2024 Sligo County Council election

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

← 2019 7 June 2024 2029 →
All 18 seats on Sligo County Council 10 seats needed for a majority
Area of Sligo County Council

Retiring incumbents

The following councillors are not seeking re-election:

Constituency	Departing Councillor	Party
Ballymote–Tubbercurry	Martin Baker		Fianna Fáil
Sligo–Strandhill	Sinead Maguire		Fine Gael
Sligo–Strandhill	Rosaleen O'Grady		Fianna Fáil

Results by party

Party		Candidates	Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	8	6	1	9,859	29.18	0.59
	Fine Gael	7	4	2	8,403	24.87	5.43
	Sinn Féin	6	2		4,701	13.92	5.72
	People Before Profit	2	1		940	2.78	1.19
	Labour	1	1	1	841	2.49	1.09
	Irish Freedom	2		New	894	2.65	New
	Green	2			439	1.30	0.78
	The Irish People	2		New	296	0.88	New
	Aontú	1		New	186	0.55	New
	Independent	8	4		7,224	21.38	4.51
Total		39	18			100.00

Analysis of Election

Fianna Fáil supplanted Fine Gael as the largest party in Sligo by gaining a seat at their expense in each of the Ballymote-Tubbercurry and the Sligo-Drumcliff LEAs. The party did lose a seat, however, in Sligo-Strandhill with the retirement of long-serving Rosaleen O'Grady to the Labour Party who regained a presence on the Council after an absence of 10 years.

Results by local electoral area

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

Ballymote–Tubbercurry

Ballymote–Tubbercurry: 7 seats^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Taylor[*]	11.9	1,924	1,928	1,939	1,959	1,989	2,024
	Independent	Michael Clarke[*]	11.0	1,773	1,785	1,790	1,814	1,975	2,128
	Fine Gael	Gerry Mullaney[*]	10.7	1,724	1,733	1,766	1,772	1,787	1,808	1,810	1,910	1,969	2,130
	Fine Gael	Dara Mulvey[*]	10.3	1,666	1,678	1,696	1,712	1,759	1,818	1,829	1,913	1,972	2,401
	Independent	Joe Queenan[*]	9.4	1,523	1,533	1,535	1,537	1,639	1,727	1,774	2,368
	Fianna Fáil	Liam Brennan	8.1	1,307	1,309	1,349	1,356	1,382	1,414	1,420	1,451	1,512	1,765	1,944	2,001
	Fianna Fáil	Barry Gallagher	7.7	1,246	1,250	1,250	1,298	1,319	1,346	1,354	1,364	1,388	1,508	1,556	1,569
	Fine Gael	Martin Connolly[*]	6.9	1,110	1,114	1,114	1,157	1,173	1,190	1,190	1,276	1,318	1,397	1,454	1,477
	Fianna Fáil	Keith Henry	6.6	1,060	1,069	1,072	1,086	1,107	1,134	1,136	1,152	1,177
	Fine Gael	Patrick Cleary	6.2	1,004	1,007	1,009	1,009	1,027	1,067	1,081
	Irish Freedom	James Conway	3.7	596	598	605	632
	Sinn Féin	Jennifer van Aswegen	2.4	383	458	550	767	830
	Sinn Féin	Jason Gorman	2.1	345	356	446
	Sinn Féin	Donal O'Connor	1.9	302	321
	PBP–Solidarity	Emma Hendrick	1.3	203
Electorate: 26,024   Valid: 16,166   Spoilt: 111   Quota: 2,021   Turnout: 16,277 (62.55%)

Sligo–Drumcliff

Sligo–Drumcliff: 5 seats^[6][7][8]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fine Gael	Thomas Walsh[*]	20.3	1,891
	Sinn Féin	Thomas Healy[*]	15.6	1,449	1,538	1,801
	Independent	Marie Casserly[*]	15.1	1,405	1,451	1,764
	Fianna Fáil	Edel McSharry	14.3	1,327	1,394	1,550	1,627
	Fianna Fáil	Donal Gilroy[*]	12.5	1,163	1,179	1,243	1,262	1,328	1,346
	Fine Gael	Tom Fox[*]	10.8	1,008	1,099	1,190	1,227	1,300	1,324
	Independent	Colm McGurran	4.5	421	441
	Irish Freedom	Amanda Gallagher	3.2	298	302
	Green	Agnieszka Piwowarczyk	2.4	226	233
	The Irish People	Rob De Salle	1.2	114	114
Electorate: 16,973   Valid: 9,302   Spoilt: 70   Quota: 1,551   Turnout: 9,372 (55.22%)

Sligo–Strandhill

Sligo–Strandhill: 6 seats^[9]

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Independent	Declan Bree[*]	18.5	1,537
	Fianna Fáil	Tom MacSharry[*]	16.5	1,374
	Fine Gael	Fergal Nealon	13.9	1,158	1,197
	Labour	Nessa Cosgrove	10.1	841	902	932	951	954	960	1,084	1,116	1,146	1,310
	Sinn Féin	Arthur Gibbons[*]	8.9	741	790	804	811	812	822	830	856	1,094	1,145
	PBP–Solidarity	Gino O'Boyle[*]	8.9	737	815	848	863	864	902	931	968	1,025	1,103
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Kilgannon	5.5	458	479	536	558	559	568	590	617	626
	Independent	Finbar Filan	4.9	406	445	471	506	508	538	554	623	642	776
	Sinn Féin	Pauline Donnelly	3.9	323	346	350	353	353	364	370	379
	Green	Johnny Gogan	2.6	213	227	232	243	243	249
	Aontú	Graham Monaghan	2.2	186	193	200	216	217	260	264
	The Irish People	Michael Kelly	2.2	182	189	194	211	211
	Independent	Jim Lawlor	1.5	127	136	141
	Independent	Diarmuid Mac Conville	0.4	32	34	34
Electorate: 17,646   Valid: 8,315   Spoilt: 100   Quota: 1,188   Turnout: 8,415 (47.69%)