// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy did the 1985 Monaghan County Council election go to therapy? It had a lot of "council"-ing to do.

1985 Monaghan County Council election
← 1979 20 June 1985 1991 →
All 20 seats on Monaghan County Council
	Map showing the area of Monaghan County Council
	Council control after election ; TBD;

An election to Monaghan County Council took place on 20 June 1985 as part of the Irish local elections. 20 councillors were elected from four 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]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	10	+1	11,607	44.24%
	Fine Gael	7	-1	8,791	33.51%
	Sinn Féin	2	+2	3,168	12.07%
	Independent	1	-2	2,455	9.36%
Totals		20	-	26,237	100.00%	—

Carrickmacross: 5 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fianna Fáil	Dr Rory O'Hanlon TD*		1,565
	Fine Gael	Bill Cotter		944	968	1,013	1,024	1,040	1,112	1,322
	Fine Gael	Patrick Jones*		828	843	857	863	936	1,050	1,383
	Fine Gael	Patrick Ruxton		634	654	657	662	672	734
	Fianna Fáil	Pádraig McNally*		629	738	760	835	992	1,040	1,103	1,171
	Sinn Féin	Rose McMahon		562	573	617	649	691	817	852	888	912
	Independent	Peter Murphy		558	575	587	650	663
	Fianna Fáil	Rosaleen O'Hanlon		398	532	567	625	768	894	952	985	1,025
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Freeman		388	431	436	470
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick McKenna		274	293	297
	Workers' Party	Francis O'Donoghue		193	203
Electorate: 9,068 Valid: 6,973 (77.69%) Spoilt: 72 Quota: 1,163 Turnout: 7,045

Castleblayney- 5 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5
	Fianna Fáil	Francis O'Brien*		1,397
	Fine Gael	Arthur Carville*		1,200
	Fine Gael	John F. Conlan TD*		1,049	1,128
	Fianna Fáil	Macartan McCormack*		947	1,101
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Hughes*		811	895	942	998	1,017
	Fine Gael	Adam Armstrong		782	792	891	912	929
	Independent	Edmund O'Donnell		99	117	120
	Green Alliance	Eugene Meegan		14	16	17
Electorate: 8,696 Valid: 6,299 (73.2%) Spoilt: 66 Quota: 1,050 Turnout: 6,365

Clones: 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	Fianna Fáil	Jimmy Leonard TD*		1,771
	Sinn Féin	Pat Treanor		906	979	1,029	1,071
	Fine Gael	Hugh McElvaney*		868	934	1,290
	Independent	William Doogan*		754	772	825	918
	Fine Gael	Peter Toal		470	520
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick McKenna*		359	871	951	1,013
	Independent	Joseph Duffy		59	61
Electorate: 7,465 Valid: 5,197 (71.01%) Spoilt: 104 Quota: 1,040 Turnout: 5,301

Monaghan: 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Sinn Féin	Caoimhghin O Caolain		1,700
	Fianna Fáil	Patsy Treanor*		1,363
	Fianna Fáil	Willie McKenna*		1,191
	Independent	James Wright*		985	1,033	1,051	1,067	1,078	1,084
	Fine Gael	Thomas Reilly*		886	981	1,163
	Fine Gael	Stephen McAree*		786	887	989	1,034	1,050	1,095
	Fianna Fáil	Matt Caulfield		514	807	824	1,016	1,070	1,072
	Fine Gael	Patrick Macklin		344	397
Electorate: 11,124 Valid: 7,768 (70.95%) Spoilt: 125 Quota: 1,110 Turnout: 7,893

↑ 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.