The 1960 Cork Corporation election took place on 29 June as part of that year's local election to elect all 21 seats on Cork City Council. This was the last time the entire county borough of Cork formed a single electoral area. The election was conducted by means of the single transferable vote. There were 72 candidates. The count began on 30 June and concluded in the early hours of 3 July after 63 counts.[1]
Electoral law at the time of the election 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 Electoral Act 1963 allowed the minister to act unilaterally.[2] After the 1965 boundary extension, the borough was divided into 6 borough electoral districts.[3]
At the 1967 local elections, the larger parties increased their proportion of seats.[4]
Results edit
| Registered electors | 45,775 |
|---|---|
| Valid votes | 22,024 |
| Quota for election | 1,002 |
| Party | Abbrev | Cands | 1st-pref vote |
Seats | Change | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | FF | 16 | [o 1]6,732 | 7 | −1 | |
| Fine Gael | FG | 9 | [o 2]3,615 | 3 | 0 | |
| Labour | Lab | 9 | 3,495 | 3 | −1 | |
| Corporation Tenants Association | Ten | 6 | 1,810 | 2 | +2 | |
| Ratepayers' Association | RP | 7 | 1,734 | 2 | +2 | |
| T.E.A.M. | TEAM | 8 | 1,278 | 1 | +1 | "The Emigration Action Movement", a new local group, which merged with Labour by the 1967 election |
| Cork Civic Party | Civ | 8 | 1,259 | 1 | −1 | The party dissolved in 1966 after the 1965 LEA changes.[5] |
| Poblacht Chríostúil | PCh | 3 | 209 | 0 | 0 | Candidates' names were in Irish on the ballot paper. |
| Sinn Féin | SF | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | Did not contest the election in Cork. |
| Independents | Ind | 6 | 1,892 | 2 | 0 |
The first six candidates elected gained the honorific title alderman; the other 15 were "councillors".[1] Seán McCarthy, John Bermingham and Gus Healy were also elected to Cork County Council from the Cork Rural LEA which bordered the city.[6][7][8]
| Name | Party | 1st-pref vote |
Order elected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen D. Barrett[o 3] | FG | 1650 | 1 |
| John Galvin[o 3] | FF | 1486 | 2 |
| John W. Reidy[o 3] | Ind | 1348 | 3 |
| Seán Casey[o 3] | Lab | 1229 | 4 |
| Sam Allen[o 3] | FF | 973 | 5 |
| Josephine Joyce | RP | 774 | 6 |
| Thomas Pearse Leahy | TEAM | 690 | 7 |
| Anthony Barry[o 3] | FG | 339 | 8 |
| Gus Healy[o 3] | FF | 582 | 9 |
| John Bermingham[o 3] | FG | 474 | 10 |
| Jane Dowdall[o 3] | FF | 535 | 11 |
| James Hickey[o 3] | Lab | 553 | 12 |
| William Kenneally | Ten | 531 | 13 |
| Dan Cronin[o 3] | FF | 534 | 14 |
| Seán McCarthy[o 3] | FF | 350 | 15 |
| Valentine Jago[o 3] | Civ | 257 | 16 |
| J. Barrett | Ten | 335 | 17 |
| J. F. Lucey[o 3] | Ind | 335 | 18 |
| Pearse Wyse | FF | 348 | 19 |
| E. P. Stanley | RP | 216 | 20 |
| Cornelius Desmond[o 3] | Lab | 306 | 21 |
| P. J. O'Donovan | FF | 354 | |
| C. Burns | Ten | 334 | |
| D. P. Kelleher[o 3] | FF | 333 | |
| J. O'Gorman[o 3] | FF | 303 | |
| John F. O'Dwyer | FG | 289 | |
| J. Harrington | Lab | 285 | |
| Con Connolly | Lab | 274 | |
| Vincent O'Connell | FG | 270 | |
| G. McCarthy | Ten | 265 | |
| P. Madden | TEAM | 249 | |
| T. Power | Ten | 247 | |
| H. Reid | Lab | 242 | |
| P. McCarthy | Lab | 240 | |
| A. Aherne | FF | 240 | |
| T. Jones | Civ | 234 | |
| D. Breen | Civ | 232 | |
| R. G. Sutton | FG | 227 | |
| M. McMullen | Lab | 214 | |
| Walter Furlong[o 3] | Civ | 210 | |
| C. D. Dowman | RP | 206 | |
| K. Collins | RP | 192 | |
| J. J. O'Riordan | FF | 182 | |
| J. J. Kelly | FG | 169 | |
| M. Mullins | FF | 163 | |
| J. Quirke | FF | 161 | |
| Richard Anthony[o 3] | Lab | 152 | |
| R. Stokes | RP | 144 | |
| L. Neville | FG | 126 | |
| C. O'Callaghan | RP | 115 | |
| Sylvester Cotter | PCh | 111 | |
| D. Martell | FF | 103 | |
| J. McCarthy | Ten | 98 | |
| D. P. Long | TEAM | 97 | |
| T. O'Sullivan | Ind | 95 | |
| D. Beavan | Civ | 88 | |
| C. Cooke | RP | 87 | |
| M. Donegan | Civ | 86 | |
| Fred Geaney | FF | 85 | |
| Maurice O'Connell | Ind | 84 | |
| R. L. Anthony | Civ | 83 | |
| S. D. Ó Dubhghaill | PCh | 76 | |
| F. M. Dooley | FG | 71 | |
| Frank Mockler | Civ | 69 | |
| J. J. O'Connell | TEAM | 58 | |
| P. O'Brien | TEAM | 52 | |
| W. Murphy | TEAM | 52 | |
| R. Longfield | TEAM | 46 | |
| D. O'Leary | TEAM | 34 | |
| P. Ó hAngusa | PCh | 22 | |
| James McCarthy | Ind | 21 | |
| J. Bruton | Ind | 9 |
References edit
- ^ a b c d "Marathon Election Ends In Early Hours". Cork Examiner. 4 July 1960. p. 7.
- ^ Electoral Act 1963, s. 87: Electoral areas in certain county and other boroughs (No. 19 of 1963, s. 87). Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 18 March 2016.
- ^ Cork County Borough Electoral Areas Order 1965 (S.I. No. 249 of 1965). Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 18 March 2016.
- ^ a b c d Moran, John (1972). "Local Elections in Cork City (1929-1967)" (PDF). Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society: 124–133: 131–133. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ^ "Cork Civic Party ceases". The Irish Times. 4 February 1966. p. 8.
- ^ a b "Results Of Local Elections". Cork Examiner. 1 July 1960. p. 12.
- ^ "Cork County Council: (Cork Rural) 1960 Local Election". electionsireland.com. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ "Valley Rovers Official Website". sportsmanager.ie. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
Sean McCarthy ... was also a Member of Cork County Council for 20 years, and of Cork Corporation for 22 years
- ^ "Election To County and Urban Councils". Cork Examiner. 1 July 1960. p. 7. "Only One Elected In Fourteen-Hour Count In Cork". Cork Examiner. 2 July 1960. p. 11.