1999 Donegal County Council election

1999 Donegal County Council election

10 June 1999
All 29 seats on Donegal County Council
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Independent Fianna Fáil Seats won 14 8 4 Seat change +3 -1 0   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Labour Independent Sinn Féin Seats won 1 2 0 Seat change 0 0 -1   Seventh party   Party Workers' Party Seats won 0 Seat change -1
Map showing the area of Donegal County Council
Council control before election Fianna Fáil Council control after election Fianna Fáil

An election to Donegal County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 29 councillors were elected from six local electoral areas on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV) for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	14	+3	27,090	41.45
	Fine Gael	8	-1	14,931	22.85
	Independent Fianna Fáil	4	0	9,277	14.20
	Labour	1	0	3,327	5.09
	Independent	2	0	6,966	10.66
	Sinn Féin	0	-1	2,844	4.35
	Workers' Party	0	-1	0	0.00	N/A
Totals		29	0	65,353	100.00	—

Results by local electoral area

• Sitting in italics

Donegal

Donegal - 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Fianna Fáil	Declan McHugh	14.47	1,915
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Coughlan TD*	12.27	1,623	1,636	1,663	1,678	1,722	1,726	1,749	1,871	2,040
	Fianna Fáil	Sean McEniff*	11.34	1,500	1,558	1,606	1,675	1,688	1,699	1,709	1,750	1,788	1,801	1,880
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Kennedy*	8.61	1,139	1,140	1,172	1,175	1,272	1,273	1,281	1,396	1,663	1,722	1,915
	Fine Gael	John Boyle	8.25	1,091	1,092	1,102	1,113	1,217	1,217	1,412	1,467	1,564	1,578	1,729
	Independent	Thomas Pringle	7.21	954	962	1,002	1,004	1,015	1,015	1,143	1,161	1,211	1,213	1,488
	Fianna Fáil	James McBrearty*	7.32	969	970	979	982	986	986	1,158	1,166	1,186	1,191
	Fine Gael	Frank O'Kelly*	5.25	695	707	710	881	1,002	1,006	1,086	1,229	1,300	1,313	1,355
	Fine Gael	Michael McIntyre	5.06	670	672	680	688	721	722
	Labour	Manus Brennan	4.81	636	640	665	676	753	754	764	902
	Progressive Democrats	Keith Anderson	4.80	635	638	649	667	722	724	737
	Fine Gael	Julie Mundy	4.36	577	578	599	616
	Fine Gael	Barney McLaughlin	2.73	361	370	371
	Sinn Féin	Niall Keenan	2.15	285	319
	Republican Sinn Féin	John O'Neill	1.36	180
Electorate: 20,128   Valid: 13,230 (65.73%)   Spoilt: 209   Quota: 1,891   Turnout: 13,439 (66.77%)

Glenties

Glenties - 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Fianna Fáil	David Alcorn	17.45	2,268
	Independent Fianna Fáil	Paddy Kelly*	13.30	1,729	1,740	1,756	1,758	1,825	1,831	1,942
	Fianna Fáil	Senator Enda Bonner	11.56	1,503	1,649	1,660	1,753	1,975
	Fine Gael	Charles Bennett*	8.89	1,156	1,163	1,167	1,199	1,206	1,208	1,228	1,470	1,472	1,541
	Independent	Tom Gildea TD	8.27	1,075	1,098	1,150	1,184	1,208	1,209	1,291	1,548	1,555	1,656
	Fine Gael	Maureen Doohan*	7.58	985	991	1,019	1,028	1,051	1,052	1,112	1,126	1,130
	Labour	Seamus Rogers*	7.09	922	995	1,019	1,121	1,139	1,146	1,268	1,332	1,344	1,449
	Fine Gael	Pádraig Doherty	5.71	742	756	765	829	912	921	1,113	1,126	1,135	1,508
	Fianna Fáil	Francis Brennan*	5.80	754	776	779	783	824	903	924
	Independent	Fred Coll*	5.04	655	678	691	721	820	832
	Fianna Fáil	Vincent Breslin	4.69	610	637	647	652
	Fine Gael	John Murray	3.00	390	444	447
	Independent	Alice (Breezy) Kelly	0.82	107	108
	Green	Mary Kelly	0.79	103	106
Electorate: 22,054   Valid: 12,999 (58.94%)   Spoilt: 201   Quota: 1,858   Turnout: 13,200 (59.85%)

Inishowen

Inishowen - 6 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fianna Fáil	Cecilia Keaveney TD*	17.12	2,199
	Fine Gael	Bernard McGuinness*	12.31	1,581	1,616	1,650	1,688	1,747	2,124
	Fianna Fáil	Rena Donaghey	11.58	1,488	1,523	1,538	1,593	1,758	1,782	1,788	2,027
	Fianna Fáil	Francis Conaghan	9.91	1,273	1,327	1,339	1,404	1,516	1,547	1,556	1,663	1,696
	Independent Fianna Fáil	Albert Doherty	8.63	1,109	1,133	1,158	1,393	1,441	1,502	1,517	1,666	1,695
	Fianna Fáil	Denis McGonigle*	8.57	1,101	1,206	1,240	1,247	1,274	1,313	1,321	1,427	1,453
	Sinn Féin	Jim Ferry*	8.23	889	905	927	991	1,084	1,137	1,147
	Fine Gael	Jim Sheridan	7.21	829	843	859	882	1,007	1,095	1,286	1,423	1,468
	Fine Gael	Martin Farren	5.93	762	800	817	852	900
	Independent	Nicholas Crossan	5.81	747	757	772	844
	Independent Fianna Fáil	Columba Doherty	5.01	644	666	674
	Labour	Sheila Rogers	1.75	225	343
Electorate: 23,072   Valid: 12,845 (55.68%)   Spoilt: 202   Quota: 1,836   Turnout: 13,049 (56.56%)

Letterkenny

Letterkenny - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Bernard McGlinchey*	16.71	1,891
	Labour	Seán Maloney*	11.26	1,275	1,339	1,362	1,439	1,566	1,656
	Fianna Fáil	Gerry Crawford	11.17	1,264	1,282	1,494	1,610	1,810	2,023
	Fine Gael	Jimmy Harte	10.99	1,244	1,406	1,520	1,551	1,703	1,840
	Independent	Jim Devenney*	10.86	1,229	1,264	1,288	1,316	1,359	1,462
	Independent Fianna Fáil	Dessie Larkin	8.77	993	1,045	1,056	1,141	1,299	1,713
	Independent Fianna Fáil	Danny Harkin*	8.67	981	1,005	1,079	1,136	1,205
	Fianna Fáil	John Watson	7.05	798	827	841	923
	Sinn Féin	Gerry McMonagle	5.49	621	631	657
	Independent	Tony Friel	5.19	587	593
	Fine Gael	Paddy Gildea	3.85	436
Electorate: 19,658   Valid: 11,319 (57.58%)   Spoilt: 145   Quota: 1,887   Turnout: 11,464 (58.32%)

Milford

Milford - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4
	Independent Fianna Fáil	Niall Blaney	24.25	2,001	2,090
	Fine Gael	Joe McHugh	20.14	1,662	1,716	2,018	2,288
	Fianna Fáil	Noel McGinley*	18.78	1,550	1,611	1,657	1,862
	Independent Fianna Fáil	Anne O'Donnell*	15.21	1,255	1,349	1,374	1,559
	Independent	Ian McGarvey	11.32	934	948	1,010
	Fine Gael	Caroline Carron	5.76	475	480
	Sinn Féin	Martin McGroddy	4.54	375
Electorate: 11,897   Valid: 8,252 (69.36%)   Spoilt: 90   Quota: 2,064   Turnout: 8,342 (70.12%)

Stranorlar

Stranorlar - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Senator Patrick McGowan*	19.13	1,283	1,313	1,335	1,485	1,571	1,738
	Fianna Fáil	Alice Bonner	16.78	1,125	1,175	1,194	1,286	1,386	1,562
	Fine Gael	J.J. Reid*	14.43	968	1,036	1,183	1,259	1,582	1,658
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Carlin	12.48	837	854	864	942	984	1,096
	Independent	Aubrey Barclay	10.11	678	716	753	789
	Sinn Féin	Tom Dignam	10.05	674	692	702	806	823
	Independent Fianna Fáil	Eamonn Harkin	8.43	565	577	647
	Fine Gael	Majella McMullan	4.58	307	331
	Labour	Michael J. O'Boyle	4.01	269
Electorate: 10,888   Valid: 6,706 (61.59%)   Spoilt: 71   Quota: 1,677   Turnout: 6,777 (62.24%)

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