2024 Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council election

An election to all 40 seats on Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.^[1] Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown 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]

2024 Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council election

← 2019 7 June 2024 2029 →
All 40 seats on Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council 21 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fine Gael Green Fianna Fáil Last election 13 6 7 Seats before 13 6 7 Seats won 16 6 5 Seat change 3 2   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Labour People Before Profit Social Democrats Last election 6 2 1 Seats before 6 1 1 Seats won 5 2 1 Seat change 1 1   Seventh party   Party Independent Last election 5 Seats before 6 Seats won 5 Seat change 1
Results by LEAs
Council control after election TBD

The period for nominations started at 10 a.m. on Saturday 11 May and ended at 12 p.m. on Saturday 18 May 2024.^[3]

Retiring incumbents

The following councillors are not seeking re-election:

Constituency	Departing Councillor	Party		Date announced
Blackrock	Kate Feeney		Fianna Fáil	30 November 2023[4]
Blackrock	Mary Hanafin		Fianna Fáil	30 November 2023[4]
Dún Laoghaire	Juliet O’Connell		Labour	22 April 2024
Dún Laoghaire	Dave Quinn		Social Democrats	6 May 2024
Killiney-Shankill	Dennis O'Callaghan		Labour

Campaign

In April 2024, Orli Degani, who had been selected by the Social Democrats to contest the Dún Laoghaire LEA was dropped from the ticket. She contested the election as an independent candidate.^[5]

Results by party

Party		First-preference votes			Seats
		Votes	% FPv	Swing (pp)	Cand.	2019	Out.	Elected 2024	Change
	Fine Gael	25,630	33.27	5.97	17	13	13	16	3
	Fianna Fáil	8,926	11.59	6.00	11	7	7	5	2
	Green	7,331	9.52	10.14	6	6	6	6
	Labour	7,804	10.13	1.65	7	6	6	5	1
	Social Democrats	4,307	5.59	3.96	6	1	1	1
	Sinn Féin	3,968	5.15	1.72	8	0	0	0
	People Before Profit	2,875	3.73	2.86	3	2	1	2
	Aontú	2,449	3.18	2.24	3	0	0	0
	The Irish People	204	0.26	New	1	New	New	0
	Independent	13,539	17.58	7.31	18	5	6	5
Total Valid		77,033	98.87
Spoilt votes		879	1.13
Total		77,033	100.00	—	80	40	40	40
Registered voters/Turnout		176,321	44.19

Results by LEA

^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
^ ‡: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019 for the Killiney–Shankill LEA.

Blackrock

Blackrock: 6 Seats^[6][7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Fine Gael	Marie Baker[*]	24.79%	3,045
	Green	Conor Dowling	9.73%	1,195	1,279	1,281	1,311	1,340	1,361	1,469	1,523	1,795
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Clark[‡]	8.82%	1,117	1,272	1,277	1,304	1,319	1,368	1,382	1,784
	Fine Gael	Maurice Dockrell[†]	7.63%	937	1,310	1,313	1,322	1,329	1,369	1,378	1,461	1,509	1,513	1,530
	Labour	Martha Fanning[†]	7.42%	912	1,018	1,020	1,052	1,081	1,118	1,222	1,292	1,683	1,724	1,729
	Independent	Cormac Lucey	7.36%	904	972	1,042	1,078	1,112	1,301	1,369	1,418	1,506	1,512	1,517
	Fine Gael	Dan Carson	6.56%	806	1,151	1,155	1,198	1,212	1,246	1,294	1,407	1,496	1,501	1,519
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Reynolds	5.75%	706	785	787	799	811	853	877
	Social Democrats	Lydia Bigley	5.13%	631	674	678	699	741	776	1,043	1,067
	PBP–Solidarity	Cian Mac Aonghusa	4.66%	572	581	595	613	752	776
	Aontú	Helen Duignan	3.97%	488	503	531	565	597
	Sinn Féin	Callie Nic Rállaigh	3.05%	374	381	398	410
	Independent	Reji Chacko Jacob	2.43%	299	319	324
	Independent	Jonathan Roe	1.48%	182	184
Electorate: 27,471   Valid: 12,168   Spoilt: 112   Quota: 1,739[8]   Turnout: 12,280 (44.7%)

A complete recount took place in Blackrock resulting in newcomer Dan Carson beating Independent Cormac Lucey for the last seat by just two votes.

Dundrum

Dundrum: 7 Seats^[9][7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Independent	Sean McLoughlin[*]	16.14%	2,310
	Fine Gael	Jim O'Leary[*]	13.53%	1,937
	Fianna Fáil	Shay Brennan[*]	11.26%	1,612	1,687	1,707	1,814
	Labour	Peter O'Brien[*]	8.92%	1,277	1,340	1,353	1,361	1,367	1,396	1,497	1,602	2,018
	Green	Robert Jones	8.39%	1,201	1,230	1,238	1,243	1,245	1,262	1,314	1,424	1,705	1,866
	Fine Gael	Anna Grainger[*]	8.22%	1,177	1,205	1,249	1,273	1,276	1,280	1,304	1,759	1,823
	Aontú	Liam Coughlan	6.74%	964	1,004	1,008	1,022	1,106	1,120	1,229	1,270	1,315	1,326	1,330
	Independent	Anne Colgan[*]	6.18%	885	974	982	995	1,048	1,065	1,160	1,236	1,392	1,449	1,506
	Social Democrats	Síle Ní Dhubhghaill	6.02%	862	903	906	909	920	943	1,119	1,150
	Fine Gael	Eoin O'Driscoll	5.44%	779	823	867	886	893	900	923
	Sinn Féin	Rachel Gerrard	4.02%	576	606	607	609	613	845
	Sinn Féin	Cuán Young	2.26%	324	368	369	374	382
	The Irish People	Conor Patrick Rafferty	1.42%	204	229	229	233
	Fianna Fáil	Fiona Murray	1.42%	203	216	218
Electorate: 31,022   Valid: 14,311   Spoilt: 145   Quota: 1,789   Turnout: 14,456 (46.6%)

Dún Laoghaire

Dún Laoghaire: 7 Seats^[10][7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Fine Gael	Lorraine Hall[*]	12.46%	1,936	1,944
	Green	Tom Kivlehan[†]	11.25%	1,749	1,763	1,818	1,903	2,157
	Fine Gael	J.P. Durkan	10.23%	1,590	1,594	1,657	1,722	1,787	1,803	1,830
	PBP–Solidarity	Melisa Halpin[*]	10.09%	1,568	1,594	1,612	1,710	1,932	1,985
	Fine Gael	Mary Fayne[†]	9.93%	1,543	1,549	1,601	1,660	1,721	1,741	1,771
	Fianna Fáil	Justin Moylan[†]	8.8%	1,368	1,372	1,700	1,725	1,768	1,773	1,849
	Labour	Thomas Joseph	8.1%	1,259	1,266	1,301	1,392	1,579	1,678	1,890
	Aontú	Mairéad Tóibín	6.4%	997	1,094	1,134	1,216	1,254	1,260	1,534
	Sinn Féin	Shane O'Brien	6.03%	937	957	977	999	1,057	1,072
	Social Democrats	Hugo Mills	5.79%	900	911	946	997
	Fianna Fáil	Colette O'Sullivan	4.48%	696	702
	Independent	Orli Degani	3.8%	591	705	721
	Independent	Cathy Lynch	1.73%	269
	Independent	Sara Kelly	0.9%	140
Electorate: 36,391   Valid: 15,543   Spoilt: 201   Quota: 1,943   Turnout: 15,744 (43.26%)

Glencullen–Sandyford

Glencullen–Sandyford: 7 Seats^[11][7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Independent	Michael Fleming[*]	32.91%	3,687
	Labour	Lettie McCarthy[*]	16.68%	1,869
	Green	Oisín O'Connor[†]	10.17%	1,140	1,391	1,500
	Fine Gael	Pierce Dargan	9.38%	1,051	1,395	1,474
	Fine Gael	Kazi Ahmed[*]	7.2%	807	1,038	1,116	1,144	1,178	1,258	1,331	1,518
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Murphy[*]	5.56%	623	960	1,022	1,033	1,041	1,065	1,089	1,425
	Fianna Fáil	Elaine Dunne	4.27%	479	691	729	740	752	787	836
	Independent	Kevin Daly	3.66%	410	905	942	951	956	1,011	1,104	1,199
	Sinn Féin	Shaun Tracey	3.46%	388	570	578	583	583	810	990	1,024
	Social Democrats	Aoife Murtagh	3.38%	379	480	523	551	558	593
	Sinn Féin	Amanda Spiteri	1.74%	195	269	278	278	278
	Independent	Roopesh Kumar Panicker	1.55%	174	233	238	240	243
Electorate: 25,351   Valid: 11,202   Spoilt: 126   Quota: 1,401   Turnout: 11,328 (44.68%)

Killiney–Shankill

Killiney–Shankill: 7 Seats^[12][7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Labour	Carrie Smyth[*]	13.47%	1,790
	Fine Gael	Jim Gildea[*]	12.08%	1,605	1,625	1,634	1,644	1,664
	Fine Gael	Frank McNamara[†]	11.95%	1,587	1,602	1,613	1,623	1,663
	Independent	Hugh Lewis[*]	9.5%	1,261	1,271	1,297	1,438	1,507	1,588	1,834
	Fine Gael	Jacqueline Burke	9.34%	1,241	1,251	1,257	1,270	1,300	1,381	1,397	1,402	1,853
	Green	Lauren Tuite	7.27%	966	983	990	996	1,061	1,274	1,287	1,297	1,465	1,611	1,614
	Sinn Féin	Roland Kennedy	6.75%	897	902	906	924	962	1,028	1,084	1,110	1,139	1,159	1,160
	Fianna Fáil	SallyAnn Moylan	6.5%	864	870	887	899	917	954	983	986
	PBP–Solidarity	Dave O'Keeffe	5.53%	735	740	747	776	829	1,017	1,062	1,098	1,137	1,165	1,166
	Social Democrats	Lesley Byrne	5.16%	686	693	698	708	765
	Independent	Fergus Power	4.89%	650	651	743	807	814	826
	Labour	James Kearney	2.96%	393	414	416	431
	Independent	Tracey Hennessy	2.59%	344	346	389
	Independent	Michael O'Doherty	1.57%	208	209
	Independent	Susan Muldoon	0.04%	58	59
Electorate: 32,023   Valid: 13,285   Spoilt: 184   Quota: 1,659   Turnout: 13,449 (42%)

Stillorgan

Stillorgan: 6 Seats^[13][7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fine Gael	Barry Saul[*]	24.75%	2,605
	Fine Gael	Maeve O'Connell[*]	18.12%	1,907
	Fianna Fáil	Liam Dockery	10.43%	1,098	1,250	1,373	1,456	1,467	1,665
	Green	Eva Dowling[*]	10.26%	1,080	1,168	1,248	1,277	1,312	1,341	1,496	1,559
	Fine Gael	John Kennedy[*]	10.23%	1,077	1,687
	Social Democrats	John Hurley	8.07%	849	904	944	955	1,054	1,065	1,210	1,227	1,318
	Independent	Deirdre Donnelly[*]	6.63%	698	775	821	839	865	873	901	918	1,252
	Independent	Eliza Connolly	4.46%	469	503	527	535	572	582	604	627
	Labour	Rebekah Fozzard	2.89%	304	324	354	363	395	414
	Sinn Féin	Sorcha Nic Cormaic	2.63%	277	288	291	292
	Fianna Fáil	Emer O'Neill	1.52%	160	213	271	295	301
Electorate: 24,063   Valid: 10,524   Spoilt: 111   Quota: 1,504   Turnout: 10,635 (44.2%)

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