The 1999 Irish local elections were held in all the counties, cities and towns of Ireland on 11 June 1999, on the same day as the European elections.
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| Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. Votes | % FPv | ±% | |
| FF | 382 | +28 | 552,033 | 38.9 | +0.9 | |
| FG | 277 | +3 | 399,125 | 28.1 | +1.5 | |
| Labour | 83 | -6 | 153,197 | 10.8 | +0.3 | |
| Progressive Democrats | 25 | -12 | 41,362 | 2.9 | -2.1 | |
| SF | 21 | +13 | 49,192 | 3.5 | +1.4 | |
| Green | 8 | -5 | 35,742 | 2.5 | +0.1 | |
| IFF | 4 | — | 7,087 | 0.5 | -0.4 | |
| Workers' Party | 3 | –21 | 6,847 | 0.5 | -3.1 | |
| Socialist Party | 2 | New | 5,312 | 0.4 | New | |
| South Kerry Independent Alliance | 1 | New | 1,478 | 0.1 | New | |
| RSF | 1 | — | 1,390 | 0.1 | -0.2 | |
| Christian Solidarity | 0 | New | 1,252 | 0.1 | New | |
| Socialist Workers | 0 | New | 904 | 0.1 | New | |
| Catholic Democrats | 0 | New | 881 | 0.1 | New | |
| Natural Law Party | 0 | New | 129 | 0.0 | New | |
| Independent | 76 | -2 | 164,552 | 11.6 | +1.0 | |
| Total | 883 | — | 1,420,483 | 100 | — | |
18 Workers' Party councillors had left the party in 1992 upon the creation of Democratic Left. By the 1999 elections, 16 Democratic Left councillors had merged with the Labour Party, and one Workers' Party councillor had joined Labour.
| Authority | FF | FG | Lab | GP | SF | PD | Other | Total | Details | ||||||
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| Carlow | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 21 | Details | ||||||||
| Cavan | 13 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 25 | Details | |||||||||
| Clare | 18 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 32 | Details | |||||||||
| Cork | 19 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 48 | Details | ||||||||
| Donegal | 14 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 29 | Details | |||||||||
| Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown | 10 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 28 | Details | ||||||||
| Fingal | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 24 | Details | |||||||
| Galway | 16 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 30 | Details | |||||||||
| Kerry | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 27 | Details | ||||||||
| Kildare | 9 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 25 | Details | ||||||||
| Kilkenny | 12 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 26 | Details | |||||||||
| Laois | 14 | 10 | 1 | 25 | Details | ||||||||||
| Leitrim | 10 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 22 | Details | |||||||||
| Limerick | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 28 | Details | |||||||||
| Longford | 8 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 21 | Details | |||||||||
| Louth | 14 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 26 | Details | ||||||||
| Mayo | 16 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 31 | Details | |||||||||
| Meath | 14 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 29 | Details | |||||||||
| Monaghan | 8 | 6 | 6 | 20 | Details | ||||||||||
| Offaly | 9 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 21 | Details | |||||||||
| Roscommon | 9 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 26 | Details | |||||||||
| Sligo | 9 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 25 | Details | ||||||||
| South Dublin | 8 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 26 | Details | ||||||
| North Tipperary | 12 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 21 | Details | |||||||||
| South Tipperary | 12 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 26 | Details | |||||||||
| Waterford | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 23 | Details | |||||||||
| Westmeath | 12 | 6 | 5 | 23 | Details | ||||||||||
| Wexford | 9 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 21 | Details | |||||||||
| Wicklow | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 24 | Details | ||||||||
| Authority | FF | FG | Lab | GP | SF | PD | Other | Total | Details | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cork City | 12 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 31 | Details | ||||||
| Dublin City | 20 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 52 | Details | ||||||
| Galway City | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 15 | Details | ||||||
| Limerick City | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17 | Details | ||||||
| Waterford City | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 15 | Details | ||||||
| Party | Seats | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|
| FF | 289 | +16 | |
| FG | 159 | -15 | |
| Labour | 87 | +10 | |
| SF | 41 | +16 | |
| Progressive Democrats | 7 | -11 | |
| Green | 5 | -1 | |
| Workers' Party | 1 | -1 | |
| Democratic Left | 0 | -11 | |
| Other parties | 156 | -3 | |
| Authority | FF | FG | Lab | SF | Progressive Democrats | GP | WP | Others | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clonmel | 5 | 2 | 5[fn 1] | |||||||||||||
| Drogheda | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Kilkenny | 5 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Sligo | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Wexford | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Totals | 22 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | ||||||||
| Town | Fianna Fáil | Fine Gael | Labour Party | Sinn Féin | Progressive Democrats | Green Party | Workers Party of Ireland | Others | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ardee | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||
| Arklow | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | |||||
| Athlone | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |||||
| Athy | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||
| Balbriggan | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | |||
| Ballina | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |||||
| Ballinasloe | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | |||||
| Ballybay | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Ballyshannon | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |||||
| Bandon | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |||||
| Bantry | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Belturbet | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Birr | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| Boyle | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | ||||
| Bray | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 12 | ||||
| Buncrana | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| Bundoran | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Carlow | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Carrickmacross | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Carrick-on-Suir | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | |||
| Cashel | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | ||||
| Castlebar | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Castleblayney | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | |||||
| Cavan | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | |||||
| Clonakilty | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | |||
| Clones | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| Cobh | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | |||
| Cootehill | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| Dundalk | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | |||
| Dungarvan | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| Edenderry | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | |||||
| Ennis | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | |||
| Enniscorthy | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| Fermoy | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | ||||
| Gorey | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | |||||
| Granard | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | ||||
| Greystones | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | ||||
| Kells | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Kilkee | 4 | 3 | 1 | 9 | |||||
| Killarney | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4[fn 2] | 9 | ||||
| Kilrush | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | ||||
| Kinsale | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| Leixlip | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | |||||
| Letterkenny | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | ||||
| Lismore | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| Listowel | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 | |||||
| Longford | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| Loughrea | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | |||||
| Macroom | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Mallow | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |||||
| Midleton | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | |||||
| Monaghan | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Mountmellick | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 | |||||
| Muine Bheag | 6 | 2 | 1 | 9 | |||||
| Mullingar | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Naas | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | |||
| Navan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| Nenagh | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Newbridge | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |||||
| New Ross | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||
| Passage West | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||
| Portlaoise | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Shannon | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| Skibbereen | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | ||||
| Templemore | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |||||
| Thurles | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Tipperary | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | ||||
| Tralee | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | |||
| Tramore | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | ||
| Trim | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | ||||
| Tuam | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | |||
| Tullamore | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||
| Westport | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 | |||||
| Wicklow | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| Youghal | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
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