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.svg) Map showing the largest party, and affiliation of councillors, by electoral area.
Sinn Féin received a majority of the vote in wards 1, 3, 6, and 7, and a plurality in 2, 5, 9, and 10. Independent Nationalists received a majority of the vote in ward 8, and Official Nationalists won a plurality in ward 4. Whilst Sinn Féin was the single largest party in ward 2, Municipal Reform and Unionist candidates together won more votes. | |||||||||||||||||
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An election to Dublin Corporation took place on Thursday, 15 January 1920 as part of the 1920 Irish local elections. Dublin was divided into ten borough electoral areas to elect 80 councillors for a five-year term of office on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Sinn Féin won a slight majority in the council, with 42 seats. Whilst the Sinn Féin majority was small, they emerged from the election as by far the largest party on the Dublin Corporation council.[1]
Following the election Thomas Kelly, the Sinn Féin MP for Dublin St Stephen's Green, was unanimously elected by the council as the new Lord Mayor of Dublin. Kelly was elected despite being held at the time as a political prisoner in Wormwood Scrubs prison in England. Kelly was nominated for the position by the outgoing Lord Mayor Laurence O'Neill. Due to Kelly's imprisonment O'Neill continued as effective Lord Mayor.
Boundaries
These were the first elections under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1919, which introduced a form of proportional representation. Under the old ward system, each of 20 wards had elected one alderman and three additional councillors. In 1919, the Local Government Board of Ireland created 10 borough electoral areas (BEAs), taking a greater account of population in the city, which took effect at these elections. Two councillors from each BEA were designated as aldermen.[2]
| BEA | Seats | Wards | Former representation |
|---|---|---|---|
| No. 1 | 9 | Arran Quay | 4 |
| No. 2 | 8 | Clontarf East, Clontarf West, Drumcondra and Glasnevin | 16 |
| No. 3 | 9 | Fitzwilliam, Mansion House, Royal Exchange, South City | 16 |
| No. 4 | 10 | Inns Quay and Rotunda | 8 |
| No. 5 | 7 | Merchant's Quay | 4 |
| No. 6 | 7 | Mountjoy | 4 |
| No. 7 | 9 | New Kilmainham and Usher's Quay | 8 |
| No. 8 | 8 | North City and North Dock | 8 |
| No. 9 | 6 | Wood Quay | 4 |
| No. 10 | 7 | Trinity and South Dock | 8 |
Results by party
| Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sinn Féin | 42 |  38
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28,069 | 45.92 | ||
| Labour | 14 | 5
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7,693 | 12.58 | ||
| Municipal Reform | 9 | 9
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7,011 | 11.47 | New | |
| Independent Nationalist | 7 | 9,607 | 15.72 | |||
| Irish Nationalist | 4 |  52
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3,302 | 5.40 | ||
| Independent | 2 | 4,087 | 6.69 | |||
| Irish Unionist | 1 | 4
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702 | 1.49 | ||
| Painters Society | 1 | 1
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265 | 0.43 | New | |
| Ind. Republican | 0 | 275 | 0.45 | |||
| Independent Socialist | 0 | 182 | 0.30 | |||
| Independent Labour | 0 | 8 | 0.01 | |||
| Totals | 80 | 61,131 | 100.00 | — | ||
Results by borough electoral area
^ *: Incumbent councillor.
No. 1 Electoral Area
Arran Quay Ward.