2024 Kildare County Council election
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Area of Kildare County Council |
An election to all 40 seats on Kildare County Council will be held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections.[1] County Kildare is divided into 8 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]
Results by party[edit]
Party | Seats | ± | 1st pref | FPv% | ±% | |
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Fianna Fáil | ||||||
Fine Gael | ||||||
Sinn Féin | ||||||
Green | ||||||
Social Democrats | ||||||
Aontú | ||||||
Labour | ||||||
Independent Ireland | ||||||
Independent | ||||||
Total | 40 | 100.00 |
Retiring incumbents[edit]
The following councillors are not seeking re-election:
Constituency | Councillor | Party | |
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Celbridge | Michael Coleman[3] | Fianna Fáil | |
Kildare | Anne Connolly[4] | Fianna Fáil | |
Celbridge | Ciara Galvin[5] | Labour | |
Newbridge | Fiona McLoughlin Healy[6] | Independent | |
Clane | Brendan Weld[7] | Fine Gael |
Results by local electoral area[edit]
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
Athy[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Fianna Fáil | Veralouise Behan[*] | |||
Labour | Aoife Breslin[*] | |||
Sinn Féin | Geraldine Campbell | |||
Independent Ireland | William Carton | |||
Fianna Fáil | Brian Dooley[*] | |||
Fine Gael | Ivan Keatley[*] | |||
Fine Gael | Brian Kenny | |||
Labour | Mark Leigh[†] | |||
Fianna Fáil | David Owens | |||
Sinn Féin | Thomas Redmond | |||
Social Democrats | Rachael Wall | |||
Quota: |
Celbridge[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Labour | Rupert Heather[*] | |||
Green | Peter Paul Hughes | |||
Sinn Féin | David Monaghan | |||
Social Democrats | Clare O’Rourke | |||
Independent | Zhyan Phelan | |||
The Irish People | Darragh Toner | |||
Fianna Fáil | David Trost | |||
Quota: |
Clane[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |||||
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1 | ||||||||
Sinn Féin | Killian Brennan | |||||||
Labour | Eoin Coates | |||||||
Social Democrats | Aidan Farrelly[*] | |||||||
Fianna Fáil | Darragh Fitzpatrick[*] | |||||||
Independent | Pádraig McEvoy[*] | |||||||
Independent Ireland | Ryan McKeown | |||||||
Aontú | Una O’Connor | |||||||
Sinn Féin | Mick Tuohy | |||||||
Fine Gael | Brendan Wyse[*] | |||||||
Quota: |
Kildare[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Social Democrats | Pat Balfe | |||
Green | Lorraine Benson | |||
Sinn Féin | Noel Connolly[†] | |||
Fine Gael | Paddy Curran[†] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Suzanne Doyle[*] | |||
Fine Gael | Kevin Duffy[*] | |||
Labour | Chris Harrison | |||
Fianna Fáil | Brian O'Loughlin | |||
Independent Ireland | Paul O'Malley | |||
Quota: |
Leixlip[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Green | Imran Ali | |||
Fianna Fáil | Bernard Caldwell[*] | |||
Social Democrats | Nuala Killeen[*] | |||
Sinn Féin | Joan O’Boyle | |||
Fine Gael | Joe Neville[*] | |||
Quota: |
Maynooth[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Fine Gael | Tim Durkan[*] | |||
Labour | Angela Feeney[†] | |||
Sinn Féin | Evelyn Gaynor | |||
Green | Peter Hamilton[*] | |||
Fine Gael | Tara Lane | |||
Social Democrats | Peter Melrose | |||
Fianna Fáil | Naoise Ó Cearúil[*] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Paul Ward[*] | |||
Spoilt: [23] Quota: |
Naas[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Labour | Anne Breen[*] | |||
Fine Gael | Fintan Brett[*] | |||
Social Democrats | Bill Clear[*] | |||
The Irish People | Avril Corcoran | |||
Fine Gael | Ciara Dunne | |||
Sinn Féin | Caroline Hogan | |||
Fianna Fáil | Carmel Kelly[*] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Brian Larkin | |||
Sinn Féin | Evangeline Ngozi Omini | |||
Sinn Féin | Pauline O’Neill | |||
Green | Bob Quinn[†] | |||
Fine Gael | Evie Sammon[*] | |||
Quota: |
Newbridge[edit]
Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | |
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1 | ||||
Aontú | Melissa Byrne | |||
Labour | Aina Dugenio Conway | |||
Independent | James Garvin | |||
Fianna Fáil | Noel Heavey[*] | |||
Green | Ronan Maher | |||
Fine Gael | Peggy O’Dwyer[*] | |||
Fine Gael | Tracey O’Dwyer[*] | |||
Fianna Fáil | Robert Power[*] | |||
Social Democrats | Chris Pender[*] | |||
Sinn Féin | James Stokes | |||
Sinn Féin | Terri Thorpe | |||
Quota: |
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