2024 Meath County Council election
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All 40 seats on Meath County Council 21 seats needed for a majority | ||
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 Area of Meath County Council | ||
An election to all 40 seats on Meath County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.[1] County Meath is divided into 6 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[edit]
The following councillors are not seeking re-election:[3]
| Constituency | Departing Councillor | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ratoath | Deirdre Geraghty-Smith | Fianna Fáil | |
Results by party[edit]
| Party | Candidates | Seats | ± | First Pref. votes | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 17 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | 17 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | 14 | ||||||
| Aontú | 7 | ||||||
| Social Democrats | 2 | ||||||
| Green | 4 | ||||||
| Labour | 3 | ||||||
| Independent Ireland | 2 | New | New | ||||
| Workers' Party | 1 | ||||||
| Party for Animal Welfare | 1 | ||||||
| Irish Freedom | 1 | New | New | ||||
| National Party | 2 | New | New | ||||
| Independent | 21 | ||||||
| Totals | 92 | 40 | 
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Candidates by LEA[edit]
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
Ashbourne[edit]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Independent | Cathal Ashbourne-Loftus | 0.67% | 73 | |
| Independent | Charles Bobbett | 1.41% | 154 | |
| Independent | Joe Bonner[*] | 24.66% | 2685 | |
| Independent | Marcin Czekalski | 0.17% | 19 | |
| Green | Martina Eskdale | 1.51% | 164 | |
| Fine Gael | Suzanne Jamal[*] | 11.43% | 1244 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Bryan Mallon | 5.21% | 567 | |
| Sinn Féin | Helen Meyer[†] | 4.96% | 539 | |
| National Party | Jean Murray | 2.27% | 247 | |
| Independent | Sivakumar Murugadoss | 1.58% | 172 | |
| Social Democrats | Paul Nolan | 4.16% | 453 | |
| Aontú | Brandon Scott | 5.18% | 564 | |
| Independent | Amanda Smith[†] | 13.91% | 1514 | |
| Fine Gael | Alan Tobin[*] | 10.28% | 1119 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Conor Tormey[*] | 7.10% | 773 | |
| Sinn Féin | Maria Uí Ruairc | 3.99% | 434 | |
| Electorate: 10887 Valid: 10721 Spoilt: 166 Quota: 1532 | ||||
Kells[edit]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Mike Bray[*] | |||
| Sinn Féin | Peter Caffrey | |||
| Fine Gael | Eugene Cassidy[*] | |||
| Independent | Cormac Corr | |||
| Sinn Féin | Oliver Curran | |||
| Aontú | Peter Devlin | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Seán Drew[*] | |||
| Sinn Féin | Michael Gallagher[†] | |||
| Independent | David Gilroy[*] | |||
| Independent Ireland | Colm Mac an tSionnaigh | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Paul McCabe[*] | |||
| Fine Gael | Seamus McGee | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Paddy Rennick | |||
| Fine Gael | Sarah Reilly[*] | |||
| Quota: | ||||
Laytown–Bettystown[edit]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Tom Behan[*] | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Wayne Harding[*] | |||
| Independent | Geraldine Keoghan[†] | |||
| Independent | Carol Lennon | |||
| Sinn Féin | Seamus Lynch | |||
| Green | Cathal Mac Reamoinn | |||
| Labour | Elaine McGinty[†] | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Stephen McKee[*] | |||
| Fine Gael | Paddy Meade[*] | |||
| Fine Gael | Declan O'Neill | |||
| Independent | Marjeta Qevani | |||
| Independent | Patrick Smith | |||
| Fine Gael | Sharon Tolan[*] | |||
| Independent Ireland | Raymond Westlake | |||
| Aontú | Peter Whelan | |||
| Sinn Féin | Maria White | |||
| Quota: | ||||
[edit]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Yemi Adenuga[*] | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Kashif Ali | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Niamh Carroll | |||
| Aontú | Jose Cyriac | |||
| Independent | Francis Deane[*] | |||
| Sinn Féin | Eddie Fennessy[*] | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Padraig Fitzsimons[*] | |||
| Independent | Edel Gillick | |||
| Fine Gael | Ross Kelly | |||
| Independent | Alan Lawes[*] | |||
| Green | Seamus McMenamin | |||
| Sinn Féin | Frances Murphy | |||
| Fine Gael | Linda Nelson Murray | |||
| Sinn Féin | Caoimhe Ní Shluain | |||
| Irish Freedom | David O'Shea | |||
| Aontú | Francis O'Toole | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Tommy Reilly[*] | |||
| Aontú | Emer Tóibín[*] | |||
| Quota: | ||||
Ratoath[edit]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Independent | Gillian Toole[*] | 23.82% | 3,158 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Maria Murphy[*] | 13.53% | 1,794 | ||||
| Independent | Brian Fitzgerald[*] | 11.23% | 1,488 | 1,581 | 1,593 | 1,604 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Caroline O'Reilly[†] | 10.81% | 1,433 | 1,500 | 1,564 | 1,573 | |
| Independent | Nick Killian[*] | 7.73% | 1,025 | 1,468 | 1,471 | 1,480 | |
| Fianna Fáil | John Donohoe | 6.59% | 874 | 964 | 966 | 970 | |
| Fine Gael | Gerry O'Connor[*] | 5.69% | 754 | 936 | 961 | 965 | |
| Sinn Féin | Fionnan Blake | 5.23% | 693 | 769 | 772 | 779 | |
| Labour | Eilish Balfe | 3.64% | 483 | 675 | 679 | 686 | |
| Fine Gael | Fergus O'Riordan | 2.89% | 383 | 546 | 555 | 558 | |
| National Party | Jean Murray | 2.33 | 309 | 358 | 358 | 369 | |
| Green | Ruadháin Bonham | 2.14% | 284 | 316 | 324 | 331 | |
| Sinn Féin | Trish Murtagh | 1.60% | 212 | 238 | 239 | 243 | |
| Workers' Party | Gerry Rooney | 1.34% | 178 | 228 | 229 | 233 | |
| Independent | Eleanor Carroll | 0.81% | 107 | 120 | 123 | 130 | |
| Party for Animal Welfare | Carolyn Fahy | 0.60% | 80 | 105 | 107 | ||
| Electorate: 28,420 Valid: 13,255 Spoilt: 98 Quota: 1,657 Turnout: 13,353 (46.98%) | |||||||
Trim[edit]
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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| 1 | ||||
| Aontú | Dave Boyne | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Padraig Coffey | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Aisling Dempsey[*] | |||
| Sinn Féin | Aoife Drew | |||
| Fine Gael | Joe Fox[*] | |||
| Independent | Noel French[*] | |||
| Independent | Trevor Golden[*] | |||
| Fine Gael | Luba Healy | |||
| Labour | Trevor McElhinney | |||
| Sinn Féin | Dáithí McEvoy | |||
| Social Democrats | Ronan Moore[*] | |||
| Fine Gael | Niamh Souhan[*] | |||
| Quota: | ||||
References[edit]
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