1960 Cork City Council election


As part of the 1960 Irish local elections, all 21 seats on Cork City Council were contested on 29 June, with counting of votes beginning on 30 June and concluded in the early hours of 3 July. This was the last time the entire county borough of Cork formed a single local electoral area, with 63 single transferable vote counts necessary to process the 72 candidates. Electoral law empowered the Minister for Local Government to split county boroughs into multiple LEAs only if the council requested, which Cork City Council had not done. The Electoral Act 1963 allowed the minister to act unilaterally and, after its 1965 boundary extension, the borough was divided into 6 LEAs in time for the 1967 local elections, with the larger parties increasing their proportion of seats.

Results

Party1st-pref
vote		SeatsChangeNotes
Fianna FáilFF166,7327−1
Fine GaelFG93,61530
LabourLab93,4953−1
Corporation Tenants AssociationTen61,8102+2
Ratepayers' AssociationRP71,7342+2
T.E.A.M.TEAM81,2781+1"The Emigration Action Movement", a new local group, which merged with Labour by the 1967 election
Cork Civic PartyCiv81,2591−1The party dissolved in 1966 after the 1965 LEA changes.
Poblacht ChríostúilPCh320900Candidates' names were in Irish on the ballot paper.
Sinn FéinSF000−2Did not contest the election in Cork.
IndependentsInd61,89220

The first six candidates elected gained the honorific title alderman; the other 15 were "councillors". Seán McCarthy, John Bermingham and Gus Healy were also elected to Cork County Council from the Cork Rural LEA which bordered the city.
NameParty1st-pref
vote		Order
elected
Stephen D. BarrettFG16501
John GalvinFF14862
John W. ReidyInd13483
Seán CaseyLab12294
Sam AllenFF9735
Josephine JoyceRP7746
Thomas Pearse LeahyTEAM6907
Anthony BarryFG3398
Gus HealyFF5829
John BerminghamFG47410
Jane DowdallFF53511
James HickeyLab55312
William KenneallyTen53113
Dan CroninFF53414
Seán McCarthyFF35015
Valentine JagoCiv25716
J. BarrettTen33517
J. F. LuceyInd33518
Pearse WyseFF34819
E. P. StanleyRP21620
Cornelius DesmondLab30621
P. J. O'DonovanFF354
C. BurnsTen334
D. P. KelleherFF333
J. O'GormanFF303
John F. O'DwyerFG289
J. HarringtonLab285
Con ConnollyLab274
Vincent O'ConnellFG270
G. McCarthyTen265
P. MaddenTEAM249
T. PowerTen247
H. ReidLab242
P. McCarthyLab240
A. AherneFF240
T. JonesCiv234
D. BreenCiv232
R. G. SuttonFG227
M. McMullenLab214
Walter FurlongCiv210
C. D. DowmanRP206
K. CollinsRP192
J. J. O'RiordanFF182
J. J. KellyFG169
M. MullinsFF163
J. QuirkeFF161
Richard AnthonyLab152
R. StokesRP144
L. NevilleFG126
C. O'CallaghanRP115
Sylvester CotterPCh111
D. MartellFF103
J. McCarthyTen98
D. P. LongTEAM97
T. O'SullivanInd95
D. BeavanCiv88
C. CookeRP87
M. DoneganCiv86
Fred GeaneyFF85
Maurice O'ConnellInd84
R. L. AnthonyCiv83
S. D. Ó DubhghaillPCh76
F. M. DooleyFG71
Frank MocklerCiv69
J. J. O'ConnellTEAM58
P. O'BrienTEAM52
W. MurphyTEAM52
R. LongfieldTEAM46
D. O'LearyTEAM34
P. Ó hAngusaPCh22
James McCarthyInd21
J. BrutonInd9