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All 18 seats on Roscommon County Council 10 seats needed for a majority | ||
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 Area of Roscommon County Council | ||
An election to all 18 seats on Roscommon County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections. [1] County Roscommon 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 | Departing Councillor | Party | First elected | Date announced | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athlone | Donal Kilduff | Independent | 2019 | 4 April 2024 [3] | |
| Boyle | Joe Murphy | Fianna Fáil | 2019 | 26 October 2023 [4] | |
| Boyle | John Cummins | Fianna Fáil | 1999 | 18 May 2023 [5] | |
| Roscommon | Orla Leyden | Fianna Fáil | 2004 | 21 March 2023 [6] | |
| Roscommon | Kathleen Shanagher | Independent | 2014 | 17 November 2023 [7] | |
| Party | Candidates | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 7 | 5 |  1 | 7,840 | 24.64% | 8.49 | |
| Fine Gael | 6 | 4 |  2 | 5,763 | 18.11% | 1.88 | |
| Sinn Féin | 6 | 1 |  | 3,999 | 12.56% | 5.06 | |
| Independent Ireland | 2 | 1 | New | 2,150 | 6.75% | New | |
| Irish Freedom | 1 | 0 | New | 274 | 0.86% | New | |
| The Irish People | 2 | 0 | New | 201 | 0.63% | New | |
| Green | 1 | 0 | New | 147 | 0.46% | New | |
| Aontú | 1 | 0 | New | 139 | 0.43% | New | |
| Independent | 11 | 7 | 2 | 11,131 | 34.97% | 8.24 | |
| Total | 37 | 18 | | 31,822 | 100.00 | ||
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Independent | Emer Kelly [†] | 19.82 | 1,946 | |||||||||
| Independent | Tony Ward [*] | 18.19 | 1,786 | |||||||||
| Fine Gael | John Naughten [*] | 17.82 | 1,750 | |||||||||
| Independent | Laurence Fallon [*] | 12.24 | 1,202 | 1,370 | 1,497 | |||||||
| Fianna Fáil | John Keogh [*] | 9.48 | 931 | 1,007 | 1,096 | 1,248 | 1,267 | 1,339 | 1,442 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | James Murray | 5.57 | 547 | 621 | 653 | 660 | 683 | 701 | 710 | 728 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Sam Brooks | 5.25 | 515 | 579 | 609 | 642 | 647 | 712 | 987 | 1,002 | 1,078 | |
| Fine Gael | Domnick Connolly | 4.91 | 482 | 547 | 581 | 654 | 683 | 721 | 737 | 743 | 1,116 | |
| Sinn Féin | Joe Harney | 4.13 | 405 | 430 | 458 | 486 | 493 | 536 | ||||
| Independent | Dominic Naughton | 2.59 | 254 | 325 | 368 | 422 | 433 | |||||
| Electorate: 15,862 Valid: 9,818 Spoilt: 85 Quota: 1,403 Turnout: 9,903 (62.43%) | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Independent | Valerie Byrne | 13.74% | 1,565 | 1,612 | 1,663 | ||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Leah Cull | 12.43% | 1,416 | 1,446 | 1,609 | 1,614 | 1,638 | ||||||
| Independent | Micheál Frain | 11.89% | 1,355 | 1,386 | 1,391 | 1,392 | 1,483 | 1,547 | 1,837 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Sean Moylan | 11.22% | 1,278 | 1,291 | 1,336 | 1,342 | 1,490 | 1,504 | 1,557 | 1,577 | |||
| Independent | Tom Crosby | 9.35 | 1,065 | 1,088 | 1,156 | 1,164 | 1,181 | 1,202 | 1,235 | 1,254 | |||
| Fine Gael | Dympna Daly Finn | 7.70 | 877 | 890 | 898 | 898 | 922 | 956 | 977 | 991 | |||
| Independent Ireland | Paul Forde | 7.29 | 830 | 920 | 924 | 925 | 948 | 969 | 1,019 | 1,051 | |||
| Fine Gael | Liam Callaghan [*] | 6.57 | 748 | 764 | 771 | 776 | 819 | 845 | 934 | 994 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Angela Beirne | 5.17% | 589 | 604 | 648 | 653 | 691 | 745 | |||||
| Fianna Fáil | Aidan Sampey | 3.77% | 429 | 435 | 440 | 440 | |||||||
| Sinn Féin | Rory Williams Doyle | 3.74% | 426 | 432 | |||||||||
| Independent | Sajjid Hussain | 3.61% | 411 | 460 | 471 | 475 | 480 | ||||||
| Aontú | Fayiz Alsani | 1.23% | 140 | ||||||||||
| The Irish People | Edmund Shanahan | 1.08% | 123 | ||||||||||
| Independent | Majid Ali | 0.83% | 95 | ||||||||||
| Independent | Caoimhín Ó Miadh | 0.40% | 46 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 19,159 Valid: 11,393 Spoilt: 135 Quota: 1,628 Turnout: 11,528 (60.17%) | |||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Paschal Fitzmaurice [*] | 17.76% | 1,853 | ||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Marty McDermott [*] | 15.58% | 1,626 | ||||||
| Independent | Anthony Waldron | 13.32% | 1,390 | 1,462 | 1,485 | 1,645 | |||
| Independent Ireland | Nigel Dineen [*] | 12.44% | 1,298 | 1,361 | 1,381 | 1,492 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Larry Brennan | 11.48% | 1,198 | 1,223 | 1,279 | 1,305 | 1,312 | 1,393 | |
| Fine Gael | Gareth Scahill | 11.19% | 1,168 | 1,332 | 1,337 | 1,385 | 1,410 | 1,625 | |
| Fine Gael | Robbie McConn | 7.12% | 743 | 747 | 769 | 799 | 806 | 842 | |
| Sinn Féin | Christine McDonagh | 6.32% | 659 | 684 | 689 | 741 | 768 | ||
| Irish Freedom | Justin Slamen | 2.61% | 272 | 276 | 277 | ||||
| Green | Paul Hester [*] | 1.45% | 151 | 154 | 155 | ||||
| The Irish People | Cathal Finnegan | 0.73% | 76 | 78 | 80 | ||||
| Electorate: 17,969 Valid: 10,434 Spoilt: 102 Quota: 1,491 Turnout: 10,536 (58.63%) | |||||||||
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