1979 Local Election
to Labour Party | to Fianna Fáil | to Fine Gael | to Sinn Féin | to Socialist Party | to Independent | to Sinn Féin (Workers' Party) | to Independent Fianna Fáil | to Communist Party | to Socialist Labour Party | to Independent Socialist | to Independent Labour | to Protestant Association | ||
| from Labour Party | | 11131 (41.4%) | 4485 (16.7%) | 7398 (27.5%) | 308 (1.1%) | 2010 (7.5%) | 1179 (4.4%) | 357 (1.3%) | 34 (0.1%) | 15 (0.1%) | ||||
| from Fianna Fáil | | 3378 (4.8%) | 45626 (65.3%) | 12866 (18.4%) | 1622 (2.3%) | 3 (0.0%) | 4557 (6.5%) | 692 (1.0%) | 1009 (1.4%) | 48 (0.1%) | 36 (0.1%) | 28 (0.0%) | ||
| from Fine Gael | | 5081 (7.5%) | 9798 (14.4%) | 45428 (66.7%) | 1123 (1.6%) | 4786 (7.0%) | 768 (1.1%) | 716 (1.1%) | 6 (0.0%) | 341 (0.5%) | 5 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 14 (0.0%) | |
| from Sinn Féin | | 281 (6.4%) | 1428 (32.4%) | 1303 (29.6%) | 195 (4.4%) | 686 (15.6%) | 219 (5.0%) | 130 (2.9%) | 115 (2.6%) | 50 (1.1%) | ||||
| from Socialist Party | | 36 (41.9%) | 11 (12.8%) | 18 (20.9%) | 21 (24.4%) | |||||||||
| from Independent | | 3854 (13.9%) | 8575 (30.8%) | 8085 (29.1%) | 727 (2.6%) | 15 (0.1%) | 4800 (17.3%) | 1243 (4.5%) | 277 (1.0%) | 20 (0.1%) | 179 (0.6%) | 40 (0.1%) | ||
| from Sinn Féin (Workers' Party) | | 2202 (25.9%) | 1568 (18.5%) | 1653 (19.5%) | 198 (2.3%) | 1503 (17.7%) | 987 (11.6%) | 140 (1.6%) | 230 (2.7%) | 3 (0.0%) | 2 (0.0%) | |||
| from Independent Fianna Fáil | | 477 (22.2%) | 434 (20.2%) | 159 (7.4%) | 20 (0.9%) | 1 (0.0%) | 1056 (49.2%) | |||||||
| from Communist Party | | 62 (18.3%) | 19 (5.6%) | 14 (4.1%) | 109 (32.2%) | 103 (30.4%) | 32 (9.4%) | |||||||
| from Socialist Labour Party | | 1026 (24.0%) | 476 (11.1%) | 723 (16.9%) | 12 (0.3%) | 292 (6.8%) | 439 (10.3%) | 13 (0.3%) | 1290 (30.2%) | |||||
| from Independent Socialist | | 55 (39.0%) | 18 (12.8%) | 14 (9.9%) | 54 (38.3%) | |||||||||
| from Independent Labour | | 41 (17.3%) | 23 (9.7%) | 161 (67.9%) | 12 (5.1%) |