Irish local elections, 1979
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The 1979 Irish local elections were held in all the counties, cities and towns of Ireland on 7 June 1979, on the same day as the first direct elections to the European Parliament.
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Results
| Party | Seats | ± | First pref. votes[1] | % FPV | ±% | |
| Fianna Fáil | 345 | 536,790 | 39.1 | |||
| Fine Gael | 304 | 481,902 | 35.1 | |||
| Labour Party | 78 | 163,052 | 11.9 | |||
| Sinn Féin (Workers' Party) | 9 | 30,255 | 2.2 | |||
| Independent and others | 62[2] | 161,992 | 11.7 | |||
| Total | 798 | - | 1,373,991 | 100 | - | |
County councils
| Authority | FF | FG | Lab | PSF | SFWP | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||
| Cavan | 12 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 25 | ||||||||
| Clare | 17 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 31 | |||||||
| Cork County | 23 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 47 | |||||||
| Donegal | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 23 | ||||||
| Dublin | 12 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 36 | ||||||||
| Galway County | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 30 | |||||||
| Kerry | 14 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 26 | |||||||
| Kildare | 9 | 8 | 4 | 21 | |||||||||
| Kilkenny | 11 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 26 | ||||||||
| Laois | 11 | 12 | 2 | 25 | |||||||||
| Leitrim | 11 | 9 | 1 | 21 | |||||||||
| Limerick County | 15 | 11 | 1 | 27 | |||||||||
| Longford | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 21 | ||||||||
| Louth | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 26 | ||||||
| Mayo | 15 | 16 | 31 | ||||||||||
| Meath | 13 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 29 | ||||||||
| Monaghan | 9 | 8 | 3[3] | 20 | |||||||||
| Offaly | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||
| Roscommon | 12 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 26 | ||||||||
| Sligo | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 24 | ||||||||
| Tipperary North | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||
| Tipperary South | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 26 | ||||||||
| Waterford County | 9 | 11 | 1 | 21 | |||||||||
| Westmeath | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 23 | ||||||||
| Wexford | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 21 | ||||||||
| Wicklow | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21 | |||||||
Source:[4]
Large corporations
| Authority | FF | FG | Lab | PSF | SFWP | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cork Corporation | 13 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 31 | |||||||
| Dublin Corporation | 12 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 6[5] | 45 | |||||||
| Limerick Corporation | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 17 | ||||||||
| Waterford Corporation | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 15 | |||||||
Small corporations
| Authority | FF | FG | Lab | PSF | SFWP | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clonmel Corporation | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | ||||||||
| Drogheda Corporation | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | ||||||||
| Corporation of Dún Laoghaire | 3 | 8 | 4 | 15 | |||||||||
| Kilkenny Corporation | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | ||||||||
| Sligo Corporation | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | ||||||||
| Wexford Corporation | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | |||||||
Urban District councils
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References
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- ↑ 44 Independent, 11 Provisional Sinn Féin, 5 Dublin Community councillors and 2 Monaghan Protestant Association members.
- ↑ Two of the three non-party Monaghan councillors were nominated by the Protestant Association.
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- ↑ Five of the six non-party members of Dublin Corporation were elected as Community candidates, including Tony Gregory, Seán Dublin Bay Loftus and Carmencita Hederman.
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