458	461	523	531	602
	People Before Profit	Ashling Merriman	2.58%	314	370	371
	Fianna Fáil	Terry Dignan	2.34%	285	289
	Sinn Féin	Niall Flynn	2.26%	275
Electorate: 26,430   Valid: 12,175   Spoilt: 261   Quota: 1,522   Turnout: 12,436 (47.05%)

Newbridge

Newbridge: 6 seats^[10][11]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Independent	Fiona McLoughlin Healy[*]	22.70%	2,331
	Fine Gael	Peggy O'Dwyer	10.33%	1,061	1,195	1,202	1,228	1,239	1,271	1,467
	Fianna Fáil	Robert Power[*]	9.97%	1,024	1,087	1,090	1,108	1,118	1,141	1,184	1,218	1,228	1,335	1,437
	Fine Gael	Tracey O'Dwyer	9.72%	998	1,043	1,045	1,062	1,069	1,088	1,144	1,192	1,231	1,433	1,505
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Heavey	7.13%	732	802	809	816	830	869	918	948	952	1,032	1,118
	Social Democrats	Chris Pender	6.92%	711	833	848	894	999	1,042	1,065	1,254	1,258	1,313	1,477
	Fianna Fáil	Antoinette Buckley	5.75%	590	631	632	639	645	656	675	701	702
	Fianna Fáil	Murty Aspell[†]	5.02%	515	573	575	583	596	627	704	719	719	829	902
	Fine Gael	Tom Dempsey	4.63%	475	519	521	529	537	553
	Green	Enda Connolly	4.29%	441	484	497	538	580	628	636
	Independent	Morgan McCabe[†]	4.08%	419	504	546	553	586	654	677	747	749	774
	Sinn Féin	Noel Connolly	3.31%	340	373	377	381
	Aontú	Damian Molyneaux	3.11%	319	376	395	411	452
	Labour	Ciara O'Reilly	2.01%	206	235	237
	Independent	Gerard Delaney	1.03%	106	146
Electorate: 22,464   Valid: 10,268   Spoilt: 217   Quota: 1,467   Turnout: 10,485 (46.67%)

Footnotes

1. See change below.

Results by gender

2019 Kildare County Council election[12][13] Candidates by gender
Gender	Number of candidates	% of candidates	Elected councillors	% of councillors
Men	61	67.8%	24	60.0%
Women	29	32.2%	16	40.0%
TOTAL	90		40

Changes after 2019

Co-options

Party		Outgoing	LEA	Reason	Date	Co-optee
	Sinn Féin	Patricia Ryan	Kildare	Elected to the 33rd Dáil at the 2020 general election[14][15]	25 February 2020	Noel Connolly[16]
	Labour	Mark Wall	Athy	Elected to the 26th Seanad at the 2020 Seanad election[17]	26 May 2020	Mark Leigh[18]
	Green	Vincent P. Martin	Naas	Nominated by the Taoiseach to 26th Seanad[19]	September 2020	Colm Kenny[20]

Changes in affiliation

Name	LEA	Elected as		New affiliation		Date
Vanessa Liston	Celbridge		Green		Independent	18 July 2023[21]

Sources

• "Kildare County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 13 May 2019. Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
• "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). pp. 126–135. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.