2024 Westmeath County Council election

2024 Westmeath County Council election

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All 20 seats on Westmeath County Council 11 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour Last election 9 5 2 Seats before 9 5 2 Seats won 9 4 2 Seat change 1   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Sinn Féin Independent Ireland Independent Last election 0 N/A 2 Seats before 0 1 1 Seats won 2 1 2 Seat change 2 1
Area of Westmeath County Council

An election to all 20 seats on Westmeath County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections. ^[1] County Westmeath is divided into 4 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]

Results by party

Party		Candidates	Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	10	9		11,695	31.02	5.32
	Fine Gael	8	4	1	7,420	19.68	3.62
	Labour	4	2		3,584	9.51	0.77
	Sinn Féin	7	2	2	3,295	8.74	2.94
	Independent Ireland	3	1	New	1,575	4.18	New
	Green	3	0	2	916	2.43	1.05
	Aontú	1	0		349	0.93	0.24
	Irish Freedom	2	0	New	548	1.45	New
	Ireland First	2	0	New	482	1.28	New
	Social Democrats	1	0		318	0.84	0.26
	The Irish People	1	0	New	92	0.24	New
	Independent	6	2		7,426	19.70	0.90
Total		48	20		37,700	100.00

Retiring incumbents

The following councillors are not seeking re-election:

Constituency	Councillor	Party
Kinnegad	John Shaw [3]		Fianna Fáil
Kinnegad	Paddy Hill [4]		Fianna Fáil
Kinnegad	Frank McDermott		Fine Gael

Results by local electoral area

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

Athlone

Athlone: 5 Seats ^[5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Independent	Kevin "Boxer" Moran	39.64%	3,782
	Fianna Fáil	Frankie Keena [*]	14.37%	1,371	1,780
	Fine Gael	John Dolan [*]	12.72%	1,214	1,568	1,639
	Fianna Fáil	Aengus O'Rourke [*]	11.77%	1,123	1,686
	Sinn Féin	Conor Dowling-Linehan	4.66%	445	563	571	579	579	599	628	644
	Green	Louise Heavin [*]	3.82%	364	477	489	508	517	553	629	654	760
	Independent	Tom Cleary	3.31%	316	507	530	546	554	598	642	739	858	1,034
	Independent Ireland	Paul Hogan [†]	3.25%	310	530	565	590	601	632	684	814	965	1,120
	Irish Freedom	Catrina O'Donohoe	2.91%	278	363	372	377	381	388	399
	Fine Gael	Ruairí Keyes	1.98%	189	260	271	284	296	329
	Labour	Ray Lennon	1.56%	149	216	236	245	249
Electorate: 20,464  Valid: 9,541  Spoilt: 70  Quota: 1,591  Turnout: 9,661 (47.21%)

Kinnegad

Kinnegad: 5 Seats ^{[6] [7]}

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Labour	Denis Leonard [*]	14.91%	1,457	1,466	1,500	1,502	1,569	1,590	1,632
	Fianna Fáil	Alfie Devine	12.64%	1,236	1,237	1,239	1,239	1,243	1,252	1,279	1,364	1,533	1,689	[8]
	Sinn Féin	David Jones	11.61%	1,135	1,137	1,140	1,146	1,203	1,246	1,513	1,553	1,582	1,690
	Fianna Fáil	Niall Gaffney	10.69%	1,045	1,047	1,052	1,052	1,066	1,105	1,114		1,125	1,225	1,287
	Fine Gael	Seamus MacDermott	10.04%	981	981	985	986	1,010	1,028	1,057		1,089	1,101	1,181
	Fine Gael	Emily Wallace [*]	9.73%	951	953	958	960	1,019	1,040	1,061		1,072	1,252	1,421
	Independent Ireland	Brian Crum	6.05%	591	610	613	660	669	732	765		1,015
	Fianna Fáil	Shauna Coyne	5.86%	573	573	578	578	600	614	627	635
	Independent	Noleen Fanning	4.38%	428	433	434	464	468	528	548
	Sinn Féin	Maureen Piggot	3.87%	378	380	394	399	468	501
	Aontú	Laura O’Neill	3.57%	349	366	374	390	397
	Fine Gael	Anthonia Izekor	1.79%	175	175	195	196
	Sinn Féin	Frances Monahan	1.53%	150	155	161	161
	Green	Carol Okeke	1.24%	121	122
	Ireland First	Sarah Heraty	1.16%	113	131	133
	The Irish People	Ian McGauley	0.94%	92
Electorate: 18,090  Valid: 9,775  Spoilt: 123  Quota: 1,630  Turnout: 9,898 (54.72%)

Moate

Moate: 4 Seats ^[9]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5
	Fine Gael	Tom Farrell [*]	23.96%	2,185
	Fianna Fáil	Vinny McCormack [*]	17.87%	1,630	1,777	1,797	1,833
	Fianna Fáil	Liam McDaniel [*]	16.23%	1,480	1,512	1,522	1,558	1,826
	Labour	Johnnie Penrose [*]	15.80%	1,441	1,516	1,537	1,663	1,851
	Independent	Michael O’Brien	11.24%	1,025	1,093	1,174	1,253	1,465
	Independent Ireland	Paul Hogan [††]	7.39%	674	697	779	873
	Sinn Féin	John Lawlor	4.56%	416	424	445
	Irish Freedom	Shane Lynam	2.96%	270	277
Electorate: 16,297  Valid: 9,121  Spoilt: 72  Quota: 1,825  Turnout: 9,193 (56.41%)

Mullingar

Mullingar: 6 Seats ^[10]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Independent	Mick Dollard [*]	18.31%	1,696
	Fianna Fáil	Ken Glynn [*]	14.27%	1,322	1,387
	Fianna Fáil	Aoife Davitt [*]	10.54%	976	1,009	1,017	1,023	1,029	1,048	1,060	1,133	1,258
	Fine Gael	Andrew Duncan [*]	10.43%	966	1,001	1,010	1,014	1,018	1,029	1,056	1,119	1,266
	Fianna Fáil	Bill Collentine [*]	10.14%	939	981	995	1,002	1,006	1,017	1,029	1,076	1,222
	Fine Gael	Gerry Heery	8.19%	759	784	788	796	797	821	840	913	1,048
	Sinn Féin	Julie McCourt	6.18%	572	607	611	753	769	830	886	942	1,053
	Labour	Fidelma Bennett	5.80%	537	580	588	595	602	658	695	877
	Green	Hazel Smyth [*]	4.65%	431	442	444	446	452	560	577
	Ireland First	Margaret Maguire	3.98%	369	392	392	396	514	537
	Social Democrats	Ali Morris	3.43%	318	325	326	335	347
	Sinn Féin	Damien Rooney	2.15%	199	209	210
	Independent	Patrick Hussey	1.93%	179	222	226	229
Electorate: 20,673  Valid: 9,263  Spoilt: 133  Quota: 1,324  Turnout: 9,396 (45.45%)

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8. https://elections.westmeathcoco.ie/2024/results.html?conId=4
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