1979 Irish local elections

The 1979 Irish local elections were held in all the counties, cities and towns of Ireland on Thursday, 7 June 1979, on the same day as the first direct elections to the European Parliament.

1979 Irish local elections

7 June 1979

	First party	Second party	Third party
			Labour
Leader	Jack Lynch	Garret FitzGerald	Frank Cluskey
Party	Fianna Fáil	Fine Gael	Labour
Leader since	9 November 1966	1977	1977
Seats won	328	292	75
Seat change	24	12	4
Popular vote	529,909	469,074	160,684
Percentage	39.0%	34.6%	11.8%
Swing	0.8%	0.8%	0.9%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party
			IFF
Leader	Ruairí Ó Brádaigh	Tomás Mac Giolla	Neil Blaney
Party	Sinn Féin (Provisional)	Sinn Féin The Workers' Party	Independent Fianna Fáil
Leader since	October 1970	14 October 1962	1972
Seats won	11	7	4
Seat change	4	1
Popular vote	21,273	31,238	10,245
Percentage	1.6%	2.3%	0.8%
Swing	0.2%	1.0%	0.2%

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