The 1974 Irish local elections were held in counties, cities and towns of Ireland to elect the councils of all local authorities in the country on Tuesday, 18 June 1974.[1]
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Results
editTotal seats
editParty | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv%[2] | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fianna Fáil | 352 | 91 | 494,926 | 39.8 | +0.3 | |
Fine Gael | 280 | 49 | 417,854 | 33.6 | −0.1 | |
Labour | 79 | 20 | 158,444 | 12.8 | −1.2 | |
Sinn Féin (Provisional) | 7 | New | 22,543 | 1.8 | New | |
Sinn Féin (Official) | 6 | New | 16,623 | 1.3 | New | |
Independent Fianna Fáil | 4 | New | 7240 | 0.6 | New | |
Protestant Association | 2 | 1 | 2,313 | 0.2 | −0.1 | |
Clann na Poblachta [a] | 1 | 1 | 1,082 | 0.1 | −0.2 | |
Independent | 74 | 30 | 118,242 | 9.5 | +1.1 | |
Total | 1,421,494 | 100.0 | — |
County councils
editAuthority | FF | FG | Lab | SF (P) | SF (O) | Other | Total | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Carlow | 9 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 21 | ||||||||
Cavan | 12 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 25 | ||||||||
Clare | 19 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 31 | |||||||
Cork County | 20 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 46 | |||||||
Donegal | 7 | 11 | 1 | 4 [b] | 23 | ||||||||
Dublin | 10 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 25 | ||||||||
Galway County | 16 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 31 | |||||||
Kerry | 13 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 26 | |||||||
Kildare | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||
Kilkenny | 13 | 11 | 2 | 26 | |||||||||
Laois | 11 | 12 | 2 | 25 | |||||||||
Leitrim | 8 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 22 | ||||||||
Limerick County | 14 | 11 | 2 | 27 | |||||||||
Longford | 7 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 21 | ||||||||
Louth | 11 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 26 | ||||||
Mayo | 17 | 11 | 3 | 31 | |||||||||
Meath | 14 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 29 | ||||||||
Monaghan | 7 | 8 | 1 | 2 [c] | 20 | ||||||||
Offaly | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 20 | ||||||||
Roscommon | 12 | 12 | 2 | 26 | |||||||||
Sligo | 9 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 24 | ||||||||
Tipperary North | 8 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 20 | ||||||||
Tipperary South | 11 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 26 | ||||||||
Waterford County | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 21 | ||||||||
Westmeath | 11 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 23 | ||||||||
Wexford | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 21 | |||||||
Wicklow | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 20 |
County borough corporations
editAuthority | FF | FG | Lab | SF (P) | SF (O) | Other | Total | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cork Corporation | 16 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 31 | ||||||||
Dublin Corporation | 15 | 13 | 10 | 7 [d] | 45 | ||||||||
Limerick Corporation | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 17 | ||||||||
Waterford Corporation | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 15 |
Borough corporations
editAuthority | FF | FG | Lab | SF (P) | SF (O) | Other | Total | ||||||
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Dún Laoghaire Corporation | 2 | 8 | 5 | 15 | |||||||||
Galway Corporation | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | ||||||||
Kilkenny Corporation | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 12 | ||||||||
Sligo Corporation | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 12 | ||||||||
Wexford Corporation | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 |
Footnotes
edit- ^ "Clann na Poblachta" officially dissolved in 1965; however, local election candidates continued to use the name of the party until the 1974 local elections.
- ^ The Donegal non-party councillors were members of Independent Fianna Fáil.
- ^ The non-party Monaghan councillors were nominated by the Protestant Association.
- ^ Six of the seven non-party members of Dublin Corporation were elected as Community candidates, including Seán Dublin Bay Loftus and Carmencita Hederman.
References
edit- ^ "Local government election results". The Irish Times. 22 June 1974. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
- ^ "1974 Local Election". Archived from the original on 11 October 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
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