2019 Roscommon County Council election

An election to all 18 seats on Roscommon County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Roscommon 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). Only three political parties (Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin) fielded candidates in County Roscommon, the fewest of any local government area in the 2019 local elections.

2019 Roscommon County Council election

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All 18 seats on Roscommon County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Sinn Féin Seats won 6 2 1 Seat change 2 1   Fourth party   Party Independent Seats won 9 Seat change 3
Results by local electoral area

Boundary review

Following the recommendations of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, no changes were made to the LEAs used at the 2014 Roscommon County Council election.^[1][2]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	6	2	10,129	33.13	1.40
	Fine Gael	2	1	4,961	16.23	6.19
	Sinn Féin	1		2,273	7.43	0.68
	Independent	9	3	13,209	43.21	10.15
Total		18		30,572	100.0

Results by local electoral area

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

Athlone

Athlone: 6 seats^[3]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Independent	Tony Ward[*]	18.86%	1,864
	Independent	Ivan Connaughton[*][a]	16.10%	1,591
	Fine Gael	John Naughten[*]	14.82%	1,465
	Fianna Fáil	John Keogh[*]	10.22%	1,010	1,096	1,102	1,120	1,197	1,262	1,483
	Independent	Donal Kilduff	8.89%	879	955	972	1,002	1,098	1,134	1,264
	Independent	Laurence Fallon[*]	8.25%	815	926	941	1,021	1,063	1,159	1,307
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Kelly	7.12%	704	734	737	750	768	935	1,058
	Fianna Fáil	Malachy Hand	6.71%	663	752	756	780	804	846
	Fine Gael	Ger Grehan	4.52%	447	469	471	479	496
	Sinn Féin	Joe Harney	3.83%	379	405	410	416
	Independent	Derek McCabe	0.67%	66	76
Electorate: 15,168   Valid: 9,883   Spoilt: 138   Quota: 1,412   Turnout: 10,021 (66.07%)

Boyle

Boyle: 6 seats^[4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	John Cummins[*]	20.50%	2,124
	Independent	Valerie Byrne[*]	15.84%	1,641
	Sinn Féin	Michael Patrick Mulligan[*]	13.81%	1,431	1,477	1,489
	Independent	Tom Crosby	9.82%	1,017	1,054	1,082	1,109	1,139	1,243	1,421
	Fine Gael	Liam Callaghan[†]	9.65%	1,000	1,066	1,103	1,114	1,286	1,372	1,526
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Murphy[†]	7.75%	803	937	965	970	1,076	1,113	1,228
	Fine Gael	Keith Suffin	6.00%	622	843	851	870	897	955	1,076
	Fine Gael	Andrew Reynolds	5.64%	584	616	643	652	665	703
	Independent	Sajjad (Saj) Hussain	5.09%	527	552	562	592	643
	Fianna Fáil	Aidan Sampey	4.74%	491	554	556	561
	Independent	Mary O'Donnell	1.15%	119	137	148
Electorate: 18,037   Valid: 10,359   Spoilt: 201   Quota: 1,480   Turnout: 10,560 (58.55%)

Roscommon

Roscommon: 6 seats^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Paschal Fitzmaurice[*]	18.99%	1,962
	Independent	Kathleen Shanagher[*]	14.13%	1,460	1,469	1,482
	Independent	Anthony (Tony) Waldron	12.90%	1,333	1,426	1,493
	Fianna Fáil	Orla Leyden[*]	11.61%	1,199	1,241	1,247	1,287	1,469
	Fianna Fáil	Marty McDermott	11.36%	1,173	1,195	1,203	1,234	1,394
	Independent	Nigel Dineen [*]	9.70%	1,002	1,159	1,203	1,414	1,542
	Fine Gael	Gerry Coffey	8.16%	843	892	934	978	1,074
	Independent	Domnick Connolly	6.14%	634	647	673	726
	Sinn Féin	Séamus O'Brien	4.48%	463	534	585
	Independent	Padraig Morris	1.79%	185	210
	Independent	John Groarke	0.74%	76	81
Electorate: 17,450   Valid: 10,330   Spoilt: 165   Quota: 1,476   Turnout: 10,495 (60.14%)

Footnotes

1. See change below.

Results by gender

2019 Roscommon County Council election[6][7] Candidates by gender
Gender	Number of candidates	% of candidates	Elected councillors	% of councillors
Men	29	87.9%	15	83.3%
Women	4	12.1%	3	16.7%
TOTAL	33		18

Changes after 2019

Changes in affiliation

Name	LEA	Elected as		New affiliation		Date
Nigel Dineen	Roscommon		Independent		Independent Ireland	March 2024

Co-option

Party		Outgoing	LEA	Reason	Date	Co-optee
	Independent	Ivan Connaughton	Athlone	Resignation	April 2021	Emer Kelly

Sources

• "Roscommon County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 14 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
• "LE19: Live tallies and results from the Roscommon Count Centre". Shannonside FM. 26 May 2019. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
• "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.