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1979 Irish local elections
Nationwide local authority elections
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The 1979 Irish local elections were held in all the counties, cities and towns of Ireland on Thursday, 7 June 1979, on the same day as the first direct elections to the European Parliament.
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7 June 1979
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Results
Total seats
| Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv%[1] | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 328 |  24 |
529,909 | 39.0 | 0.8 | |
| Fine Gael | 292 | 12 |
469,074 | 34.6 | 0.9 | |
| Labour | 75 | 4 |
160,684 | 11.8 | 0.9 | |
| Sinn Féin (Provisional)[a] | 11 | 4 |
21,273 | 1.6 | 0.2 | |
| Sinn Féin The Workers' Party | 7 | 1 |
31,238 | 2.3 | 1.0 | |
| Independent Fianna Fáil | 4 |  |
10,245 | 0.8 | 0.2 | |
| Protestant Association | 2 | |
1,912 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |
| Donegal Progressive Party | 1 | |
1,728 | 0.1 | New | |
| Independent Socialist Party | 1 | 1 |
675 | 0.0 | New | |
| Independent | 48 | 25 |
120,166 | 8.5 | 0.5 | |
| Total | 1,421,494 | 100 | — | |||
Counties and cities
| Authority | FF | FG | Lab | SF (P) | SFWP | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||
| Cavan | 12 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 25 | ||||||||
| Clare | 17 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 31 | |||||||
| Cork City | 13 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 31 | |||||||
| Cork County | 23 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 47 | |||||||
| Donegal | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 [b] | 23 | ||||||
| Dublin City | 12 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 6 [c] | 45 | |||||||
| Dublin | 12 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 36 | ||||||||
| Galway | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 30 | |||||||
| Kerry | 14 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 26 | |||||||
| Kildare | 9 | 8 | 4 | 21 | |||||||||
| Kilkenny | 11 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 26 | ||||||||
| Laois | 11 | 12 | 2 | 25 | |||||||||
| Leitrim | 11 | 9 | 1 | 21 | |||||||||
| Limerick City | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 17 | ||||||||
| Limerick County | 15 | 11 | 1 | 27 | |||||||||
| Longford | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 21 | ||||||||
| Louth | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 26 | ||||||
| Mayo | 15 | 16 | 31 | ||||||||||
| Meath | 13 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 29 | ||||||||
| Monaghan | 9 | 8 | 3 [d] | 20 | |||||||||
| Offaly | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||
| Roscommon | 12 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 26 | ||||||||
| Sligo | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 24 | ||||||||
| Tipperary North | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 21 | ||||||||
| Tipperary South | 11 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 26 | ||||||||
| Waterford City | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 15 | |||||||
| Waterford County | 9 | 11 | 1 | 21 | |||||||||
| Westmeath | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 23 | ||||||||
| Wexford | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 21 | ||||||||
| Wicklow | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21 | |||||||
- Notes
- Not a registered party.
- Includes 1 member of the Donegal Progressive Party.
- Five of the six non-party members of Dublin Corporation were elected as Community candidates, including Tony Gregory, Seán Dublin Bay Loftus and Carmencita Hederman.