2024 Galway City Council election

An election to all 18 seats on Galway City Council was held in Galway in Ireland on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.^[1] Councillors will be elected for a five-year term of office from 3 local electoral areas (LEAs) on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).^[2]

2024 Galway City Council election

← 2019 07 June 2024 2029 →
All 18 seats on Galway City Council 10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	44.40%
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Sinn Féin Seats won 4 4 1 Seat change 1 1 1   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Green Labour Social Democrats Seats won 0 3 2 Seat change 2 2 1   Seventh party   Party Independent Seats won 4 Seat change 2
Area of Galway City Council
Council control after election TBD

Retiring incumbents

The following councillors are not seeking re-election:

Constituency	Departing Councillor	Party
Galway City Central	Imelda Byrne		Fianna Fáil
Galway City Central	Collette Connolly

Results by party

Party		Candidates	Seats	±	1st pref	%	±%
	Fine Gael	6	4	1	4,507	18.51	2.66
	Fianna Fáil	5	4	1	4,248	17.44	3.03
	Labour	3	3	2	1,901	7.81	0.84
	Social Democrats	3	2	1	1,762	7.23	1.24
	Sinn Féin	3	1	1	1,469	6.03	0.66
	Green	3	0	2	1,206	4.95	4.47
	People Before Profit	3	0		581	2.39	0.80
	Independent Ireland	2	0	New	511	2.10	New
	Aontú	2	0		461	1.89	0.53
	Irish Freedom	3	0	New	444	1.82	New
	The Irish People	3	0	New	435	1.79	New
	Solidarity	1	0		129	0.53	0.33
	Independent	15	4	2	6,700	27.51	2.62
Total		52	18			100.00	—

Candidates by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
^ ‡: Outgoing councillor coopted in 2023 to Galway City East now contesting Galway City West

Galway City Central

Galway City Central: 6 seats^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Independent	Mike Cubbard[*]	19.5%	1,486
	Fine Gael	Eddie Hoare[*]	16.9%	1,282
	Fine Gael	Frank Fahy[*]	11.6%	882	945	1,036	1,037	1,038	1,042	1,052	1,064	1,112
	Fianna Fáil	Josie Ford	9.6%	732	805	848	851	855	862	875	887	909	932	1,017
	Labour	John McDonagh	8.5%	643	710	726	729	731	734	758	767	851	902	965
	Social Democrats	Eibhlín Seoighte	7.6%	575	607	617	618	619	630	666	675	809	992	1,028
	Sinn Féin	Mark Lohan	6.5%	498	541	545	547	550	557	571	587	606	689	739
	Green	Martina O'Connor[*]	4.2%	319	343	357	357	358	359	382	387
	Aontú	Padraig Lenihan	4.0%	307	321	328	332	339	366	382	477	491	503
	People Before Profit	Adrian Curran	4.0%	304	327	330	330	332	336	380	394	413
	Independent	Margaretta D'Arcy	2.3%	175	191	194	205	211	218
	Irish Freedom	Mary Cummins	2.2%	169	181	182	189	242	270	281
	Independent Ireland	Shauna Ridge	1.3%	98	114	115	118	129
	The Irish People	Sean Comer	1.0%	79	88	90	105
	Independent	Dara O'Flaherty	0.6%	49	51	51
	Independent	Patrick Feeney	0.1%	8	13	13
Electorate: 18,206   Valid: 7,606   Spoilt: 127   Quota: 1,087   Turnout: 7,733 (42.48%)

Galway City East

Galway City East: 6 seats^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
	Fianna Fáil	Alan Cheevers[*]	12.89%	1,031	1,033	1,040	1,040	1,043	1,049	1,053	1,057	1,070	1,156
	Independent	Declan McDonnell[*]	12.61%	1,009	1,012	1,017	1,018	1,024	1,037	1,042	1,063	1,073	1,087	1,146
	Independent	Terry O'Flaherty[*]	11.45%	916	924	928	929	930	945	952	964	981	1,020	1,095	1,144
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Crowe[*]	9.20%	736	740	742	742	743	751	754	759	761	782	802	821	918	920
	Fine Gael	Shane Forde	8.31%	665	667	667	667	667	672	675	677	684	788	817	843	932	936
	Sinn Féin	Aisling Burke	7.80%	624	628	636	645	650	656	693	702	736	747	790	895	985	988
	Labour	Helen Ogbu	7.31%	585	588	586	607	608	611	634	637	777	815	857	1,045	1,102	1,105
	Independent Ireland	Noel Larkin[*]	5.16%	413	418	422	424	436	464	471	543	550	572	623	645
	Independent	Michael Tully	4.40%	352	356	365	367	370	379	384	410	416	436
	Fine Gael	Aisling Keogh	4.15%	332	334	338	340	342	344	349	352	362
	Social Democrats	Justine Delaney Heaslip	3.79%	303	309	311	324	324	326	372	374	425	443	462
	Green	Joyce Mathias	3.59%	287	292	295	298	298	301	322	326
	Aontú	Cormac Ó Corcoráin	1.92%	154	154	158	158	169
	Solidarity	Conor Burke	1.61%	129	133	137	181	185	186
	The Irish People	Jacinta Gibbons	1.59%	127	130	133	133	183	225	231
	Irish Freedom	Susan Feeney	1.41%	113	117	118	120
	PBP–Solidarity	Denman Rooke	1.09%	87	90	91
	Independent	David Lynch	0.87%	70	72
	Independent	Conor Dowd	0.72%	58
	Independent	Arkadiusz Wozniak	0.12%	10
Electorate: 18,110   Valid: 8,001   Spoilt: 101   Quota: 1,144   Turnout: 8,102 (44.74%)

Galway City West

Galway City West: 6 seats^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
	Independent	Donal Lyons[*]	15.96%	1,415
	Fine Gael	Clodagh Higgins[*]	12.12%	1,074	1,106	1,108	1,111	1,112	1,221	1,232	1,247	1,309
	Fianna Fáil	John Connolly[*]	11.07%	981	1,004	1,005	1,013	1,013	1,043	1,085	1,132	1,184	1,224	1,232	1,236	1,325
	Social Democrats	Alan Curran[‡]	9.97%	884	897	902	902	983	999	1,010	1,122	1,168	1,289
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Keane[*]	8.66%	768	789	791	794	795	806	820	823	856	868	877	877	964	995
	Labour	Níall McNelis[*]	7.59%	673	701	703	706	723	741	758	808	870	976	998	1,010	1,156	1,181
	Green	Niall Murphy[†]	6.77%	600	606	610	612	637	652	657	678	705	784	790	805	900	905
	Independent	Kenny Deery	4.51%	400	408	411	418	419	426	476	498	585	624	629	637
	Independent	Esther Oghomwenrie Osayimwen	4.14%	367	370	370	375	411	451	462	489	511
	Sinn Féin	Cathal Ó Conchúir	3.91%	347	351	352	359	381	390	409
	Independent	Jarlath Feeney	3.90%	346	361	367	377	380	388	434	466
	Fine Gael	Asraf Chowdhury	3.07%	272	277	280	280	282
	The Irish People	A.J. Cahill	2.58%	229	231	233	330	332	334
	People Before Profit	Maisie McMaster	2.14%	190	191	195	198
	Irish Freedom	Rory Ó Beirn	1.83%	162	164	166
	Independent	Denis Nealis	0.44%	39	41
Electorate: 18,533   Valid: 8,747   Spoilt: 117   Quota: 1,250   Turnout: 8,864 (47.83%)

References

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