Queen's County Council (now Laois County Council) was created in 1899 under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 and the first local elections for the county council, and the councils of the five rural districts within Queen's County, were held on 6 April 1899, simultaneous with elections in the other administrative counties. The first Queen's County Council comprised 32 councillors serving a three-year term: 22 elected, one from each of the 22 county districts five rural district council chairmen, ex officio three nominees of the outgoing county grand jury, the unelected county government prior to the 1898 act two members co-opted by the other members at the council's first meeting on 22 April 1899
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1899 Queen's County Council election
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