2019 Offaly County Council election

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

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All 19 seats on Offaly County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Renua Seats won 8 4 1 Seat change 1 1   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Irish Democratic Social Democrats Green Seat change 1 1 1
Results by local electoral area

Boundary review

The 2018 LEA Boundary Review Committee recommended no changes to the LEAs used in the 2014 elections.^[1][2]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	8		12,423	39.95	5.85
	Fine Gael	4	1	6,730	21.64	4.84
	Renua	1	1	3,196	10.28	New
	Irish Democratic	1	1	1,054	3.39	New
	Social Democrats	1	1	657	2.11	New
	Green	1	1	584	1.88	1.70
	Sinn Féin	0	3	1,423	4.58	12.62
	Independent	3	2	5,028	16.17	13.73
Total		19		31,095	100.00

Results by local electoral area

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

Birr

Birr: 6 seats^[3][4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Renua	John Leahy[*][a]	19.22%	2,277
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Ormond[*]	14.60%	1,729
	Fine Gael	John Clendennen[*]	11.23%	1,330	1,408	1,417	1,551	1,580	1,665	1,676	1,717
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Dooley[*]	9.39%	1,112	1,181	1,183	1,185	1,247	1,269	1,275	1,293	1,439	1,633
	Independent	John Carroll[*]	8.41%	996	1,018	1,030	1,059	1,084	1,161	1,116	1,346	1,447	1,770
	Fine Gael	Hughie Egan	7.40%	877	934	936	970	981	994	994	1,004	1,129	1,156
	Fianna Fáil	Bernie Fanneran	6.04%	715	731	739	783	839	884	893	985	1,031
	Social Democrats	Clare Claffey	5.55%	657	712	731	745	894	940	942	1,036	1,159	1,300
	Sinn Féin	Seán Maher[†]	4.55%	539	559	572	593	608	640	642
	Independent	Joe Wynne	4.22%	500	573	580	593	620	681	682	737
	Fianna Fáil	Alan Kenny	3.26%	386	412	412	418
	Fine Gael	Marian Pilkington	2.76%	327	338	352
	Renua	Monica Barnwell	2.52%	298	452	461	489	498
	Independent	Habibul Mukhtiar	0.86%	102	105
Electorate: 21,198   Valid: 11,845   Spoilt: 160   Quota: 1,693   Turnout: 12,005 (56.63%)

Edenderry

Edenderry: 6 seats^[5][6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Eddie Fitzpatrick[*]	20.89%	1,714
	Independent	John Foley[*]	17.85%	1,464
	Fine Gael	Liam Quinn[*]	11.24%	922	981	1,025	1,053	1,222
	Fine Gael	Noel Cribbin[*]	9.58%	786	834	871	956	963	972	1,068
	Fianna Fáil	Robert McDermott	8.24%	676	724	771	957	1,187
	Sinn Féin	Alan Davy	7.28%	597	629	664	690	718	727
	Green	Pippa Hackett[a]	7.12%	584	629	739	787	840	860	991
	Independent	Fergus McDonnell	6.72%	551	570	626	705	746	758	948
	Fianna Fáil	Christine Traynor	5.55%	455	546	590
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Daly	5.53%	454	567	573	648
Electorate: 16,809   Valid: 8,203   Spoilt: 141   Quota: 1,172   Turnout: 8,344 (49.64%)

Tullamore

Tullamore: 7 seats^[7][8]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Moran[*]	13.92%	1,538
	Fianna Fáil	Declan Harvey[*]	12.84%	1,418
	Fine Gael	Neil Feighery	11.08%	1,224	1,229	1,240	1,350	1,352	1,435
	Fianna Fáil	Danny Owens[*]	10.70%	1,182	1,219	1,228	1,263	1,269	1,346	1,356	1,472
	Irish Democratic	Ken Smollen[a]	9.54%	1,054	1,089	1,139	1,194	1,197	1,301	1,305	1,428
	Fianna Fáil	Tony McCormack[†]	9.45%	1,044	1,066	1,081	1,162	1,175	1,227	1,230	1,328
	Independent	Sean O'Brien	8.07%	892	897	945	1,018	1,023	1,089	1,097	1,231
	Fine Gael	Deirdre Fox	6.63%	732	738	757	850	853	896	921	1,007
	Renua	Brendan Galvin	5.62%	621	624	644	674	677	728	732
	Fine Gael	Bernard Westman	4.82%	532	537	552
	Independent	John Bracken	4.73%	523	557	609	636	638
	Sinn Féin	Anne Marie Ennis	2.60%	287	292
Electorate: 21,946   Valid: 11,047   Spoilt: 161   Quota: 1,381   Turnout: 11,208 (51.07%)

Footnotes

1. See change below.

Results by gender

2019 Offaly County Council election[9][10] Candidates by gender
Gender	Number of candidates	% of candidates	Elected councillors	% of councillors
Men	28	77.8%	17	89.5%
Women	8	22.2%	2	10.5%
TOTAL	36		19

Changes after 2019

Changes in affiliation

Name	LEA	Elected as		New affiliation		Date
John Leahy	Birr		Renua		Independent	11 June 2019[11]
Ken Smollen	Tullamore		Irish Democratic		Independent	October 2020

Co-options

Party		Outgoing	LEA	Reason	Date	Co-optee
	Green	Pippa Hackett	Edenderry	Elected to the 25th Seanad on the Agricultural Panel on 1 November 2019[12]	19 November 2019	Mark Hackett[13]
	Independent	Ken Smollen	Tullamore	Ill health[14]	19 September 2023	Sandy Feehan-Smollen[15]