1991 Kerry County Council election

1991 Kerry County Council election
← 1985 27 June 1991 1999 →
All 27 seats on Kerry County Council
	Area of Kerry County Council

An election to Kerry County Council took place on 27 June 1991 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 twice, first to 1998, then to 1999.^[1]^[2]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	13		26,766	44.14	2.58
	Fine Gael	7		15,905	26.23	2.25
	Labour	4	1	10,045	16.56	5.51
	Green	0		1,057	1.74	New
	Sinn Féin	0		715	1.18	4.08
	Progressive Democrats	0		404	0.67	New
	Independent	3	1	5,752	9.48	1.07
Totals		27		60,644	100.00

Killarney - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Fleming*	15.9%	2,291
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Leary TD*	15.4%	2,222
	Fianna Fáil	Jackie Healy-Rae*	13.0%	1,906	1,992	2,065
	Independent	P.J. Cronin*	11.3%	1,629	1,671	1,687	1,790	1,894	2,011	2,151
	Labour	Breeda Moynihan-Cronin	8.2%	1,274	1,293	1,304	1,416	1,513	1,621	1,859
	Labour	Michael Gleeson*	8.7%	1,254	1,263	1,270	1,345	1,415	1,501	1,684
	Fine Gael	Paul Coghlan	7.4%	1,067	1,074	1,083	1,132	1,213	1,465	1,935
	Fine Gael	Tim Gleeson	6.5%	944	962	966	988	1,032	1,296
	Fine Gael	Seán Kelly	5.5%	799	816	821	865	913
	Fianna Fáil	Dermot O'Callaghan	3.7%	541	566	594	650
	Green	Eugene O'Shea	3.6%	518	522	527
Electorate: 20,677 Valid: 14,445 (69.86%) Spoilt: 120 Quota: 2,064 Turnout: 14,565 (70.44%)

Killorglin - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Donoghue TD*	24.8%	2,979
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Cahill*	18.1%	2,170
	Fine Gael	Michael Connor-Scarteen*	13.5%	1,626	1,675	1,681	1,827
	Fine Gael	Danny Kissane*	11.1%	1,328	1,372	1,451	1,529	1,536	1,581
	Fine Gael	Dan Barry*	10.3%	1,238	1,658	1,671	1,706	1,724
	Labour	Michael Moynihan TD	9.2%	986	1,087	1,141	1,215	1,244	1,376
	Fianna Fáil	Jackie Cahill	5.6%	671	958	1,016	1,054	1,106
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Finnegan	5.1%	616	942	1,170	1,210	1,214	1,710
	Progressive Democrats	Marie O'Sullivan	3.4%	404	439	454
Electorate: 18,062 Valid: 12,018 (66.54%) Spoilt: 127 Quota: 1,717 Turnout: 12,145 (67.24%)

Listowel - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fine Gael	Jimmy Deenihan TD*	18.8%	2,725
	Fianna Fáil	Ned O'Sullivan	12.0%	1,743	1,848	1,928	1,982	2,017	2,041	2,057
	Fine Gael	Tim Buckley	11.8%	1,713	1,918	1,965	1,984	2,666
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Brassil*	11.7%	1,696	1,710	1,716	2,069	2,344
	Fianna Fáil	Senator Dan Kiely*	11.3%	1,593	1,647	1,677	1,732	1,788	1,832	1,883
	Fianna Fáil	Kieran Walsh*	9.3%	1,357	1,415	1,451	1,482	1,520	1,567	1,583
	Fine Gael	Bernie Behan	8.1%	1,170	1,248	1,260	1,381
	Labour	Liam O'Sullivan	7.9%	1,150	1,181	1,195
	Labour	Pat Leahy	7.5%	1,090	1,154	1,218	1,695	1,780	1,918	1,932
	Independent	James Halpin	1.9%	282	323
Electorate: 21,584 Valid: 14,519 (67.27%) Spoilt: 147 Quota: 2,075 Turnout: 14,666 (67.95%)

Mid-Kerry- 5 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Breandan MacGearailt*	20.5%	2,170
	Independent	James Courtney*	16.5%	1,746	1,835
	Fianna Fáil	Tom McEllistrim*	15.9%	1,683	1,778
	Fine Gael	Bobby O'Connell	13.3%	1,413	1,417	1,417	1,417	1,658	1,881
	Labour	Maeve Spring	12.6%	1,331	1,364	1,385	1,385	1,499	1,629
	Fine Gael	Michael Begley*	10.7%	1,130	1,251	1,271	1,272	1,299	1,326
	Independent	Arthur Lenihan	5.4%	574	582	588	588
	Fianna Fáil	Sheila Kenny	5.3%	557	609	624	633	762
Electorate: 15,832 Valid: 10,604 (67.02%) Spoilt: 114 Quota: 1,768 Turnout: 10,718 (67.74%)

Tralee - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Labour	Dick Spring TD*	32.7%	2,960
	Fianna Fáil	Senator Denis Foley*	20.4%	1,845
	Fine Gael	Jim Kelly	8.3%	752	929	976	1,107	1,169	1,171	1,465
	Fianna Fáil	Ted Fitzgerald*	8.0%	726	884	945	1,080	1,166	1,188	1,478
	Sinn Féin	Billy Leen	7.9%	715	802	857	917
	Independent	Tommy Foley	7.0%	633	820	913	1,032	1,299	1,303	1,507
	Independent	John Blennerhassett*	6.2%	558	793	872	1,026	1,140	1,145
	Green	Conor Fitzgerald	6.0%	539	694	772
	Independent	Michael Donovan	3.6%	330	479
Electorate: 16,826 Valid: 9,058 (53.83%) Spoilt: 70 Quota: 1,812 Turnout: 9,128 (54.25%)

↑ Local Government Act 1994, s. 20: Year of elections to all local authorities (No. 8 of 1994, s. 20). Enacted on 29 April 1994. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
↑ Local Government Act 1998, s. 10: Amendment of section 20 of Act of 1994 (No. 16 of 1998, s. 10). Enacted on 29 May 1998. Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.