Roscommon County Council election, 2004

11 June 2004

All 26 seats to Roscommon County Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Fine Gael	Fianna Fáil	Sinn Féin
Seats won	10	9	1
Seat change	-2	-	+1

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Party	Independent	Progressive Democrats
Seats won	6	0
Seat change	+2	-1

Map showing the area of Roscommon County Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Roscommon County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 26 councillors were elected from six electoral divisions by PR-STV voting for a five-year term of office.

Results by party

Party		Seats	±	First Pref. votes	FPv%	±%
	Fine Gael	10	-2	11,666	35.88%
	Fianna Fáil	9	-	11,768	36.19%
	Sinn Féin	1	+1	926	2.85%
	Independent	6	+2	6,532	20.09%
	Progressive Democrats	0	-1	803	2.47%
Totals		26	-	32,517	100%	—

Athlone - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fine Gael	John Naughten*	23.93	1,564
	Fianna Fáil	Trevor Finneran*	16.59	1,084	1,123
	Fine Gael	Ollie Moore*	12.88	842	1,013	1,021	1,273
	Fianna Fáil	Anthony Geraghty*	11.03	721	744	750	780	793	1,106
	Independent	Tony Ward	10.36	677	719	721	821	859	963	970
	Fine Gael	Christine O'Malley	8.36	581	672	674	779	875	951	960
	Progressive Democrats	Eugene Costello	8.29	542	574	580
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran*	7.77	524	600	609	638	654
Electorate: 9,727 Valid: 6,535 (67.18%) Spoilt: 96 Quota: 1,090 Turnout: 6,631 (68.17%)

Ballaghadreen - 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Independent	John Kelly	22.83	1,101
	Sinn Féin	Michael Mulligan	12.75	615	649	699	769	859	919	1,103
	Fine Gael	John Connor*	12.73	614	628	660	685	696	832	992
	Fine Gael	Michael Creaton	11.76	567	580	592	617	626	667	781	828
	Fine Gael	Michael Scally*	9.39	453	468	474	520	605	619
	Fianna Fáil	Paul Lynch	9.21	444	454	458	477	569	678	717	756
	Fianna Fáil	John Mulvihil	7.05	340	347	373	383	417
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy McGarry*	6.39	308	321	329	366
	Independent	Mary Durkin	4.46	215	236	260
	Independent	P.J. Keenan	2.88	139	147
	Green Party	Eamonn Ansbro	0.54	26	27
Electorate: 7,437 Valid: 4,822 (64.84%) Spoilt: 89 Quota: 965 Turnout: 4,911 (66.03%)

Boyle - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7	Count 8
	Fianna Fáil	John Cummins*	18.87	1,088
	Fine Gael	Charlie Hopkins*	14.10	813	816	824	837	845	876	938	963
	Fine Gael	Gerry Garvey*	13.35	770	771	774	782	788	812	969
	Fine Gael	Ernie Keenan*	12.68	731	758	776	792	886	1,035
	Fianna Fáil	Rachel Doherty	10.98	633	659	668	692	723	767	833	861
	Fianna Fáil	Alo O'Dowd	10.23	590	615	618	622	633	653	760	776
	Fine Gael	Kitty Duignan*	7.27	419	433	443	453	470	511
	Labour Party	Tommy Egan	5.10	294	305	331	363	406
	Independent	Francis Geelan	3.38	195	202	222	241
	Green Party	Catherine Ansbro	2.38	137	139	142
	Independent	Malachy Beirne	1.68	97	106
Electorate: 8,505 Valid: 5,767 (67.81%) Spoilt: 58 Quota: 962 Turnout: 5,825 (68.49%)

Castlerea - 3 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4
	Independent	Luke Flanagan	28.23	1,050
	Fianna Fáil	Tony Waldron	23.80	885	911	1,089
	Fine Gael	Michael McGreal*	20.49	762	780	872	913
	Fine Gael	John Murray*	12.88	563	594	745	819
	Independent	Danny Burke*	11.03	459	504
Electorate: 5,474 Valid: 3,719 (67.94%) Spoilt: 47 Quota: 930 Turnout: 3,766 (68.80%)

Roscommon - 5 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6	Count 7
	Fianna Fáil	Martin Connaughton*	13.07	876	900	916	973	994	1,044	1,074
	Independent	Paula McNamara*	12.22	819	864	895	939	1,030	1,152
	Fine Gael	Dominick Connolly	12.01	805	834	867	902	1,036	1,345
	Fianna Fáil	Orla Leyden	11.74	787	807	831	938	981	1,061	1,101
	Fianna Fáil	Des Bruen*	11.62	779	785	803	883	908	959	1,012
	Fianna Fáil	Paddy Kilduff	11.11	745	755	780	811	890	1,019	1,074
	Fine Gael	Padraig Walsh	8.28	555	562	621	650	790
	Fine Gael	Teresa Donnelly	6.83	458	472	530	547
	Fianna Fáil	P Burke	6.37	427	435	444
	Progressive Democrats	Jimmy Murray	3.89	261	277
	Sinn Féin	Patrick Carton	2.12	142
	Green Party	Bridget Banham	0.75	50
Electorate: 9,698 Valid: 6,704 (69.13%) Spoilt: 51 Quota: 1,118 Turnout: 6,755 (69.65%)

Strokestown- 4 seats
Party		Candidate	% 1st Pref	Count 1	Count 2	Count 3	Count 4	Count 5	Count 6
	Fianna Fáil	Eugene Murphy*	19.78	983	1,013
	Independent	Tom Crosby*	19.56	972	992	997
	Independent	Valerie Byrne*	16.26	808	861	866	906	953	1,131
	Fine Gael	Seán Beirne*	16.22	806	839	843	864	889	966
	Fine Gael	Leo Cox	7.30	363	367	367	377	501	587
	Labour Party	Hughie Baxter	6.34	315	329	330	430	471
	Fianna Fáil	Seamus Nugent	5.69	283	286	287	362
	Fianna Fáil	Gerry Thompson	5.45	271	271	273
	Sinn Féin	John Reynolds	3.40	169
Electorate: 7,088 Valid: 4,970 (70.12%) Spoilt: 72 Quota: 995 Turnout: 5,042 (71.13%)

Preceded by Roscommon County Council election, 1999	Roscommon County Council elections	Succeeded by Roscommon County Council election, 2009

(1999 ←) Irish local elections, 2004 (→ 2009)

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