2004 Limerick City Council election

An election to Limerick City Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 17 councillors were elected from four electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.1

2004 Limerick City Council election

11 June 2004
All 17 seats to Limerick City Council
Party Fine Gael Labour Fianna Fáil Seats won 5 4 2 Seat change - +1 -4   Party Independent Seats won 6 Seat change +3
Map showing the area of Limerick City Council
Council control after election TBD

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	5	-	5,606	26.58%
	Labour	4	+1	2,947	13.97%
	Fianna Fáil	2	-4	3,358	15.92%
	Independent	6	+3	6,322	29.98%
Totals		17	-	21,090	100%	—

Results by Electoral Area

Limerick No.1

Limerick No.1 - 5 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fine Gael	Michael Hourigan*	16.57	1,085	1,090	1,107
	Independent	Kathleen Leddin*	15.90	1,041	1,055	1,088	1,093
	Fine Gael	Kevin Kiely	12.28	804	809	811	816	824	852	878	942	1,002
	Labour	John Ryan*	10.43	683	686	695	696	708	740	801	889	985
	Fianna Fáil	John Cronin*	8.97	587	591	592	593	639	658	684	753	1,088
	Sinn Féin	Maurice Quinlivan	8.68	568	575	575	575	579	717	730	751	795
	Fianna Fáil	Joseph Collopy	6.95	455	461	469	469	541	555	613	706
	Progressive Democrats	Tom Frawley	5.48	359	363	389	391	405	413	503
	Progressive Democrats	David O'Mahony	4.31	282	283	318	318	345	350
	Independent	Mick Ryan	4.02	263	267	269	269	272
	Fianna Fáil	Michael Ryan*	3.10	203	204	213	214
	Progressive Democrats	Anne O'Keeffe	2.29	150	151
	Christian Solidarity	Conor O'Donoghue	1.02	67
Electorate: 11,221   Valid: 6,547 (58.35%)   Spoilt: 153   Quota: 1,092   Turnout: 6,900 (59.71%)

Limerick No.2

Limerick No.2 - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Independent	John Gilligan*	17.56	906	916	931	969	1,002	1,070
	Labour	Kieran Walsh*	14.05	725	739	776	780	851	878	885	920	968
	Fine Gael	Catherine O'Farrell	13.43	693	698	737	754	785	803	805	861	901
	Fianna Fáil	Kieran O'Hanlon*	12.39	639	644	664	690	699	716	720	886	983
	Independent	Gerry McLoughlin	11.75	606	611	635	655	693	734	749	790	931
	Independent	Noel Hannan	7.02	362	367	369	403	408	437	446	488
	Fianna Fáil	Larry Cross*	6.90	356	358	371	375	389	402	403
	Sinn Féin	Nancy Irwin	4.65	240	243	245	252	257
	Independent	Christy Vereker	4.42	228	230	237	248
	Independent	John Morrisson	3.41	176	178	182
	Progressive Democrats	Stuart McDonnell	3.24	167	170
	Green	Duncan Martin	1.18	61
Electorate: 9,130   Valid: 5,159 (56.51%)   Spoilt: 100   Quota: 1,032   Turnout: 5,259 (57.60%)

Limerick No.3

Limerick No.3 - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	Diarmuid Scully*	23.55	1,064
	Fine Gael	Ger Fahy*	20.83	941
	Labour	James Houlihan	13.26	599	619	668	788	944
	Fianna Fáil	Jack Bourke*	9.27	419	438	465	489	518	525	534	658
	Progressive Democrats	Jim Hickey	8.57	387	438	451	473	503	513	518
	Independent	Lily Wallace*	7.33	331	353	391	446	539	562	585	727
	Labour	Derek Mulcahy	6.57	297	324	349	369
	Independent	John Boland	5.87	265	271	307
	Socialist Party	Ashling Golden	3.39	153	166
	Fianna Fáil	Patricia Stokes	1.37	62	64
Electorate: 8,646   Valid: 4,518 (52.26%)   Spoilt: 82   Quota: 904   Turnout: 4,600 (53.20%)

Limerick No.4

Limerick No.4 - 4 seats

Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
	Independent	Pat Kennedy*	20.37	991
	Fine Gael	Maria Byrne*	15.87	772	805	808	872	1,003
	Labour	Joe Leddin*	13.21	643	669	672	702	735	748	785	848	920	1,046
	Fianna Fáil	Dick Sadlier*	7.95	387	402	403	419	430	433	446	537	576	618	637
	Independent	Jim Long	7.60	370	381	383	398	413	415	462	480	545	656	709
	Independent	Seán Griffin	6.06	295	298	300	332	352	357	416	437	525
	Independent	Seán O'Neill	5.26	256	256	257	266	276	277
	Fianna Fáil	Tony Flannery	5.14	250	263	264	281	289	291	305
	Fine Gael	Pat Brosnahan	5.08	247	251	252	264
	Progressive Democrats	Paddy Hynes	4.81	234	289	290	306	327	330	379	404
	Independent	Win Harrington	4.77	232	241	243
	Progressive Democrats	Isobel Geoghegan	3.88	189
Electorate: 9,688   Valid: 4,866 (50.23%)   Spoilt: 96   Quota: 974   Turnout: 4,962 (51.22%)

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