2004 Limerick County Council election

2004 Limerick County Council election
All 28 seats to Limerick County Council
	Map showing the area of Limerick County Council
	Council control after election; TBD;

Last updated April 28, 2023

An election to Limerick County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 28 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.^[1]

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	12	-2	23,157	39.13
	Fine Gael	12	+2	22,841	38.60
	Progressive Democrats	3	-	4,681	7.91
	Labour	1	+1	2,279	3.85
	Independent	0	-1	4,121	6.96
Totals		28	-	59,175	100.0	—

Results by Electoral Area

Bruff

Bruff - 7 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Fine Gael	Richard Butler*	14.04	1,954
	Fianna Fáil	Niall Collins	11.49	1,600	1,637	1,648	1,657	1,673	1,685	1,698	1,768
	Fine Gael	Cormac Hurley*	7.96	1,108	1,144	1,148	1,175	1,264	1,362	1,453	1,457	1,489	1,555	1,744
	Fianna Fáil	Leonard Enright *	7.72	1,075	1,086	1,096	1,101	1,108	1,114	1,123	1,197	1,298	1,350	1,438	1,510
	Fianna Fáil	John Clifford*	6.61	920	922	1,004	1,009	1,011	1,017	1,023	1,086	1,169	1,207	1,222	1,454
	Progressive Democrats	Rose Brennan*	6.49	904	911	921	925	929	960	965	1,113	1,196	1,440	1,662	1,855
	Labour	Deirdre Ní Chinneide	6.34	883	908	912	938	954	970	1,220	1,225	1,270	1,407	1,440	1,566
	Fianna Fáil	Sandra Marsh*	5.55	772	778	784	798	828	935	981	999	1,025	1,100	1,131	1,174
	Fine Gael	Gerard Murnane	4.76	663	678	736	747	782	786	792	801	860	899	1,070
	Fine Gael	Tom P. Healy	4.53	631	665	668	675	694	695	704	802	848	866
	Progressive Democrats	Sinead Teefy	4.40	613	631	659	671	676	736	762	776	817
	Independent	Patrick Fitzgerald	3.99	556	560	562	623	636	642	658	680
	Fianna Fáil	James Cavanagh	3.99	555	557	559	559	559	562	563
	Labour	Karan O'Loughlin	3.08	429	432	437	468	508	545
	Progressive Democrats	Pat Hennessy*	2.79	388	391	398	413	428
	Fine Gael	Tina O'Gorman	2.41	335	342	343	351
	Independent	Denis Riordan	1.95	271	274	277
	Progressive Democrats	George O'Leary	1.90	264	264
Electorate: 23,618 Valid: 13,921 (58.94%) Spoilt: 253 Quota: 1,741 Turnout: 14,174 (60.01%)

Castleconnell

Castleconnell - 7 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fine Gael	Mary Jackman *	14.60	2,119
	Fianna Fáil	Eddie Wade *	14.35	2,083
	Progressive Democrats	Brigid Teefy*	10.25	1,487	1,516	1,599	1,606	1,648	1,675	1,715	1,829
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Meagher*	9.08	1,318	1,322	1,347	1,350	1,366	1,461	1,470	1,485	1,534
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Gleeson	8.92	1,294	1,300	1,336	1,344	1,360	1,414	1,430	1,467	1,692
	Fine Gael	Kieran O'Donnell	8.01	1,163	1,259	1,274	1,289	1,316	1,329	1,390	1,528	1,776
	Fianna Fáil	Noreen Ryan*	8.01	1,163	1,184	1,220	1,226	1,289	1,311	1,342	1,405	1,601
	Fine Gael	Mary Harty*	7.43	1,079	1,128	1,143	1,156	1,163	1,253	1,293	1,419	1,732
	Fine Gael	Paddy Hourigan*	7.37	1,069	1,111	1,125	1,131	1,140	1,154	1,180	1,231
	Green	Trish Forde-Brennan	3.71	539	564	569	604	619	624	842
	Labour	Manus Bree	3.27	474	490	494	522	538	546
	Fianna Fáil	Tim Long	2.24	325	328	344	347	360
	Fianna Fáil	Ursula Stokes	1.62	235	246	262	266
	Independent	Seán Gilmour	1.14	166	168	171
Electorate: 25,025 Valid: 14,514 (58.00%) Spoilt: 253 Quota: 1,815 Turnout: 14,767 (59.01%)

Kilmallock

Kilmallock - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fianna Fáil	John Gallahue*	17.43	1,715	1,725	1,803	1,835	1,896	1,916	2,196
	Fine Gael	Jim Houlihan*	14.25	1,402	1,427	1,468	1,745	2,105
	Fianna Fáil	Pat McAuliffe*	13.78	1,356	1,376	1,424	1,470	1,562	1,600	1,858	1,928
	Progressive Democrats	Eddie Creighton*	13.10	1,289	1,296	1,338	1,386	1,414	1,435	1,616	1,668
	Fianna Fáil	Eddie Ryan	12.58	1,238	1,242	1,293	1,327	1,345	1,367	1,549	1,603
	Independent	Pat Heffernan	9.32	917	950	1,073	1,146	1,266	1,301
	Independent	Brendan Danaher	7.17	706	723	753	813
	Fine Gael	Thomas Blackburne	5.73	564	577	604
	Sinn Féin	Noel Hanley	2.91	286	303
	Labour	Thomas Rea	2.03	200	207
	Independent	James Coll	1.71	168
Electorate: 15,225 Valid: 9,841 (64.64%) Spoilt: 161 Quota: 1,969 Turnout: 10,002 (65.69%)

Newcastle West

Newcastle West - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Fine Gael	Patrick O'Donovan *	13.26	1,485	1,492	1,518	1,552	1,566	1,654	1,707	1,757	1,932
	Fine Gael	Liam Galvin	11.74	1,315	1,335	1,346	1,406	1,412	1,459	1,489	1,523	1,576	1,959
	Fianna Fáil	Michael J. Collins	10.72	1,200	1,212	1,233	1,251	1,284	1,390	1,460	1,610	1,762	1,818
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Ahern*	10.20	1,142	1,149	1,152	1,161	1,170	1,200	1,223	1,275	1,305	1,386
	Fianna Fáil	Francis Foley	9.35	1,047	1,056	1,063	1,102	1,110	1,153	1,180	1,261	1,358	1,574
	Fine Gael	Jerome Scanlan	9.24	1,035	1,038	1,045	1,058	1,160	1,202	1,327	1,455	1,557	1,681
	Fine Gael	Maurice Hartnett	7.78	871	890	893	943	963	996	1,014	1,036	1,075
	Independent	Joseph Mullane	5.19	581	588	602	617	641	720	800	842
	Fianna Fáil	Vincent Kiely	4.88	547	548	551	555	606	624	661
	Independent	Marian Collins	4.47	501	517	527	542	564
	Independent	John Leahy	3.78	423	425	427	433
	Sinn Féin	Coireall MacCurtain	3.66	410	416	497	510	605	623
	Labour	Denis Hobson	2.62	293	310	311
	Sinn Féin	Mike MacDomhnaill	1.75	196	201
	Green	Eamon Collins	1.37	153
Electorate: 17,522 Valid: 11,199 (63.91%) Spoilt: 182 Quota: 1,867 Turnout: 11,381 (64.95%)

Rathkeale

Rathkeale- 5 seats
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4
	Fine Gael	Tom Neville*	24.71	2,599
	Fine Gael	David Naughton*	13.05	1,373	1,595	1,761
	Fianna Fáil	Kevin Sheahan*	12.85	1,352	1,434	1,525	1,824
	Fianna Fáil	John Griffin*	10.80	1,136	1,208	1,283	1,527
	Fianna Fáil	John Cregan*	10.30	1,084	1,131	1,252
	Fine Gael	John Sheahan	10.26	1,079	1,205	1,381	1,789
	Fine Gael	Stephen Keary	9.48	997	1,210	1,346	1,408
	Green	Pat Culhane	4.87	512	576
	Independent	Paudie Mulvihil	3.69	388	407
Electorate: 16,697 Valid: 10,520 (63.01%) Spoilt: 174 Quota: 1,754 Turnout: 10,694 (64.05%)

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References

↑ Kavanagh, Adrian (1 June 2004). "The 2004 local elections in the Republic of Ireland". Irish Political Studies. 19 (2): 64–84. doi:10.1080/0790718042000311015. ISSN 0790-7184.

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[1] Kavanagh, Adrian (1 June 2004). "The 2004 local elections in the Republic of Ireland". Irish Political Studies. 19 (2): 64–84. doi:10.1080/0790718042000311015. ISSN 0790-7184.

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