Part of the 1999 Irish local elections
1999 Roscommon County Council election![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Flag_of_Ireland.svg/50px-Flag_of_Ireland.svg.png)
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All 26 seats to Roscommon County Council |
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| 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 | | |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Roscommon_in_Ireland.svg/300px-Roscommon_in_Ireland.svg.png) 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%) |
External links
- Official website[permanent dead link]