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All 18 seats on Monaghan County Council 10 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Area of Monaghan County Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An election to all 18 seats on Monaghan County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections. [1] County Monaghan 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]
The following councillors are not seeking re-election:
| Constituency | Councillor | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monaghan | Brian McKenna [ citation needed ] | Sinn Féin | ||
| Ballybay –Clones | Hugh McElvaney | Independent | ||
| Party [3] [4] [5] | Candidates | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sinn Féin | 10 | 8 | +2 | 9,947 | 35.21 | +1.27 | |
| Fine Gael | 6 | 6 | +1 | 7,119 | 25.20 | +1.08 | |
| Fianna Fáil | 8 | 3 | -1 | 6,739 | 23.85 | -0.45 | |
| Aontú | 2 | 0 | - | 932 | 3.30 | +2.02 | |
| Green | 2 | 0 | - | 538 | 1.90 | -0.59 | |
| Irish Freedom | 1 | 0 | - | 422 | 1.49 | new | |
| Independent | 7 | 1 | -2 | 2,556 | 9.05 | -3.59 | |
| Total | 36 | 18 |  | 28253 | 100.00 | ||
Monaghan proved to be a success story for Sinn Féin as the party re-captured a seat in Carrickmacross-Castleblayney from Fianna Fáil which they had lost at the last local election in 2019 and Sinn Féin also took a second seat in Ballybay-Clones with the retirement of the outgoing Independent, Hughie McElvaney to emerge as the largest party with 8 seats. Independent and former TD, Paudge Connolly, also lost his seat in the Monaghan LEA to Fine Gael who increased their numbers to 7. Fianna Fáil declined further to just 3 seats in number.
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Seamus Coyle [*] | 19.67% | 1,665 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Ricard Truell [*] | 18.66% | 1,579 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Seán Gilliland [*] | 14.34% | 1,214 | 1,301 | 1,410 | 1,444 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Sinéad Flynn | 14.03% | 1,187 | 1,219 | 1,228 | 1,259 | 1,330 | 1,459 | |
| Sinn Féin | Pat Treanor [*] | 12.77% | 1,081 | 1,095 | 1,109 | 1,188 | 1,233 | 1,355 | |
| Aontú | Olivia Larkin | 7.37% | 624 | 638 | 651 | 671 | 836 | 965 | |
| Irish Freedom | Mark Brady | 4.99% | 422 | 441 | 444 | 448 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Martina Durkan | 4.93% | 417 | 469 | 482 | 586 | 622 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | John Connolly | 3.24% | 274 | 310 | 317 | ||||
| Electorate: 15,264 Valid: 8,463 Spoilt: 98 Quota: 1,411 Turnout: 8,561 (56.09%) | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | PJ O'Hanlon [*] | 14.84% | 1,478 | ||||||||
| Fine Gael | Aidan Campbell [*] | 14.02% | 1,396 | 1,400 | 1,421 | 1,526 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Colm Carthy [*] | 13.67% | 1,362 | 1,368 | 1,394 | 1,456 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Noel Keelan [*] | 12.00% | 1,195 | 1,201 | 1,215 | 1,227 | 1,230 | 1,306 | 1,687 | ||
| Fine Gael | Peter Conlon [†] | 9.77% | 973 | 985 | 996 | 1,061 | 1,078 | 1,137 | 1,222 | 1,251 | |
| Sinn Féin | Paul Gibbons | 9.26% | 922 | 922 | 949 | 987 | 998 | 1,042 | 1,198 | 1,416 | |
| Sinn Féin | Aoife Kindlon | 7.00% | 697 | 700 | 708 | 738 | 740 | 797 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Aoife McCooey [*] | 6.50% | 647 | 667 | 690 | 786 | 828 | 876 | 931 | 948 | |
| Independent | Seamus Hanratty | 5.40% | 538 | 539 | 633 | 663 | 663 | ||||
| Green | Tate Donnelly | 4.46% | 444 | 446 | 470 | ||||||
| Aontú | James Duffy | 3.09% | 308 | 309 | |||||||
| Electorate: 18,438 Valid: 9,960 Spoilt: 111 Quota: 1,423 Turnout: 10,071 (54.62%) | |||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Cathy Bennett [*] | 12.53% | 1,232 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Raymond Aughey [*] | 11.42% | 1,123 | 1,135 | 1,156 | 1,315 | ||||
| Independent | Seamus Treanor [*] | 10.97% | 1,078 | 1,110 | 1,198 | 1,251 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Seán Conlan [*] | 8.76% | 861 | 879 | 892 | 906 | 908 | 1,164 | 1,250 | |
| Fine Gael | Pauric Clerkin | 10.24% | 1,007 | 1,028 | 1,032 | 1,064 | 1,073 | 1,097 | 1,218 | |
| Sinn Féin | Bronagh McAree | 7.87% | 774 | 789 | 795 | 808 | 813 | 1,043 | 1,195 | |
| Fine Gael | David Maxwell [*] | 9.66% | 950 | 971 | 979 | 1,009 | 1,017 | 1,049 | 1,163 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Brian 'Beano' Clerkin | 7.11% | 699 | 713 | 720 | 782 | 828 | 847 | 936 | |
| Independent | Paudge Connolly [*] | 6.35% | 624 | 649 | 669 | 717 | 731 | 792 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Niamh McCooey | 6.47% | 636 | 648 | 657 | 681 | 683 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Eamon Treanor | 4.44% | 436 | 441 | 445 | |||||
| Independent | Colin Walker | 1.81% | 178 | 204 | ||||||
| Green | Deividas Pauliukonis | 0.96% | 94 | |||||||
| Independent | Denis O'Higgins | 0.66% | 65 | |||||||
| Independent | Paddy Grenham | 0.61% | 60 | |||||||
| Independent | Jimmy 'Stavrous' Mee | 0.13% | 13 | |||||||
| Electorate: 19,207 Valid: 9,830 Spoilt: 143 Quota: 1,229 Turnout: 9,973 (51.92%) | ||||||||||
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