2004 Irish local elections

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2004 Irish local elections
← 1999 11 June 2004 2009 →
1,627 County, City, Borough and Town Council Seats
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Bertie Ahern Enda Kenny Pat Rabbitte
Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour Party
Leader since 19 November 1994 6 June 2002 13 October 2001
Percentage 31.8% 27.6% 14.2%
Largest Party on Council 16 10 4
Councillors 542 468 188
Councillors +/- Decrease129 Increase32 Increase18
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Gerry Adams Trevor Sargent Mary Harney
Party Sinn Féin Green Party Progressive Democrats
Leader since 13 November 1983 6 November 2001 26 October 1993
Percentage 8.1% 3.9% 3.9%
Largest Party on Council 1 N/A N/A
Councillors 127 32 32
Councillors +/- Increase63 Increase15 No Change

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 twenty-seventh amendment of the constitution. 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%,[1] helped by the extra publicity of the referendum. The result was a major setback for Fianna Fáil, which saw its share of the vote drop by 7 percentage points from its 1999 result to only 32%, losing 20% of its council seats.[2] 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.[3] Labour's share of the vote remained static at 11% while Fine Gael dropped 1%. Both parties however won 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, most notably on Dublin City Council, where 33 of the 52 members were first-timers, which the City Manager described as "unprecedented in the history of local government".[3] Many of the seats vacated by TDs and senators were won by family members.[4]

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. Not all voters received all ballots as the franchises differ. 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.[5]

County, city and town council seats

Party Seats ±
style="width: 5px; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | Fianna Fáil 542 –129
style="width: 5px; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | Fine Gael 468 +32
style="width: 5px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (Ireland)" | Labour Party 188 +18
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" | Sinn Féin 125 +63
style="width: 5px; background-color: #99CC33;" data-sort-value="Green Party (Ireland)" | Green Party 32 +19
style="width: 5px; background-color: #3333CC;" data-sort-value="Progressive Democrats" | Progressive Democrats 32 ±0
 Others 240 –3
 Total 1627 —

County and City Councils





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Vote Share of different parties in the election for County and City Councils.

  Fianna Fáil (31.8%)
  Fine Gael (27.6%)
  Labour Party (11.4%)
  Sinn Féin (8.0%)
  Green Party (3.9%)
  Progressive Democrats (3.8%)
  Other (13.5%)
Party Seats ± First Pref. Votes % FPv ±%
style="width: 5px; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | Fianna Fáil 302 –80 578,139 31.8 –7.1
style="width: 5px; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | Fine Gael 293 +16 503,088 27.6 –0.5
style="width: 5px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (Ireland)" | Labour Party 101 +18 207,518 11.4 +0.6
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" | Sinn Féin 54 +33 146,391 8.0 +4.5
style="width: 5px; background-color: #3333CC;" data-sort-value="Progressive Democrats" | Progressive Democrats 19 –6 69,650 3.8 +0.9
style="width: 5px; background-color: #99CC33;" data-sort-value="Green Party (Ireland)" | Green Party 18 +10 71,052 3.9 +1.4
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FF3300;" data-sort-value="Socialist Party (Ireland)" | Socialist Party 4 +2 13,494 0.7 +0.3
style="width: 5px; background-color: #7FFF00;" data-sort-value="Independent Fianna Fáil" | Independent Fianna Fáil 2 -2 9,356 0.5 —
style="width: 5px; background-color: #D73D3D;" data-sort-value="Workers' Party (Ireland)" | [[Workers' Party (Ireland)|Template:Workers' Party (Ireland)/meta/shortname]] 2 -1 4,170 0.2 -0.3
style="width: 5px; background-color: #97285B;" data-sort-value="South Kerry Independent Alliance" | South Kerry Independent 1 — 1,618 0.1 —
style="width: 5px; background-color: #660000;" data-sort-value="Socialist Workers Party (Ireland)" | Socialist Workers 0 — 6,125 0.3 +0.2
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Republican Sinn Féin" | Republican Sinn Féin 0 -1 2,036 0.1 —
style="width: 5px; background-color: #FFFF99;" data-sort-value="Christian Solidarity Party" | Christian Solidarity 0 — 281 0.0 -0.1
style="width: 5px; background-color: #DDDDDD;" data-sort-value="Independent politician (Ireland)" | [[Independent politician (Ireland)|Template:Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/shortname]] 87 +11 207,207 11.4 -0.2
 Total 883 — 1,820,125 100 —

County councils

County and City Council Seats
Political Parties County council City council
     Fianna Fáil
274
28
     Fine Gael
263
30
     Labour Party
69
32
     Sinn Féin
39
15
     Progressive Democrats
14
5
     Green Party
15
3
     Other
85
11
Authority FF FG Lab PD GP SF Other Total Details
Carlow 8 7 4 1 1 0 0 21 Details
Cavan 11 11 0 0 0 3 0 25 Details
Clare 13 10 1 0 1 0 7 32 Details
Cork 16 24 5 1 0 2 2 48 Details
Donegal 14 8 0 0 0 4 3 29 Details
Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown 7 9 6 1 4 0 1 28 Details
Fingal 4 5 6 1 3 1 4 24 Details
Galway 10 10 1 3 0 1 5 30 Details
Kerry 11 8 2 0 0 2 4 27 Details
Kildare 10 7 4 0 1 0 3 25 Details
Kilkenny 8 11 5 0 1 0 1 26 Details
Laois 11 9 1 1 0 1 2 25 Details
Leitrim 10 8 0 0 0 2 2 22 Details
Limerick 12 12 1 3 0 0 0 28 Details
Longford 9 10 0 0 0 0 2 21 Details
Louth 9 7 1 0 0 5 4 26 Details
Mayo 12 15 1 0 0 1 2 31 Details
Meath 12 9 0 0 1 2 5 25 Details
Monaghan 5 7 0 0 0 7 1 20 Details
Offaly 8 6 0 2 0 0 5 21 Details
Roscommon 9 10 0 0 0 1 6 26 Details
Sligo 10 10 3 0 0 1 1 25 Details
South Dublin 6 3 7 2 2 3 3 26 Details
North Tipperary 10 5 2 0 0 0 4 21 Details
South Tipperary 10 8 2 0 0 0 6 26 Details
Waterford 7 11 4 0 0 1 0 23 Details
Westmeath 9 8 6 0 0 0 0 23 Details
Wexford 6 7 1 0 0 3 4 21 Details
Wicklow 6 7 6 0 1 0 4 24 Details

City councils

Authority FF FG Lab PD GP SF Other Total Details
Cork City 11 8 6 1 1 2 2 31 Details
Dublin City 12 10 15 1 1 10 3 52 Details
Galway City 2 3 4 3 1 1 1 15 Details
Limerick City 2 5 4 0 0 0 6 17 Details
Waterford City 1 4 3 0 0 2 5 15 Details

Town councils

Party Seats ±
style="width: 5px; background-color: #66BB66;" data-sort-value="Fianna Fáil" | Fianna Fáil 240 –49
style="width: 5px; background-color: #6699FF;" data-sort-value="Fine Gael" | Fine Gael 175 +16
style="width: 5px; background-color: #CC0000;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (Ireland)" | Labour Party 87 ±0
style="width: 5px; background-color: #008800;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin" | Sinn Féin 71 +30
style="width: 5px; background-color: #99CC33;" data-sort-value="Green Party (Ireland)" | Green Party 14 +9
style="width: 5px; background-color: #3333CC;" data-sort-value="Progressive Democrats" | Progressive Democrats 13 +6
 Others 144 –12
 Total 744 —

Borough councils

Authority FF FG Lab SF GP PD Other
Clonmel 3 2 1 1 5[fn 1]
Drogheda 3 2 2 2 3
Kilkenny 4 4 3 1
Sligo 4 2 3 3
Wexford 2 2 5 1 2
Totals 16 12 14 6 1 1 10

Town councils

Town Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Labour Party Sinn Féin Green Party Progressive Democrats Others 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 4[fn 2] 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

See also

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