Longford County Council election, 1999

10 June 1999

All 21 seats to Longford County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fine Gael	Fianna Fáil	Progressive Democrats
Seats won	10	8	1
Seat change	+2	-1	+1

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Republican Sinn Féin	Independent
Seats won	1	1
Seat change	-	-2

Map showing the area of Longford County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Longford County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from four electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	10	+2	7,146	41.26%
	Fianna Fáil	8	-1	7,392	42.68%
	Progressive Democrats	1	+1	717	4.14%
	Republican Sinn Féin	1	-	478	2.76%
	Independent	1	-2	1,533	8.85%
Totals		21	-	17,320	100%	—

Ballymahon - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10
	Fine Gael	James Bannon*	22.31	1,211
	Fianna Fáil	Barney Steele*	12.76	693	738	741	744	758	761	775	849
	Fine Gael	Patrick Belton	11.73	637	798
	Fine Gael	Adrian Farrell*	11.07	601	621	629	651	658	693	776
	Fine Gael	Seán Farrell*	10.83	588	644	649	651	659	676	691	787
	Fianna Fáil	John Nolan*	6.47	351	394	396	402	413	427	460	534	560	632
	Independent	Patrick Walsh	6.28	341	360	360	363	368	375	380	395	400
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Farrell	5.18	281	338	339	343	349	355	373	431	451	507
	Fianna Fáil	John Kenny	5.14	279	293	294	297	304	320	369
	Fianna Fáil	Pat O'Sullivan	3.78	205	206	206	207	210	240
	Independent	Tom Feeney	2.23	121	125	125	135	140
	Independent	Michael Brennan	1.23	67	79	81	82
	Labour Party	Michael Coffey	0.99	54	57	57
Electorate: 7,379 Valid: 5,429 (73.57%) Spoilt: 63 Quota: 776 Turnout: 5,492 (74.43%)

Drumlish - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3
	Fianna Fáil	Luie McEntire*	32.00	736
	Fine Gael	Gerry Brady*	28.26	650
	Republican Sinn Féin	Seán Lynch*	14.10	478	532	579
	Fianna Fáil	Benny Reid	18.96	436	542	569
Electorate: 3,358 Valid: 2,300 (68.49%) Spoilt: 15 Quota: 576 Turnout: 2,315 (69.94%)

Granard - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Fine Gael	Frank Kilbride	16.58	669	721
	Fine Gael	Maura Kilbride-Harkin*	15.96	644	688
	Fine Gael	Martin Farrell	14.75	595	607	719
	Fianna Fáil	Jimmy Coyle*	13.41	541	577	718
	Independent	Noel Greene	11.95	482	490	514	527
	Fianna Fáil	Brian Lynch*	11.03	445	544	629	651
	Fianna Fáil	John Doherty	8.70	351	395
	Fianna Fáil	Fintan Flood*	7.63	308
Electorate: 5,808 Valid: 4,035 (69.47%) Spoilt: 68 Quota: 673 Turnout: 4,103 (70.64%)

Longford- 7 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Glennon	13.95	775
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Nevin*	13.23	735
	Fine Gael	Alan Mitchell	13.12	729
	Progressive Democrats	Mae Sexton*	12.90	717
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Kelly*	12.87	715
	Fine Gael	Victor Kiernan*	9.49	527	539	545	619	746
	Independent	Peter Murphy*	9.40	522	538	547	574	623
	Fianna Fáil	Helen Quinn	6.01	334	359	371	428	487
	Fine Gael	Peggy Nolan	5.31	295	309	317	337
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Conway	3.73	207	220	225
Electorate: 8,598 Valid: 5,556 (64.62%) Spoilt: 86 Quota: 695 Turnout: 5,642 (65.62%)

Preceded by Longford County Council election, 1991	Longford County Council elections	Succeeded by Longford County Council election, 2004

(1991 ←) Irish local elections, 1999 (2004 →)

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