1985 Irish local elections

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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.^[1] 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).

Administrative changes

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the borough of Galway (which previously had a 12-member borough council) ceased to be part of County Galway and became a county borough with its own 15-member city council.
County Dublin was divided into three electoral counties: Dublin—Belgard (26 members), Dublin—Fingal (24 members) and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown (28 members). This was an increase from the 36 seats which had been in Dublin County Council. No separate election was to be held for the borough council of the corporation of Dún Laoghaire, with members elected for designated LEAs in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown to also be the members of the borough council.
Dublin City Council was increased from 45 to 52 seats

Two Electoral Area Boundary Commissions proposed changes which were implemented by order of the minister:^[2]

Increases in memberships of councils: Clare (one extra), Cork (two extra), Donegal (one extra), Kerry (one extra), Kildare (four extra), Limerick (one extra), Sligo (one extra) and Wicklow (three extra);
Galway County Council was reduced from 31 to 30 members.^[3]

Party		Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%^[4]^[5]	±%
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	441	Increase 113	648,070	45.6	+6.5
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	287	Decrease 5	422,045	29.7	-5.4
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	60	Decrease 15	109,681	7.9	-4.2
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	20	Increase13	43,006	3.0	+0.8
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	10	Decrease 1	46,391	3.3	+1.7
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	6	Increase 2	11,073	0.8	0.0
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	3	Increase 3	5,472	0.4	New
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	1	Increase 1	1,681	0.1	New
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	1	Steady 0	1,506	0.1	0.0
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	Steady 0	7,446	0.5	New
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell	0	Steady 0	593	0.0	New
REDIRECT Template:Party name with color Template:Redirect category shell			135,603	9.6	-2.1
Total				1,421,494	100.0	—

Sinn Féin, Independent Fianna Fáil and the Waterford People's Party were not registered political parties.

Authority	style="background-color: Template:Party color; width: 3px;" \|	FF	style="background-color: Template:Party color; width: 3px;" \|	FG	style="background-color: Template:Party color; width: 3px;" \|	Lab	style="background-color: Template:Party color; width: 3px;" \|	WP	style="background-color: Template:Party color; width: 3px;" \|	SF	style="background-color: Template:Party color; width: 3px;" \|	Ind/Oth	Total
Carlow	10		7		3						1		21
Cavan	14		10								1		25
Clare	17		8								7		32
Cork City	13		8		5		2				3		31
Cork County	24		19		2		1				2		48
Donegal	11		9						1		8		29
Dublin City	26		13		2		6		1		4		52
Dublin–Belgard	13		8		2		2				1		26
Dublin–Fingal	13		7		3						1		24
Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown	13		11		3		1						28
Galway City	6		5		1		1				2		15
Galway County	17		9								4		30
Kerry	13		7		3						4		27
Kildare	10		7		5						3		25
Kilkenny	11		10		3						2		26
Laois	14		9		1						1		25
Leitrim	10		8								4		22
Limerick City	5		6		1						5		17
Limerick County	18		10										28
Longford	10		9								2		21
Louth	12		8		2				1		3		26
Mayo	15		14								2		31
Meath	17		10								2		29
Monaghan	10		7						1		2		20
North Tipperary	12		6		1						2		21
Offaly	12		6								3		21
Roscommon	13		8								5		26
Sligo	11		9		1						4		25
South Tipperary	14		8		3						1		26
Waterford City	5		4		2		2				2		15
Waterford County	11		10		2								23
Westmeath	13		5		3						2		23
Wexford	11		6		1						3		21
Wicklow	13		5		4		1				1		24
Totals	437		283		58		20		4		81		783

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