The 1945 local elections in Ireland were held on 14 June 1945 to fill all council seats for most counties and county boroughs and municipal towns. The state was still under the Emergency of the Second World War. As a cost-saving measure, electoral law was amended to bring forward the date of the local elections a few weeks to coincide with the 1945 presidential election.;
Dublin County Council and Kerry County Council had been dissolved, and no elections were held for their councils. There was no poll for six urban district councils and four town commissioners because the number of candidates did not exceed the number of seats.
Results The elections were by single transferable vote. The total valid votes cast was 1,152,691. Totals of invalid votes were not aggregated from local counts. Fianna Fáil lost votes to Independents. Prior to the 1960s, Fine Gael did not contest local elections in all areas; some of those who voted for it in Dáil elections voted at local elections for local groups including the Cork Civic Party and Limerick Progressive Party.
+1945 local election results: county and county boroughspercentage / count of seats (S) and first-preference votes (V) Council Total Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour C na Talmhan Independents and othersSVSVSVSVSVSV Cavan 25 30,327 44 / 11 45 / 13,611 0 / 0 1 / 351 0 / 0 0 / 0 12 / 3 14 / 4,361 44 / 11 40 / 12,004 Cork city 21 28,262 33 / 7 28 / 7,907 14 / 3 10 / 2,817 5 / 1 5 / 1,506 0 / 0 0 / 0 48 / 10 51 / 14,458 Galway 31 57,580 55 / 17 47 / 27,131 0 / 0 0 / 0 3 / 1 4 / 2,115 19 / 6 25 / 14,508 23 / 7 24 / 13,826 Leitrim 22 20,825 36 / 8 41 / 8,523 9 / 3 21 / 4,338 0 / 0 0 / 0 13 / 4 16 / 3,378 22 / 7 24 / 5,070 Limerick city 15 53 / 8 0 / 0 7 / 1 0 / 0 47 / 7 Mayo 31 56,166 52 / 16 46 / 25,969 13 / 4 15 / 8,661 0 / 0 0 / 187 26 / 8 30 / 17,115 10 / 3 8 / 4,234 Meath 29 23,916 48 / 14 49 / 11,832 3 / 1 5 / 1,263 10 / 3 13 / 3,159 7 / 2 5 / 1,328 31 / 9 26 / 6,334 Monaghan 20 24,957 55 / 11 52 / 13,056 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 0 10 / 2 13 / 2,942 35 / 7 36 / 8,959 Offaly 21 19,819 43 / 9 19 / 4 10 / 2 10 / 2 19 / 4 Roscommon 26 32,986 54 / 14 53 / 17,545 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 0 0 / 0 38 / 10 37 / 12,104 8 / 2 10 / 3,337 Sligo 24 25,948 38 / 9 32 / 8,398 38 / 9 43 / 11,214 4 / 1 2 / 633 8 / 2 10 / 2,692 13 / 3 12 / 3,011 Tipperary North 21 24,690 48 / 10 46 / 11,256 19 / 5 21 / 5,270 10 / 2 18 / 4,422 0 / 0 0 / 0 19 / 4 23 / 5,705 Westmeath 23 21,261 39 / 9 39 / 8,298 0 / 0 0 / 0 22 / 5 18 / 3,804 0 / 0 0 / 0 39 / 9 43 / 9,159
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References Sources ( only Sligo County Council results are available.)
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