2019 Wexford County Council election
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All 34 seats on Wexford County Council 18 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to all 24 seats on Wexford County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of the 2019 Irish local elections. County Wexford was divided into 6 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 the recommendations of the 2018 LEA boundary review, the four LEAs used at the 2014 Wexford County Council election were revised, as each exceeded the maximum of 7 seats in the 2018 terms of reference, and replaced by a new set of 6 LEAs.[1][2]
Results by party
Fianna Fáil gained an additional seat boosting their numbers to 12 overall while also increasing their vote by almost 3%. The party was boosted by the candidature of Malcolm Byrne in the South constituency at the 2019 European Parliament election held on the same day. However outgoing Cathaoirleach Keith Doyle proved to be a casualty in the Enniscorthy LEA. Fine Gael retained 9 seats overall while Labour returned 2 seats again; this time both from the Wexford LEA. Independents increased their numbers by 2 seats from 6 to 8. Sinn Féin lost 3 seats, including 1 to Aontú, to be reduced to just 2 seats in total.
| Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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| Fianna Fáil | 12 |  1 |
18,066 | 30.03 | 2.63 | |
| Fine Gael | 9 |  |
15,095 | 25.09 | 0.49 | |
| Labour | 2 | |
5,343 | 8.88 | 0.48 | |
| Sinn Féin | 2 |  3 |
4,540 | 7.55 | 4.55 | |
| Aontú | 1 | 1 |
1,017 | 1.69 | New | |
| Renua | 0 | |
1,289 | 2.14 | New | |
| People Before Profit | 0 | 1 |
1,074 | 1.79 | 0.01 | |
| Inds. 4 Change | 0 | |
757 | 1.26 | New | |
| Direct Democracy | 0 | |
53 | 0.09 | 0.12 | |
| Independent | 8 | 2 |
12,929 | 21.49 | 0.99 | |
| Total | 34 | |
60,163 | 100.0 | ||