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.[1]

Dublin County Council and Kerry County Council had been dissolved,[2] and no elections were held for their councils.[3] 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.[3]

Results

The elections were by single transferable vote. The total valid votes cast was 1,152,691.[3] Totals of invalid votes were not aggregated from local counts.[3] Fianna Fáil lost votes to Independents.[4] 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.

1945 local election results: county and county boroughs
percentage / count of seats (S) and first-preference votes (V)
Council Total Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour C na Talmhan Independents and others
SVSVSV SVSVSV
Cavan2530,32744 / 1145 / 13,6110 / 01 / 3510 / 00 / 012 / 314 / 4,36144 / 1140 / 12,004
Cork city[5]2128,26233 / 728 / 7,90714 / 310 / 2,8175 / 15 / 1,5060 / 00 / 048 / 10[n 1]51 / 14,458
Galway3157,58055 / 1747 / 27,1310 / 00 / 03 / 14 / 2,11519 / 625 / 14,50823 / 724 / 13,826
Leitrim2220,82536 / 841 / 8,5239 / 321 / 4,3380 / 00 / 013 / 416 / 3,37822 / 724 / 5,070
Limerick city[6]1553 / 80 / 07 / 10 / 047 / 7[n 2]
Mayo3156,16652 / 1646 / 25,96913 / 415 / 8,6610 / 00 / 18726 / 830 / 17,11510 / 3[n 3]8 / 4,234
Meath2923,91648 / 1449 / 11,8323 / 15 / 1,26310 / 313 / 3,1597 / 25 / 1,32831 / 9[n 4]26 / 6,334
Monaghan2024,95755 / 1152 / 13,0560 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 010 / 213 / 2,94235 / 7[n 5]36 / 8,959
Offaly2119,81943 / 919 / 410 / 210 / 219 / 4[n 6]
Roscommon2632,98654 / 1453 / 17,5450 / 00 / 00 / 00 / 038 / 1037 / 12,1048 / 210 / 3,337
Sligo2425,94838 / 932 / 8,39838 / 943 / 11,2144 / 12 / 6338 / 210 / 2,69213 / 312 / 3,011
Tipperary North2124,69048 / 1046 / 11,25619 / 521 / 5,27010 / 218 / 4,4220 / 00 / 019 / 4[n 7]23 / 5,705
Westmeath2321,26139 / 939 / 8,2980 / 00 / 022 / 518 / 3,8040 / 00 / 039 / 943 / 9,159
Notes
  1. ↑ Includes 5 Cork Civic Party, 1 National Labour, and 1 Ailtirí na hAiséirghe.
  2. ↑ Includes 2 Gluais Linn, 2 Progressive Party, and 1 National Labour.
  3. ↑ Includes 1 Independent Republican.
  4. ↑ Includes 1 Old IRA and 1 National Labour.
  5. ↑ Includes 3 Monaghan Protestant Association
  6. ↑ Includes 1 Monetary Reform
  7. ↑ Includes 1 National Labour.

References

Sources

  • "1945 Local Elections". electionsireland.org. Retrieved 14 September 2018. (As of 14 September 2018 only Sligo County Council results are available.)
  • "Old Local Election Results". Irish Election Literature. 26 October 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2018.

Citations

  1. ↑ "Presidential and Local Elections Bill, 1945—Second and Subsequent Stages". Seanad Éireann debates. Oireachtas. 25 April 1945. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2018.; "Presidential and Local Elections Act, 1945". Irish Statute Book. 1 May 1945. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  2. ↑ Potter, Matthew (2011). The Municipal Revolution in Ireland: A Handbook of Urban Government in Ireland Since 1800. Irish Academic Press. pp. 444–445. ISBN 9780716530824.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Written Answers — Voting Statistics". Dáil Éireann debate. Oireachtas. 2 December 1958. Archived from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  4. ↑ Whelan, Noel (2011). "Government in Wartime: 1939–1948". Fianna Fáil: A biography of the party. Gill & Macmillan Ltd. ISBN 9780717151981. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  5. ↑ Moran, John (1972). "Local Elections in Cork City (1929–1967)" (PDF). Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society: 124–133 : 130. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 November 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  6. ↑ Cusack, John; Hanley, Liam (2009). "Limerick Municipal Elections 1841-2009" (PDF). Limerick City and County Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2018.


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