# 1920 Pembroke Urban District Council election

An election to all 15 seats on Pembroke Urban District Council took place on Thursday 15 January 1920 as part of the 1920 Irish local elections. Pembroke was divided into two district electoral areas to elect councillors for a three-year term of office. This term was later extended to 1925.
Four candidates, including Dench (previously a nationalist councillor), and Forsyth (a Protestant Home Ruler, and the incumbent council chairman) ran on a Ratepayers Association ticket, which was silent on the national question. Along with keeping rates down, the grouping was committed to improved housing accommodation for the working classes, extending facilities to plotholders, better street lighting, the erection of a Free Carnegie Library, improved technical education, and providing wash houses where necessary.

## Results by party

| Party | Party | Seats | Candidates | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% |
| | Irish Unionist | 6 | 7 | | | |
| | Sinn Féin | 6 | 11 | | | |
| | Ratepayers | 3 | 4 | | | |
| | Labour | 0 | 4 | | | |
| | Independent | 0 | 1 | | | |
| Total | Total | 15 | 27 | 7,487 | 100% | — |
| Source: Irish Independent Turnout: 70.84% ||||||||

## Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor.

### East Ward

East Ward: 7 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| | Irish Unionist | John Good | 19.60 | 667 |
| | Sinn Féin | James Maguire | 14.28 | 486 |
| | Irish Unionist | Charles R. Dunbar | | | 467 |
| | Irish Unionist | William McMillan | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 444 |
| | Sinn Féin | Joseph Curran | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 466 |
| | Ratepayers | Thomas Ryan | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 426 |
| | Sinn Féin | Denis Byrne | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 424 |
| | Labour | Thomas Doyle | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 329 |
| | Sinn Féin | Christopher O'Kelly | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 302 |
| | Ratepayers | G. W. Dench, J.P. | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 196 |
| | Sinn Féin | Alice Ginnell | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 179 |
| | Labour | Helen Sophia Chenevix | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 147 |
| | Sinn Féin | Alfred McGloughlin | | - | - | - | - | - | - | 118 |
| | Independent | John O'Brien | | - | - | - | - | - | 95 |
| | Labour | Diarmid Joseph O'Leary | | - | - | - | 51 |
| Electorate: 4,693 Valid: 3,403 Spoilt: 61 Quota: 426 Turnout: 3,464 |||||||||||||||||

### West Ward

West Ward: 8 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 |
| | Irish Unionist | William Beckett | 19.27 | 787 |
| | Ratepayers | Michael Fannin | 16.06 | 656 |
| | Irish Unionist | John Wesley Brittain | 10.40 | 425 | 665 |
| | Irish Unionist | George Robert Goodfellow | 9.50 | 388 |
| | Sinn Féin | Mary S. Humphreys | 9.50 | 388 |
| | Sinn Féin | Michael Greene | 8.69 | 355 |
| | Sinn Féin | Bartholomew O'Connor | 7.91 | 323 |
| | Irish Unionist | Sir Gabriel Stokes | 7.74 | 316 |
| | Sinn Féin | Michael Stafford | 5.70 | 233 |
| | Labour | J. Edward Nolan | 5.56 | 227 |
| | Ratepayers | William Mills Forsyth, J.P. | 5.02 | 205 |
| | Sinn Féin | Fergus O'Connor | 1.79 | 73 | - | - | - |
| Electorate: 5,876 Valid: 4,085 Spoilt: 71 Quota: 454 Turnout: 4,156 ||||