# 2019 Roscommon County Council election

An election to all 18 seats on Roscommon County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Roscommon was divided into 3 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). Only three political parties (Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin) fielded candidates in County Roscommon, the fewest of any local government area in the 2019 local elections.

## Boundary review

Following the recommendations of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, no changes were made to the LEAs used at the 2014 Roscommon County Council election.

## Results by party

| Party | Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% |
| | Fianna Fáil | 6 | 2 | 10,129 | 33.13 | 1.40 |
| | Fine Gael | 2 | 1 | 4,961 | 16.23 | 6.19 |
| | Sinn Féin | 1 | | 2,273 | 7.43 | 0.68 |
| | Independent | 9 | 3 | 13,209 | 43.21 | 10.15 |
| Total | Total | 18 | | 30,572 | 100.0 | |

## Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014. ^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.

### Athlone

Athlone: 6 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| | Independent | Tony Ward | 18.86% | 1,864 | | | | | | |
| | Independent | Ivan Connaughton | 16.10% | 1,591 | | | | | | |
| | Fine Gael | John Naughten | 14.82% | 1,465 | | | | | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | John Keogh | 10.22% | 1,010 | 1,096 | 1,102 | 1,120 | 1,197 | 1,262 | 1,483 |
| | Independent | Donal Kilduff | 8.89% | 879 | 955 | 972 | 1,002 | 1,098 | 1,134 | 1,264 |
| | Independent | Laurence Fallon | 8.25% | 815 | 926 | 941 | 1,021 | 1,063 | 1,159 | 1,307 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Seamus Kelly | 7.12% | 704 | 734 | 737 | 750 | 768 | 935 | 1,058 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Malachy Hand | 6.71% | 663 | 752 | 756 | 780 | 804 | 846 | |
| | Fine Gael | Ger Grehan | 4.52% | 447 | 469 | 471 | 479 | 496 | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Joe Harney | 3.83% | 379 | 405 | 410 | 416 | | | |
| | Independent | Derek McCabe | 0.67% | 66 | 76 | | | | | |
| Electorate: 15,168 Valid: 9,883 Spoilt: 138 Quota: 1,412 Turnout: 10,021 (66.07%) |||||||||||

### Boyle

Boyle: 6 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 | John Cummins | 20.50% | 2,124 | | | | | | |
| | Independent | Valerie Byrne | 15.84% | 1,641 | | | | | | |
| | Sinn Féin | Michael Patrick Mulligan | 13.81% | 1,431 | 1,477 | 1,489 | | | | |
| | Independent | Tom Crosby | 9.82% | 1,017 | 1,054 | 1,082 | 1,109 | 1,139 | 1,243 | 1,421 |
| | Fine Gael | Liam Callaghan | 9.65% | 1,000 | 1,066 | 1,103 | 1,114 | 1,286 | 1,372 | 1,526 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Joe Murphy | 7.75% | 803 | 937 | 965 | 970 | 1,076 | 1,113 | 1,228 |
| | Fine Gael | Keith Suffin | 6.00% | 622 | 843 | 851 | 870 | 897 | 955 | 1,076 |
| | Fine Gael | Andrew Reynolds | 5.64% | 584 | 616 | 643 | 652 | 665 | 703 | |
| | Independent | Sajjad (Saj) Hussain | 5.09% | 527 | 552 | 562 | 592 | 643 | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Aidan Sampey | 4.74% | 491 | 554 | 556 | 561 | | | |
| | Independent | Mary O'Donnell | 1.15% | 119 | 137 | 148 | | | | |
| Electorate: 18,037 Valid: 10,359 Spoilt: 201 Quota: 1,480 Turnout: 10,560 (58.55%) |||||||||||

### Roscommon

Roscommon: 6 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Paschal Fitzmaurice | 18.99% | 1,962 | | | | |
| | Independent | Kathleen Shanagher | 14.13% | 1,460 | 1,469 | 1,482 | | |
| | Independent | Anthony (Tony) Waldron | 12.90% | 1,333 | 1,426 | 1,493 | | |
| | Fianna Fáil | Orla Leyden | 11.61% | 1,199 | 1,241 | 1,247 | 1,287 | 1,469 |
| | Fianna Fáil | Marty McDermott | 11.36% | 1,173 | 1,195 | 1,203 | 1,234 | 1,394 |
| | Independent | Nigel Dineen | 9.70% | 1,002 | 1,159 | 1,203 | 1,414 | 1,542 |
| | Fine Gael | Gerry Coffey | 8.16% | 843 | 892 | 934 | 978 | 1,074 |
| | Independent | Domnick Connolly | 6.14% | 634 | 647 | 673 | 726 | |
| | Sinn Féin | Séamus O'Brien | 4.48% | 463 | 534 | 585 | | |
| | Independent | Padraig Morris | 1.79% | 185 | 210 | | | |
| | Independent | John Groarke | 0.74% | 76 | 81 | | | |
| Electorate: 17,450 Valid: 10,330 Spoilt: 165 Quota: 1,476 Turnout: 10,495 (60.14%) |||||||||

### Footnotes

* ↑ See change below.

## Results by gender

2019 Roscommon County Council election Candidates by gender :
| Gender | Number of candidates | % of candidates | Elected councillors | % of councillors |
| Men | 29 | 87.9% | 15 | 83.3% |
| Women | 4 | 12.1% | 3 | 16.7% |
| TOTAL | 33 | | 18 | |

## Changes after 2019
### Changes in affiliation

| Name | LEA | Elected as | Elected as | New affiliation | New affiliation | Date |
| Nigel Dineen | Roscommon | | Independent | | Independent Ireland | March 2024 |

### Co-option

| Party | Party | Outgoing | LEA | Reason | Date | Co-optee |
| | Independent | Ivan Connaughton | Athlone | Resignation | April 2021 | Emer Kelly |

## Sources

* "Roscommon County Council - Local Election candidates". RTÉ. 14 May 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
* "LE19: Live tallies and results from the Roscommon Count Centre". Shannonside FM. 26 May 2019. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
* "Local Elections 2019: Results, Transfer of Votes and Statistics" (PDF). Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (DHPLG). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.