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1999 Waterford County Council election

part of the 1999 Irish local elections

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ17985061 ↗
Source-derived summary

An election to Waterford County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 23 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas for a five-year term of office on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1999 Waterford County Council election” as part of the 1999 Irish local elections. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Waterford, County and Council can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as part of the 1999 Irish local elections. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “1999 Waterford 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.