2024 Louth County Council election

2024 Louth County Council election
All 29 seats to Louth County Council ; 15 seats needed for a majority
	Area of Louth County Council
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Last updated December 17, 2024

An election to all 29 seats on Louth County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.^[1] County Louth is divided into 5 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]

Retiring incumbents

The following councillors are not seeking re-election:

Constituency	Departing Councillor		Date announced
Dundalk–Carlingford	Edel Corrigan	Sinn Féin	18 December 2023^[3]
Dundalk South	Liam Reilly	Fianna Fáil	25 October 2023^[4]
Dundalk South	Tomás Sharkey	Sinn Féin	18 December 2023^[3]

Results by party

Party		Candidates	Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Sinn Féin	17	7		11,222	23.59	0.51
	Fine Gael	11	6	1	8,665	18.21	1.91
	Fianna Fáil	8	6	1	8,072	16.96	2.55
	Labour	5	2	1	3,648	7.67	0.25
	Green	5	1		1,570	3.30	3.10
	Irish Freedom	4	0	New	1,788	3.76	New
	Aontú	2	0	New	636	1.34	New
	Independent Ireland	1	0	New	508	1.07	New
	People Before Profit	1	0		344	0.72	0.49
	The Irish People	3	0	New	334	0.70	New
	Social Democrats	1	0	New	310	0.65	New
	Independent	19	7	1	10,484	22.03	4.26
Total		77	29		47,581	100.00

Analysis of Results

In the Ardee LEA all 6 sitting Councillors retained their seats though Fine Gael ran close for a third seat and geography was a factor as sitting Councillor Bernie Conlon prevailed on the last count. In Drogheda Rural there was no change in party representation though International Boxing Champion, Eric Donovan, outpolled and unseated his fellow running-mate Clogherhead based Cllr Tom Cunningham. In Drogheda Urban Fine Gael regained the seat that they lost at the 2019 Locals at the expense of the Labour Party as co-opted Cllr Emma Cutlip was defeated. In Dundalk South all seats were retained though Independent Ireland pushed hard, following transfers from the Irish Freedom Party, to challenge for the final seat as Cllr Marianne Butler of the Green Party prevailed with transfers. In the Dundalk-Carlingford LEA, Sinn Féin retained their two seats through good internal party transfers after eliminations but there was considerable leakage in the Fianna Fáil vote which was also not well managed among the three sitting Councillors. First time candidate, Independent Ciarán Fisher, was elected at the expense of incumbent Councillor Conor Keelan. This resulted in Fianna Fáil returning with a net loss of one seat and the loss of their then Party Whip on the Council.

Results by LEA

^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.

Ardee

Ardee: 6 Seats^[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Fine Gael	Paula Butterly ^[†]	11.95%	1,162	1,177	1,188	1,191	1,192	1,205	1,210	1,229	1,243	1,260	1,271	1,274
	Fianna Fáil	John Sheridan^[*]	11.36%	1,105	1,112	1,113	1,124	1,131	1,144	1,149	1,191	1,242	1,264	1,301	1,310
	Sinn Féin	Pearse McGeough^[*]	10.97%	1,067	1,070	1,072	1,120	1,126	1,136	1,155	1,184	1,226	1,736
	Independent	Jim Tenanty^[*]	10.55%	1,026	1,030	1,044	1,044	1,084	1,098	1,174	1,214	1,468
	Fine Gael	Dolores Minogue^[*]	10.14%	986	992	993	996	1,006	1,038	1,050	1,077	1,181	1,223	1,254	1,280
	Fine Gael	Rachel Kerley	10.06%	978	986	987	990	999	1,030	1,051	1,077	1,114	1,151	1,171	1,179
	Independent	Bernie Conlon^[†]	8.33%	810	816	852	854	889	901	987	1,018	1,075	1,111	1,206	1,238
	Sinn Féin	Kitty Colbert	5.84%	568	573	576	655	666	683	691	775	805
	Independent	Fintan Malone	5.50%	535	537	547	549	595	610	682	707
	Social Democrats	Niall McCreanor	3.19%	310	319	320	325	329	371	383
	Labour	Katerina Karpenko	2.84%	276	295	295	296	300
	Independent	Thomas Commins	2.73%	265	265	320	320	363	367
	Independent	Peter Farrell	2.29%	223	224	233	235
	Sinn Féin	Phyllis Murphy	1.69%	164	164	166
	Independent	Seán Brown	1.60%	156	158
	Green	Adam Devine	0.96%	93
Electorate: 19,928 Valid: 9,724 Spoilt: 227 Quota: 1,390 Turnout: 9,951 (49.93%)

Drogheda Rural

Drogheda Rural: 4 Seats^[6]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Labour	Michelle Hall^[*]	22.28%	1,426
	Fine Gael	Anne-Marie Ford	16.59%	1,062	1,099	1,102	1,161	1,181	1,260	1,281
	Independent	Declan Power^[†]	13.40%	858	887	900	901	951	986	1,085	1,289
	Sinn Féin	Eric Donovan	11.26%	721	732	735	746	760	790	824	859	925
	Sinn Féin	Tom Cunningham^[*]	10.09%	646	657	659	668	678	692	727	750	850
	Fianna Fáil	Tomás Wilkinson	6.69%	428	437	438	443	453	494	525	531
	Irish Freedom	Patrice Johnson	5.36%	343	345	387	390	403	407	452
	Independent	Frank Godfrey	5.08%	325	337	341	348	365	390
	Green	Anthony Murphy	3.73%	239	266	267	272	288
	Independent	Mick Martin	2.61%	167	170	176	178
	Fine Gael	Marian Agrios^[7]	1.64%	105	108	109
	The Irish People	Derek McElearney	1.27%	81	82
Electorate: 14,133 Valid: 6,401 Spoilt: 122 Quota: 1,281 Turnout: 6,523 (46.15%)

Drogheda Urban

Drogheda Urban: 6 Seats^[8]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
	Labour	Pio Smith^[*]	13.06%	1,195	1,197	1,201	1,208	1,232	1,236	1,243	1,246	1,399
	Independent	Kevin Callan^[*]	11.83%	1,082	1,095	1,098	1,121	1,130	1,157	1,160	1,173	1,195	1,208	1,222	1,258	1,337
	Sinn Féin	Joanna Byrne ^[*]	10.28%	940	942	943	960	971	996	1,060	1,066	1,093	1,100	1,292	1,309
	Fianna Fáil	James Byrne^[*]	9.65%	883	885	885	890	902	912	913	914	931	938	944	956	1,004	1,009	1,100	1,270
	Independent	Paddy McQuillan^[*]	8.48%	776	785	792	815	828	866	875	899	915	931	945	1,008	1,106	1,122	1,249	1,300
	Fine Gael	Ejiro O'Hare Stratton	6.96%	637	640	641	647	664	668	670	672	700	724	732	736	759	761	815	1,143
	Fine Gael	Shóna McManus	6.32%	578	581	582	593	600	602	604	607	620	626	631	637	655	655	681
	Sinn Féin	Debbie McCole	4.74%	434	436	437	447	452	461	539	546	555	559	632	644	693	696	738	753
	Aontú	Michael O'Dowd	4.45%	407	414	417	419	425	430	432	446	451	457	470	564	627	631
	Independent	Frank Godfrey	3.69%	338	347	352	358	361	387	388	414	428	432	448	491
	Sinn Féin	Laura Clinton	3.33%	305	306	307	310	314	322	346	350	362	366
	Irish Freedom	Patrice Johnson	3.29%	301	305	326	328	329	333	333	424	425	426	430
	Labour	Emma Cutlip^[†]	3.04%	278	278	279	284	327	334	334	335
	Sinn Féin	Joanne Thompson	2.03%	186	187	189	199	201	203
	Independent	John Bannon	1.98%	181	182	182	190	192
	The Irish People	Alan Fagan	1.86%	170	173	201	204	204	217	220
	Green	Michael Kennedy	1.74%	159	160	160	163
	Independent	Peter James Nugent	1.62%	148	148	151
	The Irish People	John Morgan	0.91%	83	84
	Independent	Vincent Hynes	0.73%	67
Electorate: 19,729 Valid: 9,148 Spoilt: 204 Quota: 1,307 Turnout: 9,352 (47.40%)

Dundalk–Carlingford

Dundalk–Carlingford: 6 Seats^[9]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Kelly^[*]	17.91%	1,828
	Sinn Féin	Antóin Watters^[*]	16.88%	1,723
	Fine Gael	John Reilly^[†]	8.14%	831	862	876	886	910	1,084	1,092	1,224	1,245	1,260	1,275
	Fianna Fáil	Andrea McKevitt^[†]	8.04%	821	862	912	926	957	1,072	1,080	1,201	1,212	1,234	1,243
	Fianna Fáil	Conor Keelan^[*]	7.75%	791	899	906	922	958	992	1,009	1,070	1,097	1,142	1,172
	Independent	Ciarán Fisher	6.74%	688	742	750	797	849	862	898	978	1,331	1,412	1,518
	Sinn Féin	Kathleen Byrne	5.83%	595	621	639	649	659	669	855	883	932
	Irish Freedom	Tracy O'Hanlon	5.72%	584	604	609	682	697	706	721	740
	Sinn Féin	Fiona Mhic Conchoille	4.97%	507	517	603	615	628	652	868	943	979	1,619
	Labour	Jamie O'Hare	4.63%	473	487	504	514	574	613	626
	Sinn Féin	Seán Ó Broin	4.39%	448	477	514	523	537	544
	Fine Gael	Yvonne Keenan Ross	3.94%	402	409	422	427	460
	Green	Gerard Crawley	2.83%	289	306	310	318
	Aontú	Liam Reichenberg	2.24%	229	241	246
Electorate: 20,039 Valid: 10,209 Spoilt: 180 Quota: 1,459 Turnout: 10,389 (51.84%)

Dundalk South

Dundalk South: 7 Seats^[10]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Independent	Maeve Yore	17.77%	2,150
	Fine Gael	Robert Nash^[*]	10.71%	1,296	1,401	1,431	1,441	1,457	1,482	1,515
	Fianna Fáil	Emma Coffey^[*]	9.60%	1,161	1,256	1,290	1,305	1,368	1,381	1,403	1,572
	Fianna Fáil	Shane McGuinness	8.72%	1,055	1,109	1,128	1,131	1,142	1,155	1,168	1,328	1,338	1,341	1,350
	Sinn Féin	Kevin Meenan^[†]	8.07%	976	1,009	1,025	1,053	1,077	1,111	1,285	1,312	1,695
	Green	Marianne Butler^[*]	6.53%	790	873	892	944	1,056	1,066	1,082	1,202	1,246	1,250	1,274
	Sinn Féin	Sionainn McCann	5.88%	712	734	760	823	893	904	1,122	1,163	1,481	1,652
	Sinn Féin	Jimmy Myers	5.24%	634	647	659	666	674	688
	Fine Gael	Linus English	5.19%	628	670	698	702	735	738	747
	Sinn Féin	Aideen Smith	4.93%	596	623	634	677	698	721	854	860
	Irish Freedom	Cathal Ó Murchú	4.63%	560	585	599	614	629
	Independent Ireland	Barry Kieran	4.20%	508	555	576	620	670	966	994	1,041	1,076	1,080	1,114
	Independent	Seun Grace Atiroko	3.17%	383	413	448	517
	People Before Profit	James Hickey	2.84%	344	368	394
	Independent	Dilip Mahapatra	2.53%	306	343
Electorate: 25,691 Valid: 12,099 Spoilt: 225 Quota: 1,513 Turnout: 12,324 (47.97%)

Changes after 2024

Party		Outgoing	LEA	Reason	Date	Co-optee
	Fine Gael	Paula Butterly	Ardee	Elected for Louth to the 34th Dáil at the 2024 general election	11 December 2024	Rachel Kerley
	Sinn Féin	Joanna Byrne	Drogheda Urban	Elected for Louth to the 34th Dáil at the 2024 general election	TBA	TBA

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