| Election Name: | 2019 Fingal County Council election |
| Country: | Ireland |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | yes |
| Previous Election: | 2014 Fingal County Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2014 |
| Next Election: | 2024 Fingal County Council election |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Seats For Election: | All 40 seats on Fingal County Council |
| Majority Seats: | 21 |
| Election Date: | 24 May 2019 |
| Council control | |
| Before Election: | Fianna Fáil |
| Posttitle: | Council control after election |
| After Election: | Fianna Fáil Labour Party Green Party Independent |
| Party1: | Fianna Fáil |
| Seats1: | 8 |
| Seat Change1: | 1 |
| Party2: | Fine Gael |
| Seats2: | 7 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Party3: | Labour Party (Ireland) |
| Seats3: | 6 |
| Seat Change3: | 2 |
| Party4: | Green Party (Ireland) |
| Seats4: | 5 |
| Seat Change4: | 3 |
| Party5: | Sinn Féin |
| Seats5: | 4 |
| Seat Change5: | 2 |
| Party6: | Social Democrats (Ireland) |
| Seats6: | 2 |
| Seat Change6: | 2 |
| Party7: | Solidarity (Ireland) |
| Seats7: | 1 |
| Seat Change7: | 3 |
| Party8: | Independents 4 Change |
| Seats8: | 1 |
| Seat Change8: | 1 |
| Party9: | Independent politician (Ireland) |
| Seats9: | 6 |
| Seat Change9: | 4 |
An election to all 40 seats on Fingal County Council was held on 24 May 2019 as part of 2019 Irish local elections. Fingal was divided into 7 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of officeon the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Following a recommendation of the 2018 Boundary Committee, the boundaries of the LEAs were altered from those used in the 2014 elections.[1] [2] Its terms of reference required no change in the total number of councillors but set a lower maximum LEA size of seven councillors, breached by four of Fingal's five 2014 LEAs. Other changes were necessitated by population shifts revealed by the 2016 census.
Fianna Fáil emerged as the largest party with 8 seats a net gain of 1 seat. The party won 2 seats in each of Swords and Rush–Lusk. Following boundary changes with Brian Dennehy having transferred to Rush–Lusk, the party emerged seatless in Balbriggan, however. Fine Gael also increased their seat numbers by 1 to 7 but failed to win a seat in Swords for another election as well as Rush–Lusk. Labour gained 2 seats to return with 6 seats in total. The Green Party gained 3 seats in Balbriggan, Ongar and Swords to increase their numbers to 5. Cian O'Callaghan and Paul Mulville had joined the Social Democrats in the years pre-election and both retained their seats. Sinn Féin lost 2 seats overall in Balbriggan and in Howth-Malahide. The party fared much better in the LEAs that make up the Dublin West constituency than Dubin Fingal and just took the last seat in Swords. Solidarity had a very poor election in a former heartland returning with just 1 seat.
Punam Rane, elected for Fine Gael in Blanchardstown–Mulhuddart, became Ireland's first Indian-born councillor.[3] The Green gains included a 20-year-old student, Daniel Whooley, elected in Ongar.
| Party | Seats | ± | valign=top | ±% | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1 | 13,677 | 17.25 | 0.67 | ||||||
| 7 | 1 | 13,418 | 16.93 | 2.24 | ||||||
| 6 | 2 | 10,449 | 13.18 | 1.87 | ||||||
| 5 | 3 | 11,154 | 14.07 | 8.96 | ||||||
| 4 | 2 | 7,202 | 9.08 | 5.51 | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | 4,683 | 5.91 | New | ||||||
| 1 | 3 | 2,891 | 3.65 | 4.36 | ||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1,304 | 1.64 | New | ||||||
| 0 | 1,743 | 2.20 | New | |||||||
| 0 | 1 | 263 | 0.33 | 1.47 | ||||||
| 6 | 4 | 12,474 | 15.73 | 9.69 | ||||||
| Total | align=right | 40 | align=right | align=right | 79,278 | 100.00 | ||||