2019 Laois County Council election
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All 19 seats on Laois County Council 10 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Results by local electoral area | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An election to all 19 seats on Laois County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Laois was divided into 3 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Following a recommendation of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, the electoral division of Clash mas moved from Portlaoise LEA to Borris-in-Ossory–Mountmellick LEA, to take account of population changes revealed by the 2016 census.[1][2]
Results by party
| Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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| Fine Gael | 7 |  1 |
9,578 | 29.64 |  0.56 | |
| Fianna Fáil | 6 | 1 |
10,355 | 32.05 | 0.75 | |
| Sinn Féin | 2 |  |
3,604 | 11.15 | 1.55 | |
| Labour | 1 | |
1,797 | 5.56 | 0.86 | |
| Renua | 0 | |
514 | 1.59 | New | |
| Independent | 3 | |
6,461 | 20.00 | 1.20 | |
| Total | 19 | |
32,309 | 100.00 | ||