1985 Irish local elections

The 1985 Irish local elections were held in all the local government areas on Thursday, 20 June 1985.

1985 Irish local elections

20 June 1985
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Charles Haughey Garret FitzGerald Dick Spring
Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour
Leader since 7 December 1979 1 July 1977 1 November 1982
Seats won 441 287 60
Seat change 113 5 15
Popular vote 648,070 422,045 109,681
Percentage 45.6% 29.7% 7.9%
Swing 6.5% 5.4% 4.2%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
IFF
Leader Tomás Mac Giolla Gerry Adams Neil Blaney
Party Workers' Party Sinn Féin Independent Fianna Fáil
Leader since 14 October 1962 13 November 1983 1972
Last election N/A
Seats won 20 10 6
Seat change 13 10 2
Popular vote 43,006 46,391 11073
Percentage 3.0% 3.3% 0.8%
Swing 0.3% 1.7% 0.8%

  Seventh party
 
DSP
Leader Jim Kemmy
Party Democratic Socialist Party
Leader since 1972
Seats won 3
Seat change 3
Popular vote 5,472
Percentage 0.4%
Swing 0.4%

There were two tiers of local government areas. The state was divided into local government areas of administrative counties and county boroughs under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. Within administrative counties, there was a second tier in certain areas of boroughs governed by the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840 and the 1898 Act, urban districts governed by the 1898 Act, and towns with town commissioners governed by the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act 1854.

The elections had been postponed from June 1984. This allowed the Local Government (Reorganisation) Act 1985 to be enacted beforehand. Each local government area was divided into local electoral areas (LEAs) to be elected on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

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