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All 25 seats on Laois County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Laois County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of the 1985 Irish local election. 25 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). This term was extended for a further year, to 1991. [1]
Results by party
| Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
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| Fianna Fáil | 14 | +3 | 11,989 | 50.33 | ||
| Fine Gael | 9 | -3 | 8,513 | 35.74 | ||
| Labour | 1 | -1 | 1,446 | 6.07 | ||
| Independent | 1 | +1 | 1,873 | 7.86 | ||
| Totals | 25 | - | 23,219 | 100.00 | — | |
Results by local electoral area
Borris-in-Ossory
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Liam Hyland TD* | 1,479 | |||||||||||
| Independent | Jimmy Kelly* | 837 | 873 | ||||||||||
| Fine Gael | William Mansfield* | 712 | 744 | 745 | 800 | 845 | 850 | 854 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Sean Jacob* | 589 | 654 | 655 | 657 | 749 | 751 | 835 | 914 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Jim Phelan* | 508 | 528 | 529 | 530 | 571 | 572 | 582 | 664 | 785 | 829 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Fintan Phelan | 390 | 460 | 466 | 493 | 536 | 537 | 569 | 641 | 735 | 737 | ||
| Labour | Larry Kavanagh | 377 | 395 | 402 | 405 | 500 | 501 | 511 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Paddy Phelan* | 369 | 446 | 447 | 527 | 528 | 531 | 651 | 665 | 723 | 725 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Thomas Fennelly | 356 | 421 | 423 | 441 | 446 | 447 | 533 | 552 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Brendan Dunne | 349 | 362 | 368 | 373 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Eddie Kirwan | 326 | 386 | 387 | 435 | 465 | 470 | 530 | 649 | 821 | 824 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Eamon Rafter* | 313 | 411 | 412 | 428 | 433 | 433 | ||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Martin Keane | 193 | 260 | 262 | |||||||||
| Independent | Brendan Clear | 31 | 35 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 9,808 Valid: 6,829 (70.01%) Spoilt: 38 Quota: 854 Turnout: 6,867 | |||||||||||||
Emo
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Ray Cribbin | 691 | 700 | 729 | 903 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Nerney* | 684 | 716 | 741 | 852 | |||
| Fine Gael | Jim Buggie* | 553 | 624 | 711 | 718 | 725 | ||
| Labour | Ned Kelly* | 456 | 593 | 626 | 698 | 747 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Don Cunningham | 377 | 383 | 394 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Mary Lewis | 369 | 387 | 495 | 513 | 521 | ||
| Fine Gael | John O'Reilly* | 296 | 298 | |||||
| Labour | Frank Byrne | 279 | ||||||
| Electorate: 6,146 Valid: 3,705 (60.93%) Spoilt: 40 Quota: 742 Turnout: 3,745 | ||||||||
Luggacurren
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Martin Rohan* | 668 | 674 | 681 | 681 | 712 | 775 | 785 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | James Cooney* | 649 | 679 | 695 | 708 | 927 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Mary Wheatley | 556 | 572 | 593 | 610 | 718 | 760 | 862 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Liam Doran | 369 | 373 | 386 | 439 | |||||
| Independent | William Fleming* | 366 | 408 | 436 | 450 | 455 | 458 | |||
| Independent | John Daly* | 363 | 403 | 443 | 458 | 489 | 496 | 683 | ||
| Fine Gael | Sen. Charles McDonald* | 338 | 357 | 432 | 649 | 674 | 680 | 755 | ||
| Fine Gael | John Gaffney | 267 | 282 | 347 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | John Moran | 240 | 271 | |||||||
| Labour | Tony O'Brien | 211 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 5,915 Valid: 4,027 (63.13%) Spoilt: 41 Quota: 806 Turnout: 4,068 | ||||||||||
Portlaoise
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Joe Dunne* | 907 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Tom Keenan* | 750 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jerry Lodge* | 564 | 639 | 669 | 678 | 813 | |||
| Fine Gael | William Aird | 549 | 563 | 581 | 654 | 690 | 763 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | John Hosey* | 471 | 483 | 490 | 568 | 621 | 674 | ||
| Fine Gael | Joe Carroll* | 395 | 401 | 413 | 439 | 457 | 552 | ||
| Independent | Joe McCormack | 256 | 267 | 312 | 329 | 359 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Tom Jacob | 228 | 269 | 278 | 280 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Michael Dea | 196 | 197 | 213 | |||||
| Labour | Tom Phelan | 123 | 125 | ||||||
| Independent | Patrick Larkin | 20 | 21 | ||||||
| Electorate: 7,056 Valid: 4,459 (63.79%) Spoilt: 42 Quota: 744 Turnout: 4,501 | |||||||||
Tinnahinch
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Moloney | 1,279 | |||||||||
| Fine Gael | Oliver J. Flanagan TD* | 728 | 779 | 918 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | David Goodwin* | 485 | 508 | 562 | 624 | 645 | 650 | 898 | |||
| Fine Gael | Michael Lalor* | 478 | 491 | 506 | 522 | 545 | 555 | 658 | 739 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Seamus McDonald | 473 | 660 | 685 | 698 | 928 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Denis Feighery | 440 | 449 | 488 | 499 | 516 | 522 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Joe Digan | 378 | 425 | 447 | 453 | 510 | 616 | 727 | 743 | ||
| Fine Gael | Noel Deffew | 271 | 330 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Donal McCormack | 269 | 358 | 367 | 372 | ||||||
| Electorate: 6,332 Valid: 4,801 (76.58%) Spoilt: 48 Quota: 801 Turnout: 4,849 | |||||||||||
References
- ^ Local Elections (Specification of Local Election Year) Order 1990 ( S.I. No. 104 of 1990). Signed on 30 April 1990. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
External links
- Department of the Environment, Ireland (28 January 2010). "Local elections, 1985 : election results and transfer of votes in respect of each county, and county borough council : and election statistics relating to all local authorities" (PDF). Department of the Environment. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
- Official website[ permanent dead link]
- irishelectionliterature
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All 25 seats on Laois County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Laois County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of the 1985 Irish local election. 25 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). This term was extended for a further year, to 1991. [1]
Results by party
| Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 14 | +3 | 11,989 | 50.33 | ||
| Fine Gael | 9 | -3 | 8,513 | 35.74 | ||
| Labour | 1 | -1 | 1,446 | 6.07 | ||
| Independent | 1 | +1 | 1,873 | 7.86 | ||
| Totals | 25 | - | 23,219 | 100.00 | — | |
Results by local electoral area
Borris-in-Ossory
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Liam Hyland TD* | 1,479 | |||||||||||
| Independent | Jimmy Kelly* | 837 | 873 | ||||||||||
| Fine Gael | William Mansfield* | 712 | 744 | 745 | 800 | 845 | 850 | 854 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Sean Jacob* | 589 | 654 | 655 | 657 | 749 | 751 | 835 | 914 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Jim Phelan* | 508 | 528 | 529 | 530 | 571 | 572 | 582 | 664 | 785 | 829 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Fintan Phelan | 390 | 460 | 466 | 493 | 536 | 537 | 569 | 641 | 735 | 737 | ||
| Labour | Larry Kavanagh | 377 | 395 | 402 | 405 | 500 | 501 | 511 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Paddy Phelan* | 369 | 446 | 447 | 527 | 528 | 531 | 651 | 665 | 723 | 725 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Thomas Fennelly | 356 | 421 | 423 | 441 | 446 | 447 | 533 | 552 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Brendan Dunne | 349 | 362 | 368 | 373 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Eddie Kirwan | 326 | 386 | 387 | 435 | 465 | 470 | 530 | 649 | 821 | 824 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Eamon Rafter* | 313 | 411 | 412 | 428 | 433 | 433 | ||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Martin Keane | 193 | 260 | 262 | |||||||||
| Independent | Brendan Clear | 31 | 35 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 9,808 Valid: 6,829 (70.01%) Spoilt: 38 Quota: 854 Turnout: 6,867 | |||||||||||||
Emo
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Ray Cribbin | 691 | 700 | 729 | 903 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Nerney* | 684 | 716 | 741 | 852 | |||
| Fine Gael | Jim Buggie* | 553 | 624 | 711 | 718 | 725 | ||
| Labour | Ned Kelly* | 456 | 593 | 626 | 698 | 747 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Don Cunningham | 377 | 383 | 394 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Mary Lewis | 369 | 387 | 495 | 513 | 521 | ||
| Fine Gael | John O'Reilly* | 296 | 298 | |||||
| Labour | Frank Byrne | 279 | ||||||
| Electorate: 6,146 Valid: 3,705 (60.93%) Spoilt: 40 Quota: 742 Turnout: 3,745 | ||||||||
Luggacurren
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Martin Rohan* | 668 | 674 | 681 | 681 | 712 | 775 | 785 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | James Cooney* | 649 | 679 | 695 | 708 | 927 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Mary Wheatley | 556 | 572 | 593 | 610 | 718 | 760 | 862 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Liam Doran | 369 | 373 | 386 | 439 | |||||
| Independent | William Fleming* | 366 | 408 | 436 | 450 | 455 | 458 | |||
| Independent | John Daly* | 363 | 403 | 443 | 458 | 489 | 496 | 683 | ||
| Fine Gael | Sen. Charles McDonald* | 338 | 357 | 432 | 649 | 674 | 680 | 755 | ||
| Fine Gael | John Gaffney | 267 | 282 | 347 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | John Moran | 240 | 271 | |||||||
| Labour | Tony O'Brien | 211 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 5,915 Valid: 4,027 (63.13%) Spoilt: 41 Quota: 806 Turnout: 4,068 | ||||||||||
Portlaoise
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Joe Dunne* | 907 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Tom Keenan* | 750 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jerry Lodge* | 564 | 639 | 669 | 678 | 813 | |||
| Fine Gael | William Aird | 549 | 563 | 581 | 654 | 690 | 763 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | John Hosey* | 471 | 483 | 490 | 568 | 621 | 674 | ||
| Fine Gael | Joe Carroll* | 395 | 401 | 413 | 439 | 457 | 552 | ||
| Independent | Joe McCormack | 256 | 267 | 312 | 329 | 359 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Tom Jacob | 228 | 269 | 278 | 280 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Michael Dea | 196 | 197 | 213 | |||||
| Labour | Tom Phelan | 123 | 125 | ||||||
| Independent | Patrick Larkin | 20 | 21 | ||||||
| Electorate: 7,056 Valid: 4,459 (63.79%) Spoilt: 42 Quota: 744 Turnout: 4,501 | |||||||||
Tinnahinch
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Moloney | 1,279 | |||||||||
| Fine Gael | Oliver J. Flanagan TD* | 728 | 779 | 918 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | David Goodwin* | 485 | 508 | 562 | 624 | 645 | 650 | 898 | |||
| Fine Gael | Michael Lalor* | 478 | 491 | 506 | 522 | 545 | 555 | 658 | 739 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Seamus McDonald | 473 | 660 | 685 | 698 | 928 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Denis Feighery | 440 | 449 | 488 | 499 | 516 | 522 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Joe Digan | 378 | 425 | 447 | 453 | 510 | 616 | 727 | 743 | ||
| Fine Gael | Noel Deffew | 271 | 330 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Donal McCormack | 269 | 358 | 367 | 372 | ||||||
| Electorate: 6,332 Valid: 4,801 (76.58%) Spoilt: 48 Quota: 801 Turnout: 4,849 | |||||||||||
References
- ^ Local Elections (Specification of Local Election Year) Order 1990 ( S.I. No. 104 of 1990). Signed on 30 April 1990. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
External links
- Department of the Environment, Ireland (28 January 2010). "Local elections, 1985 : election results and transfer of votes in respect of each county, and county borough council : and election statistics relating to all local authorities" (PDF). Department of the Environment. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
- Official website[ permanent dead link]
- irishelectionliterature