2024 Offaly County Council election

An election to all 19 seats on Offaly County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.^[1] County Offaly is divided into 3 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 Offaly County Council election

← 2019 7 June 2024 2029 →
All 19 seats on Offaly County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
Area of Offaly County Council

Results by party

Party		Candidates	Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	10	8		12,603	38.89	-1.06
	Fine Gael	5	5	1	6,652	20.53	-1.11
	Sinn Féin	5	3	3	3,186	9.83	+5.25
	Independent Ireland	1	1	New	1,320	4.07	New
	Social Democrats	2	0	1	1,220	3.77	+1.66
	Green	3	0	1	807	2.49	+0.61
	Irish Freedom	1	0	New	418	1.29	New
	Aontú	1	0	New	191	0.59	New
	Independent	9	2	1	6,006	18.53	+2.36
Total		37	19		32,403	100.00

Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.

Birr

Birr: 6 Seats^[3][4]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Ormond[*]	16.22%	1,943
	Independent	John Leahy[*]	15.15%	1,815
	Fine Gael	John Clendennen[*]	13.03%	1,562	1,644	1,666	1,677	1,708	1,782
	Fine Gael	Hugh Egan	9.77%	1,171	1,176	1,185	1,185	1,196	1,206	1,307	1,378	1,393	1,458	1,877
	Sinn Féin	Sean Maher	7.74%	927	943	949	957	981	1,055	1,088	1,113	1,137	1,236	1,264	1,282
	Fianna Fáil	Barbara Daly	7.34%	879	895	905	905	916	918	979	1,012	1,012	1,047
	Fianna Fáil	Audrey Hennessy-Kennedy	6.92%	829	907	916	923	940	1,022	1,039	1,083	1,110	1,212	1,507	1,573
	Social Democrats	Clare Claffey[*]	5.03%	603	609	618	624	700	734	785	901	913	1,089	1,175	1,256
	Independent	Jonathan O'Meara	4.62%	554	561	570	577	622	671	727	880	881
	Independent	Mike Boylan	4.03%	483	486	493	499	548	578	645
	Independent	Martin Buckley	3.58%	429	431	443	444	459	470
	Independent	Michael Deegan	3.17%	380	385	388	402	425
	Aontú	Aubrey Claffey	1.59%	191	194	198	199
	Green	Ekaterina Koneva	1.19%	143	147	148	153
	Independent	Garrett Kelly	0.59%	71	75	76
Electorate: 22,379   Valid: 11,980   Spoilt: 159   Quota: 1,712   Turnout: 12,139 (54.24%)

Edenderry

Edenderry: 6 Seats^[3][5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Eddie Fitzpatrick[*]	22.83%	1,998
	Independent Ireland	Fergus McDonnell	15.08%	1,320
	Fianna Fáil	Claire Murray	12.96%	1,134	1,361
	Fine Gael	Liam Quinn[*]	12.18%	1,066	1,156	1,172	1,179	1,271
	Fine Gael	Noel Cribben[*]	10.18%	891	978	987	992	1,043	1,185
	Sinn Féin	Claire Murray	7.40%	648	709	716	884	912	1,128
	Social Democrats	John McNamee	7.05%	617	639	641	650	692
	Fianna Fáil	Robert McDermott[*]	7.01%	614	757	817	820	867	1,112
	Green	Mark Hackett	3.08%	270	362	371	380
	Sinn Féin	Rory Ryan	2.22%	194	219	226
Electorate: 18,340   Valid: 8,752   Spoilt: 133   Quota: 1,251   Turnout: 8,885 (48.45%)

Tullamore

Tullamore: 7 Seats^[3][6]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fine Gael	Neil Feighery[*]	16.81%	1,962
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Moran[*]	12.24%	1,429	1,450	1,459
	Independent	Sean O'Brien[*]	11.45%	1,337	1,393	1,445	1,538
	Fianna Fáil	Tony McCormack[*]	11.36%	1,326	1,422	1,429	1,509
	Fianna Fáil	Declan Harvey[*]	10.87%	1,269	1,339	1,357	1,415	1,441	1,466
	Sinn Féin	Aoife Masterson	10.42%	1,216	1,267	1,418	1,483
	Fianna Fáil	Ollie Bryant	10.13%	1,182	1,308	1,323	1,373	1,388	1,408
	Independent	Sandy Feehan-Smollen[†]	6.70%	782	808	863	895	913	916
	Irish Freedom	Paddy Broder	4.12%	418	423	449	453	454	456
	Green	Liam Walsh	3.37%	394	425	435
	Sinn Féin	Tim Farrell	1.72%	201	204
	Independent	Deirdre Dillon	1.33%	155	173
Electorate: 23,791   Valid: 11,671   Spoilt: 162   Quota: 1,459   Turnout: 11,833 (49.74%)

References

1. "Polling Day Orders made for European, local and Limerick mayoral elections". Gov.ie (Press release). Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. 6 April 2024. Archived from the original on 10 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
2. "Local elections in Ireland". Citizens Information Board. Archived from the original on 6 April 2024. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
3. "Notice of Poll" (PDF). Offaly County Council. 22 May 2024. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
4. "Birr LEA Results" (PDF). Retrieved 14 June 2024.
5. "Edenderry LEA Results" (PDF). Retrieved 14 June 2024.
6. "Tullamore LEA Results" (PDF). Retrieved 14 June 2024.