2024 Longford County Council election

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2024 Longford County Council election
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  2019 7 June 20242029 

All 18 seats on Longford County Council
10 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Independent
Last election783

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Area of Longford County Council

An election to all 18 seats on Longford County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections. [1] County Longford 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]

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Results by party

PartyCandidatesSeats±1st prefFPv%±%
Fine Gael 108Decrease2.svg19,06843.03Increase2.svg3.76
Fianna Fáil 108Increase2.svg26,39830.36Decrease2.svg2.11
Sinn Féin 30Steady2.svg1,3396.35Increase2.svg1.77
The Irish People 20New2841.35New
Green 10New920.44New
People Before Profit 10New710.34New
Independent 122Decrease2.svg13,82018.13Decrease2.svg5.07
Total3918Steady2.svg21,072100.00Steady2.svg

Results by local electoral area

^  *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2014.
^  †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2014 election.

Ballymahon

Ballymahon: 6 Seats [3] [4]
PartyCandidateFPv%Count
1234567
Fine Gael Paul Ross [*] 18.52%1,300      
Fianna Fáil Mick Cahill [*] 12.34%866938 949 994 1,013  
Fianna Fáil Pat O'Toole [*] 10.17%714743 753 908 927 928 970
Independent Mark Casey [*] 9.06%636650 685 744 929 933 1,093
Fianna Fáil Sean Mimnagh8.45%593601 612 628 800 801 843
Fine Gael Martin Skelly8.28%581629 637 664 762 763 843
Independent Gerald Farrell [*] 8.02%563567 590 627    
Sinn Féin John Rooney8.01%562598 638 678 695 695  
Fine Gael Colm Murray [*] 7.66%538603 615 654 693 696 748
Independent Niall Dowler6.05%425440 489     
The Irish People Mandy Larkin2.29%161165      
Independent Francesca Pawelczyk1.14%8082      
Electorate: 12,067  Valid: 7,019  Spoilt: 74  Quota: 1,003  Turnout: 7,093 (58.78%)  

    Granard

    Granard: 5 Seats [5] [6]
    PartyCandidateFPv%Count
    1234567
    Fine Gael Garry Murtagh [*] 20.41%1,450      
    Independent Turlough McGovern [*] 19.89%1,413      
    Fine Gael Paraic Brady [*] 17.04%1,211      
    Fine Gael Colin Dalton [] 11.54%820883 918 953 972 1,059 1,067
    Fine Gael Padraig McNamara9.84%699735 850 881 1,035 1,111 1,113
    Fianna Fáil David Cassidy7.64%543600 615 661 717 1,055 1,071
    Fianna Fáil Susan Murphy6.11%434510 524 552 613   
    Fianna Fáil Marett Smith3.97%282295 323 336    
    Sinn Féin Barry Campion3.56%253273 294     
    Electorate: 10,955  Valid: 7,105  Spoilt: 63  Quota: 1,185  Turnout: 7,168 (65.43%)  

      Longford

      Longford: 7 Seats [7] [8]
      PartyCandidateFPv%Count
      1234567891011121314
      Fine Gael Gerard Hagan [*] 15.69%1,071             
      Fianna Fáil Martin Monaghan [*] 15.40%1,051             
      Fianna Fáil Seamus Butler [*] 15.25%1,041             
      Fine Gael Peggy Nolan [*] 13.04%890             
      Fine Gael Niall Gannon7.44%508606 658 721 734 738 751 751 762 773 779 786 821 843
      Fianna Fáil Kevin Hussey6.49%443475 523 560 568 571 576 580 600 606 610 615 650 666
      Fianna Fáil Uruemu Adejinmi [] 6.32%431467 501 551 555 555 559 563 569 616 617 642 670 767
      Sinn Féin James Donnelly5.88%401414 425 431 434 437 439 455 463 471 482 484 498 533
      Independent Mujahid Manzoor3.25%222223 225 225 225 225 226 227 231 236 237    
      Independent Sadia Athar2.97%203204 207 211 212 213 217 232 238 249 257 347 361  
      The Irish People Gareth McKendry1.80%123126 128 130 130 141 145 149 155 155     
      Independent James Quinn1.67%114132 160 167 169 179 192 198 211 214 254 258   
      Green Catherine Joseph1.35%9295 98 101 102 102 105 113 114      
      People Before Profit Dave Smyth1.04%7172 74 76 76 77 77        
      Independent Alicia Carberry1.00%6871 77 83 85 91 99 104       
      Independent Maura Greene-Casey0.78%5358 60 66 67 70         
      Independent Tony Reilly0.44%3033 36 37 38          
      Independent Dwain Schouten0.19%1313 14 14 14          
      Electorate: 13,843  Valid: 6,825  Spoilt: 95  Quota: 854  Turnout: 6,920 (49.99%)  

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