Londonderry County Borough Council election, 1920

January 1920

All 41 seats to Londonderry County Borough Council 21 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Party	Irish Unionist	Sinn Féin
Seats won	19	10

Council control after election

Nationalist alliance

An election to Londonderry County Borough Council took place in January 1920 as part of that year's Irish local elections. The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1919 had seen elections for local government in Ireland change to a more proportional system. As a result Unionists lost control over Londonderry borough council, which for the first time passed into the control of the city's Catholic majority.^[1]

Nationalist control of the council wouldn't last however, and following the partition of Ireland the Northern Irish Government restored the older, and less representative ward based system.^[1]

Results by party

Party		Seats	FPv%	±%
	Irish Unionist	19
	Sinn Féin	10
	Nationalist	10
	Independent Nationalist	1
Totals		41	100%	—

References

1 2 Laffan, Michael (1999). The Resurrection of Ireland: The Sinn Féin Party, 1916–1923. Cambridge University Press. p. 327.

Preceded by Londonderry County Borough Council election, 1914	Londonderry elections	Succeeded by Londonderry County Borough Council election, 1925

(1919 ←) United Kingdom local elections, 1920 (→ 1921)

England	Liverpool

Administrative county councils (Ireland)	Antrim Armagh Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Down Dublin Fermanagh Fingal Galway Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Londonderry Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Tyrone Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow

Borough councils (Ireland)	Belfast Cork Dublin Galway Limerick Londonderry Sligo Waterford

District councils (Ireland)	Armagh UD Armagh RD Kilrush Londonderry RD Rathmines

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