1945 Irish local elections

Nationwide local authority elections November 2021 November 2021 1945 Irish local elections Republic of Ireland parliamentary 1942 Irish local elections 1942 1950 Irish local elections 1950 14 June 1945 The 1945 local elections in Ireland were held on 14 June 1945 to fill all council seats for most counties and county boroughs and municipal towns. The state was still under the Emergency of the Second World War. As a cost-saving measure, electoral law was amended to bring forward the date of the local elections a few weeks to coincide with the 1945 presidential election.Presidential and Local Elections Bill, 1945—Second and Subsequent Stages https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1945-04-25/3/ Seanad Éireann debates Oireachtas 14 September 2018 en-ie 25 April 1945 15 September 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180915001940/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1945-04-25/3/ live ; Presidential and Local Elections Act, 1945 http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1945/act/15/enacted/en/print.html Irish Statute Book 14 September 2018 en 1 May 1945 15 September 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180915001815/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1945/act/15/enacted/en/print.html live Dublin County Council and Kerry County Council had been dissolved,Potter Matthew The Municipal Revolution in Ireland: A Handbook of Urban Government in Ireland Since 1800 2011 Irish Academic Press 9780716530824 444–445 en and no elections were held for their councils. There was no poll for six urban district councils and four town commissioners because the number of candidates did not exceed the number of seats.Written Answers — Voting Statistics https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1958-12-02/45/ Dáil Éireann debate Oireachtas 14 September 2018 en-ie 2 December 1958 15 September 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180915001950/https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1958-12-02/45/ live Results The elections were by single transferable vote. The total valid votes cast was 1,152,691. Totals of invalid votes were not aggregated from local counts. Fianna Fáil lost votes to Independents.Whelan Noel Fianna Fáil: A biography of the party 2011 Gill & Macmillan Ltd 9780717151981 https://books.google.com/books?id=ud_4AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT158 Government in Wartime: 1939–1948 14 September 2018 en 24 September 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210924103913/https://books.google.com/books?id=ud_4AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT158 live Prior to the 1960s, Fine Gael did not contest local elections in all areas; some of those who voted for it in Dáil elections voted at local elections for local groups including the Cork Civic Party and Limerick Progressive Party. September 2018 +1945 local election results: county and county boroughspercentage / count of seats (S) and first-preference votes (V) Council Total Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour C na Talmhan Independents and othersSVSVSVSVSVSV Cavan 25 30,327 44 / 11 45 / 13,611 0 / 0 1 / 351 0 / 0 0 / 0 12 / 3 14 / 4,361 44 / 11 40 / 12,004 Cork cityJournal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 1972 124–133 : 130 Local Elections in Cork City (1929–1967) http://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1973/b1973-018.pdf#page=8 PDF 15 September 2018 John Moran 26 November 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20171126185244/http://www.corkhist.ie/wp-content/uploads/jfiles/1973/b1973-018.pdf#page=8 live 21 28,262 33 / 7 28 / 7,907 14 / 3 10 / 2,817 5 / 1 5 / 1,506 0 / 0 0 / 0 48 / 10Includes 5 Cork Civic Party, 1 National Labour, and 1 Ailtirí na hAiséirghe. "n" 51 / 14,458 Galway 31 57,580 55 / 17 47 / 27,131 0 / 0 0 / 0 3 / 1 4 / 2,115 19 / 6 25 / 14,508 23 / 7 24 / 13,826 Leitrim 22 20,825 36 / 8 41 / 8,523 9 / 3 21 / 4,338 0 / 0 0 / 0 13 / 4 16 / 3,378 22 / 7 24 / 5,070 Limerick cityCusack John Hanley Liam Limerick Municipal Elections 1841-2009 https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/atoms/files/limerick_municipal_elections_1841_-_2009_researched.pdf#page=93 2009 Limerick City and County Council 2018-09-14 2019-05-31 https://web.archive.org/web/20190531182023/https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/atoms/files/limerick_municipal_elections_1841_-_2009_researched.pdf#page=93 live 15 53 / 8 0 / 0 7 / 1 0 / 0 47 / 7Includes 2 Gluais Linn, 2 Progressive Party, and 1 National Labour. "n" Mayo 31 56,166 52 / 16 46 / 25,969 13 / 4 15 / 8,661 0 / 0 0 / 187 26 / 8 30 / 17,115 10 / 3Includes 1 Independent Republican. "n" 8 / 4,234 Meath 29 23,916 48 / 14 49 / 11,832 3 / 1 5 / 1,263 10 / 3 13 / 3,159 7 / 2 5 / 1,328 31 / 9Includes 1 Old IRA and 1 National Labour. "n" 26 / 6,334 Monaghan 20 24,957 55 / 11 52 / 13,056 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 0 10 / 2 13 / 2,942 35 / 7Includes 3 Monaghan Protestant Association "n" 36 / 8,959 Offaly 21 19,819 43 / 9 19 / 4 10 / 2 10 / 2 19 / 4Includes 1 Monetary Reform "n" Roscommon 26 32,986 54 / 14 53 / 17,545 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 0 38 / 10 37 / 12,104 8 / 2 10 / 3,337 Sligo 24 25,948 38 / 9 32 / 8,398 38 / 9 43 / 11,214 4 / 1 2 / 633 8 / 2 10 / 2,692 13 / 3 12 / 3,011 Tipperary North 21 24,690 48 / 10 46 / 11,256 19 / 5 21 / 5,270 10 / 2 18 / 4,422 0 / 0 0 / 0 19 / 4Includes 1 National Labour. "n" 23 / 5,705 Westmeath 23 21,261 39 / 9 39 / 8,298 0 / 0 0 / 0 22 / 5 18 / 3,804 0 / 0 0 / 0 39 / 9 43 / 9,159 Notes "n" References Sources https://electionsireland.org/results/local/1945local.cfm 1945 Local Elections electionsireland.org 14 September 2018 (2018 09 14 only Sligo County Council results are available.) https://irishelectionliterature.com/others-project/old-local-election-results/ Old Local Election Results 26 October 2012 Irish Election Literature 14 September 2018 Citations Local elections Category:1945 elections in Europe 1945