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All 19 seats on Laois County Council 10 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Area of Laois County Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An election to all 19 seats on Laois County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections. [1] County Laois 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]
| Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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| Fianna Fáil | 6 |  | 10,087 | 29.02 |  3.03 | |
| Fine Gael | 5 | 2 | 8,802 | 25.32 | 4.32 | |
| Sinn Féin | 2 | | 4,831 | 13.90 |  2.75 | |
| Labour | 1 | | 1,237 | 3.55 | 2.01 | |
| Independent Ireland | 0 | | 915 | 2.63 | New | |
| Green | 0 | | 630 | 1.81 | New | |
| Aontú | 0 | | 182 | 0.52 | New | |
| Independent | 5 | 2 | 8,066 | 23.21 | 3.21 | |
| Total | 19 | | 34,750 | 100.00 | ||
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Conor Bergin [*] | 13.41% | 1,606 | 1,614 | 1,628 | 1,659 | 1,665 | 1,684 | 1,813 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Paddy Bracken [*] | 12.12% | 1,452 | 1,457 | 1,470 | 1,472 | 1,501 | 1,515 | 1,550 | 1,562 | 1,620 | 1,753 | |
| Independent | James Kelly [*] | 11.75% | 1,408 | 1,416 | 1,433 | 1,497 | 1,506 | 1,536 | 1,740 | ||||
| Fine Gael | John King [*] | 11.29% | 1,353 | 1,359 | 1,363 | 1,366 | 1,371 | 1,413 | 1,427 | 1,440 | 1,675 | 1,711 | |
| Independent | Ollie Clooney [*] | 10.39% | 1,245 | 1,258 | 1,275 | 1,310 | 1,312 | 1,332 | 1,379 | 1,402 | 1,524 | 1,650 | |
| Fine Gael | Paddy Buggy | 9.27% | 1,111 | 1,122 | 1,137 | 1,141 | 1,191 | 1,194 | 1,201 | 1,209 | 1,213 | 1,284 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Seamus McDonald [*] | 9.11% | 1,091 | 1,094 | 1,101 | 1,103 | 1,211 | 1,214 | 1,269 | 1,277 | 1,365 | 1,460 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Brian Phelan | 4.88% | 585 | 594 | 602 | 603 | 609 | 636 | 687 | 700 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Fintan Cuddy | 4.72% | 566 | 568 | 573 | 588 | 596 | 601 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Lorna Holohan Garry | 3.78% | 453 | 458 | 475 | 477 | 507 | 754 | 774 | 778 | 800 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Helen Campion | 3.5% | 419 | 425 | 430 | 438 | 411 | ||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Declan Good | 2.32% | 278 | 279 | 280 | 284 | |||||||
| Independent | Kevin Drennan | 1.60% | 192 | 195 | 198 | ||||||||
| Green | Fiona Dunne | 1.01% | 121 | 136 | |||||||||
| Labour | Bryan Corrigan | 0.83% | 99 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 21,812 Valid: 11,979 Spoilt: 147 Quota: 1,712 Turnout: 12,126 (55.59%) | |||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Independent | Ben Brennan [*] | 12.17% | 1,350 | 1,357 | 1,492 | 1,499 | 1,666 | ||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Padraig Fleming [*] | 11.49% | 1,275 | 1,287 | 1,371 | 1,433 | 1,483 | 1,511 | 1,520 | 1,708 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Paschal McEvoy [*] | 12.64% | 1,402 | 1,414 | 1,427 | 1,534 | 1,666 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | Aidan Mullins [*] | 12.25% | 1,359 | 1,371 | 1,394 | 1,597 | |||||||
| Independent | Aisling Moran [*] | 10.29% | 1,142 | 1,156 | 1,220 | 1,233 | 1,335 | 1,347 | 1,401 | 1,633 | |||
| Fine Gael | P.J Kelly [†] | 8.99% | 997 | 1,012 | 1,035 | 1,140 | 1,164 | 1,168 | 1,171 | 1,197 | 1,226 | 1,240 | |
| Fine Gael | Vivienne Phelan | 7.26% | 806 | 835 | 890 | 957 | 1,049 | 1,080 | 1,087 | 1,175 | 1,224 | 1,257 | |
| Sinn Féin | Aaron Kelly | 7.07% | 785 | 796 | 865 | 869 | 911 | 916 | 923 | ||||
| Independent Ireland | Patsy Fennell | 6.15% | 682 | 690 | 708 | 722 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Joey Kennedy | 5.21% | 578 | 607 | 625 | ||||||||
| Labour | Eoin Barry | 4.56% | 506 | 557 | |||||||||
| Green | Charlie Hackett | 1.93% | 214 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 22,233 Valid: 11,096 Spoilt: 133 Quota: 1,586 Turnout: 11,299 (50.51%) | |||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Willie Aird [*] | 13.04% | 1,540 | ||||||||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Caroline Dwane-Stanley [*] | 11.98% | 1,415 | 1,420 | 1,460 | ||||||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Joe Fennelly [*] | 9.71% | 1,147 | 1,153 | 1,170 | 1,180 | 1,188 | 1,273 | 1,325 | 1,378 | 1,389 | 1,398 | 1,426 | 1,440 | 1,446 | 1,521 | |
| Independent | Tommy Mulligan | 9.31% | 1,099 | 1,108 | 1,117 | 1,144 | 1,197 | 1,209 | 1,227 | 1,276 | 1,303 | 1,339 | 1,445 | 1,643 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Catherine Fitzgerald [*] | 9.22% | 1,089 | 1,103 | 1,103 | 1,112 | 1,123 | 1,129 | 1,144 | 1,152 | 1,165 | 1,181 | 1,223 | 1,309 | 1,324 | 1,489 | |
| Fine Gael | Barry Walsh [†] | 7.19% | 849 | 858 | 861 | 866 | 880 | 912 | 940 | 974 | 979 | 1,004 | 1,042 | 1,046 | 1,075 | 1,101 | |
| Labour | Marie Tuohy [†] | 5.35% | 632 | 637 | 646 | 658 | 671 | 690 | 751 | 757 | 797 | 850 | 899 | 1,003 | 1,042 | 1,119 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Naeem Iqbal | 5.28% | 624 | 625 | 626 | 629 | 631 | 632 | 640 | 641 | 700 | 711 | 721 | 752 | 765 | ||
| Fine Gael | Thomasina Connell [*] | 4.75% | 540 | 556 | 561 | 565 | 578 | 584 | 603 | 613 | 658 | 681 | 712 | 762 | 782 | 884 | |
| Independent | Pauline Flanagan | 3.29% | 389 | 392 | 395 | 407 | 439 | 454 | 473 | 510 | 531 | 570 | 677 | ||||
| Independent | Bolaji Adeyanju | 2.92% | 345 | 345 | 345 | 348 | 353 | 360 | 377 | 385 | |||||||
| Independent | Dom Dunne | 2.88% | 340 | 344 | 358 | 367 | 399 | 327 | 432 | 477 | 508 | 542 | |||||
| Green | Rosie Palmer | 2.5% | 295 | 296 | 302 | 305 | 307 | 313 | |||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Maria McCormack | 2.34% | 276 | 277 | 218 | 325 | 332 | 339 | 360 | 387 | 418 | ||||||
| Independent | Noel Burke | 2.23% | 263 | 265 | 274 | 281 | 290 | ||||||||||
| Independent | Donal Kelly | 2.07% | 244 | 246 | 248 | 271 | |||||||||||
| Independent Ireland | Colette Byrne | 1.97% | 233 | 234 | 237 | 258 | 294 | 325 | 352 | ||||||||
| Aontú | Martha Ryan | 1.54% | 182 | 183 | 187 | ||||||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Jason Phelan | 1.05% | 124 | 124 | |||||||||||||
| Independent | John Cowhig | 0.41% | 49 | 49 | |||||||||||||
| Electorate: 24,426 Valid: 11,675 Spoilt: 133 Quota: 1,460 Turnout: 11,808 (48.34%) | |||||||||||||||||
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