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![]() Area of Cavan County Council |
An election to all 18 seats on Cavan County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.[1] County Cavan 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]
The period for nominations ran from 10 a.m. on Saturday 11 May and ended at 12 p.m. on Saturday 18 May 2024. Candidates could be nominated by a registered political party, through the submission of 15 assents from voters in the local electoral area, or alternatively with a deposit of €100.[3][4]
Retiring incumbents
[edit]Constituency | Departing Councillor | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
Cavan-Belturbet | Madeleine Argue[5] | Fine Gael | |
Ballyjamesduff | Craig Lovett[6] | Fianna Fáil |
Results by party
[edit]Party | First-preference votes | Seats | |||||||
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Votes | % FPv | Swing (pp) | Cand. | 2019 | Out. | Elected 2024 |
Change | ||
Fine Gael | 9,553 | 28.17% | ![]() |
7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | ![]() | |
Fianna Fáil | 9,372 | 27.63% | ![]() |
8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | ![]() | |
Sinn Féin | 5,642 | 16.64% | ![]() |
7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ![]() | |
Aontú | 2,756 | 8.13% | ![]() |
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ![]() | |
Independent Ireland | 2,521 | 7.43% | New | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ![]() | |
Labour | 338 | 1.00% | ![]() |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | |
Green | 104 | 0.31% | New | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |
Irish Freedom | 109 | 0.32% | New | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |
The Irish People | 958 | 2.82% | New | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |
Independent | 2,562 | 7.55% | ![]() |
5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ![]() | |
Total Valid | 33,915 | 98.92 | |||||||
Spoilt votes | 372 | 1.08 | |||||||
Total | 33,915 | 100 | — | 36 | 18 | 18 | 18 | ![]() | |
Registered voters/Turnout | 61,786 | 55.49 |
Results by local electoral area
[edit]^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
Bailieborough–Cootehill
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Aontú | Sarah O'Reilly | 14.74 | 1,770 | ||||||||
Fine Gael | Carmel Brady[*] | 14.03 | 1,684 | 1,687 | 1,728 | ||||||
Fine Gael | Val Smith[*] | 11.59 | 1,392 | 1,396 | 1,408 | 1,409 | 1,424 | 1,480 | 1,529 | 1,551 | |
Fianna Fáil | Clifford Kelly[*] | 10.29 | 1,235 | 1,238 | 1,286 | 1,286 | 1,308 | 1,466 | 1,533 | 1,552 | |
Fianna Fáil | Aiden Fitzpatrick[*] | 9.79 | 1,175 | 1,179 | 1,198 | 1,205 | 1,294 | 1,355 | 1,384 | 1,412 | |
Fianna Fáil | Niall Smith | 9.06 | 1,088 | 1,099 | 1,111 | 1,114 | 1,168 | 1,233 | 1,496 | 1,547 | |
Sinn Féin | Stiofán Conaty | 8.92 | 1,071 | 1,073 | 1,174 | 1,175 | 1,244 | 1,326 | 1,836 | ||
Sinn Féin | Paddy McDonald[*] | 6.35 | 763 | 774 | 905 | 906 | 978 | 1,122 | |||
Independent Ireland | Kristofer Shekleton | 5.39 | 647 | 653 | 727 | 725 | 914 | ||||
Independent | Gary Cosgrave | 5.06 | 608 | 613 | 724 | 724 | |||||
Sinn Féin | Marina McEntee | 2.61 | 313 | 315 | |||||||
Independent | Fiona McCormack | 1.68 | 202 | 204 | |||||||
Independent | John O'Reilly | 0.49 | 59 | 60 | |||||||
Electorate: 21,410 (56.74%) Valid: 12,007 Spoilt: 140 Quota: 1,716 Turnout: 12,147 |
Ballyjamesduff
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Independent Ireland | Shane P. O'Reilly[*] | 15.75 | 1,874 | ||||||||
Fine Gael | Trevor Smith[*] | 14.82 | 1,763 | ||||||||
Fine Gael | Winston Bennett[*] | 12.25 | 1,457 | 1,458 | 1,460 | 1,465 | 1,472 | 1,595 | 1,723 | ||
Fianna Fáil | Phillip Brady[*] | 10.88 | 1,295 | 1,295 | 1,306 | 1,316 | 1,321 | 1,424 | 1,849 | ||
Fine Gael | T.P. O'Reilly[*] | 10.52 | 1,252 | 1,258 | 1,331 | 1,381 | 1,399 | 1,477 | 1,563 | 1,639 | |
Sinn Féin | Noel Connell | 8.98 | 1,068 | 1,070 | 1,078 | 1,488 | 1,495 | 1,598 | 1,685 | 1,716 | |
The Irish People | Lester Gordon | 8.05 | 958 | 1,031 | 1,050 | 1,068 | 1,074 | 1,250 | 1,392 | 1,434 | |
Fianna Fáil | Nathan Galligan | 6.94 | 826 | 826 | 836 | 850 | 865 | 986 | |||
Aontú | Gráinne McPhillips | 6.40 | 761 | 773 | 792 | 816 | 821 | ||||
Sinn Féin | Angela Gaffney | 4.50 | 535 | 537 | 569 | ||||||
Irish Freedom | Kieran Goggins | 0.92 | 109 | ||||||||
Electorate: 21,217 (56.61%) Valid: 11,898 Spoilt: 112 Quota: 1,700 Turnout: 12,010 |
Cavan–Belturbet
[edit]Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Áine Smith[†] | 17.61 | 1,763 | ||||||
Independent | Brendan Fay[*] | 16.25 | 1,627 | ||||||
Fianna Fáil | John Paul Feeley[*] | 10.49 | 1,050 | 1,159 | 1,194 | 1,293 | 1,323 | 1,349 | |
Sinn Féin | Damien Brady | 10.44 | 1,045 | 1,088 | 1,133 | 1,200 | 1,729 | ||
Fine Gael | Niamh Brady | 10.16 | 1,017 | 1,050 | 1,070 | 1,203 | 1,275 | 1,333 | |
Fine Gael | Peter McVitty[*] | 9.87 | 988 | 1,048 | 1,080 | 1,166 | 1,192 | 1,209 | |
Fianna Fáil | Patricia Walsh[*] | 9.39 | 940 | 994 | 1,006 | 1,101 | 1,296 | 1,386 | |
Sinn Féin | Michael ‘Bricker’ Wall | 8.46 | 847 | 856 | 872 | 984 | |||
Labour | Liam van der Spek | 3.38 | 338 | 353 | 365 | ||||
Aontú | Tinko Tinev | 2.25 | 225 | 230 | 244 | ||||
Green | Kevin Murphy | 1.04 | 104 | 106 | 109 | ||||
Independent | Susuana Komolafe | 0.66 | 66 | 68 | 75 | ||||
Electorate: 19,159 (52.87%) Valid: 10,010 Spoilt: 120 Quota: 1,431 Turnout: 10,130 |
References
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- ^ "Local elections in Ireland". Citizens Information Board. Archived from the original on 6 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
- ^ "Notice of Election". Cavan County Council. 1 May 2024. Archived from the original on 3 May 2024. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
- ^ "Local election candidates in Cavan have two weeks to submit nomination papers". Irish Independent. 3 May 2024. Archived from the original on 6 May 2024. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ Enright, Seamus (5 May 2024). "Tributes paid to retiring Cavan councillor Madeleine Argue". The Anglo-Celt. Archived from the original on 7 May 2024. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ Enright, Seamus (13 April 2024). "Lovett won't contest election for Cavan County Council". The Anglo-Celt. Archived from the original on 6 May 2024. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ a b c "Notice of Poll". Cavan County Council. 20 May 2024. Archived from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.