Kilkenny County Council election, 2004

11 June 2004

All 26 seats to Kilkenny County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fine Gael	Fianna Fáil	Labour Party
Seats won	11	8	5
Seat change	-	-4	+4

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Green Party	Independent
Seats won	1	1
Seat change	+1	-1

Map showing the area of Kilkenny County Council

Council control before election

Fianna Fáil
Independents

Council control after election

Fine Gael
Labour Party

An election to Kilkenny County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	11	-	15,029	37.64%
	Fianna Fáil	8	-4	13,690	34.28%
	Labour Party	5	+4	5,950	14.90%
	Green Party	1	+1	1,858	4.65%
	Independent	1	-1	1,609	4.03%
Totals		26	-	39,933	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Ballyragget

Ballyragget - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Labour Party	Maurice Shortall	22.57	1,789
	Fine Gael	Mary Hilda Cavanagh*	18.29	1,450
	Fine Gael	Catherine Connery*	18.20	1,205	753	873	917	953	957
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Millea*	14.04	1,113	812	945	1,359
	Fine Gael	Dan Brennan*	12.14	962	859	876	908	957	962
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Carroll*	9.97	790	756	965	1,087
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Doherty	7.80	618	664
Electorate: 12,093 Valid: 7,927 (65.55%) Spoilt: 162 Quota: 1,322 Turnout: 8,089 (66.89%)

Callan

Callan - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1
	Fianna Fáil	Matt Doran	29.12	1,468
	Fine Gael	Tom Maher*	28.80	1,452
	Fine Gael	Billy Ireland*	26.04	1,313
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Walsh	16.05	809
Electorate: 8,464 Valid: 5,042 (59.57%) Spoilt: 177 Quota: 1,261 Turnout: 5,219 (61.66%)

Kilkenny

Kilkenny - 7 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9	Count 10	Count 11	Count 12	Count 13	Count 14
	Fianna Fáil	John Coonan*	11.07	1,207	1,219	1,242	1,262	1,281	1,332	1,370
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Fitzpatrick*	9.93	1,083	1,088	1,106	1,144	1,132	1,160	1,196	1,317	1,356	1,357	1,358	1,422
	Green Party	Malcolm Noonan	9.85	1,074	1,099	1,142	1,183	1,287	1,372
	Fine Gael	Martin Brett*	7.12	776	787	802	857	866	901	929	1,005	1,116	1,167	1,168	1,354	1,374
	Labour Party	Joe Cody*	7.08	772	842	877	904	946	995	1,205	1,275	1,330	1,333	1,336	1,426
	Progressive Democrats	Coleman Loughnane	6.56	715	721	757	790	805	839	868	933	977	979	979	1,031	1,043	1,046
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Lanigan, Jnr*	6.27	684	701	719	733	764	786	813	921	962	963	964	1,029	1,044	1,061
	Fine Gael	Pat Crotty	5.94	648	655	665	693	699	725	753	778	901	901	901
	Fine Gael	Paul Cuddihy*	5.80	632	650	666	717	724	745	777	795	982	983	984	1,277	1,293	1,310
	Fine Gael	Paddy Hogan	5.34	582	586	607	660	676	692	719	751
	Fianna Fáil	John Eardly	4.78	521	527	538	546	565	593	605
	Sinn Féin	Tom Kiernan	3.76	410	413	426	432
	Independent	Teresa Mullen*	3.67	400	410	442	473	507
	Labour Party	Marie Fitzpatrick	3.61	394	448	465	479	508	553
	Fine Gael	Breda Raggett	3.54	386	407	416
	Independent	Jimmy Leahy	3.08	336	343
	Labour Party	Tony Patterson	2.60	283
Electorate: 19,198 Valid: 10,903 (56.79%) Spoilt: 134 Quota: 1,363 Turnout: 11,086 (57.75%)

Piltown

Piltown - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Fianna Fáil	Bobby Aylward*	16.66	1,478
	Fine Gael	Pat Dunphy*	12.89	1,144	1,155	1,169	1,175	1,183	1,271
	Labour Party	Tomás Breathnach	12.47	1,107	1,122	1,203	1,206	1,237	1,284
	Fine Gael	Dick Dowling*	11.72	1,040	1,058	1,083	1,097	1,186	1,218	1,223	1,224	1,332
	Fine Gael	Catherine Phelan-Holden	8.07	716	744	763	874	906	956	959	960	1,040
	Fine Gael	John O'Dwyer	7.72	685	693	721	758	800	806	807	807	858
	Sinn Féin	Kevin Dunphy	7.57	672	680	719	731	751	800	804	804
	Fianna Fáil	Cora Long*	5.95	528	562	567	615	702	990	993	994	1,156
	Fianna Fáil	Ann Blackmore*	5.34	474	520	533	585	661
	Fianna Fáil	Margaret Haberlin	4.45	395	407	429	461
	Fianna Fáil	Pat Walsh	3.81	338	363	371
	Green Party	John Fitzgerald	3.35	297	302
Electorate: 14,187 Valid: 8,874 (62.55%) Spoilt: 112 Quota: 1,268 Turnout: 9,099 (64.14%)

Thomastown

Thomastown - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fine Gael	Pat O'Neill	15.12	1,145	1,195	1,343
	Labour Party	Michael O'Brien	12.73	964	1,071	1,091	1,094	1,125	1,202	1,222
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Brennan*	11.98	907	944	991	997	1,155	1,504
	Independent	Dixie Doyle*	11.53	873	913	931	934	981	1,140	1,214
	Fine Gael	Andy Cotterell*	8.85	670	715	855	906	934	1,063	1,106
	Fianna Fáil	Seán Treacy	8.79	666	693	711	714	870
	Labour Party	Ann Phelan	8.46	641	718	857	867	1,061	1,115	1,138
	Fianna Fáil	Joan Murphy*	8.07	611	636	698	702
	Fine Gael	John Meaney	8.04	609	633
	Green Party	Judith Ashton	6.43	487
Electorate: 12,083 Valid: 7,573 (62.67%) Spoilt: 162 Quota: 1,263 Turnout: 7,735 (64.02%)

External links

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