1991 Offaly County Council election

1991 Offaly County Council election
All 21 seats on Offaly County Council
	Map showing the area of Offaly County Council
	Council control after election ; TBD;

An election to Offaly County Council took place on 27 June 1991 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). This term was extended twice, first to 1998, then to 1999.^[1]^[2]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	10	-2	10,232	41.39
	Fine Gael	6	-	7,699	31.14
	Labour	1	+1	1,686	6.82
	Progressive Democrats	1	+1	1,015	4.11
	Independent	3	-	3,221	13.03
Totals		21	-	24,722	100.00	—

Birr- 5 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	Tom Enright TD*	15.5%	924	966	1,076
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Moylan*	13.2%	789	823	898	908	1,010
	Fine Gael	Percy Clendennen	12.4%	742	760	801	820	876	896	904	906
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Loughnane*	11.4%	681	725	794	813	1,037
	Fianna Fáil	Pat McLoughney	11%	658	689	732	740
	Fine Gael	Joe Clear*	11%	657	678	749	759	873	896	904	907
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Dooley*	10.7%	635	688	796	812	999
	Sinn Féin	John Carroll	9.6%	570	601
	Independent	Neayvn Kavanagh	5.1%	304
Electorate: 9,171 Valid: 5,960 (64.99%) Spoilt: 41 Quota: 994 Turnout: 6,001 (65.43%)

Edenderry - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	Michael Fox*	15.6%	915	917	937	1,038
	Independent	James Flanagan*	13.6%	795	844	870	910	942	951	1,194	656
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Weir	12.3%	718	718	791	806	894	898	920	926
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Bourke	11.6%	681	701	713	733	746	752	904	982
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy Scully*	11.6%	677	678	684	709	728	747	773	781
	Progressive Democrats	Tom O'Connell	9.9%	579	597	608	642	660	673
	Progressive Democrats	Brigid Emerson	7.4%	436	438	506	541	675	685	832	867
	Fine Gael	Jack Dunne	6.2%	361	363	388	425
	Green	Anthony Dolan	5.1%	299	305	333
	Labour	Sean Coughlan	4.9%	289	292
	Independent	William Brereton	1.9%	111
Electorate: 10,007 Valid: 5,861 (58.57%) Spoilt: 73 Quota: 977 Turnout: 5,934 (59.3%)

Ferbane- 5 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	Fine Gael	Connie Hanniffy*	22.4%	1,183
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Dooley*	18.3%	966
	Independent	Johnny Butterfield*	15.7%	829	886
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Feighery*	12.8%	680	695	804	848
	Fine Gael	Bernard Corcoran*	12.7%	673	840	1,061
	Fianna Fáil	Patrick Mahon*	10.3%	544	562	602	608
	Fine Gael	Pat Troy	7.9%	417	460
Electorate: 8,914 Valid: 5,292 (59.37%) Spoilt: 55 Quota: 883 Turnout: 5,347 (59.98%)

Tullamore - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fianna Fáil	Brian Cowen TD*	15%	1,141
	Fianna Fáil	John Flanagan*	12.5%	953	965	981	994	1,018	1,072	1,113
	Independent	Thomas Dolan*	11.1%	844	860	875	879	902	926	950	966	1,013
	Fine Gael	Tommy McKeigue	10.9%	830	854	855	882	913	946	1,057	1,118
	Labour	Pat Gallagher	9.5%	722	742	743	808	842	894	921	1,099
	Fine Gael	Frank Feery*	9.3%	708	712	719	722	724	737	798	810	848
	Fianna Fáil	Miriam O'Callaghan*	9.3%	706	722	729	747	781	797	816	851	1,076
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Lynam	5.3%	403	405	408	412	422	430	441	448
	Fine Gael	Kevin Wrafter	3.8%	289	298	299	304	309	310
	Labour	Laurence Byrne	3.3%	250	258	259	270	280
	Labour	Ernest McGuire	2.9%	223	232	233	265	292	360	368
	Labour	Seán O'Brien	2.7%	202	204	204
	Independent	Anne O'Toole	2.5%	193	207	207	219
	Independent	Peadar Keeley	1%	78
	Independent	May Keeley	0.5%	41
	Independent	Nellie Gaffney	0.3%	26	70
Electorate: 12,610 Valid: 7,609 (60.34%) Spoilt: 64 Quota: 1,088 Turnout: 7,673 (60.85%)