2019 Louth County Council election
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24 May 2019
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An election to all 29 seats on Louth County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Louth was divided into 5 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 local electoral areas in County Louth were altered. The committee's terms of reference required a maximum number of councillors of 7 seats, which had been breached by the 10-seat Drogheda LEA used at the 2014 Louth County Council election. There were boundary adjustments in other LEAs to reflect by population shifts revealed by the 2016 census.[1] The boundary committee recommended that Dundalk be designated a borough district. This was implemented in the initial statutory instrument, but reversed as being contrary to the terms of the Local Government Act 2001.[2]
Overview
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 chose to sit for Drogheda Urban. The casual vacancy was filled at a meeting of the council on 17 June 2019 by Declan Power, who had run for Fianna Fáil in 2019 but who had since quit the party.
Results by party
| Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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| Sinn Féin | 7 |  3 |
10,651 | 24.10 | 7.32 | |
| Fianna Fáil | 7 |  2 |
8,624 | 19.51 | 0.48 | |
| Fine Gael | 5 | 2 |
8,891 | 20.12 | 0.56 | |
| Labour | 3 | 1 |
3,501 | 7.92 | 2.95 | |
| Green | 1 | 1 |
2,829 | 6.40 | 2.54 | |
| Renua | 0 |  |
1,463 | 3.31 | New | |
| Direct Democracy | 0 | |
142 | 0.32 | 1.59 | |
| United People | 0 | |
134 | 0.30 | New | |
| People Before Profit | 0 | |
101 | 0.23 | 0.06 | |
| Independent | 6 | 3 |
7,854 | 17.77 | 1.27 | |
| Total | 29 | |
44,190 | 100.00 | | |