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1985 Irish local elections

1985 Irish local elections

Nationwide local authority elections

The 1985 Irish local elections were held in all the local government areas on Thursday, 20 June 1985.

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There were two tiers of local government areas. The state was divided into local government areas of administrative counties and county boroughs under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. Within administrative counties, there was a second tier in certain areas of boroughs governed by the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840 and the 1898 Act, urban districts governed by the 1898 Act, and towns with town commissioners governed by the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act 1854.

The elections had been postponed from June 1984.[1] This allowed the Local Government (Reorganisation) Act 1985 to be enacted beforehand. Each local government area was divided into local electoral areas (LEAs) to be elected on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Administrative changes

Under the Local Government (Reorganisation) Act 1985:[2]

Two Electoral Area Boundary Commissions proposed changes which were implemented by order of the minister:[3]

  • Increases in memberships of councils: Clare (one extra), Cork (two extra), Donegal (one extra), Kerry (one extra), Kildare (four extra), Limerick (one extra), Sligo (one extra) and Wicklow (three extra);
  • Galway County Council was reduced from 31 to 30 members.[4]

Results

County, city and town council seats

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Note

Sinn Féin, Independent Fianna Fáil and the Waterford People's Party were not registered political parties.

Counties and cities

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References

Sources

  • "1985 Local Elections". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 12 September 2008.
  • 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). Official publications. Vol. Pl.3578. Dublin: Stationery Office. 1986. Retrieved 2 March 2016.

Citations

  1. [1]
    Local Elections (Specification of Local Election Year) Order 1984 (S.I. No. 6 of 1984). Signed on 12 January 1984. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
  2. [2]
    DofE 1986, p. vi–viii.
  3. [3]
    County Electoral Areas (Amendment) Order 1985 (S.I. No. 109 of 1985). Signed on 24 April 1985. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.; County Electoral Areas (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 1985 (S.I. No. 110 of 1985). Signed on 24 April 1985. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
  4. [4]
    Galway County Council (Amendment) Order 1985 (S.I. No. 127 of 1985). Signed on 7 May 1985. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
  5. [5]
    "County by county first preference vote". The Irish Times. 1 July 1991. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2011. The first two digits of the Fine Gael total vote seem to be transposed in error, based on the other figures and percentages.
  6. [6]
    "1985 Local Election". irelandelection.com. Archived from the original on 29 March 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

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