1991 Galway City Council election

An election to Galway City Council took place on 27 June 1991 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 15 councillors were elected from three electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.

1991 Galway City Council election

27 June 1991
All 15 seats to Galway City Council
Party Fianna Fáil Progressive Democrats Fine Gael Seats won 4 4 4 Seat change -2 +4 -1   Party Labour Independent Workers' Party Seats won 2 1 0 Seat change +1 - -2
Map showing the area of Galway City Council
Council control after election TBD

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	4	-2	4,645	27.37%
	Progressive Democrats	4	+4	3,746	22.07%
	Fine Gael	4	-1	3,437	20.25%
	Labour	2	+1	2,242	13.21%
	Independent	1	-	2,121	12.5%
	Workers' Party	0	-2	484	2.85%
Totals		15	-		100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Galway No.1

Galway No.1 - 7 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Leahy*	10.9%	825	828	842	853	876	1,028
	Progressive Democrats	Declan McDonnell	10.4%	789	794	805	813	843	850	852	881	991
	Progressive Democrats	Bridie O'Flaherty*	9.2%	698	704	723	742	774	787	789	822	971
	Fine Gael	Fintan Coogan*	8%	604	611	622	633	699	732	735	795	843	858	865	896	1,005
	Fine Gael	Pádraic McCormackTD*	7.3%	556	562	569	579	646	654	655	674	716	722	726	762	816
	Fianna Fáil	Henry O'Connor	6.4%	485	489	502	507	528	598	621	646	659	664	666	936	1,008
	Independent	Brendan Smith	5.7%	433	435	467	483	498	507	508	551	586	588	591	611	683
	Progressive Democrats	Martin McHugh	5.5%	418	419	424	434	461	467	468	490
	Independent	Pat McNamara*	5.5%	413	424	436	446	456	476	480	513	527	531	533	551
	Fianna Fáil	Sean Nolan	5.1%	386	388	393	394	412	439	480	491	516	521	523
	Fianna Fáil	Sean Fox	4.9%	374	374	380	386	395
	Labour	Tom Costello	4.8%	360	362	385	513	542	561	562	683	713	720	724	752	827
	Workers' Party	Liz Hackett*	4.5%	340	342	367	406	415	434	434
	Fine Gael	Mary Tierney	4.5%	340	341	348	360
	Labour	Ivan McPhillips	3.7%	279	282	292
	Republican Sinn Féin	Dave Joyce	2.9%	216	218
	Independent	Edward Manning	0.8%	58
Electorate: 15,295   Valid: 7,574 (49.52%)   Spoilt: 81   Quota: 947   Turnout: 7,655 (50.05%)

Galway No.2

Galway No.2 - 3 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Progressive Democrats	Martin Connolly*	15.9%	543	552	562	575	591	693	1,004
	Fine Gael	John Mulholland*	15.5%	527	537	569	599	729	807	909
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Cox	13.4%	455	461	485	534	551	637	654	735	762
	Fianna Fáil	Tony O'Connor	13.3%	452	455	475	548	571	592	643	714	739
	Progressive Democrats	Tom Burke	11.5%	393	397	424	451	474	519
	Labour	John Cunningham	9.5%	324	400	426	432	446
	Fine Gael	Michael Walsh	6.1%	207	210	227	235
	Fianna Fáil	Carmel Garrett	5.8%	199	202	218
	Independent	Eileen Manning	5.3%	179	188
	Labour	Noreen Robinson	3.7%	126
Electorate: 7,004   Valid: 3,405 (48.62%)   Spoilt: 39   Quota: 852   Turnout: 3,444 (49.17%)

Galway No.3

Galway No.3 - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Labour	Michael D. HigginsTD*	15.7%	940	959	968	1,033
	Fianna Fáil	Michéal Ó hUiginn*	13.9%	832	837	868	879	880	961	989	1,026
	Fine Gael	Angela Lynch-Lupton*	10.1%	608	611	621	631	632	643	666	693	699	723	772	845
	Fine Gael	Billy Lawless	9.9%	595	596	602	608	609	634	651	680	684	708	753	799
	Independent	Paddy Lally*	9.2%	554	564	567	584	587	594	638	722	729	811	909	972
	Progressive Democrats	Liam Madden	8.6%	513	514	518	519	520	541	568	584	586	615	657	906
	Progressive Democrats	Donal Lyons	16.5%	392	393	397	398	399	406	467	480	481	505	528
	Fianna Fáil	John Byrne	5.4%	324	326	345	346	346	389	395	420	426	437
	Independent	Tom Browne	4.2%	252	259	260	269	272	276	283
	Independent	Aidan McCabe	3.9%	232	223	236	237	238	243
	Labour	Jim Mullarkey	3.6	213	223	226	253	275	280	293	313	314
	Fianna Fáil	Jim Doolan	3.4%	202	202	217	220	220
	Workers' Party	Michael Donnelly	2.4%	144	156	157
	Fianna Fáil	Mary Lawless	1.9%	111	114
	Sinn Féin	Mike Egan	1.3%	80
Electorate: 12,664   Valid: 5,992 (47.32%)   Spoilt: 48   Quota: 999   Turnout: 6,040 (47.69%)