2024 Roscommon County Council election

2024 Roscommon County Council election

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All 18 seats on Roscommon County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
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]

Retiring incumbents

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]

Results by party

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

Results by LEA

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

Athlone

Athlone: 6 Seats ^{[8] [9]}

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%)

Boyle

Boyle: 6 Seats ^{[8] [9]}

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	1,581	1,758
	Independent	Tom Crosby [*]	9.35	1,065	1,088	1,156	1,164	1,181	1,202	1,235	1,254	1,256	1,338
	Fine Gael	Dympna Daly Finn	7.70	875	888	896	896	920	954	975	989	990
	Independent Ireland	Paul Forde	7.29	830	920	924	925	948	969	1,019	1,051	1,053	1,196
	Fine Gael	Liam Callaghan [*]	6.57	746	762	769	774	817	843	932	992	993	1,377
	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%)

Roscommon

Roscommon: 6 Seats ^{[8] [9]}

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%)

Changes after 2024

Co-option

Party		Outgoing	LEA	Reason	Date	Co-optee
	Fine Gael	John Naughten	Athlone	Death	October 2024	TBD

References

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