2019 Louth County Council election
A Louth County Council election was held in County Louth in Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections. All 29 councillors were elected for a five-year term of office from 5 local electoral areas (LEAs) by single transferable vote. The 2018 LEA boundary review committee altered the divisions used in the 2014 elections by splitting the ten-seat Drogheda Borough District into two LEAs. Its terms of reference required no change in the total number of councillors but set a lower maximum LEA size of seven councillors. Other  LEA seat allocations were unchanged but boundary adjustments were necessitated by population shifts revealed by the 2016 census. The changes were enacted by statutory instrument (S.I.) No. 626/2018 and tweaked by S.I. No. 6/2019. Following the elections Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil emerged as the joint largest party with 7 seats. Sinn Féin lost 1 seat in Dundalk and 2 in Drogheda. Fianna Fáil gained a seat from Sinn Féin and also from the Green Party in Dundalk. Accounting for the defection of Kevin Callan after 2014, Fine Gael returned with 5 seats, a loss of 2 seats overall. The  Labour Party increased their numbers by 1 seat to 3 by gaining another seat in Drogheda. Kevin Callan won a seat in each of the 2 Drogheda LEAs. He will now have to decide which one he wishes to represent. The casual vacancy was filled at a meeting of the full Council on 17 June 2019 by Declan Power, who had run for Fianna Fáil in 2019 but who had since quit the party.