2024 Mayo County Council election
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Area of Mayo County Council |
An election to all 30 seats on Mayo County Council will be held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.[1] County Mayo 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]
Incumbents retiring[edit]
The following councillors are not seeking re-election:
Constitutency | Councillor | Party | |
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Claremorris | John Cribbin[3] | Independent | |
Ballina | Séamus Weir[4] | Independent |
Results by party[edit]
Party | Candidates | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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Fianna Fáil | |||||||
Fine Gael | |||||||
Sinn Féin | |||||||
Aontú | |||||||
Social Democrats | |||||||
Green | |||||||
Labour | |||||||
Independent Ireland | New | New | |||||
People Before Profit | |||||||
Irish Freedom | New | New | |||||
The Irish People | New | New | |||||
Independent | |||||||
Total | 30 | 100.00 |
Results by local electoral area[edit]
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
Ballina[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | David Alexander[5] | |||
Sinn Féin | Antonio Cafolla[6] | |||
Independent | Joe Doocey[7] | |||
Independent | Mark Duffy[*][8] | |||
Independent | Joe Faughan[8][9] | |||
Independent | Keith Howley[8] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Michael Loftus[*][5] | |||
Fine Gael | Jarlath Munnelly[*][10] | |||
Independent | Willie Nolan[8] | |||
Fine Gael | John O'Hara[*][10] | |||
Sinn Féin | Úna Morris[6] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Annie May Reape[*][5] | |||
Fine Gael | Hugh Rouse[10] | |||
Quota: |
Belmullet[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Sean Carey[*][5] | |||
Fine Gael | Pat Chambers[10] | |||
Fine Gael | Gerry Coyle[*][10] | |||
Sinn Féin | Rosaleen Lally[6] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Paul McNamara[*][5] | |||
Green | Micheál O’Conaill[11] | |||
Quota: |
Castlebar[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Independent | Harry Barrett | |||
Social Democrats | Aidan Browne[12] | |||
Fine Gael | Cyril Burke[*][10] | |||
People Before Profit | Joe Daly[13] | |||
Fine Gael | Ger Deere[*][10] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Blackie Gavin[5] | |||
Independent Ireland | Donal Geraghty[14] | |||
Sinn Féin | Donna Hyland[6] | |||
Independent | Stephen Kerr[15] | |||
Independent | Gerry Loftus[16] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Al McDonnell[*][5] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Martin McLoughlin[*][5] | |||
Sinn Féin | Maura O’Sullivan[17] | |||
Fine Gael | Donna Sheridan[*][10] | |||
Labour | Kamal Uddin[18] | |||
Quota: |
Claremorris[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Fine Gael | Michael Burke[*][10] | |||
Fine Gael | Tom Connolly[*][10] | |||
Independent Ireland | Mark Devane[14] | |||
Independent | Richard Finn[*][19] | |||
Fine Gael | Alma Gallagher[10] | |||
Aontú | Paul Lawless[20] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Stephen Nolan[5] | |||
Independent | Patsy O'Brien[*][21] | |||
Sinn Féin | Eamon Phelan[22] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Damien Ryan[*][5] | |||
Quota: |
Swinford[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | John Caulfield[*][5] | |||
Fine Gael | Neil Cruise[*][10] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Adrian Forkan[†][5] | |||
The Irish People | Marion Gordon[23] | |||
Aontú | Tommy Horan[24] | |||
Sinn Féin | Gerry Murray[*][6] | |||
Fine Gael | Antoinette Peyton[10] | |||
Sinn Féin | John Sheahan[6] | |||
Quota: |
Westport[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Fine Gael | Peter Flynn[*][10] | |||
Sinn Féin | Karen Gallagher[6] | |||
Independent | Christy Hyland[25] | |||
Fine Gael | Keira Keogh[10] | |||
Aontú | John Loftus[26] | |||
Independent | Chris Maxwell[27] | |||
Irish Freedom | Niall McCormack[28] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Brendan Mulroy[*][5] | |||
Green | Peter Nolan [11] | |||
Quota: |
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