2024 Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council election

2024 Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council election

7 June 2024
All 40 seats on Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council 21 seats needed for a majority
Area of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council

An election to all 40 seats on Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council election will be held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections. Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown is divided into 6 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).

The period for nominations starts at 10 a.m. on Saturday 11 May and ends at 12 p.m. on Saturday 18 May 2024.

Retiring incumbents

The following councillors are not seeking re-election:

Constituency	Departing Councillor	Party		Date announced
Blackrock	Kate Feeney		Fianna Fáil	30 November 2023
Blackrock	Mary Hanafin		Fianna Fáil	30 November 2023
Dún Laoghaire	Juliet O’Connell		Labour
Dún Laoghaire	Dave Quinn		Social Democrats
Killiney-Shankill	Dennis O’Callaghan		Labour

Campaign

In April 2024, Orli Degani, who had been selected by the Social Democrats to contest the Dún Laoghaire LEA was dropped from the ticket. She intends to contest as an independent candidate.

Results by party

Party		Candidates	Seats	±	1st pref	FPv%	±%
	Fianna Fáil
	Fine Gael
	Sinn Féin
	Aontú
	Social Democrats
	Green
	Labour
	People Before Profit
	The Irish People			New			New
	Independent
Total			40			100.00	—

Candidates by LEA

^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
^ ‡: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019 for the Killiney–Shankill LEA.

Blackrock

Blackrock: 6 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Fine Gael	Marie Baker
	Social Democrats	Lydia Bigley
	People Before Profit	Jessica Bressan
	Fine Gael	Daniel Carson
	Independent	Reji Chacko Jacob
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Clark
	Fine Gael	Maurice Dockrell
	Green	Conor Dowling
	Aontú	Helen Duignan
	Labour	Martha Fanning
	Independent	Cormac Lucey
	Sinn Féin	Callie Nic Rállaigh
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Reynolds
	Independent	Jonathan Roe
Quota:

Dundrum

Dundrum: 7 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Fianna Fáil	Shay Brennan
	Independent	Anne Colgan
	Aontú	Liam Coughlan
	Sinn Féin	Rachel Gerrard
	Fine Gael	Anna Grainger
	Green	Robert Jones
	Fianna Fáil	Fiona Murray
	Social Democrats	Síle Ní Dhubhghaill
	Labour	Peter O'Brien
	Fine Gael	Eoin O'Driscoll
	Fine Gael	Jim O'Leary
	Independent	Sean McLoughlin
	The Irish People	Conor Patrick Rafferty
	Sinn Féin	Cuán Young
Quota:

Dún Laoghaire

Dún Laoghaire: 7 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Independent	Orli Degani
	Fine Gael	J.P. Durkan
	Fine Gael	Mary Fayne
	Fine Gael	Lorraine Hall
	Labour	Thomas Joseph
	Green	Tom Kivlehan
	Social Democrats	Hugo Mills
	Fianna Fáil	Justin Moylan
	Labour	Juliet O'Connell
	Fianna Fáil	Colette O'Sullivan
	Aontú	Mairéad Tóibín
Quota:

Glencullen–Sandyford

Glencullen–Sandyford: 7 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Fine Gael	Kazi Ahmed
	Independent	Kevin Daly
	Fine Gael	Pierce Dargan
	Fianna Fáil	Elaine Dunne
	Independent	Michael Fleming
	Labour	Lettie McCarthy
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Murphy
	Social Democrats	Aoife Murtagh
	Green	Oisín O'Connor
	Independent	Roopesh Kumar Panicker
	Sinn Féin	Amanda Spiteri
	Sinn Féin	Shaun Tracey
Quota:

Killiney–Shankill

Killiney–Shankill: 7 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Fine Gael	Jacqueline Burke
	Social Democrats	Lesley Byrne
	Fine Gael	Jim Gildea
	Labour	James Kearney
	Sinn Féin	Roland Kennedy
	Independent	Hugh Lewis
	Fine Gael	Frank McNamara
	Fianna Fáil	SallyAnn Moylan
	Labour	Carrie Smyth
	Green	Lauren Tuite
Quota:

Stillorgan

Stillorgan: 6 Seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1
	Independent	Eliza Connolly
	Fianna Fáil	Liam Dockery
	Independent	Deirdre Donnelly
	Green	Eva Dowling
	Labour	Rebekah Fozzard
	Social Democrats	John Hurley
	Fine Gael	John Kennedy
	Fine Gael	Maeve O'Connell
	Fianna Fáil	Emer O'Neill
	Fine Gael	Barry Saul
Quota: