2024 Leitrim County Council election

2024 Leitrim County Council election
All 18 seats on Leitrim County Council; 10 seats needed for a majority
	Area of Leitrim County Council

An election to all 18 seats on Leitrim County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.^[1] County Leitrim 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]

Retiring incumbents

The following councillors did not seek re-election:^[3]

Constituency	Departing Councillor
Carrick-on-Shannon	Finola Armstrong-Maguire	Fine Gael
Manorhamilton	Frank Dolan	Fine Gael
Ballinamore	Gerry Dolan	Independent
Ballinamore	Cailian Ellis	Fianna Fáil
Manorhamilton	Seán McDermott	Fine Gael
Carrick-on-Shannon	Thomas Mulligan	Fine Gael

Results by party

Party		Candidates	Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	7	6		5,622	30.04%	4.35
	Sinn Féin	7	4	2	4,031	21.54%	4.36
	Fine Gael	5	3	3	3,247	17.35%	7.31
	Green	3	0		501	2.68%	0.50
	Labour	1	0	New	103	0.55%	New
	Independent Ireland	1	0	New	103	0.55%	New
	Farmers' Alliance	1	0	New	121	0.55%	New
	Social Democrats	1	0	New	136	0.73%	New
	Independent	9	5	1	4,849	25.91%	4.55
Totals		35	18		18,713	100.00

Analysis by Party

Fianna Fáil retained 2 seats in each of the 3 LEAs to remain the largest party in Leitrim with 6 seats overall. Fine Gael had a very bad election here losing 3 seats overall which was not helped by a large number of retirements. The party lost both seats in Manorhamilton to Independent candidates to emerge without any representation and also lost another seat to Sinn Féin in Carrickonshannon. Sinn Féin emerged with 4 seats overall to return to the position they held at the 2014 elections through also the gain of a second seat in Ballinamore and to become the second largest party after Fianna Fáil. Independents increased their numbers to 5.

Results by LEA

^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.

Ballinamore

Ballinamore: 6 seats^[3]^[4]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fianna Fáil	*Paddy O'Rourke^[]**	21.71%	1,434
	Fine Gael	*Enda McGloin^[]**	15.64%	1,033
	Sinn Féin	*Brendan Barry^[]**	13.04%	861	878	913	930	1,007
	Fine Gael	*Ita Reynolds-Flynn^[]**	10.98%	725	823	840	857	912	917	961
	Fianna Fáil	Gary Prior	8.87%	586	768	776	788	854	862	984
	Sinn Féin	Joanne Curnan	8.51%	562	574	576	584	617	633	681	695
	Sinn Féin	Roisín Kenny	7.34%	485	613	613	633	673	687	723	742
	Independent	Seán Wynn	6.54%	432	444	459	517	561	576
	Green	Adam Ó Ceallaigh	4.98%	329	347	356	377
	Independent Ireland	Karina Charles Lynch	1.56%	103	118	121
	Independent	George Heslin	0.82%	54	62	62
Electorate: 10,152 Valid: 6,604 Spoilt: 56 Quota: 944 Turnout: 6,660 (65.60%)

Carrick-on-Shannon

Carrick-on-Shannon: 6 seats^[3]^[4]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fianna Fáil	*Sean McGowan^[]**	13.75%	793	793	797	804	810	812	912
	Independent	*Enda Stenson^[]**	13.25%	764	771	788	863
	Fine Gael	Maeve Reynolds	13.06%	753	757	769	828
	Independent	*Des Guckian^[]**	12.90%	744	747	778	837
	Fianna Fáil	*Paddy Farrell^[]**	12.07%	696	702	721	739	750	753	800
	Sinn Féin	Cormac Flynn	9.28%	535	538	544	600	608	611	841
	Fianna Fáil	Stephen King	9.02%	520	523	524	572	580	582	595
	Sinn Féin	Lisa Mulligan	7.18%	414	416	420	460	466	469
	Independent	Sharon Garland	4.16%	240	242	252
	Social Democrats	Lola Gonzalez-Farrell	2.36%	136	152	155
	Farmers' Alliance	Michael McManus	2.10%	121	123
	Green	Leslie O'Hora	0.87%	50
Electorate: 9,294 Valid: 5,766 Spoilt: 74 Quota: 824 Turnout: 5,840 (62.84%)

Manorhamilton

Manorhamilton: 6 seats^[3]^[4]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Independent	James Gilmartin	21.04%	1,335
	Fianna Fáil	*Mary Bohan^[]**	13.16%	835	889	925
	Sinn Féin	*Pádraig Fallon^[]**	12.28%	779	812	831	862	867	1,145
	Fianna Fáil	*Justin Warnock^[]**	11.94%	758	797	804	827	830	939
	Independent	*Felim Gurn^[]**	11.57%	734	846	864	935
	Independent	*Eddie Mitchell^[]**	8.07%	512	585	655	721	730	774	866
	Fine Gael	Kevin Comiskey	7.23%	459	502	513	592	600	612	631
	Sinn Féin	Michelle Brennan Shyabo	6.27%	398	425	462	493	496
	Fine Gael	Caitríona Bergin	4.36%	277	303	335
	Green	Bláithín Gallagher	1.92%	122	132
	Labour	Bernie Linnane	1.62%	103	111
	Independent	Diarmuid McConville	0.54%	34	37
Electorate: 9,614 Valid: 6,346 Spoilt: 47 Quota: 907 Turnout: 6,393 (66.01%)

References

^ "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.
^ "Local elections in Ireland". Citizens Information Board. Archived from the original on 6 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d O'Grady, Donal (20 March 2024). "Local election race is on in Leitrim". www.leitrimobserver.ie. Archived from the original on 30 March 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Notice of Poll" (PDF). Leitrim County Council. 20 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.

[order-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.

[citizensinformation-2] "Local elections in Ireland". Citizens Information Board. Archived from the original on 6 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.

[LeitrimObs20MAR2024-3] O'Grady, Donal (20 March 2024). "Local election race is on in Leitrim". www.leitrimobserver.ie. Archived from the original on 30 March 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2024.

[PollNotice-4] "Notice of Poll" (PDF). Leitrim County Council. 20 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.

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