Offaly County Council election, 2004

11 June 2004

All 21 seats to Offaly County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fianna Fáil	Fine Gael	Progressive Democrats
Seats won	8	6	2
Seat change	-1	-1	+2

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Independent	Labour Party
Seats won	5	0
Seat change	+1	-1

Map showing the area of Offaly County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Offaly County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 21 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%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	8	-1	10,884	33.78
	Fine Gael	6	-1	9,443	29.31
	Progressive Democrats	2	+2	2,331	7.23
	Independent	5	+1	7,655	23.76
	Labour Party	0	-1	1,251	3.88
Totals		21	-	32,222	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Birr

Birr- 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fianna Fáil	Peter Ormond*	13.82	1,067	1,116	1,218	1,271	1,294
	Fine Gael	Percy Clendennen*	12.10	934	1,001	1,142	1,244	1,376
	Independent	John Carroll	12.09	933	979	1,004	1,074	1,156	1,332
	Independent	Tony McLoughlin	11.18	863	898	919	982	1,148	1,270	1,289
	Fine Gael	Tom Rigney*	10.53	813	818	863	886	986	1,039	1,104
	Fianna Fáil	Sinead Moylan-Ryan*	10.48	809	859	860	904	922	1,175	1,180
	Fianna Fáil	William Loughlane	7.72	596	652	669	750	760
	Fine Gael	Denis Sheils	6.21	479	491	530	558
	Fine Gael	Billy Feighery	5.67	438	456	489
	Progressive Democrats	Liam Egan	5.61	433	438
	Fianna Fáil	Jimmy O'Brien	4.59	354
Electorate: 11,941 Valid: 7,719 (64.64%) Spoilt: 126 Quota: 1,287 Turnout: 7,845 (65.70%)

Edenderry

Edenderry - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fianna Fáil	Noel Bourke*	25.65	1,819
	Fianna Fáil	Ger Killally*	17.44	1,237
	Fine Gael	Geraldine McGarrigle	8.72	618	644	650	657	699	782	885	925
	Fine Gael	John Foran*	7.47	530	610	620	624	695	823	993	1,038
	Progressive Democrats	Eddie Fitzpatrick	7.09	503	520	616	617	692	878	901	1,092
	Fine Gael	Liam Hogan	6.91	490	595	597	604	613	641
	Progressive Democrats	Fergus McDonnell	6.28	445	624	650	657	692	706	893	947
	Fine Gael	Jack Deegan	6.91	440	450	514	515	600
	Independent	Frank Weir*	6.09	432	463	502	506
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Nolan*	4.37	310	491	509	533	619	672	694
	Progressive Democrats	Sam Gee	3.77	267	275
Electorate: 12,817 Valid: 7,091 (55.32%) Spoilt: 174 Quota: 1,182 Turnout: 7,265 (56.68%)

Ferbane

Ferbane- 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fine Gael	Connie Hanniffy*	20.75	1,218
	Fine Gael	Marcella Corcoran Kennedy*	16.14	947	971	997	1,057	1,195
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Dooley*	15.49	909	914	921	964	995	1,037
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Feighery*	14.82	870	872	880	903	998	1,209
	Labour Party	Timmy Molloy	9.10	534	535	565	592	640
	Independent	Ollie Daly	9.06	532	538	549	685	735	871
	Progressive Democrats	Seán O'Brien	6.47	380	382	402	420
	Independent	John Bracken	5.90	346	363
	Independent	Christopher Gannon	1.33	78	78
	Green Party	Stephen Hollinshead	0.94	55	56
Electorate: 9,449 Valid: 5,869 (62.11%) Spoilt: 99 Quota: 1,174 Turnout: 5,968 (63.16%)

Tullamore

Tullamore - 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
	Fine Gael	Tommy McKeigue*	13.01	1,502
	Independent	Dervill Dolan*	12.99	1,500
	Independent	Molly Buckley*	11.38	1,314	1,324	1,327	1,342	1,352	1,380	1,452
	Fianna Fáil	Barry Cowen*	10.13	1,169	1,172	1,188	1,225	1,245	1,249	1,259	1,275	1,304	1,321	1,485
	Independent	Johnny Butterfield	8.76	1,011	1,017	1,019	1,027	1,034	1,054	1,078	1,090	1,134	1,182	1,209	1,286	1,371
	Fine Gael	Michael Fox*	6.14	709	722	723	758	759	826	841	850	939	961	1,007	1,090	1,134
	Fianna Fáil	Danny Owens	6.07	701	703	704	704	704	706	709	712	752	772	826	1,031	1,087
	Independent	Frank Moran	5.60	646	647	669	693	723	724	729	761	767	796	807	821
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy Rowland	5.15	594	597	598	602	602	616	620	624	637	653	719
	Labour Party	Seán O'Brien*	4.58	529	535	536	537	542	554	570	664	688	726	781	889	948
	Fianna Fáil	Brian Digan	3.89	449	452	453	454	455	460	464	472	482	503
	Progressive Democrats	Breda Treacy	2.62	303	305	306	308	310	313	330	331
	Sinn Féin	Seamus Walsh	2.06	238	239	239	239	322	324	336	346	361
	Green Party	Alison Badrian	1.69	195	196	196	197	197	205
	Labour Party	Peter Greville	1.63	188	189	191	193	199	207	214
	Sinn Féin	Oliver O'Connor	1.47	170	170	173	176
	Fine Gael	Kevin Doheny	1.46	168	173	173	185	185
	Fine Gael	Noel Reynolds	1.36	157	159	162
Electorate: 19,001 Valid: 11,543 (60.75%) Spoilt: 201 Quota: 1,443 Turnout: 11,744 (61.81%)

External links

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