2024 Kilkenny County 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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Area of Kilkenny County Council |
An election to all 24 seats on Kilkenny County Council will be held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.[1] County Kilkenny 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]
Retiring incumbents[edit]
The following councillors are not seeking re-election:
Constituency | Councillor | Party | |
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Piltown | Eamon Aylward[3] | Fianna Fáil | |
Callan-Thomastown | Matt Doran[4] | Fianna Fáil | |
Callan-Thomastown | Patrick O’Neill[4] | Fine Gael |
Results by party[edit]
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
Party | Candidates | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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Fianna Fáil | 12 | ||||||
Fine Gael | 10 | ||||||
Sinn Féin | 8 | ||||||
Green | 3 | ||||||
Social Democrats | 2 | ||||||
Labour | 3 | ||||||
Independent Ireland | 1 | ||||||
People Before Profit | 1 | ||||||
Irish Freedom | 1 | ||||||
The Irish People | 2 | ||||||
Independent | 7 | ||||||
Total | 50 | 24 | 100.00 |
Candidates by local electoral area[edit]
Callan–Thomastown[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Peter Cleere[*] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Deirdre Cullen[*] | |||
Sinn Féin | Stephanie Doheny | |||
Green | Kristina Doyle | |||
Fine Gael | Michael Doyle[*] | |||
Fine Gael | Orla Kelly | |||
Sinn Féin | David Kennedy | |||
Fine Gael | Joe Lyons[*] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Joe Sheridan | |||
Quota: |
Castlecomer[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Fine Gael | John Brennan[*] | |||
Independent Ireland | Daniel Burke | |||
Fine Gael | Mary Hilda Cavanagh[*] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Michael Delaney[*] | |||
The Irish People | Stephen Delaney | |||
Fianna Fáil | Pat Fitzpatrick[*] | |||
Sinn Féin | Denis Hynes[*] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Michael McCarthy[*] | |||
Independent | Maurice Shortall | |||
Quota: |
Kilkenny[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Independent | Toluwani Akaehomen | |||
Independent | Jony Aza | |||
Sinn Féin | Evan Barry | |||
Fine Gael | Martin Brett[*] | |||
Labour | Andrea Cleere | |||
Fianna Fáil | John Coonan[*] | |||
Green | Maria Dollard[†] | |||
Fine Gael | David Fitzgerald[*] | |||
Independent | Liam Heffernan | |||
Fianna Fáil | Joe Malone[*] | |||
Independent | Michael McGrath | |||
Fianna Fáil | Andrew McGuinness[*] | |||
Independent | Eugene McGuinness[*] | |||
Irish Freedom | Luke O’Connor | |||
Sinn Féin | Mark O’Farrell | |||
Sinn Féin | Aoife O Brien | |||
Labour | Seán Ó hArgáin | |||
Social Democrats | Martin O'Neill | |||
People Before Profit | Kevin Shore | |||
Independent | Noel Gerald Walsh | |||
Quota: |
Piltown[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Labour | Tomás Breathnach[*] | |||
The Irish People | Richard Daly | |||
Fine Gael | Fidelis Doherty[*] | |||
Fine Gael | Damien Donoghue | |||
Fine Gael | Patrick Dunphy[*] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Ger Frisby[*] | |||
Social Democrats | David Kane | |||
Green | Benny McDonagh | |||
Sinn Féin | Natasha Newsome Drennan | |||
Fianna Fáil | Jenny Slattery Catt | |||
Fianna Fáil | Maria Wall | |||
Sinn Féin | Michael Wemyss | |||
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.
- ^ Byrne, Stephen (8 June 2023). "Eamon Aylward Declares Full Steam Ahead for His Final Year as Councillor". KCLR 96FM. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ a b Moloughney, Sian (8 May 2024). "Kilkenny's retiring councillors have made vast impact on their community". kilkennypeople.ie. Archived from the original on 10 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ a b c d "NOTICE OF POLL" (PDF). Kilkenny County Council. 20 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.