Local Elections (Ireland) 2024

[LookItsMeAgain]

Did the candidate you most wanted to get elected to your council get elected? Are you happy with the people who got elected to your local council?
Are you here for the count?

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https://www.rte.ie/news/elections-2024/results/#/local/national

Results will be posted on the RTE website as the counts come in

Too early to know yet but in my local council elections tallies are showing Independents doing very well.

Man, I feel spoiled after the recent referendum being clear on the No/No vote within a few minutes of the count starting. I'm looking at the tallies and trying to guess at what transfers will be like and it's obvious we won't know much for hours/well into tomorrow. And the MEP elections will be the more interesting of the elections as the range of candidates was much more 'diverse' than the LEs.

The only one that looks fairly clear is that John Moran is the likely Mayor of Limerick with an annual salary of €154K plus expenses.

That's a lot of money!

Lots of hacks hyperventilating about a Sinn Féin meltdown. Their vote share is up 2.1% ? Not seeing the great far right surge the media speak of either. Independents still a relatively small minority. And that I word conceals a multitude of different views.

All I have learnt from the recent elections is that I know nothing.
The people are supposedly unhappy with the Government at the moment, two referendums were defeated and yet FG and FF did well in the Local and European elections.
Sinn Féin consistently in the polls were doing well. Yet they haven't done well in the LE and EE.
The Irish voter is a mystery

My thinking is people will vote for the individual candidate and not the party in local elections as you're more likely to know the candidate but then vote differently in the general election, certainly the way my friends and myself voted.

Absolutely. Local elections are about local issues and people will vote for the person who helped out the local school or the football club or got the new bus shelter or whatever it's a different kettle of fish altogether