Sligo County Council election, 2004

11 June 2004

All 25 seats to Sligo County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fianna Fáil	Fine Gael	Labour Party
Seats won	10	10	3
Seat change	+1	-1	+1

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Sinn Féin	Independent
Seats won	1	1
Seat change	-	-1

Map showing the area of Sligo County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Sligo County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from five electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil	10	+1	12,331	37.42%
	Fine Gael	10	-1	12,115	36.76%
	Labour Party	3	+1	3,434	10.42%
	Sinn Féin	1	-	2,546	7.73%
	Independent	1	-1	2,529	7.67%
Totals		25	-	32,955	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Ballymote

Ballymote - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Baker	19.92	1,435
	Fine Gael	Gerard Mullaney	12.58	906	977	987	1,014	1,074	1,264
	Fine Gael	Gerry Murray*	11.38	820	828	831	843	891	946	963	1,085
	Fianna Fáil	John Sherlock	10.79	777	802	863	948	998	1,116	1,124	1,269
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Shannon*	9.49	684	726	729	749	798	820	823	908
	Fine Gael	Pat McGrath	8.36	602	611	616	640	775	831	847	1,042
	Fine Gael	Thomas Walsh	7.77	560	593	602	628	654
	Independent	Alfie Parke*	6.68	481	507	519	575	666	776	795
	Labour Party	Tim Mulcahy	6.51	469	474	501	556
	Sinn Féin	Joe Gilmartin	4.58	330	343	349
	Independent	Michael Scanlon	1.94	140	142
Electorate: 10,169 Valid: 7,204 (70.84%) Spoilt: 76 Quota: 1,201 Turnout: 7,280 (71.59%)

Dromore

Dromore - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3
	Fianna Fáil	Joe Queenan*	30.92	1,254
	Fine Gael	Mary Barrett*	26.50	1,075
	Fine Gael	Paul Conmy*	20.22	820	927	1,036
	Sinn Féin	Padraig Hallinan	13.04	529	584	758
	Fianna Fáil	Gerry O'Connor	9.32	378	455
Electorate: 5,793 Valid: 4,056 (70.02%) Spoilt: 48 Quota: 1,015 Turnout: 4,104 (70.84%)

Sligo Drumcliff

Sligo Drumcliff - 6 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8	Count 9
	Fine Gael	Joe Leonard*	18.38	1,411
	Fianna Fáil	Jude Devins	15.08	1,158
	Fianna Fáil	Patsy Barry*	13.55	1,040	1,157
	Labour Party	Veronica Cawley	10.59	813	839	919	930	938	994	1,056	1,236
	Fine Gael	Ita Fox*	8.32	639	699	720	727	740	855	946	1,011	1,045
	Fine Gael	John Peyton	7.45	572	630	639	646	654	690	745	794	809
	Sinn Féin	Des Skeffington	7.13	547	571	599	603	613	637	678
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Kilgannon*	6.71	515	521	525	537	540	598	762	828	849
	Fianna Fáil	Pádraig Branley*	5.18	398	410	418	430	445	536
	Fianna Fáil	Brian McHugh	5.11	392	399	410	418	421
	Labour Party	Brian Scanlon*	2.50	192	196
Electorate: 12,221 Valid: 7,677 (62.82%) Spoilt: 127 Quota: 1,097 Turnout: 7,804 (63.86%)

Sligo Strandhill

Sligo Strandhill - 7 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fine Gael	Tony McLoughlin*	24.12	2,054
	Labour Party	Declan Bree*	13.47	1,147
	Sinn Féin	Seán MacManus*	13.39	1,140
	Labour Party	Jim McGarry*	9.55	813	940	973	1,004	1,028	1,067
	Fianna Fáil	Deirdre Healy-McGowan	9.03	769	915	922	930	939	981	1,010	1,217
	Fianna Fáil	Albert Higgins*	8.32	708	835	840	846	853	883	890	967
	Fine Gael	Imelda Henry	8.08	688	966	977	1,008	1,016	1,176
	Fianna Fáil	Roddy McGuinn*	5.79	493	567	578	587	598	607	622	681
	Fianna Fáil	Francis Cadden	4.42	376	440	447	456	468	498	513
	Fine Gael	Jarlath Hunt	2.44	208	360	364	375	379
	Independent	Jim O'Sullivan	1.39	118	139	143
Electorate: 13,445 Valid: 8,514 (63.32%) Spoilt: 189 Quota: 1,065 Turnout: 8,703 (64.73%)

Tobercurry

Tobercurry - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5
	Independent	Margaret Gormley*	32.56	1,790
	Fianna Fáil	Aidan Colleary*	16.68	917	984	1,116
	Fine Gael	Michael Fleming*	14.08	742	911	1,011	1,277
	Fianna Fáil	Jerry Lundy	10.35	659	743	846	971	1,030
	Fine Gael	Brendan Kivlehan	8.50	606	730	780	876	994
	Fine Gael	Joe Cawley*	8.07	412	516	576
	Fianna Fáil	Kieran O'Dowd	7.56	372	514
Electorate: 7,418 Valid: 5,498 (74.12%) Spoilt: 76 Quota: 1,100 Turnout: 5,574 (75.14%)

External links

Official website

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