Kilkenny County Council Kilkenny County Council ( ga, Comhairle Chontae Chill Chainnigh) is the authority responsible for local government in County Kilkenny, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for ...

election was held in

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, Ireland on 24 May 2019 as part of that year's local elections, with all 24 councillors to be elected for a five-year term of office from 4

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s (LEAs) by

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. Following a recommendation of the 2018 Boundary Committee, the boundaries of the LEAs were altered from those used in the

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. Fianna Fáil gained 1 additional seat to increase their numbers to 11 while also increasing their vote by 4%. Fine Gael gained 2 seats and also increased their vote by 2%. Labour and the Greens retained their previous position but it was a disastrous election for Sinn Féin. The party lost all 3 seats, including Sean Tyrell, the partner of

Kathleen Funchion Kathleen Funchion (born 22 April 1981) is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency since the 2016 general election. She was appointed Chair of the Committee on Children, Disabilit ...

TD and saw a significant drop in their vote-share. Breda Gardner, a sitting Independent who also contested the Ireland South European Parliament constituency unsuccessfully, failed to retain her seat.

Results by party

Results by local electoral area

Callan–Thomastown

Castlecomer

Kilkenny

Piltown

Results by gender

Changes Since 2019 Local Elections

*†Kilkenny Green Party Cllr

Malcolm Noonan Malcolm Noonan (born September 1966) is an Irish Green Party (Ireland), Green Party politician who has served as a Minister of State (Ireland), Minister of State since July 2020 and as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Carlow–Kilkenny (Dáil consti ...

was elected as a

Teachta Dála A Teachta Dála ( , ; plural ), abbreviated as TD (plural ''TDanna'' in Irish, TDs in English), is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament). It is the equivalent of terms such as ''Member of Parli ...

(TD) for Carlow–Kilkenny at the 2020 general election. Maria Dollard was co-opted to fill the vacancy on 24 February 2020.

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