2024 Clare County Council election

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2024 Clare County Council election
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7 June 2024
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All 28 seats on Clare County Council
15 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Sinn Féin
Last election 13 8 1
Seats won 14 9 2
Seat change Increase1 Increase1 Increase1
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Party Green Independent
Last election 1 5
Seats won 0 3
Seat change Decrease1 Decrease2
Area of Clare County Council

An election to all 28 seats on Clare County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.[1] County Clare is divided into 5 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]

Party First-preference votes Seats
Votes % FPv Swing (pp) Cand. 2019 Elected
2024		 Change
Fianna Fáil 21,034 39.10 Increase0.51 16 13 14 Increase1
Fine Gael 15,608 29.01 Decrease2.69 11 8 9 Increase1
Sinn Féin 3,929 7.30 Increase2.42 6 1 2 Increase1
Green 2,735 5.08 Increase1.11 5 1 0 Decrease1
Independent Ireland 1,805 3.36 New 3 New New New
Social Democrats 1,211 2.25 Increase0.57 2 0 0 Steady
Labour 515 0.96 Decrease0.02 2 0 0 Steady
Aontú 275 0.51 New 1 New New New
Irish Freedom 287 0.53 New 1 New New New
Farmers' Alliance 234 0.43 New 1 New New New
The Irish People 127 0.24 New 1 New New New
Independent 6,038 11.22 Decrease6.98 10 5 3 Decrease2
Total Valid 53,798 98.95
Spoilt votes 571 1.05
Total 54,369 100 — 59 28 28 Steady
Registered voters/Turnout 98,937 54.95

Retiring incumbents

The following councillors did not seek re-election:

Constituency Councillor Party
Ennis Johnny Flynn[3] Fine Gael
Kilrush PJ Kelly[4] Fianna Fáil
Ennis Ann Norton[5] Independent

Results by local electoral area

Changes

References

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