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1960 Donegal County Council election

1960 Irish local government election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ128996031 ↗
Source-derived summary

An election to all 28 seats on Donegal County Council took place on 30 June 1960 as part of the Irish local elections. Councillors were elected from five local electoral areas for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

Results by party

Results by local electoral area

Sitting in italics

Buncrana

Donegal

Glenties

Letterkenny

Milford

References

External links

[1]irelandelection.com results for the 1960 Donegal County Council elections.

Irishelectionliterature link for old election results, with the results for Donegal between 1955 and 2009 here.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1960 Donegal County Council election” as 1960 Irish local government election. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1955, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Donegal, County and Council can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as 1960 Irish local government election. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q128996031. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1960, 1955 and 2009.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “1960 Donegal County Council election”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 1960 Donegal County Council election primary sources, 1960 Donegal County Council election archive and Donegal research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “1960 Donegal County Council election”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “1960 Donegal County Council election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.