2024 Cavan County Council election

An election to all 18 seats on Cavan County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.^[1] County Cavan is divided into 3 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).^[2]

2024 Cavan County Council election

← 2019 7 June 2024 2029 →
All 18 seats on Cavan County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Party Fianna Fáil Fine Gael Sinn Féin Last election 8 7 1 Seats before 7 7 1 Seats won 6 6 3 Seat change 1 1 2   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Aontú Independent Ireland Independent Last election 1 N/A 1 Seats before 1 1 1 Seats won 1 1 1 Seat change
Area of Cavan County Council

The period for nominations ran from 10 a.m. on Saturday 11 May and ended at 12 p.m. on Saturday 18 May 2024. Candidates could be nominated by a registered political party, through the submission of 15 assents from voters in the local electoral area, or alternatively with a deposit of €100.^[3][4]

Retiring incumbents

Constituency	Departing Councillor	Party
Cavan-Belturbet	Madeleine Argue[5]		Fine Gael
Ballyjamesduff	Craig Lovett[6]		Fianna Fáil

Analysis of Election

Fianna Fail and Fine Gael both emerged with 6 seats after the election though Fine Gael had a higher share of the vote. Fine Gael lost a seat in Cavan-Belturbet to Sinn Féin's Damien Brady who regained his former seat he lost in 2019 and Peter McVitty lost to his running-mate. Fianna Fáil lost 2 seats in the Ballyjamesduff LEA as Shane P. O'Reilly was re-elected under the Independent-Ireland banner and Sinn Féin's Noel Connell regained his former seat also at the party's expense. There was no change of party allegiance in the Bailieborough LEA though a change of personnel under the Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin banners. Sinn Féin increased their numbers from 1 to 3 and the other 3 seats comprise members of Aontú, Independent-Ireland and one Independent.

Results by party

Party		First-preference votes			Seats
		Votes	% FPv	Swing (pp)	Cand.	2019	Out.	Elected 2024	Change
	Fine Gael	9,553	28.17%	5.20%	7	7	7	6	1
	Fianna Fáil	9,372	27.63%	11.29%	8	8	7	6	1
	Sinn Féin	5,642	16.64%	4.26%	7	1	1	3	2
	Aontú	2,756	8.13%	0.40%	3	1	1	1
	Independent Ireland	2,521	7.43%	New	2	0	1	1
	Labour	338	1.00%	1.20%	1	0	0	0
	Green	104	0.31%	New	1	0	0	0	New
	Irish Freedom	109	0.32%	New	1	0	0	0	New
	The Irish People	958	2.82%	New	1	0	0	0	New
	Independent	2,562	7.55%	3.70%	5	1	1	1
Total Valid		33,915	98.92
Spoilt votes		372	1.08
Total		33,915	100	—	36	18	18	18
Registered voters/Turnout		61,786	55.49

Results by local electoral area

^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.

Bailieborough–Cootehill

Bailieborough–Cootehill: 6 seats^[7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Aontú	Sarah O'Reilly	14.74	1,770
	Fine Gael	Carmel Brady[*]	14.03	1,684	1,687	1,728
	Fine Gael	Val Smith[*]	11.59	1,392	1,396	1,408	1,409	1,424	1,480	1,529	1,551
	Fianna Fáil	Clifford Kelly[*]	10.29	1,235	1,238	1,286	1,286	1,308	1,466	1,533	1,552
	Fianna Fáil	Aiden Fitzpatrick[*]	9.79	1,175	1,179	1,198	1,205	1,294	1,355	1,384	1,412
	Fianna Fáil	Niall Smith	9.06	1,088	1,099	1,111	1,114	1,168	1,233	1,496	1,547
	Sinn Féin	Stiofán Conaty	8.92	1,071	1,073	1,174	1,175	1,244	1,326	1,836
	Sinn Féin	Paddy McDonald[*]	6.35	763	774	905	906	978	1,122
	Independent Ireland	Kristofer Shekleton	5.39	647	653	727	725	914
	Independent	Gary Cosgrave	5.06	608	613	724	724
	Sinn Féin	Marina McEntee	2.61	313	315
	Independent	Fiona McCormack	1.68	202	204
	Independent	John O'Reilly	0.49	59	60
Electorate: 21,410 (56.74%)   Valid: 12,007   Spoilt: 140   Quota: 1,716   Turnout: 12,147

Ballyjamesduff

Ballyjamesduff: 6 seats^[7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Independent Ireland	Shane P. O'Reilly[*]	15.75	1,874
	Fine Gael	Trevor Smith[*]	14.82	1,763
	Fine Gael	Winston Bennett[*]	12.25	1,457	1,458	1,460	1,465	1,472	1,595	1,723
	Fianna Fáil	Phillip Brady[*]	10.88	1,295	1,295	1,306	1,316	1,321	1,424	1,849
	Fine Gael	T.P. O'Reilly[*]	10.52	1,252	1,258	1,331	1,381	1,399	1,477	1,563	1,639
	Sinn Féin	Noel Connell	8.98	1,068	1,070	1,078	1,488	1,495	1,598	1,685	1,716
	The Irish People	Lester Gordon	8.05	958	1,031	1,050	1,068	1,074	1,250	1,392	1,434
	Fianna Fáil	Nathan Galligan	6.94	826	826	836	850	865	986
	Aontú	Gráinne McPhillips	6.40	761	773	792	816	821
	Sinn Féin	Angela Gaffney	4.50	535	537	569
	Irish Freedom	Kieran Goggins	0.92	109
Electorate: 21,217 (56.61%)   Valid: 11,898   Spoilt: 112   Quota: 1,700   Turnout: 12,010

Cavan–Belturbet

Cavan–Belturbet: 6 seats^[7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Áine Smith[†]	17.61	1,763
	Independent	Brendan Fay[*]	16.25	1,627
	Fianna Fáil	John Paul Feeley[*]	10.49	1,050	1,159	1,194	1,293	1,323	1,349
	Sinn Féin	Damien Brady	10.44	1,045	1,088	1,133	1,200	1,729
	Fine Gael	Niamh Brady	10.16	1,017	1,050	1,070	1,203	1,275	1,333
	Fine Gael	Peter McVitty[*]	9.87	988	1,048	1,080	1,166	1,192	1,209
	Fianna Fáil	Patricia Walsh[*]	9.39	940	994	1,006	1,101	1,296	1,386
	Sinn Féin	Michael ‘Bricker’ Wall	8.46	847	856	872	984
	Labour	Liam van der Spek	3.38	338	353	365
	Aontú	Tinko Tinev	2.25	225	230	244
	Green	Kevin Murphy	1.04	104	106	109
	Independent	Susuana Komolafe	0.66	66	68	75
Electorate: 19,159 (52.87%)   Valid: 10,010   Spoilt: 120   Quota: 1,431   Turnout: 10,130