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All 25 seats on Laois County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map showing the area of Laois County Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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An election to Laois County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
| Party | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 11 | -3 | 11,521 | 37.74 | ||
| Fine Gael | 9 | -1 | 8,504 | 27.86 | ||
| Progressive Democrats | 1 | +1 | 3,072 | 10.06 | ||
| Labour | 1 | +1 | 1,250 | 4.09 | ||
| Sinn Féin | 1 | +1 | 1,147 | 3.76 | ||
| Independent | 2 | +1 | 4,813 | 15.77 | ||
| Totals | 25 | - | 30,527 | 100.0 | — | |
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Joe Fennelly* | 14.66 | 1,341 | |||||||||
| Fine Gael | Michael Lalor* | 12.85 | 1,175 | |||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Brendan Phelan* | 11.96 | 1,094 | 1,109 | 1,110 | 1,190 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | John Bonham* | 10.65 | 974 | 1,011 | 1,014 | 1,021 | 1,021 | 1,103 | 1,280 | |||
| Labour | Larry Kavanagh | 9.45 | 864 | 886 | 897 | 943 | 946 | 979 | 1,044 | 1,072 | 1,125 | |
| Fine Gael | John King | 8.20 | 750 | 753 | 756 | 842 | 853 | 880 | 899 | 913 | 939 | |
| Fine Gael | Marty Phelan* | 7.76 | 710 | 719 | 726 | 746 | 749 | 832 | 899 | 924 | 1,025 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Bill Delaney* | 6.51 | 595 | 641 | 645 | 702 | 720 | 758 | 786 | 809 | 1,039 | |
| Independent | Jim Ring | 4.83 | 442 | 470 | 471 | 482 | 484 | 529 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Seosamh Murphy | 4.59 | 420 | 448 | 448 | 454 | 459 | 545 | 618 | 637 | ||
| Progressive Democrats | James Walsh | 4.28 | 391 | 396 | 396 | 445 | 449 | |||||
| Progressive Democrats | Joseph Hanrahan | 4.26 | 390 | 394 | 395 | |||||||
| Electorate: 14,162 Valid: 9,146 (64.58%) Spoilt: 155 Quota: 1,144 Turnout: 9,301 (65.68%) | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Ray Cribbin* | 17.17 | 832 | 891 | 919 | 953 | 995 | |
| Progressive Democrats | Paul Mitchell | 15.25 | 739 | 749 | 811 | 876 | 931 | |
| Fine Gael | James Deegan* | 15.08 | 731 | 757 | 874 | 980 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Costello* | 14.44 | 700 | 743 | 766 | 789 | 832 | |
| Independent | Michael Turley* | 11.59 | 562 | 606 | 629 | 679 | 918 | |
| Independent | Kevin Maher | 8.50 | 412 | 439 | 456 | 523 | ||
| Progressive Democrats | Tom Cushen | 7.18 | 348 | 363 | 373 | |||
| Fine Gael | Trevor Wardrop | 5.80 | 281 | 285 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Joseph Oakley | 4.99 | 242 | |||||
| Electorate: 8,110 Valid: 4,847 (59.77%) Spoilt: 82 Quota: 970 Turnout: 4,929 (60.78%) | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Fine Gael | John Moran* | 22.99 | 1,027 | ||||
| Fine Gael | James Daly* | 18.60 | 831 | 894 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Dick Miller | 18.09 | 808 | 819 | 846 | 950 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Rice* | 18.62 | 694 | 733 | 766 | 866 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Mary Wheatley* | 12.36 | 552 | 562 | 582 | 681 | |
| Progressive Democrats | Jimmy Mulhall | 7.05 | 315 | 341 | 404 | ||
| Green | Matt Diskin | 4.93 | 220 | 225 | |||
| Electorate: 7,301 Valid: 4,467 (61.18%) Spoilt: 89 Quota: 894 Turnout: 4,556 (62.40%) | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Fine Gael | David Goodwin* | 13.36 | 671 | 675 | 693 | 807 | 883 | 1,096 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Paddy Bracken* | 14.23 | 715 | 732 | 747 | 800 | 903 | 914 | 921 | 1,143 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Seamus McDonald* | 13.32 | 669 | 673 | 710 | 722 | 766 | 844 | 863 | 937 | 992 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Moloney | 10.93 | 549 | 562 | 576 | 610 | 674 | 685 | 690 | 812 | 864 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Joe Digan* | 10.55 | 530 | 538 | 559 | 562 | 579 | 709 | 736 | 751 | 782 | |
| Independent | Pat Bowe | 8.72 | 438 | 463 | 480 | 516 | 561 | 585 | 618 | |||
| Fine Gael | Damien Moran | 7.96 | 400 | 409 | 459 | 520 | 546 | |||||
| Progressive Democrats | John Joe Dunne | 6.81 | 342 | 348 | 400 | 432 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Paddy Buggy | 6.61 | 332 | 344 | 369 | |||||||
| Progressive Democrats | Caroline Fitzpatrick-Mulhall | 5.00 | 251 | 260 | ||||||||
| Sinn Féin | John Nelson | 2.53 | 127 | |||||||||
| Electorate: 7,036 Valid: 5,024 (71.40%) Spoilt: 71 Quota: 1,005 Turnout: 5,095 (72.41%) | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Fine Gael | William Aird* | 17.61 | 1,244 | |||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Brian Stanley | 14.44 | 1,020 | |||||||||
| Fine Gael | Mary Sweeney* | 11.33 | 800 | 850 | 877 | 906 | 991 | 1,073 | ||||
| Independent | Tom Jacob | 9.77 | 690 | 723 | 747 | 786 | 804 | 844 | 893 | 904 | 1,021 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Jerry Lodge* | 9.44 | 667 | 683 | 696 | 717 | 772 | 809 | 953 | 962 | 1,018 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Catherine Fitzgerald* | 7.86 | 555 | 570 | 581 | 598 | 631 | 679 | 772 | 781 | 839 | |
| Fine Gael | Kathleen O'Brien | 6.17 | 436 | 497 | 508 | 544 | 555 | 591 | 617 | 640 | 748 | |
| Independent | Rotimi Adebari | 5.82 | 411 | 420 | 437 | 477 | 481 | 523 | 549 | 556 | ||
| Progressive Democrats | Helen Kelly | 4.19 | 296 | 315 | 322 | 333 | 349 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jack Nolan | 3.96 | 280 | 292 | 303 | 310 | 361 | 388 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Richard Lyons | 3.94 | 278 | 284 | 290 | 297 | ||||||
| Labour | Tom Phelan | 2.97 | 210 | 213 | 260 | |||||||
| Labour | John Conroy | 2.49 | 176 | 186 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 12,034 Valid: 7,063 (58.69%) Spoilt: 107 Quota: 1,010 Turnout: 7,170 (59.58%) | ||||||||||||
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