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Part of the 1999 Irish local elections

1999 Roscommon County Council election
← 1991 10 June 1999 2004 →
All 26 seats to Roscommon County Council
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Progressive Democrats
Seats won 12 9 1
Seat change +1 -1 +1
  Fourth party
 
Party Independent
Seats won 4
Seat change -1
Map showing the area of Roscommon County Council
Council control after election

TBD

An election to Roscommon County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from six local electoral areas for a five-year term of office on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Results by party

Party Seats ± First Pref. votes FPv% ±%
Fine Gael 12 +1 11,134 38.95
Fianna Fáil 9 -1 10,529 36.83
Progressive Democrats 1 +1 771 2.69
Independent 4 -1 5,846 20.45
Totals 26 - 28,586 100.00 —

Results by local electoral area

Athlone

Athlone - 5 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Fianna Fáil Senator Michael Finneran* 26.28 1,462            
Fine Gael Denis Naughten TD* 23.91 1,330            
Fine Gael Ollie Moore 9.44 525 618 735 796 857 1,083  
Fianna Fáil Anthony Geraghty 8.61 479 602 623 652 749 916 953
Fianna Fáil John Curran 8.27 460 583 652 681 707 789 809
Fine Gael John Dooley 7.71 429 447 543 555 635    
Independent Eugene Costello 7.05 392 492 541 584 651 711 771
Independent Tony Ward 5.88 327 366 389 402      
Independent Tom Naughton 2.86 159 197 224        
Electorate: 8,441   Valid: 5,563 (65.90%)   Spoilt: 53   Quota: 928   Turnout: 5,616 (66.53%)  

Ballaghadreen

Ballaghadreen - 4 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3
Fine Gael Senator John Connor* 25.90 1,034    
Fine Gael Michael Scally* 20.69 826    
Fianna Fáil Paddy McGarry 16.03 640 668 801
Progressive Democrats Hugh Lynn 14.63 584 665 763
Fianna Fáil Paul Lynch* 14.38 574 600 690
Fianna Fáil John Mulvihil 8.39 335 435  
Electorate: 6,436   Valid: 3,993 (62.04%)   Spoilt: 59   Quota: 799   Turnout: 4,052 (62.96%)  

Boyle

Boyle - 5 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Fine Gael Frank Feighan 19.82 1,090                
Fine Gael Charlie Hopkins* 12.16 669 682 692 699 705 727 821 854 887
Fine Gael Kitty Duignan* 10.49 577 607 621 654 688 706 718 832 911
Fine Gael Gerry Garvey 9.93 546 559 613 618 623 665 677 792 816
Fianna Fáil John Cummins 9.56 526 546 580 613 670 685 699 706 819
Fianna Fáil Michael Gaffney 7.75 426 433 444 459 470 535 640 678 726
Independent Paddy Mulvey 5.11 281 287 291 301 310 331      
Fianna Fáil Padraig McWeeney 5.00 275 276 299 300 307        
Independent Paddy Mulvey 4.95 272 275 295 303 310 404 426    
Labour Tommy Egan 5.10 256 287 300 345 431 437 467 480  
Independent Francis Geelan 3.49 192 216 220 264          
Progressive Democrats Gerard Tivnan 3.40 187 208 213            
Fianna Fáil Tommie Bourke 2.78 153 154              
Green Vincent Beirne 2.38 50 53              
Electorate: 7,827   Valid: 5,500 (70.27%)   Spoilt: 48   Quota: 917   Turnout: 5,548 (70.88%)  

Castlerea

Castlerea - 3 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4
Independent Danny Burke* 28.83 927      
Fine Gael Michael McGreal* 27.19 874      
Fine Gael John Murray* 20.34 654 702 728 780
Fianna Fáil Breege Flanagan 14.06 452 514 718 736
Fianna Fáil Seamus Sloyan 9.58 308 321    
Electorate: 4,845   Valid: 3,215 (66.36%)   Spoilt: 39   Quota: 804   Turnout: 3,254 (67.14%)  

Roscommon

Roscommon - 5 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5
Independent Tom Foxe* 22.01 1,224        
Fianna Fáil Terry Leyden 16.15 898 946      
Fianna Fáil Des Bruen* 12.23 680 744 749 939  
Fianna Fáil Martin Connaughton* 11.56 643 670 673 698 931
Fianna Fáil Paddy Kilduff 10.36 576 604 608 637  
Fine Gael Gerry Donnelly* 9.58 533 556 557 652 884
Fine Gael Dominick Connolly* 9.51 529 576 578 733 792
Fine Gael Brian Keenan 8.60 478 538 542    
Electorate: 8,326   Valid: 5,561 (66.79%)   Spoilt: 47   Quota: 927   Turnout: 5,608 (67.36%)  

Strokestown

Strokestown - 4 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4
Independent Tom Crosby* 27.66 1,315      
Fine Gael Seán Beirne* 16.70 794 854 971  
Independent Gene Byrne* 16.26 757 813 858 970
Fianna Fáil Eugene Murphy* 19.78 699 813 922 1,115
Fianna Fáil Gerry Thompson 10.69 508 551 559 622
Fianna Fáil John Quinn 9.15 435 458 469  
Fine Gael Mamie Gearty 5.17 246 314    
Electorate: 6,573   Valid: 4,754 (70.12%)   Spoilt: 42   Quota: 951   Turnout: 4,796 (71.13%)  

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