1991 Wicklow County Council election

1991 Wicklow County Council election
All 24 seats to Wicklow County Council
	Map showing the area of Wicklow County Council
	Council control after election ; TBD;

An election to Wicklow County Council took place on 27 June 1991 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 24 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 twice, first to 1998, then to 1999.^[1]^[2]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	9	-4	12,521	32.16
	Labour	5	+1	7,474	19.20
	Fine Gael	4	-1	5,696	14.63
	Workers' Party	1	0	2,077	5.33
	Green	1	+1	960	2.47
	Independent	4	+3	8,221	21.12
Totals		24	-	38,934	100.00	—

Arklow - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fianna Fáil	Dr. Bill O'Connell*	14.1%	1,267	1,311
	Independent	Vincent McElheron	13.4%	1,205	1,262	1,268	1,290
	Labour	Kevin Ryan	12.02%	1,079	1,084	1,084	1,096	1,138	1,152	1,158	1,352
	Fine Gael	Vincent Blake*	11.3%	1,020	1,022	1,022	1,056	1,076	1,101	1,107	1,127	1,140
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Doran*	10.9%	977	978	978	1,005	1,011	1,016	1,074	1,087	1,090
	Fianna Fáil	Thomas Keenan*	10.2%	914	921	923	945	972	986	1,132	1,195	1,212
	Fine Gael	Thomas Honan	7.5%	671	682	688	705	740	847	919	1,143	1,176
	Labour	Sean Wolohan	6.2%	557	587	589	606	665	712	847
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Sweeney*	4.9%	440	449	457	477	488	513
	Progressive Democrats	Michael Horsman	2.7%	241	248	248	265	275
	Workers' Party	Michael Keogh	2.5%	225	227	227	231
	Independent	Catherine Byrne	2.4%	212	218	219
	Independent	Denis Kinsella	2.1%	190
Electorate: 13,865 Valid: 8,998 (64.9%) Spoilt: 94 Quota: 1,286 Turnout: 9,092 (65.58%)

Baltinglass - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Independent	Jim Ruttle*	31%	1,905
	Fine Gael	Godfrey Timmins TD*	19.4%	1,190	1,310	1,346	1,380	1,453	1,854
	Labour	Tommy Cullen	17.5%	1,077	1,113	1,169	1,182	1,241	1,333	1,431
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh O'Keeffe*	11.2%	687	718	730	922	977	1,041	1,140
	Fine Gael	Pascal Deering	7.5%	460	514	608	653	688
	Sinn Féin	Gerry O'Neill	4.9%	302	342	365	377
	Fianna Fáil	Ann McGrath	4.3%	266	307	323
	Independent	Adrian Williams	3.7%	229	264
	Independent	Michael Scanlon	0.4%	27	39
Electorate: 8,688 Valid: 6,143 (70.71%) Spoilt: 29 Quota: 1,536 Turnout: 6,172 (71.04%)

Bray - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Workers' Party	Liz McManus*	12.7%	1,047	1,063	1,083	1,194
	Labour	John Byrne*	11.9%	978	979	1,053	1,070	1,070	1,094	1,209
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Lawlor*	9.3%	767	769	770	780	781	803	813	816	824	839	933	972	1,167
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Behan	8.4%	687	691	695	700	700	722	739	741	752	785	844	871	981
	Fine Gael	Senator Shane Ross	7.8%	642	650	660	665	665	703	715	717	898	965	989	1,011	1,058
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Keyes	7.3%	602	606	608	629	631	641	653	657	673	690	750	791
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Vance*	7%	576	580	585	593	593	618	635	637	656	684	802	841	1,055
	Independent	Jane Murphy*	7%	574	576	582	592	593	643	666	668	701	776	816	863	929
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Ledwidge*	4.6%	379	380	381	386	386	404	407	408	420	436
	Sinn Féin	Gerry McDonnell	4.5%	371	373	376	393	394	398	410	412	415	442	446
	Green	Barry Ahern	3.6%	297	300	310	315	316	329	358	372	396
	Fine Gael	Michael Kennedy	3.5%	286	290	293	299	299	330	337	338
	Workers' Party	Dermot Tobin	3.1%	259	264	266	302	313	328
	Workers' Party	Anne Egan	3.1%	256	256	264
	Progressive Democrats	Ciarán Murphy*	3%	250	291	294	296	297
	Labour	Carmel McKenna	3%	153	156
	Progressive Democrats	Michael Noble	1.2%	101
Electorate: 18,096 Valid: 8,225 (45.45%) Spoilt: 79 Quota: 1,176 Turnout: 8,304 (45.89%)

Greystones - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fianna Fáil	Johnny Fox*	17.2%	1,205	1,215	1,225	1,277	1,306	1,335	1,425
	Fianna Fáil	Dick Roche TD*	14.4%	1,008	1,014	1,033	1,042	1,055	1,099	1,169	1,326	1,368
	Independent	George Jones*	13.6%	955	968	1,011	1,017	1,050	1,161	1,248	1,527
	Independent	John Leeson*	13.2%	921	925	946	991	995	1,038	1,053	1,092	1,131
	Independent	Jack Murnane	9.7%	679	696	713	724	770	818	893
	Green	Nuala Ahern	9.5%	663	671	704	735	751	865	989	1,237	1,283
	Fine Gael	Breda Allen	6.2%	436	440	464	469	474
	Labour	Charlie Keddy	5.9%	411	413	420	451	561	606
	Labour	Joseph Sweeney	3.4%	241	251	258	271
	Progressive Democrats	Joseph Lalor	2.7%	188	190
	Workers' Party	Christy Devlin	2.6%	181	213	214
	Workers' Party	James Hogan	1.6%	109
Electorate: 13,644 Valid: 6,997 (51.28%) Spoilt: 60 Quota: 1,400 Turnout: 7,057 (51.72%)

Wicklow - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Labour	Liam Kavanagh TD*	22.5%	1,927
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Jacob TD*	16.6%	1,422	1,453
	Independent	Susan Phillips*	11.3%	966	1,016	1,017	1,068	1,121	1,226	1,396	1,530
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Doyle	9.7%	835	845	847	852	855	862	1,025	1,311
	Labour	Frank Hynes*	8.5%	726	879	885	902	1,058	1,129	1,199	1,277
	Fine Gael	Mary Miley	7.6%	652	667	671	829	925	954	1,035	1,078
	Progressive Democrats	John Larkin	6.2%	532	559	559	582	593	612
	Fianna Fáil	John Giff*	5.7%	489	538	545	586	599	715	772
	Independent	Robert Kearns	4.2%	358	409	410	458	475
	Fine Gael	Ollie Lalor	4%	339	382	382
	Labour	Joseph O'Shaughnessy	3.8%	325	394	397	411
Electorate: 14,988 Valid: 8,571 (57.19%) Spoilt: 85 Quota: 1,429 Turnout: 8,656 (57.75%)

^ Local Government Act 1994, s. 20: Year of elections to all local authorities (No. 8 of 1994, s. 20). Enacted on 29 April 1994. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
^ Local Government Act 1998, s. 10: Amendment of section 20 of Act of 1994 (No. 16 of 1998, s. 10). Enacted on 29 May 1998. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.