1991 Irish local elections

1991 Irish local elections

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Turnout55.65% Decrease3.33pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
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Leader Charles Haughey John Bruton Dick Spring
Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour
Leader since 7 December 1979 21 November 1990 1 November 1982
Seats won 358 272 92
Seat change Decrease83 Decrease5 Increase 32
Popular vote 531,659 372,633 149,571
Percentage 37.8% 26.5% 10.6%
Swing Decrease7.7% Decrease3.3% Increase2.7%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
PD
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Green
Leader Desmond O'Malley Tomás Mac Giolla N/A
Party Progressive Democrats Workers' Party Green
Leader since 21 December 1985 14 October 1962
Last election N/A N/A N/A
Seats won 37 24 13
Seat change Increase 37 Increase 4 Increase 13
Popular vote 70,926 50,996 32,951
Percentage 5.0% 3.6% 2.3%
Swing Increase 5.0% Increase 0.4% Increase 1.8%

  Seventh party Eighth party
 
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IFF
Leader Gerry Adams Neil Blaney
Party Sinn Féin Independent Fianna Fáil
Leader since 13 November 1983 1972
Last election N/A
Seats won 9 5
Seat change Decrease 1 Decrease1
Popular vote 29,903 12,162
Percentage 2.1% 0.9%
Swing Decrease 1.0% Increase0.1%

The 1991 Irish local elections were held in all administrative counties and county boroughs on Thursday, 27 June 1991.

Ireland was divided into local government areas of administrative counties and county boroughs. There was a second tier of boroughs, urban districts and towns with boards of commissioners. The elections were postponed from June 1990.[1] This allowed the Local Government Act 1991 to be passed beforehand. Elections in non-county boroughs and towns were postponed until 1994.[2]

They were the first local elections contested by the Progressive Democrats, which had been founded in December 1985, and the first since Sinn Féin registered as a political party in December 1986.

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Local Government Act 1991, s. 14: Postponement of local elections for certain local authorities (No. 11 of 1991, s. 14). Enacted on 18 May 1991. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.