2004 Galway City Council election

2004 Galway City Council election

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All 15 seats on Galway City Council
First party Second party Third party   Party Labour Progressive Democrats Fine Gael Seats won 4 3 3 Seat change +2 -1 -1   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Fianna Fáil Sinn Féin Green Seats won 2 1 1 Seat change -3 +1 +1   Seventh party   Party Independent Seats won 1 Seat change +1
Map showing the area of Galway City Council
Council control after election TBD

An election to Galway City Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 15 councillors were elected from three local electoral areas by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office. ^[1]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Labour	4	+2	3,816	16.49
	Progressive Democrats	3	-1	5,235	22.63
	Fine Gael	3	-1	3,945	17.05
	Fianna Fáil	2	-3	4,440	19.19
	Sinn Féin	1	+1	1,942	8.39
	Green	1	+1	1,683	7.27
	Independent	1	+1	2,075	8.97
Totals		15	-	23,136	100.00	—

Results by local electoral area

Galway No.1

Galway No.1 - 7 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Independent	Michael Crowe	10.50	1,027	1,033	1,050	1,069	1,106	1,143	1,185	1,232
	Progressive Democrats	Declan McDonnell *	10.24	1,002	1,004	1,011	1,024	1,036	1,052	1,090	1,093	1,115	1,116	1,138	1,185	1,356
	Fine Gael	Brian Walsh	8.91	872	873	890	950	962	1,052	1,067	1,072	1,234
	Sinn Féin	Daniel Callanan	8.55	836	840	842	851	874	882	903	946	961	961	1,042	1,071	1,117
	Progressive Democrats	Terry O'Flaherty *	7.81	764	773	790	805	840	867	886	900	930	933	959	1,055	1,193
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Leahy *	6.60	646	652	690	704	707	722	794	811	846	847	874	1,078	1,151
	Labour	Tom Costello *	6.39	625	647	655	659	691	697	709	741	790	793	904	957	1,097
	Progressive Democrats	Gary Creaven	5.95	582	585	595	602	627	635	649	654	689	690	715	780
	Fianna Fáil	Johanna Downes	4.53	443	448	474	478	512	518	566	581	595	595	623
	Labour	Derek Nolan	4.50	440	478	486	495	524	539	553	617	641	642	801	835	878
	Green	Kieran Cunnane	4.25	416	426	428	440	453	469	473	555	578	579
	Fine Gael	Fintan Coogan*	3.50	342	344	348	378	393	448	454	469
	Independent	Tokie Laotan	3.18	311	315	316	324	344	351	361
	Independent	Peter Rowland	3.16	309	317	321	323
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Kelly	3.13	306	307	326	331	339	348
	Fine Gael	Niall McNelis	2.93	287	290	291	330	335
	Fine Gael	Geraldine Gantly	2.60	254	255	258
	Fianna Fáil	Fearghal Wall	1.94	190	192
	Labour	Nuala O'Hara	1.34	131
Electorate: 18,815  Valid: 9,783 (52.0%)  Spoilt: 174  Quota: 1,223  Turnout: 9,957 (52.92%)

Galway No.2

Galway No.2 - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	John Connolly	16.75	887	912	1,038	1,416
	Sinn Féin	Ann Marie Carroll	13.94	738	794	837	864	892	897
	Labour	Billy Cameron	13.43	711	831	942	1,042	1,111
	Labour	Colette Connolly	12.16	644	789	854	920	972	986
	Fine Gael	Padraig Conneely	11.71	620	656	746	838	900	910
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Quinn*	11.54	611	645	746
	Progressive Democrats	Mike Geraghty	10.39	550	623
	Green	Aoibheann McCann	7.29	386
	Independent	Paul Osikoya	2.81	149
Electorate: 10,577  Valid: 5,296 (50.07%)  Spoilt: 109  Quota: 1,060  Turnout: 5,405 (51.10%)

Galway No.3

Galway No.3 - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Progressive Democrats	Donal Lyons *	20.55	1,656
	Labour	Catherine Connolly *	15.70	1,265	1,338	1,432	1,437	1,520	1,565	1,660
	Fine Gael	John Mulholland *	11.79	950	975	996	1,004	1,314	1,439	1,802
	Green	Niall O Brolchain	10.93	881	959	1,088	1,094	1,157	1,199	1,305	1,386	1,413
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Cox*	9.00	725	731	764	767	795	1,095	1,246	1,352	1,373
	Progressive Democrats	Paul Colleran*	8.45	681	690	706	719	811	889
	Fianna Fáil	Val Hanley*	7.84	632	637	655	661	691
	Fine Gael	Maureen Egan	7.70	620	634	648	651
	Sinn Féin	Conan Campbell	4.57	368	411
	Independent	Paul Osikoya	3.46	279
Electorate: 14,929  Valid: 8,057 (53.97%)  Spoilt: 141  Quota: 1,612  Turnout: 8,198 (54.91%)

References

1. "Galway City Council: 2004 Local Election". Irish Elections. Retrieved 29 November 2025.

External links

• Official website ^{[ permanent dead link ]}