2024 Waterford City and County Council election
Part of the 2024 Irish local elections
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An election to all 32 seats on Waterford City and County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.[1] Waterford City and County 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]
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7 June 2024
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All 32 seats on Waterford City and County Council 17 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Area of Waterford City and County Council | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retiring incumbents
The following councillors did not seek re-election:[3][4]
| Constituency | Departing Councillor | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portlaw–Kilmacthomas | Ger Barron | Labour | |
| Lismore | Mairéad Tobin | Fianna Fáil | |
Results by party
| Party | Candidates | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fine Gael | 11 | 8 |  1 |
11,085 | 23.89 |  1.12 | |
| Sinn Féin | 18 | 7 | 1 |
9,832 | 21.19 | 7.11 | |
| Fianna Fáil | 9 | 5 | 2 |
6,985 | 15.05 | 3.63 | |
| Labour | 4 | 3 | 1 |
2,573 | 5.54 | 2.75 | |
| Green | 5 | 0 | 2 |
1,655 | 3.57 | 2.45 | |
| Social Democrats | 2 | 1 | New | 783 | 1.69 | New | |
| The Irish People | 3 | 0 | New | 385 | 0.83 | New | |
| Rabharta | 1 | 0 | New | 326 | 0.70 | New | |
| Aontú | 1 | 0 |  |
275 | 0.59 | 0.03 | |
| Independent Ireland | 1 | 0 | New | 151 | 0.33 | New | |
| People Before Profit | 1 | 0 | |
133 | 0.29 | 0.46 | |
| Party for Animal Welfare | 1 | 0 | New | 81 | 0.17 | New | |
| Independent | 22 | 8 | 2 |
12,142 | 26.16 | 0.12 | |
| Total | 79 | 32 | |
46,406 | 100.00 | ||
Results by LEA
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
Dungarvan
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Damien Geoghegan[*] | 17.3% | 1,584 | ||||||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Conor D. McGuinness[*] † | 15.3% | 1,408 | ||||||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Tom Cronin[*] | 13.4% | 1,230 | 1,256 | 1,263 | 1,287 | 1,293 | 1,302 | 1,311 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Pat Nugent[*] | 11.7% | 1,073 | 1,134 | 1,137 | 1,155 | 1,157 | 1,181 | 1,199 | 1,246 | 1,293 | 1,318 | |||
| Labour | Thomas Phelan[*] | 8.6% | 786 | 829 | 836 | 841 | 847 | 865 | 905 | 1,011 | 1,065 | 1,149 | 1,151 | 1,296 | |
| Independent | Joe O'Riordan | 6.8% | 627 | 651 | 657 | 667 | 688 | 709 | 763 | 804 | 891 | 971 | 973 | 1,044 | |
| Fine Gael | Monica Murphy | 5.1% | 468 | 510 | 513 | 518 | 522 | 528 | 540 | 614 | 637 | 667 | 669 | ||
| Independent | Seamus O'Donnell[*] | 5.0% | 462 | 474 | 480 | 489 | 508 | 518 | 543 | 559 | 641 | 674 | 675 | 786 | |
| Green | Críostóir Ó Faoláin | 3.8% | 345 | 357 | 362 | 367 | 369 | 376 | 388 | ||||||
| Independent | Caren Hallahan | 3.2% | 295 | 308 | 311 | 322 | 357 | 370 | 406 | 427 | |||||
| Independent | Jonathan Shaw | 2.7% | 244 | 264 | 267 | 270 | 287 | 294 | |||||||
| Sinn Féin | Siobhan Whelan | 2.3% | 209 | 218 | 234 | 235 | 238 | ||||||||
| Sinn Féin | Fiona Regan | 2.2% | 204 | 210 | 246 | 252 | 257 | 362 | 403 | 442 | 466 | ||||
| Independent | Aaron Joyce | 1.4% | 131 | 132 | 133 | 136 | |||||||||
| Independent | Roger Morrison | 0.8% | 70 | 71 | 71 | ||||||||||
| Independent | Padraig Curran | 0.4% | 38 | 41 | 42 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 17,625 Valid: 9,174 Spoilt: 85 Quota: 1,311 Turnout: 9,259 (52.53%) | |||||||||||||||
Lismore
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Donnchadh Mulcahy | 19.2% | 988 | 1,025 | 1,065 | 1,134 | 1,178 | 1,208 | |
| Labour | John Pratt[*] | 18.6% | 958 | 1,019 | 1,122 | 1,392 | |||
| Fine Gael | Niamh O'Donovan | 15.5% | 801 | 850 | 1,081 | 1,370 | |||
| Independent | Brian Buckley | 15.2% | 781 | 890 | 939 | 1,059 | 1,118 | 1,169 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Michael Walsh | 14.1% | 729 | 742 | 864 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Declan Doocey[*] | 10.8% | 559 | 569 | |||||
| Green | Lynn Glasscoe | 2.8% | 145 | ||||||
| Independent | Frank Power | 2.4% | 126 | ||||||
| The Irish People | Michael McCarthy | 1.3% | 66 | ||||||
| Electorate: 9,952 Valid: 5,153 Spoilt: 51 Quota: 1,289 Turnout: 5,204 (52.29%) | |||||||||
Portlaw–Kilmacthomas
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Liam Brazil[*] | 25.5% | 1,982 | ||||||||
| Fine Gael | Seanie Power[*] | 20.0% | 1,554 | ||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | John O’Leary[*] | 14.2% | 1,104 | 1,411 | |||||||
| Independent | Declan Clune[*] | 11.5% | 898 | 993 | 1,029 | 1,059 | 1,084 | 1,145 | 1,178 | 1,451 | |
| Sinn Féin | Catherine Burke | 7.7% | 600 | 688 | 709 | 716 | 731 | 894 | 1,107 | 1,169 | |
| Independent | Frank Conway | 6.1% | 474 | 521 | 542 | 581 | 592 | 608 | 631 | 842 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Ray Murphy | 5.4% | 423 | 520 | 640 | 644 | 697 | 716 | 770 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Ben Duggan | 4.4% | 342 | 355 | 365 | 368 | 371 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Thomas Guiry | 4.1% | 317 | 341 | 379 | 388 | 393 | 476 | |||
| The Irish People | Declan Power | 1.2% | 94 | 106 | 115 | ||||||
| Electorate: 15,401 Valid: 7,788 Spoilt: 73 Quota: 1,299 Turnout: 7,861 (51.04%) | |||||||||||
Tramore–Waterford City West
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Lola O’Sullivan[*] | 16.0% | 1,313 | ||||||||||||
| Independent | Joe Kelly[*] | 13.0% | 1,069 | 1,074 | 1,090 | 1,110 | 1,142 | 1,156 | 1,200 | ||||||
| Independent | Blaise Hannigan | 11.2% | 921 | 939 | 950 | 973 | 988 | 1,001 | 1,019 | 1,070 | 1,071 | 1,106 | 1,149 | 1,214 | |
| Independent | Joe Conway[*] | 10.6% | 871 | 895 | 909 | 933 | 941 | 946 | 968 | 1,066 | 1,070 | 1,083 | 1,154 | 1,279 | |
| Sinn Féin | Jim Griffin[*] | 9.0% | 739 | 744 | 752 | 756 | 770 | 865 | 871 | 879 | 881 | 1,074 | 1,116 | 1,153 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Eamon Quinlan[*] | 8.2% | 676 | 697 | 702 | 707 | 745 | 753 | 839 | 880 | 891 | 894 | 925 | 1,035 | |
| Green | Cristiona Kiely[†] | 4.5% | 373 | 389 | 396 | 399 | 428 | 432 | 465 | 480 | 483 | 496 | 568 | ||
| Rabharta | Killian Mangan | 4.0% | 326 | 331 | 346 | 350 | 371 | 384 | 394 | 408 | 409 | 423 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Suzie Duffin | 3.9% | 324 | 326 | 334 | 336 | 339 | 372 | 377 | 389 | 390 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Alannah Hutchinson-Smith | 3.8% | 316 | 317 | 323 | 326 | 342 | 386 | 400 | 409 | 410 | 498 | 569 | 627 | |
| Aontú | Ronan Cleary | 3.3% | 275 | 277 | 284 | 329 | 340 | 342 | 350 | ||||||
| Fine Gael | Richie Hayes | 3.0% | 245 | 267 | 275 | 282 | 303 | 317 | |||||||
| Sinn Féin | John Hayes | 2.9% | 240 | 249 | 251 | 254 | 263 | ||||||||
| Labour | Mairead McKnight | 2.9% | 239 | 242 | 245 | 249 | |||||||||
| Independent Ireland | Michael Gallwey | 1.8% | 151 | 154 | 174 | ||||||||||
| Party for Animal Welfare | Samantha Dooley | 1.0% | 81 | 82 | |||||||||||
| Independent | Melissa O'Neill | 0.8% | 69 | 69 | |||||||||||
| Electorate: 17,813 Valid: 8,228 Spoilt: 120 Quota: 1,176 Turnout: 8,348 (46.86%) | |||||||||||||||
Waterford City East
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||||
| Independent | David Daniels[*] | 15.4% | 1,331 | ||||||||||
| Independent | Declan Barry | 14.5% | 1,257 | ||||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Adam Wyse[*] | 12.3% | 1,062 | 1,080 | 1,103 | 1,121 | 1,124 | 1,172 | 1,429 | ||||
| Fine Gael | Jim D'arcy | 10.1% | 872 | 882 | 898 | 904 | 907 | 937 | 997 | 1,062 | 1,067 | 1,257 | |
| Sinn Féin | Pat Fitzgerald[*] | 9.9% | 856 | 885 | 891 | 1,075 | 1,078 | 1,302 | |||||
| Social Democrats | Mary Roche[†] | 7.4% | 643 | 650 | 659 | 676 | 678 | 721 | 788 | 825 | 847 | 1,126 | |
| Green | Jody Power[*] | 7.3% | 630 | 641 | 649 | 663 | 667 | 673 | 714 | 755 | 768 | ||
| Independent | Darren Ryan | 6.6% | 572 | 635 | 649 | 654 | 655 | 726 | 765 | 792 | 816 | 934 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Stephanie Keating[†] | 5.4% | 472 | 476 | 485 | 496 | 497 | 511 | |||||
| Sinn Féin | Karl Cretzan | 4.6% | 401 | 410 | 416 | 493 | 495 | ||||||
| Sinn Féin | Caroline Griffin | 3.9% | 340 | 344 | 346 | ||||||||
| The Irish People | John Walsh | 2.6% | 225 | ||||||||||
| Electorate: 17,379 Valid: 8,661 Spoilt: 90 Quota: 1,238 Turnout: 8,751 (50.35%) | |||||||||||||
Waterford City South
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | ||||
| Independent | Donal Barry[*] | 17.4% | 1,291 | ||||||||||||
| Sinn Féin | John Hearne[*] | 13.9% | 1,030 | 1,065 | |||||||||||
| Fianna Fáil | Jason Murphy[*] | 12.8% | 946 | 968 | 970 | 971 | 975 | 989 | 997 | 1,008 | 1,018 | 1,165 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Joeanne Bailey[†] | 9.6% | 712 | 729 | 730 | 731 | 740 | 750 | 767 | 778 | 941 | 978 | 983 | 1,039 | |
| Fine Gael | Frank Quinlan[†] | 8.6% | 634 | 653 | 654 | 654 | 657 | 681 | 695 | 707 | 717 | 762 | 800 | 855 | |
| Labour | Seamus Ryan[*] | 8.0% | 590 | 610 | 610 | 611 | 623 | 656 | 723 | 740 | 752 | 783 | 810 | 931 | |
| Sinn Féin | Kevin Burke | 7.0% | 520 | 532 | 532 | 533 | 544 | 548 | 565 | 569 | 660 | 698 | 702 | 762 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Vivienne Burns | 4.6% | 343 | 361 | 361 | 362 | 375 | 387 | 395 | 410 | 419 | ||||
| Independent | Seán Reinhardt | 4.6% | 343 | 372 | 402 | 404 | 419 | 428 | 438 | 540 | 555 | 587 | 599 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Breda Brennan | 3.9% | 286 | 300 | 301 | 301 | 311 | 325 | 336 | 345 | |||||
| Independent | Lisa Carroll | 2.6% | 191 | 216 | 251 | 251 | 258 | 263 | 275 | ||||||
| Green | Maolíosa Ní Chléirigh | 2.2% | 162 | 165 | 165 | 165 | 174 | ||||||||
| Social Democrats | Sinead Ellen Griffin | 1.9% | 140 | 144 | 146 | 146 | 179 | 201 | |||||||
| People Before Profit | Patrick Curtin | 1.8% | 133 | 140 | 143 | 143 | |||||||||
| Independent | Eric English | 1.1% | 81 | 89 | |||||||||||
| Electorate: 15,641 Valid: 7,402 Spoilt: 104 Quota: 1,058 Turnout: 7,506 (47.99%) | |||||||||||||||
Co-options since 2024 Election
- †Dungarvan-Lismore Sinn Féin Cllr Conor D. McGuinness was elected as a TD for Waterford at the 2024 Irish general election. Kate O'Mahoney was selected to fill the vacancy on 16 December 2024.[13]