2024 Galway City Council election
This article documents a current election. Information may change rapidly as the election progresses until official results have been published. Initial news reports may be unreliable, and the last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. (June 2024) |
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An election to all 18 seats on Galway City Council will be held in Galway in Ireland on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.[1] Councillors will be elected for a five-year term of office from 3 local electoral areas (LEAs) on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).[2]
Retiring incumbents[edit]
The following councillors are not seeking re-election:
Constituency | Departing Councillor | Party | |
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Galway City Central | Imelda Byrne | Fianna Fáil | |
Galway City Central | Collette Connolly |
Results by party[edit]
Party | Candidates | Seats | ± | 1st pref | % | ±% | |
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Fianna Fáil | 5 | ||||||
Fine Gael | 6 | ||||||
Sinn Féin | 3 | ||||||
Aontú | 2 | ||||||
Social Democrats | 3 | ||||||
Green | 3 | ||||||
Labour | 3 | ||||||
Independent Ireland | 2 | New | New | ||||
People Before Profit | 3 | ||||||
Solidarity | 1 | ||||||
The Irish People | 3 | New | New | ||||
Irish Freedom | 3 | New | New | ||||
Independent | 15 | ||||||
Total | 52 | 18 | 100.00 | — |
Candidates by local electoral area[edit]
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
Galway City Central[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
The Irish People | Sean Comer | |||
Independent | Mike Cubbard[*] | |||
Irish Freedom | Mary Cummins | |||
People Before Profit | Adrian Curran | |||
Independent | Margaretta D'Arcy | |||
Fine Gael | Frank Fahy[*] | |||
Independent | Patrick Feeney | |||
Fianna Fáil | Josie Ford | |||
Fine Gael | Eddie Hoare[*] | |||
Aontú | Padraig Lenihan | |||
Sinn Féin | Mark Lohan | |||
Labour | John McDonagh | |||
Green | Martina O'Connor[*] | |||
Independent | Dara O'Flaherty | |||
Independent Ireland | Shauna Ridge | |||
Social Democrats | Eibhlín Seoighte | |||
Quota: |
Galway City East[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Alan Cheevers[*] | 12.89% | 1,031 | 1,033 | 1,040 | 1,040 | 1,043 | 1,049 | 1,053 | |
Independent | Declan McDonnell[*] | 12.61% | 1,009 | 1,012 | 1,017 | 1,018 | 1,024 | 1,037 | 1,042 | |
Independent | Terry O'Flaherty[*] | 11.45% | 916 | 924 | 928 | 929 | 930 | 945 | 952 | |
Fianna Fáil | Michael Crowe[*] | 9.20% | 736 | 740 | 742 | 742 | 743 | 751 | 754 | |
Fine Gael | Shane Forde | 8.31% | 665 | 667 | 667 | 667 | 667 | 672 | 675 | |
Sinn Féin | Aisling Burke | 7.80% | 624 | 628 | 636 | 645 | 650 | 656 | 693 | |
Labour | Helen Ogbu | 7.31% | 585 | 588 | 586 | 607 | 608 | 611 | 634 | |
Independent Ireland | Noel Larkin[*] | 5.16% | 413 | 418 | 422 | 424 | 436 | 464 | 471 | |
Independent | Michael Tully | 4.40% | 352 | 356 | 365 | 367 | 370 | 379 | 384 | |
Fine Gael | Aisling Keogh | 4.15% | 332 | 334 | 338 | 340 | 342 | 344 | 349 | |
Social Democrats | Justine Delaney Heaslip | 3.79% | 303 | 309 | 311 | 324 | 324 | 326 | 372 | |
Green | Joyce Mathias | 3.59% | 287 | 292 | 295 | 298 | 298 | 301 | 322 | |
Aontú | Cormac Ó Corcoráin | 1.92% | 154 | 154 | 158 | 158 | 169 | |||
Solidarity | Conor Burke | 1.61% | 129 | 133 | 137 | 181 | 185 | 186 | ||
The Irish People | Jacinta Gibbons | 1.59% | 127 | 130 | 133 | 133 | 183 | 225 | 231 | |
Irish Freedom | Susan Feeney | 1.41% | 113 | 117 | 118 | 120 | ||||
PBP–Solidarity | Denman Rooke | 1.09% | 87 | 90 | 91 | |||||
Independent | David Lynch | 0.87% | 70 | 72 | ||||||
Independent | Conor Dowd | 0.72% | 58 | |||||||
Independent | Arkadiusz Wozniak | 0.12% | 10 | |||||||
Valid: 8,001 Spoilt: 101 Quota: 1,144 Turnout: 8,102 |
Galway City West[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
The Irish People | A.J. Cahill | |||
Fine Gael | Asraf Chow Dhury | |||
Fianna Fáil | John Connolly[*] | |||
Social Democrats | Alan Curran[†] | |||
Independent | Kenny Deery | |||
Independent | Jarlath Feeney | |||
Fine Gael | Clodagh Higgins[*] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Peter Keane[*] | |||
Independent | Donal Lyons | |||
People Before Profit | Maisie McMaster | |||
Labour | Níall McNelis[*] | |||
Green | Niall Murphy[†] | |||
Independent | Denis Nealis | |||
Irish Freedom | Rory Ó Beirn | |||
Sinn Féin | Cathal Ó Conchúir | |||
Independent | Esther Oghomwenrie Osayimwen | |||
Quota: |
References[edit]
- ^ "Polling Day Orders made for European, local and Limerick mayoral elections". Gov.ie (Press release). Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. 6 April 2024. Archived from the original on 10 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
- ^ "Local elections in Ireland". Citizens Information Board. Archived from the original on 6 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
- ^ a b c "Fógra na Vótaíochta / Notice of Poll". Galway City Council. 20 May 2024. Archived from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.