Longford County Council election, 2004

11 June 2004

All 21 seats to Longford County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fine Gael	Fianna Fáil	Independent
Seats won	11	8	2
Seat change	+1	-	+1

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Progressive Democrats	Republican Sinn Féin
Seats won	0	0
Seat change	-1	-1

Map showing the area of Longford County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Longford County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 councillors were elected from four 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	+1	7,597	38.92%
	Fianna Fáil	8	-	6,887	35.29%
	Independent	2	+1	2,083	10.67%
	Progressive Democrats	0	-1	721	3.70%
	Republican Sinn Féin	0	-1	441	2.26%
Totals		21	-	19,518	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Ballymahon

Ballymahon - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fine Gael	Larry Bannon*	18.72	1,075
	Fine Gael	Patrick Belton*	15.43	886
	Fianna Fáil	Barney Steele*	13.27	762	786	794	811	959
	Fine Gael	Adrian Farrell*	11.60	666	693	702	738	753	758	795
	Fine Gael	Seán Farrell*	9.25	531	592	613	683	732	745	815
	Fianna Fáil	Mark Casey	8.29	476	484	486	520	528	540	640
	Fianna Fáil	John Nolan*	6.74	387	431	442	463	487	501
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Cahill	6.71	385	434	439	462	514	543	681
	Progressive Democrats	P.J. Walsh	5.38	309	332	338	364
	Sinn Féin	Bernard Flood	3.45	198	208	210
	Independent	Tom Nee	0.59	34	38	39
	Independent	Caroline Daly	0.56	32	36	36
Electorate: 8,150 Valid: 5,741 (70.44%) Spoilt: 91 Quota: 821 Turnout: 5,832 (71.56%)

Drumlish

Drumlish - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2
	Fianna Fáil	Luie McEntire*	26.69	740
	Fine Gael	Gerry Brady*	26.25	728
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Mulleady	19.15	531	671
	Republican Sinn Féin	Seán Lynch*	15.90	441	574
	Progressive Democrats	Peter Prunty	8.15	226
	Sinn Féin	Ciaran Grimes	3.86	107
Electorate: 3,896 Valid: 2,773 (71.18%) Spoilt: 34 Quota: 694 Turnout: 2,807 (72.05%)

Granard

Granard - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fine Gael	Frank Kilbride*	20.47	914
	Fianna Fáil	P.J. Reilly	11.91	532	543	553	580	616	653	700	713
	Fine Gael	Maura Kilbride-Harkin*	11.04	493	534	544	592	636	649	706	738
	Fine Gael	Martin Farrell*	10.77	481	512	520	533	583	652	829
	Fianna Fáil	Brian Lynch*	10.41	465	479	486	521	548	579	623	631
	Fianna Fáil	Jimmy Coyle*	9.58	428	448	454	463	500	570	657	688
	Progressive Democrats	Declan Fox	7.93	354	374	386	401	436	531
	Fianna Fáil	John Doherty	7.03	314	323	325	331	348
	Independent	James Reynolds	5.17	231	241	255	272
	Labour Party	Seán Howard	3.76	168	176	185
	Sinn Féin	Jimmy Magee	1.93	86	90
Electorate: 6,377 Valid: 4,466 (70.03%) Spoilt: 68 Quota: 745 Turnout: 4,543 (71.24%)

Longford

Longford- 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
	Fine Gael	Peggy Nolan	12.60	824
	Independent	Peter Murphy*	10.04	657	665	680	697	723	724	779	822
	Independent	Michael Nevin*	10.04	657	662	682	694	732	733	787	801	803	875
	Fianna Fáil	Denis Glennon*	8.79	575	584	605	631	711	712	735	835
	Fine Gael	Victor Kiernan*	8.18	535	543	561	570	581	582	598	660	662	711
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Butler*	7.15	468	480	494	521	548	548	564	615	624	718
	Fine Gael	Alan Mitchell*	7.09	464	470	487	505	519	521	544	575	576	710
	Progressive Democrats	Liam Madden*	7.02	459	470	480	491	508	508	515	552	554
	Independent	Paul Connell	6.89	451	359	371	428	487
	Sinn Féin	Jimmy McDonnell	5.04	330	340	366	378	393	393
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Hegarty	4.98	326	330	337	365	396	396	417
	Fianna Fáil	Tony Flaherty	4.34	284	286	294	319
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Kearney	3.27	214	215	218
	Labour Party	Oliver Barry	2.72	178	196
	Green Party	Parvez Butt	1.51	99
	Independent	Liam Madden	0.32	21
Electorate: 10,098 Valid: 6,542 (64.79%) Spoilt: 119 Quota: 818 Turnout: 6,661 (65.96%)

External links

Official website

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