2019 Laois County Council election

An election to all 19 seats on Laois County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Laois was divided into 3 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 Laois County Council election

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All 19 seats on Laois County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Sinn Féin Seats won 7 6 2 Seat change 1 1   Fourth party Fifth party   Party Labour Independent Seats won 1 3 Seat change
Results by local electoral area

Boundary review

Following a recommendation of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, the electoral division of Clash mas moved from Portlaoise LEA to Borris-in-Ossory–Mountmellick LEA, to take account of population changes revealed by the 2016 census.^[1][2]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	7	1	9,578	29.64	0.56
	Fianna Fáil	6	1	10,355	32.05	0.75
	Sinn Féin	2		3,604	11.15	1.55
	Labour	1		1,797	5.56	0.86
	Renua	0		514	1.59	New
	Independent	3		6,461	20.00	1.20
Total		19		32,309	100.00

Results by local electoral area

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

Borris-in-Ossory–Mountmellick

Borris-in-Ossory–Mountmellick: 6 seats^[3][4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Independent	James Kelly[*]	12.72%	1,517	1,576	1,606	1,629	1,648	1,811
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy Bracken[*]	11.86%	1,414	1,418	1,500	1,565	1,752
	Fine Gael	John King[*]	10.51%	1,254	1,258	1,259	1,261	1,274	1,314	1,351	1,355	1,357	1,532
	Independent	Ollie Clooney	9.47%	1,129	1,136	1,149	1,161	1,171	1,219	1,304	1,331	1,334	1,405
	Fianna Fáil	Séamus McDonald[*]	9.13%	1,089	1,095	1,116	1,332	1,395	1,535	1,671	1,695	1,710
	Independent	Brendan Phelan[*]	7.81%	931	953	964	970	976	1,056	1,166	1,185	1,187	1,273
	Fine Gael	Conor Bergin	7.76%	925	949	953	962	1,042	1,091	1,165	1,190	1,199	1,548
	Fine Gael	David Goodwin[*]	6.92%	825	831	843	916	1,057	1,088	1,150	1,152	1,169
	Sinn Féin	Lorna Holohan Garry	5.44%	649	668	741	790	819	841
	Fianna Fáil	Liam O'Neill	4.82%	575	587	594	624	637
	Fine Gael	Fergal Conroy	4.69%	559	561	594	621
	Fianna Fáil	Declan Good	4.54%	542	549	554
	Independent	Brian Furlong	2.73%	326	331
	Independent	Ger Hogan	1.61%	192
Electorate: 20,704   Valid: 11,927   Spoilt: 168   Quota: 1,704   Turnout: 12,095 (58.42%)

Graiguecullen–Portarlington

Graiguecullen–Portarlington: 6 seats^[5][6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Padraig Fleming[*]	17.33%	1,761
	Sinn Féin	Aidan Mullins[*]	15.88%	1,614
	Fine Gael	Tom Mulhall[*][a]	15.19%	1,544
	Fianna Fáil	Paschal McEvoy[*]	13.93%	1,416	1,495
	Independent	Ben Brennan[*]	12.50%	1,270	1,350	1,387	1,392	1,433	1,445	1,525
	Fine Gael	Aisling Moran	8.81%	895	964	972	995	1,031	1,047	1,398
	Labour	Eoin Barry	7.44%	756	792	826	833	880	882	998
	Fine Gael	Vivienne Phelan	5.33%	542	566	586	625	737	749
	Fianna Fáil	Deirdre Ó Connell-Hopkins	3.59%	365	386	449	467
Electorate: 20,541   Valid: 10,163   Spoilt: 147   Quota: 1,452   Turnout: 10,310 (50.19%)

Portlaoise

Portlaoise: 7 seats^[7][8]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
	Fine Gael	William Aird[*]	15.39%	1,573
	Fianna Fáil	John Joe Fennelly[*]	14.25%	1,456
	Sinn Féin	Caroline Dwane-Stanley[*]	11.84%	1,210	1,229	1,241	1,252	1,334
	Fianna Fáil	Catherine Fitzgerald[*]	10.57%	1,080	1,129	1,166	1,173	1,177	1,180	1,184	1,206	1,288
	Labour	Noel Tuohy[*]	10.19%	1,041	1,073	1,080	1,106	1,116	1,122	1,135	1,170	1,244	1,284
	Fine Gael	Mary Sweeney[*][a]	10.02%	1,024	1,100	1,159	1,178	1,189	1,195	1,211	1,213	1,251	1,269	1,271	1,369
	Independent	Naeem Iqbal	4.44%	454	456	458	468	468	472	477	493	503	590	591	628	638
	Fine Gael	Thomasina Connell	4.28%	437	503	516	519	525	527	533	535	567	612	613	679	703	796
	Renua	Dominic Dunne	3.71%	379	395	401	411	415	419	493	511	542	558	559	636	654	743
	Independent	Timothy Adejumo	3.55%	363	365	368	374	374	381	383	401	411
	Fianna Fáil	Donal Kelly	3.24%	331	342	354	359	359	362	369	381	443	466	471
	Fianna Fáil	Pauline Madigan[†]	3.19%	326	339	354	355	355	356	359	366
	Independent	Tom Duffy	1.51%	154	155	156	164	167	172	173
	Renua	Noel O'Rourke	1.32%	135	137	140	148	150	151
	Sinn Féin	John Gormley	1.28%	131	134	140	141
	Independent	Judith Preston-Grace	1.22%	125	128	130
Electorate: 21,162   Valid: 10,219   Spoilt: 151   Quota: 1,278   Turnout: 10,370 (49%)

Footnotes

1. See change below.

Results by gender

2019 Laois County Council election[9][10] Candidates by gender
Gender	Number of candidates	% of candidates	Elected councillors	% of councillors
Men	29	74.4%	14	73.7%
Women	10	25.6%	5	26.3%
TOTAL	39		19

Changes

Co-options

Party		Outgoing	LEA	Reason	Date	Co-optee
	Fine Gael	Tom Mulhall	Graiguecullen–Portarlington	Retirement	January 2021	P. J. Kelly
	Fine Gael	Mary Sweeney	Portlaoise	Retirement	December 2021	Barry Walsh
	Labour	Noel Tuohy	Portlaoise	Retirement	February 2023	Marie Tuohy

Changes in affiliation

Name	LEA	Elected as		New affiliation		Date
Aisling Moran	Graiguecullen-Portarlington		Fine Gael		Independent	2 May 2023[11]