# 1999 Roscommon County Council election

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 | 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 | Totals | 26 | - | 28,586 | 100.00 | — |

## Results by local electoral area
### Athlone

Athlone - 5 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 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 | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 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 | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 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 | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 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 | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 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 | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 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%) ||||||||