2024 Clare County Council election
This article documents a current election. Information may change rapidly as the election progresses until official results have been published. Initial news reports may be unreliable, and the last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. (June 2024) |
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All 28 seats on Clare County Council 15 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Area of Clare County Council |
An election to all 28 seats on Clare County Council will be held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.[1] County Clare is divided into 5 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[edit]
Party | Candidates | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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Fianna Fáil | 16 | ||||||
Fine Gael | 11 | ||||||
Sinn Féin | 6 | ||||||
Green | 5 | ||||||
Social Democrats | 2 | ||||||
Aontú | 1 | ||||||
Labour | 2 | ||||||
Independent Ireland | 3 | ||||||
Irish Freedom | 1 | ||||||
Farmers' Alliance | 1 | ||||||
The Irish People | 1 | ||||||
Independent | 10 | ||||||
Total | 59 | 28 | 100.00 |
Retiring incumbents[edit]
The following councillors are not seeking re-election:
Constituency | Councillor | Party | |
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Ennis | Johnny Flynn[3] | Fine Gael | |
Kilrush | PJ Kelly[4] | Fianna Fáil | |
Ennis | Ann Norton[5] | Independent |
Candidates by local electoral area[edit]
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
Ennis[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Antoinette Bashua | |||
Fianna Fáil | Clare Colleran Molloy[*] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Pat Daly[*] | |||
Green | Bridget Ginnity | |||
Sinn Féin | Tommy Guilfoyle | |||
Fine Gael | Mary Howard[*] | |||
Independent | Ruairi Keenan | |||
Independent | Jacek Kazimierz Kwasny | |||
Independent | Amanda Major | |||
Fine Gael | Paul Murphy[*] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Tom O'Callaghan[†] | |||
Labour | Seamus Ryan | |||
Social Democrats | Hilary Tonge | |||
Quota: |
Ennistymon[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Fine Gael | Joe Garrihy[*] | |||
Green | Liam Grant[†] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Joe Killeen[*] | |||
The Irish People | Mike Loughrey | |||
Farmers' Alliance | Pam O'Loughlin | |||
Sinn Féin | Conor O'Sullivan | |||
Fine Gael | Bill Slattery | |||
Fianna Fáil | Shane Talty[*] | |||
Labour | Denis Vaughan | |||
Quota: |
Killaloe[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Fine Gael | Pat Burke[*] | |||
Sinn Féin | Martina Cleary | |||
Fine Gael | Joe Cooney[*] | |||
Green | Audrey Flynn | |||
Fianna Fáil | Pat Hayes[*] | |||
Social Democrats | Fiona Levie | |||
Independent Ireland | Matthew Moroney | |||
Fianna Fáil | Tony O'Brien[*] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Alan O'Callaghan[*] | |||
Quota: |
Kilrush[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Dawn Bennett | |||
Fine Gael | Therese Doohan | |||
Independent | Dinny Gould | |||
Green | Susan Griffin | |||
Independent Ireland | Kevin Hassett | |||
Irish Freedom | John Hill | |||
Fine Gael | Gabriel Keating[*] | |||
Independent | Ian Lynch[*] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Rita McInerney[†] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Cillian Murphy[*] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Michael Shannon | |||
Fianna Fáil | Alan Troy | |||
Independent Ireland | Joe Woulfe | |||
Quota: |
Shannon[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Independent | Pat Barry | |||
Independent | Michael Begley[*] | |||
Green | Fursa Cavanagh | |||
Fine Gael | John Crowe[*] | |||
Fine Gael | Val Gillane | |||
Fianna Fáil | David Griffin | |||
Fianna Fáil | Rachel Hartigan | |||
Aontú | John Haugh | |||
Sinn Féin | Donna McGettigan [†] | |||
Independent | Keith McNamara | |||
Fine Gael | Tony Mulcahy | |||
Independent | Conor O'Brien | |||
Fianna Fáil | Pat O'Gorman[†] | |||
Sinn Féin | James Ryan | |||
Independent | PJ Ryan[*] | |||
Quota: |
References[edit]
- ^ "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.
- ^ McMahon, Páraic (28 February 2024). "Johnny Flynn withdraws from election race & says unelected officials dictating Ennis' future". Clare Echo. Archived from the original on 10 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ McMahon, Páraic (12 February 2024). "PJ Kelly to bow out of politics". Clare Echo. Archived from the original on 10 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ McMahon, Páraic (17 April 2024). "'I always said I'd give it ten years' - Ann Norton calls time on political career". Clare Echo. Archived from the original on 10 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "Notice of Poll Ennis" (PDF). Clare County Council. 20 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 May 2024. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ "Notice of Poll Ennistymon" (PDF). Clare County Council. 20 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 May 2024. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ "Notice of Poll Killaloe" (PDF). Clare County Council. 20 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 May 2024. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ "Notice of Poll Kilrush" (PDF). Clare County Council. 20 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 May 2024. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ "Notice of Poll Shannon" (PDF). Clare County Council. 20 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 May 2024. Retrieved 23 May 2024.