Election Name: | 1999 Sligo County Council election |
Country: | Ireland |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | yes |
Previous Election: | 1991 Sligo County Council election |
Previous Year: | 1991 |
Next Election: | 2004 Sligo County Council election |
Next Year: | 2004 |
Seats For Election: | All 25 seats to Sligo County Council |
Election Date: | 10 June 1999 |
Party1: | Fine Gael |
Seats1: | 11 |
Seat Change1: | - |
Party2: | Fianna Fáil |
Seats2: | 9 |
Seat Change2: | -2 |
Party3: | Labour Party (Ireland) |
Seats3: | 2 |
Seat Change3: | +1 |
Party4: | Sinn Féin |
Seats4: | 1 |
Seat Change4: | +1 |
Party5: | Independent politician (Ireland) |
Seats5: | 2 |
Seat Change5: | - |
Map Size: | 300px |
Council control | |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
An election to Sligo County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 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).
Party | valign=top | Seats | valign=top | ± | valign=top | First Pref. votes | valign=top | FPv% | valign=top | ±% |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
11 | align=right | - | 11,849 | 39.13 | ||||||
9 | align=right | -2 | 10,656 | 35.19 | ||||||
2 | +1 | 2,859 | 9.44 | |||||||
1 | +1 | 1,206 | 3.98 | |||||||
2 | align=right | - | 3,497 | 11.55 | ||||||
Totals | align=right | 25 | align=center | - | align=right | 30,279 | 100.00 | — |