The 1960 Cork City Council election took place on 29 June as part of that year's local election to elect all 21 seats on

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. This was the last time the entire

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formed a single electoral area. The election was conducted by means of the

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. There were 72 candidates. The count began on 30 June and concluded in the early hours of 3 July after 63 counts. Electoral law empowered the Minister for Local Government to split county boroughs into multiple borough electoral areas only if the council requested, which Cork City Council had not done. The

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allowed the minister to act unilaterally. After the 1965 boundary extension, the borough was divided into 6 borough electoral districts. At the 1967 local elections, the larger parties increased their proportion of seats.

Results

The first six candidates elected gained the honorific title

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; the other 15 were "councillors". Seán McCarthy, John Bermingham and Gus Healy were also elected to

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from the Cork Rural LEA which bordered the city.

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