Monaghan County Council election, 2004

11 June 2004

All 20 seats to Monaghan County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Sinn Féin	Fine Gael	Fianna Fáil
Seats won	7	7	5
Seat change	+1	+1	-3

	Fourth party

Party	Independent
Seats won	1
Seat change	+1

Map showing the area of Monaghan County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Monaghan County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 20 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%	±%
	Sinn Féin	7	+1	9,332	31.05
	Fine Gael	7	+1	8,982	29.89
	Fianna Fáil	5	-3	8,826	29.37
	Independent	1	+1	2,913	9.69
Totals		20	-		100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Carrickmacross

Carrickmacross - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Sinn Féin	Matt Carthy	17.77	1,408
	Fianna Fáil	Pádraig McNally*	16.86	1,336
	Sinn Féin	Noel Keelan*	12.75	1,010	1,031	1,094	1,150	1,174	1,176	1,239	1,300
	Independent	Vincent P. Martin	11.08	878	893	901	979	1,066	1,068	1,179	1,371
	Fine Gael	John Keenan	8.14	645	650	652	662	813	814	841	1,248
	Fine Gael	Aidan Murray*	7.83	620	644	645	689	807	808	839
	Fianna Fáil	Rosaleen O'Hanlon*	7.19	570	607	610	636	655	659	968	1,026
	Fianna Fáil	Shane O'Hanlon*	6.65	527	570	573	614	651	656
	Fine Gael	Denis Durcan	5.36	425	431	434	466
	Independent	Tom Freeman	3.85	305	337	341
	Fianna Fáil	Brian Connolly	2.51	199
Electorate: 11,094 Valid: 7,923 (71.42%) Spoilt: 194 Quota: 1,321 Turnout: 8,117 (73.17%)

Castleblayney

Castleblayney- 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Sinn Féin	Jackie Crowe*	19.52	1,415
	Fine Gael	Owen Bannigan*	17.84	1,293
	Fianna Fáil	John O'Brien*	15.66	1,135	1,165	1,176	1,295
	Fine Gael	Gary Carville*	15.34	1,112	1,159	1,207	1,458
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Coyle	10.70	951	976	992	1,090	1,167
	Fianna Fáil	Brendan Hughes*	9.50	751	793	795	884	946
	Independent	Joe Brennan	3.39	591	653	660
Electorate: 10,701 Valid: 7,248 (67.73%) Spoilt: 91 Quota: 1,209 Turnout: 7,339 (68.58%)

Clones

Clones - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Fine Gael	Hugh McElvaney*	19.16	1,154	1,233
	Fine Gael	Heather Humphreys*	18.11	1,091	1,145	1,161	1,195
	Sinn Féin	Pat Treanor	14.05	846	951	1,437
	Independent	Brendan Casey	16.93	795	872	978	1,093
	Sinn Féin	Sheila McKenna*	13.97	730	753
	Fianna Fáil	Benny Kieran	11.65	723	1,035	1,123	1,206
	Fianna Fáil	Eugene McCaughey	8.68	684
Electorate: 8,859 Valid: 6,023 (67.99%) Spoilt: 123 Quota: 1,205 Turnout: 6,146 (69.38%)

Monaghan

Monaghan - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Sinn Féin	Seán Conlon*	16.13	1,429
	Fianna Fáil	Robbie Gallagher	15.72	1,393
	Sinn Féin	Brian McKenna*	15.37	1,362
	Sinn Féin	Brenda McAnespie*	12.78	1,132	1,261	1,276
	Fine Gael	David Maxwell	11.95	1,059	1,068	1,080	1,112	1,118	1,236
	Fine Gael	Pat McKenna*	10.20	904	908	915	1,001	1,035	1,198
	Fine Gael	Eugene Sherry	7.66	679	684	693	734	765	870
	Fianna Fáil	Emer Brennan	6.29	557	566	645	708	733
	Independent	Plunkett McKenna	3.88	344	351	356
Electorate: 14,669 Valid: 8,859 (60.39%) Spoilt: 262 Quota: 1,266 Turnout: 9,121 (62.18%)

External links

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