| Election Name: | 1945 Irish local elections |
| Country: | Republic of Ireland |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1942 Irish local elections |
| Previous Year: | 1942 |
| Next Election: | 1950 Irish local elections |
| Next Year: | 1950 |
| Election Date: | 14 June 1945 |
The 1945 local elections in Ireland were held on 14 June 1945 to fill all council seats for most counties and county boroughs and municipal towns. The state was still under the Emergency of the Second World War. As a cost-saving measure, electoral law was amended to bring forward the date of the local elections a few weeks to coincide with the 1945 presidential election.[1]
Dublin County Council and Kerry County Council had been dissolved,[2] and no elections were held for their councils. There was no poll for six urban district councils and four town commissioners because the number of candidates did not exceed the number of seats.[3]
The elections were by single transferable vote. The total valid votes cast was 1,152,691.[3] Totals of invalid votes were not aggregated from local counts.[3] Fianna Fáil lost votes to Independents.[4] Prior to the 1960s, Fine Gael did not contest local elections in all areas; some of those who voted for it in Dáil elections voted at local elections for local groups including the Cork Civic Party and Limerick Progressive Party.
| Total | Fianna Fáil | Fine Gael | Labour | C na Talmhan | Independents and others | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-type=number | S! | data-sort-type=number | V! | data-sort-type=number | S! | data-sort-type=number | V! | data-sort-type=number | S! | data-sort-type=number | V | data-sort-type=number | S! | data-sort-type=number | V! | data-sort-type=number | S! | data-sort-type=number | V! | data-sort-type=number | S! | data-sort-type=number | V |
| 25 | 30,327 | 44 / 11 | 45 / 13,611 | 0 / 0 | 1 / 351 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 12 / 3 | 14 / 4,361 | 44 / 11 | 40 / 12,004 | ||||||||||||
| Cork city[5] | 21 | 28,262 | 33 / 7 | 28 / 7,907 | 14 / 3 | 10 / 2,817 | 5 / 1 | 5 / 1,506 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 48 / 10 | 51 / 14,458 | |||||||||||
| 31 | 57,580 | 55 / 17 | 47 / 27,131 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 3 / 1 | 4 / 2,115 | 19 / 6 | 25 / 14,508 | 23 / 7 | 24 / 13,826 | ||||||||||||
| 22 | 20,825 | 36 / 8 | 41 / 8,523 | 9 / 3 | 21 / 4,338 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 13 / 4 | 16 / 3,378 | 22 / 7 | 24 / 5,070 | ||||||||||||
| Limerick city[6] | 15 | 53 / 8 | 0 / 0 | 7 / 1 | 0 / 0 | 47 / 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| 31 | 56,166 | 52 / 16 | 46 / 25,969 | 13 / 4 | 15 / 8,661 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 187 | 26 / 8 | 30 / 17,115 | 10 / 3 | 8 / 4,234 | ||||||||||||
| 29 | 23,916 | 48 / 14 | 49 / 11,832 | 3 / 1 | 5 / 1,263 | 10 / 3 | 13 / 3,159 | 7 / 2 | 5 / 1,328 | 31 / 9 | 26 / 6,334 | ||||||||||||
| 20 | 24,957 | 55 / 11 | 52 / 13,056 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 10 / 2 | 13 / 2,942 | 35 / 7 | 36 / 8,959 | ||||||||||||
| 21 | 19,819 | 43 / 9 | 19 / 4 | 10 / 2 | 10 / 2 | 19 / 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 26 | 32,986 | 54 / 14 | 53 / 17,545 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 38 / 10 | 37 / 12,104 | 8 / 2 | 10 / 3,337 | ||||||||||||
| 24 | 25,948 | 38 / 9 | 32 / 8,398 | 38 / 9 | 43 / 11,214 | 4 / 1 | 2 / 633 | 8 / 2 | 10 / 2,692 | 13 / 3 | 12 / 3,011 | ||||||||||||
| 21 | 24,690 | 48 / 10 | 46 / 11,256 | 19 / 5 | 21 / 5,270 | 10 / 2 | 18 / 4,422 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 19 / 4 | 23 / 5,705 | ||||||||||||
| 23 | 21,261 | 39 / 9 | 39 / 8,298 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 22 / 5 | 18 / 3,804 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 39 / 9 | 43 / 9,159 | ||||||||||||