2024 Monaghan County Council election

2024 Monaghan County Council election

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All 18 seats on Monaghan County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
Party Sinn Féin Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Last election 6 5 4   Party Independent Last election 3
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]

Retiring incumbents

The following councillors did not seek re-election:

Constituency	Councillor	Party
Monaghan	Brian McKenna [ citation needed ]		Sinn Féin
Ballybay –Clones	Hugh McElvaney		Independent

Results by party

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

Analysis of Election

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.

Results by LEA

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

Ballybay–Clones

Ballybay–Clones: 5 seats ^{[6] [7]}

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%)

Carrickmacross–Castleblayney

Carrickmacross–Castleblayney: 6 seats ^{[8] [9]}

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%)

Monaghan

Monaghan: 7 Seats ^{[10] [11]}

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%)

References

1. "Polling Day Orders made for European, local and Limerick Monaghanral elections". Gov.ie (Press release). Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. 6 April 2024.
2. "Local elections in Ireland". Citizens Information Board. Archived from the original on 6 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
3. https://monaghan.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Count1-State-of-the-Poll.pdf ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
4. https://monaghan.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Count-1-State-of-the-Poll.pdf ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
5. https://monaghan.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Count1-State-of-the-Poll-1.pdf ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}
6. "Notice of Poll Ballybay–Clones" (PDF). Monaghan County Council. 20 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
7. "Ballybay-Clones LEA Results" . Retrieved 14 June 2024.
8. "Notice of Poll Carrickmacross" (PDF). Monaghan County Council. 20 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
9. "Carrickmacross-Castleblayney LEA Results" . Retrieved 14 June 2024.
10. "Notice of Poll Monaghan" (PDF). Monaghan County Council. 20 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
11. "Monaghan LEA Results" . Retrieved 14 June 2024.