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All 21 seats on Wexford County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map showing the area of Wexford County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Wexford County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of the Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from four 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 | 11 | +1 | 19,652 | 46.32 | ||
| Fine Gael | 6 | -1 | 11,998 | 28.28 | ||
| Labour | 1 | -1 | 3,540 | 8.34 | ||
| Independent | 3 | +1 | 5,697 | 13.43 | ||
| Totals | 21 | - | 42,428 | 100.00 | — | |
Results by local electoral area
Enniscorthy
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Browne TD* | 2,265 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Ivan Yates TD | 1,770 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Sinnott* | 1,589 | 1,723 | ||||||
| Independent | Seán Doyle | 1,137 | 1,256 | 1,264 | 1,355 | 1,586 | 1,619 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Hugh Dunne | 1,048 | 1,271 | 1,273 | 1,317 | 1,355 | 1,395 | ||
| Fine Gael | Jack Bolger | 944 | 960 | 981 | 997 | 1,090 | 1,739 | ||
| Fine Gael | Thomas Neville | 803 | 808 | 823 | 834 | 875 | |||
| Labour | Andy Doyle | 503 | 541 | 547 | 578 | ||||
| Workers' Party | Richard Synott | 144 | 151 | 152 | |||||
| Independent | George Mullaly | 91 | 98 | 99 | |||||
| Electorate: 16,743 Valid: 10,294 (62.56%) Spoilt: 181 Quota: 1,716 Turnout: 10,475 | |||||||||
Gorey
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Lorcan Allen* | 2,554 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Francis D'Arcy* | 1,742 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Rory Murphy* | 1,252 | 1,415 | 1,477 | 1,643 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Joe Murphy | 1,242 | 1,709 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Jim Gahan | 1,120 | 1,152 | 1,170 | 1,384 | ||
| Fine Gael | Deirdre Bolger* | 1,065 | 1,166 | 1,227 | 1,478 | ||
| Labour | Bobby Ireton | 467 | 525 | 566 | |||
| Labour | Thomas Davitt | 384 | 402 | 413 | |||
| Independent | Michael O'Connor | 248 | 283 | ||||
| Electorate: 16,743 Valid: 10,294 (62.56%) Spoilt: 181 Quota: 1,716 Turnout: 10,475 | |||||||
New Ross
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Hugh Byrne TD* | 2,325 | |||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jimmy Curtis* | 1,497 | 1,774 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jim Walsh* | 1,417 | 1,522 | 1,583 | 1,612 | 1,755 | |||||
| Fine Gael | John T. Browne* | 1,150 | 1,182 | 1,184 | 1,225 | 1,247 | 1,251 | 1,487 | 1,615 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Seamus Whelan | 967 | 1,150 | 1,216 | 1,244 | 1,275 | 1,305 | 1,398 | 1,494 | ||
| Fine Gael | Louise Hennessy | 597 | 613 | 615 | 657 | 706 | 716 | 940 | 1,107 | ||
| Fine Gael | John Hayes | 579 | 616 | 621 | 637 | 655 | 659 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Jim Dwyer | 455 | 469 | 473 | 516 | ||||||
| Labour | Denis North* | 445 | 462 | 463 | 580 | 691 | 724 | 778 | |||
| Labour | Michael O'Brien | 190 | 195 | 196 | |||||||
| Workers' Party | Ingrid O'Brien | 142 | 147 | 147 | |||||||
| Independent | John O'Brien | 23 | 25 | 25 | |||||||
| Electorate: 16,227 Valid: 9,787 (61.54%) Spoilt: 199 Quota: 1,632 Turnout: 9,986 | |||||||||||
Wexford
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Avril Doyle TD* | 1,518 | 1,529 | 1,544 | 1,555 | 1,568 | 1,580 | 1,618 | 1,636 | 1,756 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Gus Byrne* | 1,449 | 1,485 | 1,500 | 1,516 | 1,547 | 1,564 | 1,610 | 1,617 | 1,652 | 1,711 | 1,897 | ||||||
| Independent | Padge Reck | 1,229 | 1,239 | 1,258 | 1,295 | 1,359 | 1,387 | 1,490 | 1,508 | 1,523 | 1,650 | 1,711 | 1,717 | 1,927 | ||||
| Labour | Sen. Brendan Howlin | 1,137 | 1,144 | 1,156 | 1,170 | 1,208 | 1,222 | 1,266 | 1,454 | 1,482 | 1,602 | 1,634 | 1,646 | 1,738 | 1,772 | |||
| Independent | Leo Carthy* | 959 | 970 | 982 | 990 | 1,005 | 1,018 | 1,030 | 1,109 | 1,220 | 1,256 | 1,279 | 1,283 | 1,338 | 1,367 | 1,736 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Tommy Howlin* | 787 | 796 | 807 | 818 | 823 | 841 | 851 | 873 | 935 | 948 | 1,061 | 1,130 | 1,157 | 1,165 | 1,285 | ||
| Fine Gael | Toddy Moore | 710 | 712 | 714 | 718 | 724 | 727 | 732 | 767 | 844 | 863 | 870 | 872 | 888 | 895 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Robert Lambert | 674 | 675 | 678 | 682 | 687 | 695 | 698 | 720 | 735 | 743 | 920 | 966 | 985 | 987 | 1,024 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Sean O'Gorman | 586 | 588 | 603 | 615 | 623 | 628 | 649 | 651 | 658 | 669 | |||||||
| Independent | Thomas Doyle | 534 | 538 | 552 | 561 | 563 | 570 | 574 | 577 | |||||||||
| Workers' Party | Michael Enright | 480 | 484 | 486 | 505 | 525 | 564 | 578 | 583 | 588 | ||||||||
| Labour | Joan Fennelly | 414 | 416 | 416 | 417 | 424 | 432 | 436 | ||||||||||
| Independent | Philip Kelly | 384 | 385 | 389 | 407 | 445 | 556 | 578 | 589 | 601 | 709 | 729 | 733 | |||||
| Independent | John Roche* | 322 | 325 | 329 | 336 | 351 | 358 | |||||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Sean Finn | 320 | 323 | 327 | 341 | 351 | ||||||||||||
| Independent | Jimmy Hayes | 287 | 291 | 293 | 308 | |||||||||||||
| Independent | Desmond McCabe | 208 | 211 | 214 | ||||||||||||||
| Independent | Jim O'Dowd | 154 | 157 | |||||||||||||||
| Independent | Olive Brennan | 121 | ||||||||||||||||
| Electorate: 20,731 Valid: 12,273 (60.19%) Spoilt: 202 Quota: 1,754 Turnout: 12,479 | ||||||||||||||||||
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 21 seats on Wexford County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Map showing the area of Wexford County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Wexford County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of the Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from four 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 | 11 | +1 | 19,652 | 46.32 | ||
| Fine Gael | 6 | -1 | 11,998 | 28.28 | ||
| Labour | 1 | -1 | 3,540 | 8.34 | ||
| Independent | 3 | +1 | 5,697 | 13.43 | ||
| Totals | 21 | - | 42,428 | 100.00 | — | |
Results by local electoral area
Enniscorthy
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Browne TD* | 2,265 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Ivan Yates TD | 1,770 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Sinnott* | 1,589 | 1,723 | ||||||
| Independent | Seán Doyle | 1,137 | 1,256 | 1,264 | 1,355 | 1,586 | 1,619 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Hugh Dunne | 1,048 | 1,271 | 1,273 | 1,317 | 1,355 | 1,395 | ||
| Fine Gael | Jack Bolger | 944 | 960 | 981 | 997 | 1,090 | 1,739 | ||
| Fine Gael | Thomas Neville | 803 | 808 | 823 | 834 | 875 | |||
| Labour | Andy Doyle | 503 | 541 | 547 | 578 | ||||
| Workers' Party | Richard Synott | 144 | 151 | 152 | |||||
| Independent | George Mullaly | 91 | 98 | 99 | |||||
| Electorate: 16,743 Valid: 10,294 (62.56%) Spoilt: 181 Quota: 1,716 Turnout: 10,475 | |||||||||
Gorey
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Lorcan Allen* | 2,554 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Francis D'Arcy* | 1,742 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Rory Murphy* | 1,252 | 1,415 | 1,477 | 1,643 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Joe Murphy | 1,242 | 1,709 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Jim Gahan | 1,120 | 1,152 | 1,170 | 1,384 | ||
| Fine Gael | Deirdre Bolger* | 1,065 | 1,166 | 1,227 | 1,478 | ||
| Labour | Bobby Ireton | 467 | 525 | 566 | |||
| Labour | Thomas Davitt | 384 | 402 | 413 | |||
| Independent | Michael O'Connor | 248 | 283 | ||||
| Electorate: 16,743 Valid: 10,294 (62.56%) Spoilt: 181 Quota: 1,716 Turnout: 10,475 | |||||||
New Ross
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Hugh Byrne TD* | 2,325 | |||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jimmy Curtis* | 1,497 | 1,774 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jim Walsh* | 1,417 | 1,522 | 1,583 | 1,612 | 1,755 | |||||
| Fine Gael | John T. Browne* | 1,150 | 1,182 | 1,184 | 1,225 | 1,247 | 1,251 | 1,487 | 1,615 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Seamus Whelan | 967 | 1,150 | 1,216 | 1,244 | 1,275 | 1,305 | 1,398 | 1,494 | ||
| Fine Gael | Louise Hennessy | 597 | 613 | 615 | 657 | 706 | 716 | 940 | 1,107 | ||
| Fine Gael | John Hayes | 579 | 616 | 621 | 637 | 655 | 659 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Jim Dwyer | 455 | 469 | 473 | 516 | ||||||
| Labour | Denis North* | 445 | 462 | 463 | 580 | 691 | 724 | 778 | |||
| Labour | Michael O'Brien | 190 | 195 | 196 | |||||||
| Workers' Party | Ingrid O'Brien | 142 | 147 | 147 | |||||||
| Independent | John O'Brien | 23 | 25 | 25 | |||||||
| Electorate: 16,227 Valid: 9,787 (61.54%) Spoilt: 199 Quota: 1,632 Turnout: 9,986 | |||||||||||
Wexford
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Avril Doyle TD* | 1,518 | 1,529 | 1,544 | 1,555 | 1,568 | 1,580 | 1,618 | 1,636 | 1,756 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Gus Byrne* | 1,449 | 1,485 | 1,500 | 1,516 | 1,547 | 1,564 | 1,610 | 1,617 | 1,652 | 1,711 | 1,897 | ||||||
| Independent | Padge Reck | 1,229 | 1,239 | 1,258 | 1,295 | 1,359 | 1,387 | 1,490 | 1,508 | 1,523 | 1,650 | 1,711 | 1,717 | 1,927 | ||||
| Labour | Sen. Brendan Howlin | 1,137 | 1,144 | 1,156 | 1,170 | 1,208 | 1,222 | 1,266 | 1,454 | 1,482 | 1,602 | 1,634 | 1,646 | 1,738 | 1,772 | |||
| Independent | Leo Carthy* | 959 | 970 | 982 | 990 | 1,005 | 1,018 | 1,030 | 1,109 | 1,220 | 1,256 | 1,279 | 1,283 | 1,338 | 1,367 | 1,736 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Tommy Howlin* | 787 | 796 | 807 | 818 | 823 | 841 | 851 | 873 | 935 | 948 | 1,061 | 1,130 | 1,157 | 1,165 | 1,285 | ||
| Fine Gael | Toddy Moore | 710 | 712 | 714 | 718 | 724 | 727 | 732 | 767 | 844 | 863 | 870 | 872 | 888 | 895 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Robert Lambert | 674 | 675 | 678 | 682 | 687 | 695 | 698 | 720 | 735 | 743 | 920 | 966 | 985 | 987 | 1,024 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Sean O'Gorman | 586 | 588 | 603 | 615 | 623 | 628 | 649 | 651 | 658 | 669 | |||||||
| Independent | Thomas Doyle | 534 | 538 | 552 | 561 | 563 | 570 | 574 | 577 | |||||||||
| Workers' Party | Michael Enright | 480 | 484 | 486 | 505 | 525 | 564 | 578 | 583 | 588 | ||||||||
| Labour | Joan Fennelly | 414 | 416 | 416 | 417 | 424 | 432 | 436 | ||||||||||
| Independent | Philip Kelly | 384 | 385 | 389 | 407 | 445 | 556 | 578 | 589 | 601 | 709 | 729 | 733 | |||||
| Independent | John Roche* | 322 | 325 | 329 | 336 | 351 | 358 | |||||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Sean Finn | 320 | 323 | 327 | 341 | 351 | ||||||||||||
| Independent | Jimmy Hayes | 287 | 291 | 293 | 308 | |||||||||||||
| Independent | Desmond McCabe | 208 | 211 | 214 | ||||||||||||||
| Independent | Jim O'Dowd | 154 | 157 | |||||||||||||||
| Independent | Olive Brennan | 121 | ||||||||||||||||
| Electorate: 20,731 Valid: 12,273 (60.19%) Spoilt: 202 Quota: 1,754 Turnout: 12,479 | ||||||||||||||||||
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