This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (December 2018) |
The 1920 Pembroke election to the Pembroke Urban District Council took place on Thursday 15 January 1920 as part of that year's Irish local elections.[1]
Four candidates, including Dench (previously a nationalist councillor), and Forsyth (a Protestant Home Ruler, and the incumbent council chairman) ran on a Ratepayers Association ticket, which was silent on the national question. Along with keeping rates down, the grouping was committed to improved housing accommodation for the working classes, extending facilities to plotholders, better street lighting, the erection of a Free Carnegie Library, improved technical education, and providing wash houses where necessary.[2]
Results by party edit
| Party | Seats | ± | Candidates | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irish Unionist | 6 | 
|
7 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | 6 | 
|
11 | ||||
| Ratepayers | 3 | 4 | |||||
| Labour | 0 | 4 | |||||
| Independent | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Totals | 15 | 27 | 7,487 (70.84%) | 100% | — | ||
| Source: Irish Independent[3] | |||||||
Results by local electoral area edit
* indicates outgoing councillor.
East Ward edit
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | ||||
| Irish Unionist | John Good * | 19.60 | 667 | |||||||||||||
| Sinn Féin | James Maguire | 14.28 | 486 | |||||||||||||
| Irish Unionist | Charles R. Dunbar * | 467 | ||||||||||||||
| Irish Unionist | William McMillan | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 444 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Joseph Curran | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 466 | |||
| Ratepayers | Thomas Ryan | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 426 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Denis Byrne | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 424 | ||
| Labour | Thomas Doyle | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 329 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Christopher O'Kelly[a] | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 302 | |||
| Ratepayers | G. W. Dench, J.P. * | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 196 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Alice Ginnell | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 179 | ||||||
| Labour | Helen Sophia Chenevix | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 147 | |||||||
| Sinn Féin | Alfred McGloughlin | - | - | - | - | - | - | 118 | ||||||||
| Independent | John O'Brien | - | - | - | - | - | 95 | |||||||||
| Labour | Diarmid Joseph O'Leary | - | - | - | 51 | |||||||||||
| Electorate: 4,693 Valid: 3,403 Spoilt: 61 Quota: 426 Turnout: 3,464 | ||||||||||||||||
West Ward edit
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | |||||||
| Irish Unionist | William Beckett * | 19.27 | 787 | ||||
| Ratepayers | Michael Fannin * | 16.06 | 656 | ||||
| Irish Unionist | John Wesley Brittain | 10.40 | 425 | 665 | |||
| Irish Unionist | George Robert Goodfellow | 9.50 | 388 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Mary S. Humphreys | 9.50 | 388 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Michael Greene | 8.69 | 355 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Bartholomew O'Connor | 7.91 | 323 | ||||
| Irish Unionist | Sir Gabriel Stokes | 7.74 | 316 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Michael Stafford | 5.70 | 233 | ||||
| Labour | J. Edward Nolan | 5.56 | 227 | ||||
| Ratepayers | William Mills Forsyth, J.P. * | 5.02 | 205 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Fergus O'Connor | 1.79 | 73 | - | - | - | |
| Electorate: 5,876 Valid: 4,085 Spoilt: 71 Quota: 454 Turnout: 4,156 | |||||||
Notes edit
- ^ Brother of Seán T. O'Kelly.
References edit
- ^ a b c "Municipal elections: Dublin Townships". Dublin Evening Telegraph. Dublin. 19 January 1920. pp. 1–3.
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002093/19200108/038/0002 – via British Newspaper Archive.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ a b c https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001715/19200119/137/0006 – via British Newspaper Archive.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ a b https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001715/19200117/140/0005 – via British Newspaper Archive.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002093/19200115/043/0004 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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