2024 Longford County Council election

2024 Longford County Council election
7 June 2024
All 18 seats on Longford County Council
10 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Independent
Last election 7 8 3
Area of Longford County Council

An election to all 18 seats on Longford County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.[1] County Longford is divided into 3 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).[2]

Results by party

Party Candidates Seats ± 1st pref FPv% ±%
Fine Gael 10 8 Decrease1 9,068 43.03 Increase3.76
Fianna Fáil 10 8 Increase2 6,398 30.36 Decrease2.11
Sinn Féin 3 0 Steady 1,339 6.35 Increase1.77
The Irish People 2 0 New 284 1.35 New
Green 1 0 New 92 0.44 New
People Before Profit 1 0 New 71 0.34 New
Independent 12 2 Decrease1 3,820 18.13 Decrease5.07
Total 39 18 Steady 21,072 100.00 Steady

Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.

Ballymahon

Ballymahon: 6 Seats[3][4]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Fine Gael Paul Ross[*] 18.52% 1,300            
Fianna Fáil Mick Cahill[*] 12.34% 866 938 949 994 1,013    
Fianna Fáil Pat O'Toole[*] 10.17% 714 743 753 908 927 928 970
Independent Mark Casey[*] 9.06% 636 650 685 744 929 933 1,093
Fianna Fáil Sean Mimnagh 8.45% 593 601 612 628 800 801 843
Fine Gael Martin Skelly 8.28% 581 629 637 664 762 763 843
Independent Gerald Farrell[*] 8.02% 563 567 590 627      
Sinn Féin John Rooney 8.01% 562 598 638 678 695 695  
Fine Gael Colm Murray[*] 7.66% 538 603 615 654 693 696 748
Independent Niall Dowler 6.05% 425 440 489        
The Irish People Mandy Larkin 2.29% 161 165          
Independent Francesca Pawelczyk 1.14% 80 82          
Electorate: 12,067   Valid: 7,019   Spoilt: 74   Quota: 1,003   Turnout: 7,093 (58.78%)  

Granard

Granard: 5 Seats[5][6]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Fine Gael Garry Murtagh[*] 20.41% 1,450            
Independent Turlough McGovern[*] 19.89% 1,413            
Fine Gael Paraic Brady[*] 17.04% 1,211            
Fine Gael Colin Dalton[†] 11.54% 820 883 918 953 972 1,059 1,067
Fine Gael Padraig McNamara 9.84% 699 735 850 881 1,035 1,111 1,113
Fianna Fáil David Cassidy 7.64% 543 600 615 661 717 1,055 1,071
Fianna Fáil Susan Murphy 6.11% 434 510 524 552 613    
Fianna Fáil Marett Smith 3.97% 282 295 323 336      
Sinn Féin Barry Campion 3.56% 253 273 294        
Electorate: 10,955   Valid: 7,105   Spoilt: 63   Quota: 1,185   Turnout: 7,168 (65.43%)  

Longford

Longford: 7 Seats[7][8]
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Fine Gael Gerard Hagan[*] 15.69% 1,071                          
Fianna Fáil Martin Monaghan[*] 15.40% 1,051                          
Fianna Fáil Seamus Butler[*] 15.25% 1,041                          
Fine Gael Peggy Nolan[*] 13.04% 890                          
Fine Gael Niall Gannon 7.44% 508 606 658 721 734 738 751 751 762 773 779 786 821 843
Fianna Fáil Kevin Hussey 6.49% 443 475 523 560 568 571 576 580 600 606 610 615 650 666
Fianna Fáil Uruemu Adejinmi[†] 6.32% 431 467 501 551 555 555 559 563 569 616 617 642 670 767
Sinn Féin James Donnelly 5.88% 401 414 425 431 434 437 439 455 463 471 482 484 498 533
Independent Mujahid Manzoor 3.25% 222 223 225 225 225 225 226 227 231 236 237      
Independent Sadia Athar 2.97% 203 204 207 211 212 213 217 232 238 249 257 347 361  
The Irish People Gareth McKendry 1.80% 123 126 128 130 130 141 145 149 155 155        
Independent James Quinn 1.67% 114 132 160 167 169 179 192 198 211 214 254 258    
Green Catherine Joseph 1.35% 92 95 98 101 102 102 105 113 114          
People Before Profit Dave Smyth 1.04% 71 72 74 76 76 77 77              
Independent Alicia Carberry 1.00% 68 71 77 83 85 91 99 104            
Independent Maura Greene-Casey 0.78% 53 58 60 66 67 70                
Independent Tony Reilly 0.44% 30 33 36 37 38                  
Independent Dwain Schouten 0.19% 13 13 14 14 14                  
Electorate: 13,843   Valid: 6,825   Spoilt: 95   Quota: 854   Turnout: 6,920 (49.99%)  

References

  1. ^ "Polling Day Orders made for European, local and Limerick mayoral elections". Gov.ie (Press release). Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. 6 April 2024. Archived from the original on 10 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Local elections in Ireland". Citizens Information Board. Archived from the original on 6 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
  3. ^ "Notice of Poll-Ballymahon" (PDF). Longford County Council. 21 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Ballymahon LEA Results". Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Notice of Poll-Granard" (PDF). Longford County Council. 21 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
  6. ^ "Granard LEA Results". Retrieved 14 June 2024.
  7. ^ "Notice of Poll-Longford" (PDF). Longford County Council. 21 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
  8. ^ "Longford LEA Results". Retrieved 14 June 2024.
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