Election Name: | 1999 Galway County Council election |
Country: | Ireland |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | yes |
Previous Election: | 1991 Galway County Council election |
Previous Year: | 1991 |
Next Election: | 2004 Galway County Council election |
Next Year: | 2004 |
Seats For Election: | All 30 seats to Galway County Council |
Election Date: | 10 June 1999 |
Party1: | Fianna Fáil |
Seats1: | 16 |
Seat Change1: | +2 |
Party2: | Fine Gael |
Seats2: | 9 |
Seat Change2: | -1 |
Party3: | Progressive Democrats |
Seats3: | 2 |
Seat Change3: | -2 |
Party4: | Independent politician (Ireland) |
Seats4: | 3 |
Seat Change4: | +1 |
Map Size: | 300px |
Council control | |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
An election to Galway County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 30 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV) for a five-year term of office.
Party | valign=top | Seats | valign=top | ± | valign=top | First Pref. votes | valign=top | FPv% | valign=top | ±% |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
16 | +2 | 26,703 | 45.06 | |||||||
9 | align=right | -1 | 17,688 | 29.85 | ||||||
2 | align=right | -2 | 3,567 | 6.02 | ||||||
3 | +1 | 9,499 | 16.03 | |||||||
Totals | align=right | 30 | align=center | - | align=right | 59,262 | 100.00 | — |