2004 Irish local elections

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Hiberno-English Template:Infobox election The 2004 Irish local elections were held in all the counties, cities and towns of Ireland on Friday, 11 June 2004, on the same day as the European elections and referendum on the amending the constitutional provisions on citizenship. Polling was delayed until 19 June 2004 in County Roscommon, due to the sudden death of Councillor Gerry Donnelly.

Turnout was the highest for 20 years at around 60%,<ref name="itimes-best-turnout">Template:Cite news</ref> helped by the extra publicity of the referendum. The result was a setback for Fianna Fáil, which saw its share of the vote drop by 7 percentage points from its 1999 result to 32%, losing 20% of its council seats.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The party lost its majority on Clare County Council for the first time in 70 years, and fell behind Fine Gael in Galway, Limerick and Waterford city councils.<ref name="itimes-bitter-pill">Template:Cite news</ref> Labour's share of the vote remained static at 11% while Fine Gael dropped 1%. However, both parties gained seats with the Labour Party becoming the largest party on Dublin City Council. Major gains were made by Sinn Féin which managed to double the number of seats it held, mainly at the expense of Fianna Fáil.

These were the first elections since the Local Government Act 2001 modernised council structures and abolished the dual mandate. Many new councillors were elected for the first time, including 33 of the 52 of the councillors on Dublin City Council, which the city manager described as "unprecedented in the history of local government".<ref name="itimes-bitter-pill" /> Many of the seats vacated by TDs and senators were won by family members.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Results

Voters received different-coloured ballot papers for the European election, city/county council election, and referendum, all of which went into the same ballot box and were separated by colour once the boxes arrived at the count centre for the city/county. According to the different franchises in Irish law, all residents were eligible to vote in the local elections, all EU citizens were eligible to vote in the European elections, and the referendum was confined to Irish citizens. Voters in towns with town councils received an additional ballot for that election, cast in a separate ballot box and counted locally within the town.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

County, city and town council seats

Party		Seats	±
Template:Party name with colour	542	Template:Decrease129
Template:Party name with colour	468	Template:Increase32
Template:Party name with colour	188	Template:Increase18
Template:Party name with colour	125	Template:Increase63
Template:Party name with colour	32	Template:Increase19
Template:Party name with colour	32	Template:Steady
Others		240	Template:Decrease3
Total		1627	Template:Steady

County and City Councils

Party		Seats	±	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	±%
Template:Party name with colour	302	Template:Decrease80	578,139	31.8	Template:Decrease7.1
Template:Party name with colour	293	Template:Increase16	503,088	27.6	Template:Decrease0.5
Template:Party name with colour	101	Template:Increase18	207,518	11.4	Template:Increase0.6
Template:Party name with colour	54	Template:Increase33	146,391	8.0	Template:Increase4.5
Template:Party name with colour	19	Template:Decrease6	69,650	3.8	Template:Increase0.9
Template:Party name with colour	18	Template:Increase10	71,052	3.9	Template:Increase1.4
Template:Party name with colour	4	Template:Increase2	13,494	0.7	Template:Increase0.3
Template:Party name with colour	2	Template:Decrease2	9,356	0.5	Template:Steady
Template:Party name with colour	2	Template:Decrease1	4,170	0.2	Template:Decrease0.3
Template:Party name with colour	1	Template:Steady	1,618	0.1	Template:Steady
Template:Party name with colour	0	Template:Steady	6,125	0.3	+0.2
Template:Party name with colour	0	Template:Decrease1	2,036	0.1	—
Template:Party name with colour	0	Template:Steady	281	0.0	Template:Decrease0.1
Template:Party name with colour	87	Template:Increase11	207,207	11.4	Template:Decrease0.2
Total		883	Template:Steady	1,820,125	100	Template:N/a

Authority	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Total	Details
Carlow	8		7		4		1		1		0		0		0		0		0		0		21	Details
Cavan	11		11		0		0		0		3		0		0		0		0		0		25	Details
Clare	13		10		1		0		1		0		0		0		0		0		7		32	Details
Cork City	11		8		6		1		1		2		0		0		0		0		2		31	Details
Cork County	16		24		5		1		0		2		0		0		0		0		2		48	Details
Donegal	14		8		0		0		0		4		2		0		0		0		1		29	Details
Dublin City	12		10		15		1		1		10		0		0		0		0		3		52	Details
Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown	7		9		6		1		4		0		0		0		0		0		1		28	Details
Fingal	4		5		6		1		3		1		0		0		0		0		4		24	Details
Galway City	2		3		4		3		1		1		0		0		0		0		1		15	Details
Galway County	10		10		1		3		0		1		0		0		0		0		5		30	Details
Kerry	11		8		2		0		0		2		0		0		0		1		3		27	Details
Kildare	10		7		4		0		1		0		0		0		0		0		3		25	Details
Kilkenny	8		11		5		0		1		0		0		0		0		0		1		26	Details
Laois	11		9		1		1		0		1		0		0		0		0		2		25	Details
Leitrim	10		8		0		0		0		2		0		0		0		0		2		22	Details
Limerick City	2		5		4		0		0		0		0		0		0		0		6		17	Details
Limerick County	12		12		1		3		0		0		0		0		0		0		0		28	Details
Longford	9		10		0		0		0		0		0		0		0		0		2		21	Details
Louth	9		7		1		0		0		5		0		0		0		0		4		26	Details
Mayo	12		15		1		0		0		1		0		0		0		0		2		31	Details
Meath	12		9		0		0		1		2		0		0		0		0		5		25	Details
Monaghan	5		7		0		0		0		7		0		0		0		0		1		20	Details
Offaly	8		6		0		2		0		0		0		0		0		0		5		21	Details
Roscommon	9		10		0		0		0		1		0		0		0		0		6		26	Details
Sligo	10		10		3		0		0		1		0		0		0		0		1		25	Details
South Dublin	6		3		7		2		2		3		0		0		0		0		3		26	Details
North Tipperary	10		5		2		0		0		0		0		0		0		0		4		21	Details
South Tipperary	10		8		2		0		0		0		0		0		3		0		3		26	Details
Waterford City	1		4		3		0		0		2		0		2		0		0		3		15	Details
Waterford County	7		11		4		0		0		1		0		0		0		0		0		23	Details
Westmeath	9		8		6		0		0		0		0		0		0		0		0		23	Details
Wexford	6		7		1		0		0		3		0		0		0		0		4		21	Details
Wicklow	6		7		6		0		1		0		0		0		0		0		4		24	Details

Borough and town councils

Party		Seats	±
Template:Party name with colour	240	Template:Decrease49
Template:Party name with colour	175	Template:Increase16
Template:Party name with colour	87	Template:Steady
Template:Party name with colour	71	Template:Increase30
Template:Party name with colour	14	Template:Increase9
Template:Party name with colour	13	Template:Increase6
Others		144	Template:Decrease12
Total		744	Template:Steady

Borough councils

Authority	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Other
Clonmel	3		2		1						1		5Template:Efn
Drogheda	3		2		2		2						3
Kilkenny	4		4		3				1
Sligo	4		2		3		3
Wexford	2		2		5		1						2
Total	16		12		14		6		1		1		10

Town councils

Town	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Template:Abbrev party name with color	Total
Ardee	2		3		1		1				1		1		9
Arklow	3		2		2								2		9
Athlone	4		2		1		1						1		9
Athy	2		3		3		1								9
Balbriggan	2		1		2				1		1		2		9
Ballina	4		2				1				1		1		9
Ballinasloe	3		1				1						4		9
Ballybay	3		3				2						1		9
Ballyshannon	3		4				1						1		9
Bandon	3		4				1						1		9
Bantry	4		3				1						1		9
Belturbet	4		3										2		9
Birr	2		3		1						1		2		9
Boyle	3		3		1								2		9
Bray	3		1		4		1		3						12
Buncrana	3		2				2						2		9
Bundoran	5		2				1		1						9
Carlow	3		3		2						1				9
Carrickmacross	3		2				3						1		9
Carrick-on-Suir	3		1		2		1						2		9
Cashel	2				1		1						5		9
Castlebar	3		3		1		1						1		9
Castleblayney	3		1				3						2		9
Cavan	4		3		1		1								9
Clonakilty	2		2				2						3		9
Clones	3		1				4						1		9
Cobh	1		2		3		1						2		9
Cootehill	3		3				2						1		9
Dundalk	3		2				3		1				3		12
Dungarvan	2		2		3		1						1		9
Edenderry	5		2								1		1		9
Ennis	3		2						1				3		9
Enniscorthy	3		2				1						3		9
Fermoy			1		1		1				1		5		9
Gorey	4		3		1		1								9
Granard	3		2		1								3		9
Greystones	3		3		1								2		9
Kells	4		1		2		1						1		9
Kilkee	5		2										2		9
Killarney	3		1		1								4Template:Efn		9
Kilrush	4		1										4		9
Kinsale	2		4		1				1				1		9
Leixlip	2		2		2				1				2		9
Letterkenny	4		1				1		1				2		9
Lismore	4		3		1								1		9
Listowel	4		3		1		1								9
Longford	2		3				1				1		2		9
Loughrea	3		1								1		4		9
Macroom	2		4		2								1		9
Mallow	2		2		3		1						1		9
Midleton	3		2				1						3		9
Monaghan	3		2				4								9
Mountmellick	6		2										1		9
Muine Bheag	5		2		2										9
Mullingar	2		2		4								1		9
Naas	3		1		1				1		1		2		9
Navan	4		2				2						1		9
Nenagh	3		1		2		1						2		9
Newbridge	3		2		1						1		2		9
New Ross	4		2		2		1								9
Passage West	3		3				1		1				1		9
Portlaoise	3		3				1						2		9
Shannon	2		2		2								3		9
Skibbereen	2		3		2		1						1		9
Templemore	4		3										2		9
Thurles	1		1		2		1						4		9
Tipperary	2		2		1								4		9
Tralee	4		1		3		2						2		12
Tramore	3		3		1								2		9
Trim	2		2		1		1						3		9
Tuam	1		3								1		4		9
Tullamore	3		2		2								2		9
Westport	3		3				1						2		9
Wicklow	2		2		2		1						2		9
Youghal	3		2				2		1				1		9

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