1985_Kerry_County_Council_election
1985 Kerry County Council election
Part of the 1985 Irish local elections
An election to Kerry County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 27 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 for a further year, to 1991.[1]
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Quick Facts All 27 seats on Kerry County Council, First party ...
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More information Party, Seats ...
| Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 13 |  1 |
30,011 | 46.72 |  2.02 | |
| Fine Gael | 7 |  |
15,401 | 23.98 | 4.07 | |
| Labour | 3 | 1 |
7,095 | 11.05 | 1.44 | |
| Sinn Féin | 0 | 1 |
3,381 | 5.26 | 0.11 | |
| Workers' Party | 0 | |
1,569 | 2.44 | 0.55 | |
| Independent | 4 | 2 |
6,776 | 10.55 | 2.82 | |
| Totals | 27 | 1 |
64,233 | 100.0 | ||
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Killarney
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | John O'Leary TD | 16.64% | 2,504 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Tom Fleming* | 15.80% | 2,377 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jackie Healy-Rae* | 14.71% | 2,213 | ||||||||
| Labour | Michael Gleeson* | 11.49% | 1,729 | 1,756 | 1,773 | 1,780 | 1,887 | 2,021 | 2,159 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | P.J. Cronin* | 8.39% | 1,262 | 1,462 | 1,582 | 1,609 | 1,647 | 1,676 | 1,802 | 2,057 | |
| Fine Gael | Thomas Dennehy | 7.11% | 1,070 | 1,083 | 1,123 | 1,125 | 1,231 | 1,416 | 1,472 | 1,574 | |
| Fine Gael | Christy McSweeney* | 6.77% | 1,018 | 1,035 | 1,055 | 1,059 | 1,233 | 1,474 | 1,557 | 1,805 | |
| Workers' Party | Sean O'Grady | 6.56% | 987 | 1,029 | 1,037 | 1,044 | 1,105 | 1,139 | 1,343 | ||
| Independent | Redmond Sullivan | 4.45% | 670 | 699 | 714 | 719 | 741 | 779 | |||
| Fine Gael | Tom Randles | 4.15% | 625 | 635 | 638 | 647 | 712 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Paudie O'Connor* | 3.94% | 593 | 609 | 613 | 615 | |||||
| Electorate: 19,651 Valid: 15,048 (76.58%) Spoilt: 178 (1.17%) Quota: 2,150 Turnout: 15,226 (77.48%) | |||||||||||
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Killorglin
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | John O'Donoghue* | 17.00% | 2,215 | ||||||||||
| Fine Gael | Michael Connor-Scarteen* | 11.81% | 1,539 | 1,542 | 1,543 | 1,547 | 1,566 | 1,637 | 1,964 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Thomas Cahill* | 10.27% | 1,338 | 1,403 | 1,425 | 1,448 | 1,487 | 1,530 | 1,895 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Danny Kissane* | 9.93% | 1,293 | 1,296 | 1,319 | 1,347 | 1,365 | 1,505 | 1,513 | 1,521 | 1,577 | 1,627 | |
| Fine Gael | Dan Barry | 9.45% | 1,231 | 1,304 | 1,306 | 1,308 | 1,346 | 1,512 | 1,525 | 1,532 | 2,012 | ||
| Independent | Michael Ahern | 8.61% | 1,122 | 1,135 | 1,154 | 1,206 | 1,267 | 1,395 | 1,411 | 1,419 | 1,657 | 1,738 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Teddy O'Connor* | 7.60% | 990 | 1,051 | 1,063 | 1,076 | 1,118 | 1,168 | 1,310 | 1,354 | 1,468 | 1,488 | |
| Independent | Michael O'Connell* | 7.10% | 925 | 979 | 989 | 1,000 | 1,113 | 1,219 | 1,241 | 1,277 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Jackie Cahill | 6.83% | 890 | 931 | 938 | 939 | 961 | 981 | |||||
| Labour | Michael Doyle | 5.50% | 717 | 740 | 748 | 764 | 801 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | Dave O'Shea Sinn Féin | 1.96% | 255 | 259 | 261 | 270 | |||||||
| Sinn Féin | Derek McKenna | 1.67% | 217 | 228 | 230 | 231 | |||||||
| Workers' Party | Paddy Callaghan | 1.30% | 169 | 170 | 177 | ||||||||
| Independent | Dan O'Connor | 0.96% | 125 | 127 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 17,751 Valid: 13,026 (73.38%) Spoilt: 165 (1.25%) Quota: 1,861 Turnout: 13,191 (74.31%) | |||||||||||||
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Listowel
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Sen. Jimmy Deenihan | 20.27% | 3,123 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Dan Kiely* | 15.99% | 2,463 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Eamonn Walsh* | 12.23% | 1,884 | 2,008 | 2,127 | 2,195 | 2,553 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Noel Brassil* | 12.00% | 1,849 | 1,872 | 1,910 | 1,916 | 2,154 | |
| Fine Gael | Eamonn Barry | 11.24% | 1,731 | 2,216 | ||||
| Labour | John Joe O'Sullivan | 11.00% | 1,694 | 1,764 | 1,777 | 2,055 | 2,130 | |
| Sinn Féin | Jerry Walsh* | 9.56% | 1,473 | 1,562 | 1,588 | 1,673 | 1,747 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Jack Stack | 4.73% | 728 | 795 | 849 | 868 | ||
| Labour | Con Scanlon | 3.00% | 462 | 525 | 536 | |||
| Electorate: 20,984 Valid: 15,407 (73.42%) Spoilt: 166 (1.07%) Quota: 2,202 Turnout: 15,573 (74.21%) | ||||||||
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Mid-Kerry
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Tom McEllistrim, Jnr TD | 19.89% | 2,239 | |||||||
| Independent | James Courtney* | 15.57% | 1,753 | 1,779 | 1,912 | |||||
| Fine Gael | Michael Begley TD* | 12.75% | 1,436 | 1,439 | 1,463 | 1,660 | 1,665 | 2,369 | ||
| Independent | Breandán Mac Gearailt* | 11.80% | 1,329 | 1,335 | 1,401 | 1,467 | 1,484 | 1,547 | 1,666 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Thomas Fitzgerald* | 11.08% | 1,248 | 1,313 | 1,358 | 1,408 | 1,414 | 1,439 | 1,483 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Long* | 8.54% | 961 | 1,150 | 1,237 | 1,342 | 1,346 | 1,638 | 1,764 | |
| Fine Gael | Bobby O'Connell | 8.46% | 953 | 977 | 1,012 | 1,310 | 1,313 | |||
| Labour | Michael Moynihan TD | 6.96% | 784 | 805 | 873 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Matt Lee | 4.94% | 556 | 584 | ||||||
| Electorate: 15,376 Valid: 11,259 (73.22%) Spoilt: 106 (0.93%) Quota: 1,877 Turnout: 11,365 (73.91%) | ||||||||||
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Tralee
More information Party, Candidate ...
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Denis Foley TD* | 32.67% | 3,101 | ||||||
| Labour | Meave Spring | 18.00% | 1,709 | 1,872 | 1,964 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Ted Fitzgerald | 12.03% | 1,142 | 1,575 | 1,670 | 1,680 | 1,808 | 2,379 | |
| Sinn Féin | Sean O'Callaghan | 9.27% | 880 | 971 | 1,060 | 1,071 | 1,101 | 1,175 | |
| Independent | John Blennerhassett* | 8.98% | 852 | 974 | 1,059 | 1,081 | 1,519 | 1,686 | |
| Fine Gael | Sean Shanahan | 8.31% | 789 | 827 | 852 | 863 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Pauline Fuller* | 6.39% | 607 | 879 | 904 | 914 | 995 | ||
| Workers' Party | Donal Tobin | 4.35% | 413 | 496 | |||||
| Electorate: 14,535 Valid: 9,493 (65.31%) Spoilt: 124 (1.29%) Quota: 1,899 Turnout: 9,617 (66.16%) | |||||||||
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- 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.
- 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.
- "Old Local Election Results". Irish Election Literature. 28 October 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2019.