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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, May 11, 2009

HEADED ITEM NO.10

 

PALMERSTON PLEBISCITE 

REPORT:

The council resolved in July 2008 to initiate the procedure to conduct a plebiscite in order to establish the consent of the qualified electorate to change the official name of Palmerston to Palmerstown.

The process was initiated and the list of qualified electors was approved by resolution of the Council at the March 2009 Council meeting.

A Plebiscite was held in accordance with the Section 79 of the Local Government Act 1946 and the Local Government (Changing of Place Names Regulations) 1956 (as amended by Section 67 of Local Government Act 1994) and the result is as follows:

Declaration of Result of Plebiscite

I, the undersigned, being the Returning Officer at the plebiscite held to ascertain the consent to the qualified electors to change the official name of Palmerston to Palmerstown hereby declare the result of the said plebiscite as follows:

Total Ballot Papers Issued 7037
Total Returns                          3470
Ballot Papers Rejected            197
Not Signed 18
Not Witnessed 37
No Preference indicated 52
Ballot Paper Altered 1
Returned: Deceased, Gone Away               89
Total Valid Poll:  3273
Votes in favour of said change 2976
Votes not in favour of said change 297

 The result, therefore, is that in accordance with S 67 of the Local Government Act 1994 as the majority of the qualified electors did not vote in favour of the proposed change, there shall be no change to the official name of Palmerston.

Mary Maguire, S.E.O.

Returning Officer                                           Dated this 11th day of May 2009