1999 Wicklow County Council election

An election to Wicklow County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 24 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas for a five-year term of office on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

1999 Wicklow County Council election

10 June 1999
All 24 seats on Wicklow County Council
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour Seats won 8 6 5 Seat change -1 +2 0   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Green Independent Workers' Party Seats won 1 4 0 Seat change 0 0 -1
Map showing the area of Wicklow County Council
Council control after election TBD

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	8	-1	13,602	33.11
	Fine Gael	6	+2	8,846	21.53
	Labour	5	0	8,493	20.67
	Green	1	0	1,514	3.69
	Independent	4	0	7,828	19.05
	Workers' Party	0	-1	N/A	N/A
Totals		24	-	41,086	100.00	—

Results by local electoral area

Arklow

Arklow - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Independent	Nicky Kelly	23.57	2,403
	Fine Gael	Vincent Blake*	14.28	1,456	1,476	1,546	1,570	1,575	1,668	1,719
	Fianna Fáil	Dr. Bill O'Connell*	13.52	1,379	1,597	1,646	1,860
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Doran*	12.40	1,264	812	945	1,359
	Labour	Kevin Ryan*	10.41	1,062	1,093	1,107	1,135	1,141	1,210	1,292
	Fine Gael	Sylvester Bourke	7.56	771	844	948	1,017	1,044	1,121	1,378
	Fianna Fáil	Liam O'Loughlin	6.20	632	653	672	693	714
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Sweeney	5.53	564	668	702	823	915	1,060
	Independent	Vincent McElheron*	3.45	352	524	567
	Fine Gael	Gwen Brennan	3.08	314	368
Electorate: 16,500   Valid: 10,197 (61.80%)   Spoilt: 157   Quota: 1,700   Turnout: 10,354 (62.75%)

Baltinglass

Baltinglass - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fine Gael	Billy Timmins TD	23.42	1,483	1,501	1,648
	Labour	Tommy Cullen*	23.04	1,459	1,477	1,487	1,493	1,542	1,613
	Independent	Jim Ruttle*	15.11	957	1,019	1,082	1,117	1,273	1,381	1,651
	Fianna Fáil	Hugh O'Keeffe	9.95	630	637	647	648	677	985	1,092
	Fianna Fáil	Charlie Brophy	8.04	509	523	536	543	585
	Sinn Féin	Gerry O'Neill	6.85	434	482	487	489	590	625
	Independent	Eileen Cullen	5.75	364	411	424	437
	Fine Gael	Fintan Gilheany	3.98	252	275
	Independent	Nuala Haughian	3.87	245
Electorate: 10,418   Valid: 6,333 (60.79%)   Spoilt: 51   Quota: 1,584   Turnout: 6,384 (61.28%)

Bray

Bray - 7 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Independent	Mildred Fox TD*	16.64	1,752
	Labour	Liz McManus TD	14.18	1,493
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Behan*	12.89	1,357
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Vance*	11.34	1,193	1,260	1,281	1,291	1,330
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Lawlor*	8.68	914	1,028	1,041	1,051	1,064	1,066	1,097	1,146	1,169	1,424
	Labour	John Byrne*	7.91	833	863	893	898	951	953	978	1,018	1,193	1,277	1,312
	Green	Déirdre de Búrca	6.69	704	755	773	775	791	793	808	926	998	1,080	1,109
	Fine Gael	John Ryan	5.71	601	641	656	658	666	668	888	904	956	1,043	1,086
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Keyes	5.01	531	558	565	572	598	600	612	652	695
	Sinn Féin	Marie Gavaghan	3.50	369	381	385	386	398	399	404
	Fine Gael	Declan Burton	2.68	282	343	350	351	358	359
	Labour	Anne Ferris	2.47	260	275	311	312	393	394	405	439
	Labour	Anne Egan	2.27	239	258	283	284
Electorate: 24,966   Valid: 10,529 (42.17%)   Spoilt: 113   Quota: 1,317   Turnout: 10,642 (42.63%)

Greystones

Greystones - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	Dick Roche TD*	24.69	1,389
	Fine Gael	George Jones*	21.01	1,182
	Fine Gael	Derek Mitchell	13.05	734	768	799	823	901	995	1,152
	Independent	Chris Maloney	9.58	539	573	581	617	673	748	840
	Independent	Veronica O'Reilly	8.59	483	507	512	546	603	699	870
	Green	Alex Perkins*	7.20	405	426	430	463	519	629
	Labour	Colm Kirwan*	6.95	391	404	408	449	492
	Fianna Fáil	Thelma Cloake	5.10	287	407	409	441
	Independent	Charlie Keddy	3.82	215	232	234
Electorate: 13,352   Valid: 5,625 (42.13%)   Spoilt: 74   Quota: 1,126   Turnout: 5,699 (42.68%)

Wicklow

Wicklow - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Labour	Liam Kavanagh*	15.07	1,839
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Jacob*	14.64	1,230	1,269	1,304	1,485
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Doyle*	14.11	1,186	1,207	1,229	1,325	1,383	1,450
	Fine Gael	Andrew Doyle	12.64	1,062	1,086	1,135	1,159	1,164	1,209
	Labour	Jimmy O'Shaughnessy*	10.75	903	1,066	1,184	1,237	1,246	1,418
	Fine Gael	Pat Byrne	8.44	709	764	820	941	949	1,082
	Fianna Fáil	Lance O'Brien	6.39	537	595	617
	Independent	Robert Kearns	6.16	518	572	653	728	732
	Green	Martin Shiels	4.99	419	443
Electorate: 17,040   Valid: 8,403 (49.31%)   Spoilt: 88   Quota: 1,401   Turnout: 8,491 (49.83%)

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