Waterford County Council election, 1991

27 June 1991

All 23 seats to Waterford County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fianna Fáil	Fine Gael	Labour Party
Seats won	10	9	3
Seat change	-1	-1	+1

	Fourth party

Party	Workers' Party
Seats won	1
Seat change	+1

Map showing the area of Waterford County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Waterford County Council took place on 27 June 1991 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 23 councillors were elected from four electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for an eight-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	10	-1	10,163	43.29%
	Fine Gael	9	-1	7,587	32.32%
	Labour Party	3	+1	3,291	14.02%
	Workers' Party	1	+1	636	2.71%
Totals		23	-	23,475	100%	—

Dungarvan - 7 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12
	Labour Party	Billy Kyne*	14.7%	1,009
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Kenneally*	14.1%	969
	Fine Gael	Garry O'Halloran*	10%	686	690	709	709	718	724	783	858
	Labour Party	Lar Hart	7.2%	491	543	544	544	560	583	594	610	631	642	716	724
	Workers' Party	Tony Wright	7%	482	505	507	510	516	545	556	567	596	609	695	702
	Fine Gael	Richard Walsh	6.8%	469	479	482	486	490	516	574	610	643	662	887
	Fine Gael	Michael O'Riordan*	6.5%	446	463	464	465	472	492	542	557	592	606
	Independent	Sean Whelan*	6.2%	422	427	435	439	450	472	482	512	582	640	690	699
	Fianna Fáil	Austin Flynn	5.6%	382	390	399	402	441	454	473	491	611	755	800	805
	Fianna Fáil	Paud O'Keeffe	5.1%	349	351	377	377	402	405	409	440	499
	Fianna Fáil	Nuala Ryan	4.5%	306	315	326	331	374	384	388	406
	Progressive Democrats	James Coll	3.8%	263	265	270	271	276	287	299
	Fine Gael	Mario Flavin	3.2%	221	225	228	229	231	247
	Independent	Dan Dineen	2.6%	181	187	188	194	200
	Fianna Fáil	Willie John Kenneally	2.2%	154	162	184	184
	Independent	Benny Queally	0.4%	30	31	31
Electorate: 10,669 Valid: 6,860 (64.30%) Spoilt: 40 Quota: 858 Turnout: 6,900 (64.67%)

Kilmacthomas - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fianna Fáil	Jackie FaheyTD*	20.9%	1,066
	Fianna Fáil	Kieran O'Ryan*	15.8%	807	876
	Fine Gael	Oliver Coffey*	16.46	703	716	716	720	774	801	855
	Fine Gael	Patrick Coffey*	12.8%	654	666	668	707	715	730	762	789
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Cunningham*	11.4%	583	629	639	658	697	739	976
	Labour Party	Victor Bowers	15.24	493	502	503	529	546	618	642	661
	Fianna Fáil	Kathleen Whelan	6.2%	318	349	360	404	416	462
	Labour Party	Raymond Kelly	4%	204	212	212	213	217
	Independent	Dan Dineen	2.7%	140	148	148	148
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Kelly	2.5%	125	145	148
Electorate: 8,239 Valid: 5,092 (61.8%) Spoilt: 61 Quota: 849 Turnout: 5,153 (62.5%)

Lismore - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Fianna Fáil	Ollie Wilkinson*	31.3%	1,287
	Fine Gael	Willie McDonnell*	27.1%	1,116
	Fianna Fáil	James Quirke*	16%	660	842
	Fine Gael	Matthew Power	10.3%	424	497	601	681
	Fine Gael	Nora Flynn	10.2%	421	503	637	716
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Ryan	5%	207	333	387
Electorate: 6,263 Valid: 4,115 (65.7%) Spoilt: 41 Quota: 824 Turnout: 4,156 (66.4%)

Tramore - 7 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12
	Labour Party	Brian O'SheaTD*	14.77%	1,094
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Leahy*	14.75%	1,093
	Fine Gael	Michael Queally*	11.02%	816	822	858	872	910	940
	Fine Gael	John Carey*	10.19%	755	764	766	773	780	791	804	806	827	1,011
	Fianna Fáil	Dan Cowman	7.56%	560	593	615	627	695	748	801	804	995
	Fianna Fáil	Geoff Power*	7.19%	533	537	552	557	580	600	614	616	675	821	858	882
	Progressive Democrats	Senator Martin Cullen	6.33%	469	488	495	511	520	560	639	642	687	737	746	753
	Fine Gael	Noel McDonagh	6.13%	454	459	462	470	474	478	492	492	499
	Fine Gael	Con Casey*	5.7%	422	449	452	461	480	496	590	593	660	720	742	795
	Fianna Fáil	Billy Hutchinson	4.54%	336	350	359	369	397	432	481	481
	Independent	Maureen O'Carroll	3.97%	294	315	317	343	360	382
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Dunphy*	2.9%	215	224	251	257
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Griffin	2.88%	213	218	240	270	291
	Workers' Party	Edward Gahan	2.08%	154	169	187
Electorate: 12,642 Valid: 7,408 (58.6%%) Spoilt: 54 Quota: 927 Turnout: 7,462 (59.03%)

Preceded by Waterford County Council election, 1985	Waterford County Council elections	Succeeded by Waterford County Council election, 1999

(1985 ←) Irish local elections, 1991 (1994 →)

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