# 1920 Kilkenny County Council election

The 1920 Kilkenny County Council election was held on Monday, 7 June 1920.

## Electoral areas
### County council

| Electoral area | No. of members | Townlands |
| Ballyragget | 4 | Attanagh Balleen Ballyconra Ballyragget Baunmore Castlecomer Clogh Chogharinka Clomantagh Coolcraheen Galmoy Glashare Johnstown Kilkieran Kilmacar Lisdowney Moneenroe Mothel Muckalee Rathbeagh Tubbridbrittain Urlingford |
| Kilkenny | 6 | |
| Piltown | 5 | |
| Thomastown | 4 | |

### District councils
## Results by party

| Party | Party | Seats | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% |
| | Sinn Féin | 16 | 11,114 | 74.05 | |
| | Labour | 2 | 1,898 | 12.65 | |
| | Independent | 1 | 1,996 | 13.30 | |
| Totals | Totals | 19 | 15,008 | 100% | — |

## Results by local electoral area
### Ballyragget

Ballyragget Electoral Division – 4 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 |
| | Sinn Féin | John Gibbons, Clomanto | | 1,220 | 737 |
| | Sinn Féin | James Conway | | 726 | 925 |
| | Sinn Féin | John Murphy | | 707 | 811 |
| | Sinn Féin | James Staunton | | 653 | 788 |
| | Independent | Captain R. H. Prior-Wandesforde, D.L., J.P. | | 255 | 260 |
| | Independent | Loughlin Harte J.P. | | 119 | 159 |
| Electorate: - Valid: 3,680 Spoilt: - Quota: 737 Turnout: - ||||||

### Kilkenny

Kilkenny Electoral Division – 6 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 |
| | Sinn Féin | Ald. P. de Loughry | | 1,179 |
| | Sinn Féin | James Brophy | | 619 | 678 |
| | Labour | James Reade T.C. | | 576 | 612 | 629 | 636 | 652 | 784 |
| | Sinn Féin | Patrick Corcoran | | 501 | 751 |
| | Labour | Lawrence Walsh | | 474 | 491 | 496 | 499 | 521 | 555 | 557 | 646 | 646 - elected |
| | Independent | Ald. J. Magennis J.P. | | 382 | 406 | 409 | 426 | 435 (eliminated) |
| | Independent | Ald. M. L. Potter J.P. | | 362 | 394 | 397 | 434 | 451 | 660 | 660 | 674 |
| | Sinn Féin | Keiran White | | 274 | 314 | 344 | 356 | 566 | 578 | 583 | 586 (eliminated) |
| | Sinn Féin | James Grace | | 233 | 272 | 291 | 311 (eliminated) |
| | Independent | Edward Corr | | 90 | 101 | 104 (eliminated) |
| Electorate: - Valid: 4,690 Spoilt: - Quota: 671 Turnout: - |||||||||||||

### Piltown

Piltown Electoral Division – 5 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| | Sinn Féin | Martin Walsh | | 630 |
| | Sinn Féin | Richard Delahunty | | 550 |
| | Labour | James Hogan | | 472 | 477 | 479 | 484 |
| | Sinn Féin | James Walsh | | 443 | 546 |
| | Sinn Féin | Thomas Galavan | | 437 | 444 | 445 | 488 |
| | Sinn Féin | George Dooley | | 402 | 427 | 485 | 493 |
| Electorate: - Valid: 2,935 Spoilt: - Quota: 490 Turnout: - ||||||||

### Thomastown

Thomastown Electoral Division – 5 seats :
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count | Count |
| Party | Party | Candidate | FPv% | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| | Sinn Féin | John F. Drennan | | 690 | 695 | 720 | 742 | 742 | 742 |
| | Sinn Féin | James Donovan | | 640 | 642 | 653 | 665 | 679 | 711 |
| | Sinn Féin | James Ryan | | 626 | 638 | 656 | 692 | 984 | 741 |
| | Sinn Féin | Robert Wallace | | 584 | 593 | 599 | 651 | 685 | 743 |
| | Labour | Patrick Ryan | | 376 | 382 | 384 | 400 (eliminated) |
| | Independent | Michael J. Murphy J.P. | | 299 | 309 | 323 (eliminated) |
| | Independent | Denis J. Gorey J.P. | | 296 | 305 | 331 | 458 | 463 | 473 (eliminated) |
| | Independent | Roderick Gorman | | 122 | 125 (eliminated) |
| | Independent | Richard Murphy | | 71 (eliminated) |
| Electorate: - Valid: 3,704 Spoilt: - Quota: 741 Turnout: - ||||||||||