1960 Cork Corporation election explained

The 1960 Cork Corporation election took place on 29 June as part of that year's local election to elect all 21 seats on Cork City Council. This was the last time the entire county borough of Cork formed a single electoral area. The election was conducted by means of the single transferable vote. There were 72 candidates. The count began on 30 June and concluded in the early hours of 3 July after 63 counts.

Electoral law at the time of the election empowered the Minister for Local Government to split county boroughs into multiple borough electoral areas only if the council requested, which Cork City Council had not done. The Electoral Act 1963 allowed the minister to act unilaterally.[1] After the 1965 boundary extension, the borough was divided into 6 borough electoral districts.[2]

At the 1967 local elections, the larger parties increased their proportion of seats.

Results

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45,775
Valid votes22,024
Quota for election1,002
Summary by party[3] [4] ! Party !! !! !! 1st-pref
vote !! Seats !! Change !! Notes
FF 16 6,732 7 −1
FG 9 3,6153 0
Lab 9 3,495 3 −1
Corporation Tenants Association Ten 6 1,810 2 +2
RP 7 1,734 2 +2
T.E.A.M. TEAM 8 1,278 1 +1 "The Emigration Action Movement", a new local group, which merged with Labour by the 1967 election
Civ 8 1,259 1 −1 The party dissolved in 1966 after the 1965 LEA changes.[5]
PCh 3 209 0 0 Candidates' names were in Irish on the ballot paper.
SF 0 0 0 −2 Did not contest the election in Cork.
Independents Ind 6 1,892 2 0

The first six candidates elected gained the honorific title alderman; the other 15 were "councillors".[3] Seán McCarthy, John Bermingham and Gus Healy were also elected to Cork County Council from the Cork Rural LEA which bordered the city.[6] [7]

1st-pref
vote !data-sort-type="number"
Order
elected
data-sort-value="barrett,Stephen D."Stephen D. Barrett[8] FG 1650 1
data-sort-value="galvin"John Galvin FF 1486 2
data-sort-value="reidy"John W. Reidy Ind 1348 3
data-sort-value="casey"Seán Casey Lab 1229 4
data-sort-value="allen"Sam Allen FF 973 5
data-sort-value="joyce"Josephine Joyce RP 774 6
data-sort-value="leahy"Thomas Pearse Leahy TEAM 690 7
data-sort-value="barry"Anthony Barry FG 339 8
data-sort-value="healy"Gus Healy FF 582 9
data-sort-value="bermingham"John Bermingham FG 474 10
data-sort-value="dowdall"Jane Dowdall FF 535 11
data-sort-value="hickey"James Hickey Lab 553 12
data-sort-value="kenneally"William Kenneally Ten 531 13
data-sort-value="cronin"Dan Cronin FF 534 14
data-sort-value="maccarthy,Sean"Seán McCarthy FF 350 15
data-sort-value="jago"Valentine Jago Civ 257 16
data-sort-value="barrett,J "J. Barrett Ten 335 17
data-sort-value="lucey"J. F. Lucey Ind 335 18
data-sort-value="wyse"Pearse Wyse FF 348 19
data-sort-value="stanley"E. P. Stanley RP 216 20
data-sort-value="desmond"Cornelius Desmond Lab 306 21
data-sort-value="odonovan"P. J. O'Donovan FF 354 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="burns"C. Burns Ten 334 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="kelleher"D. P. Kelleher FF 333 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="ogorman"J. O'Gorman FF 303 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="odwyer"John F. O'Dwyer FG 289 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="harrington"J. Harrington Lab 285 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="connolly"Con Connolly Lab 274 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="oconnell,Vincent"Vincent O'Connell FG 270 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="maccarthy,G."G. McCarthy Ten 265 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="madden"P. Madden TEAM 249 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="power"T. Power Ten 247 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="reid"H. Reid Lab 242 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="maccarthy,P."P. McCarthy Lab 240 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="aherne"A. Aherne FF 240 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="jones"T. Jones Civ 234 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="breen"D. Breen Civ 232 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="sutton"R. G. Sutton FG 227 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="macmullen"M. McMullen Lab 214 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="furlong"Civ 210 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="dowman"C. D. Dowman RP 206 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="collins"K. Collins RP 192 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="oriordan"J. J. O'Riordan FF 182 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="kelly"J. J. Kelly FG 169 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="mullins"M. Mullins FF 163 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="quirke"J. Quirke FF 161 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="anthony,Richard"Lab 152 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="stokes"R. Stokes RP 144 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="neville"L. Neville FG 126 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="ocallaghan"C. O'Callaghan RP 115 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="cotter"Sylvester Cotter PCh 111 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="martell"D. Martell FF 103 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="maccarthy,J."J. McCarthy Ten 98 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="long"D. P. Long TEAM 97 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="osullivan"T. O'Sullivan Ind 95 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="beavan"D. Beavan Civ 88 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="cooke"C. Cooke RP 87 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="donegan"M. Donegan Civ 86 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="geaney"Fred Geaney FF 85 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="oconnell,Maurice"Maurice O'Connell Ind 84 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="anthony,R. L."R. L. Anthony Civ 83 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="odubhghaill"S. D. Ó Dubhghaill PCh 76 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="dooley"F. M. Dooley FG 71 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="mockler"Frank Mockler Civ 69 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="oconnell,J. J."J. J. O'Connell TEAM 58 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="obrien"P. O'Brien TEAM 52 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="murphy"W. Murphy TEAM 52 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="longfield"R. Longfield TEAM 46 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="oleary"D. O'Leary TEAM 34 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="ohangusa"P. Ó hAngusa PCh 22 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="maccarthy,James"James McCarthy Ind 21 data-sort-value="22"
data-sort-value="bruton"J. Bruton Ind 9 data-sort-value="22"

Notes and References

  1. 1963. 19. 87 . Electoral Act 1963 . Electoral areas in certain county and other boroughs . 18 March 2016.
  2. 1965. si. 249 . Cork County Borough Electoral Areas Order 1965 . 18 March 2016.
  3. News: Marathon Election Ends In Early Hours . Cork Examiner . 4 July 1960 . 7.
  4. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society . 1972 . 124–133: 131–133 . Local Elections in Cork City (1929-1967) . 15 September 2018 . John . Moran.
  5. News: The Irish Times . 4 February 1966 . 8 . Cork Civic Party ceases.
  6. Web site: Cork County Council: (Cork Rural) 1960 Local Election . electionsireland.com . 6 January 2020.
  7. Web site: Valley Rovers Official Website . sportsmanager.ie . 6 January 2020 . Sean McCarthy ... was also a Member of Cork County Council for 20 years, and of Cork Corporation for 22 years .
  8. Outgoing councillor