2024 Monaghan County Council election

An election to all 18 seats on Monaghan County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.^[1] County Monaghan 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 Monaghan County Council election

← 2019 7 June 2024 2029 →
All 18 seats on Monaghan County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
Party Sinn Féin Fine Gael Fianna Fáil Last election 6 5 4   Party Independent Last election 3
Area of Monaghan County Council

Retiring incumbents

The following councillors are not seeking re-election:

Constituency	Councillor	Party
Monaghan	Brian McKenna [citation needed]		Sinn Féin
Ballybay –Clones	Hugh McElvaney		Independent

Results by party

Party[3][4][5]		Candidates	Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Sinn Féin	10	8	+2	9,947	35.21	+1.27
	Fine Gael	6	6	+1	7,119	25.20	+1.08
	Fianna Fáil	8	3	-1	6,739	23.85	-0.45
	Aontú	2	0	-	932	3.30	+2.02
	Green	2	0	-	538	1.90	-0.59
	Irish Freedom	1	0	-	422	1.49	new
	Independent	7	1	-2	2,556	9.05	-3.59
Total		36	18		28253	100.00

Analysis of Election

Monaghan proved to be a success story for Sinn Féin as the party re-captured a seat in Carrickmacross-Castleblayney from Fianna Fáil which they had lost at the last local election in 2019 and Sinn Féin also took a second seat in Ballybay-Clones with the retirement of the outgoing Independent, Hughie McElvaney to emerge as the largest party with 8 seats. Independent and former TD, Paudge Connolly, also lost his seat in the Monaghan LEA to Fine Gael who increased their numbers to 7. Fianna Fáil declined further to just 3 seats in number.

Results by LEA

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

Ballybay–Clones

Ballybay–Clones: 5 seats^[6][7]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Coyle[*]	19.67%	1,665
	Fine Gael	Ricard Truell[*]	18.66%	1,579
	Fine Gael	Seán Gilliland[*]	14.34%	1,214	1,301	1,410	1,444
	Sinn Féin	Sinéad Flynn	14.03%	1,187	1,219	1,228	1,259	1,330	1,459
	Sinn Féin	Pat Treanor[*]	12.77%	1,081	1,095	1,109	1,188	1,233	1,355
	Aontú	Olivia Larkin	7.37%	624	638	651	671	836	965
	Irish Freedom	Mark Brady	4.99%	422	441	444	448
	Fianna Fáil	Martina Durkan	4.93%	417	469	482	586	622
	Fianna Fáil	John Connolly	3.24%	274	310	317
Electorate: 15,264   Valid: 8,463   Spoilt: 98   Quota: 1,411   Turnout: 8,561 (56.09%)

Carrickmacross–Castleblayney

Carrickmacross–Castleblayney: 6 seats^[8][9]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fianna Fáil	PJ O'Hanlon[*]	14.84%	1,478
	Fine Gael	Aidan Campbell[*]	14.02%	1,396	1,400	1,421	1,526
	Sinn Féin	Colm Carthy[*]	13.67%	1,362	1,368	1,394	1,456
	Sinn Féin	Noel Keelan[*]	12.00%	1,195	1,201	1,215	1,227	1,230	1,306	1,687
	Fine Gael	Peter Conlon[†]	9.77%	973	985	996	1,061	1,078	1,137	1,222	1,251
	Sinn Féin	Paul Gibbons	9.26%	922	922	949	987	998	1,042	1,198	1,416
	Sinn Féin	Aoife Kindlon	7.00%	697	700	708	738	740	797
	Fianna Fáil	Aoife McCooey[*]	6.50%	647	667	690	786	828	876	931	948
	Independent	Seamus Hanratty	5.40%	538	539	633	663	663
	Green	Tate Donnelly	4.46%	444	446	470
	Aontú	James Duffy	3.09%	308	309
Electorate: 18,438   Valid: 9,960   Spoilt: 111   Quota: 1,423   Turnout: 10,071 (54.62%)

Monaghan

Monaghan: 7 Seats^[10][11]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7
	Sinn Féin	Cathy Bennett[*]	12.53%	1,232
	Fianna Fáil	Raymond Aughey[*]	11.42%	1,123	1,135	1,156	1,315
	Independent	Seamus Treanor[*]	10.97%	1,078	1,110	1,198	1,251
	Sinn Féin	Seán Conlan[*]	8.76%	861	879	892	906	908	1,164	1,250
	Fine Gael	Pauric Clerkin	10.24%	1,007	1,028	1,032	1,064	1,073	1,097	1,218
	Sinn Féin	Bronagh McAree	7.87%	774	789	795	808	813	1,043	1,195
	Fine Gael	David Maxwell[*]	9.66%	950	971	979	1,009	1,017	1,049	1,163
	Fianna Fáil	Brian 'Beano' Clerkin	7.11%	699	713	720	782	828	847	936
	Independent	Paudge Connolly[*]	6.35%	624	649	669	717	731	792
	Sinn Féin	Niamh McCooey	6.47%	636	648	657	681	683
	Fianna Fáil	Eamon Treanor	4.44%	436	441	445
	Independent	Colin Walker	1.81%	178	204
	Green	Deividas Pauliukonis	0.96%	94
	Independent	Denis O'Higgins	0.66%	65
	Independent	Paddy Grenham	0.61%	60
	Independent	Jimmy 'Stavrous' Mee	0.13%	13
Electorate: 19,207   Valid: 9,830   Spoilt: 143   Quota: 1,229   Turnout: 9,973 (51.92%)