Photo: Oliver Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0Turnout in Ballinamore was among the highest at the 2024 local elections
Carrigallen answers to one council, Leitrim County Council; Ireland has no town tier. The Ballinamore local electoral area elected 6 councillors in June 2024: Fianna Fáil 2, Fine Gael 2 and Sinn Féin 2. No party holds a majority on Leitrim County; Fianna Fáil has the most seats, 6 of 18, short of the 10 a majority needs. In the Dáil, Sligo-Leitrim has 4 members: Fianna Fáil 1, Fine Gael 1, Independent 1 and Sinn Féin 1.
Carrigallen’s council and votes, in 4 figures
High turnout
6,660 of Ballinamore’s 10,152 registered voters turned out in June 2024, 66%: the 3rd-highest of 166 local electoral areas (all of them: 49%). How Carrigallen voted ↓
A large budget for its size
Leitrim County Council’s 2026 revenue budget comes to €1,820 for each resident, against €1,551 across all 31 councils, leaving out the HAP programme. Council money ↓
A short ballot
11 candidates stood for 6 seats in Ballinamore in June 2024, the 30th-least contested ballot of 166 by candidates per seat. Local elections ↓
High turnout
57,316 of Sligo-Leitrim’s 94,040 registered voters turned out in November 2024, 61%: the 15th-highest of 43 Dáil constituencies (all of them: 60%). Dáil Éireann ↓
Written from the data on this page: the 2024 count sheets of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Oireachtas members list.
No party holds a majority on Leitrim County Council
Seats on Leitrim County Council as elected in June 2024, with each party’s candidates, and the other councils beside it.
- Fianna Fáil67 stood
- Independent510 stood
- Sinn Féin47 stood
- Fine Gael35 stood
As elected on 7 June 2024.
A party needs 10 of the 18 seats to outvote the rest. None has that: Fianna Fáil is largest with 6. None of the 31 councils has a single-party majority. Independent is second with 5 seats. The councillors elect a cathaoirleach each June to chair the council for a year; no open national list names them.
The 31 councils of Ireland
Seats by party as elected, largest party named; this council first.
Local and general election results 2024: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY-SA 4.0); areas matched to towns by TownRatings from Tailte Éireann boundaries and CSO Census 2022 Small Areas (CC BY 4.0).
One council, and the government for the rest
Carrigallen has no town or county council of its own: Ireland has 31 councils, each the only council for its area.
Housing and homelessness, planning, local and regional roads, parks and libraries, the fire service, bins enforcement and street cleaning, the register of electors, and the Local Property Tax rate it may vary.
leitrim.ie ↗Schools (Department of Education), health (the HSE), national roads (TII), policing (An Garda Síochána) and the Local Property Tax itself (Revenue).
gov.ie ↗Uisce Éireann runs water and sewers; private operators collect most bins under the council’s rules.
Who to ask
Green: the council. Gold: a government department or one of its agencies. Grey: another public body.
From the council to the Dáil
Every elected tier that speaks for Carrigallen, from the most recent elections.
- 1The Ballinamore local electoral areaBallinamore · 6 membersPaddy O'RourkeEnda McGloinBrendan BarryIta Reynolds FlynnGary PriorRoisin Kenny
- 2Leitrim County Council18 councillors from 3 local electoral areasFianna Fáil 6 · Independent 5 · Sinn Féin 4 · Fine Gael 3
- 3Dáil ÉireannSligo-Leitrim · 4 members
Party colours are neutral on purpose: they tell parties apart and aren’t the parties’ own. TDs: Houses of the Oireachtas Open Data (Oireachtas PSI Licence, CC BY 4.0).
6 councillors represent Ballinamore
Each of the local electoral areas where 5% or more of the town’s residents live: who was elected, and who else stood.
- Paddy O'Rourke
- Enda McGloin
- Brendan Barry
- Ita Reynolds Flynn
- Gary Prior
- Roisin Kenny
Also stood (5): Joanne Curnan (Sinn Féin), Sean Wynne (Independent), Adam O'Ceallaigh (Green Party), Karina Charles Lynch (Independent Ireland), George Heslin (Independent).
Carrigallen’s councillors, one by one
| Councillor | Party | Area | First preferences | Result | Returning or new |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paddy O'Rourke | Fianna Fáil | Ballinamore | 1,434 | Elected at count 1, on the quota | Re-elected |
| Enda McGloin | Fine Gael | Ballinamore | 1,033 | Elected at count 1, on the quota | Re-elected |
| Brendan Barry | Sinn Féin | Ballinamore | 861 | Elected at count 5, on the quota | Re-elected |
| Ita Reynolds Flynn | Fine Gael | Ballinamore | 725 | Elected at count 7, on the quota | Re-elected |
| Gary Prior | Fianna Fáil | Ballinamore | 586 | Elected at count 7, on the quota | Re-elected |
| Roisin Kenny | Sinn Féin | Ballinamore | 485 | Elected at the last count, below the quota | Re-elected |
6 of the 6 were sitting councillors who were re-elected; 0 weren’t on the council before the election.
Seats by party in each of Leitrim County Council’s 3 local electoral areas
Every area of Leitrim County Council: seats, candidates and turnout
| Area | Seats | Candidates | Electorate | Turnout | Quota |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballinamore | 6 | 11 | 10,152 | 65.6% | 944 |
| Carrick-on-Shannon | 6 | 12 | 9,294 | 62.8% | 824 |
| Manorhamilton | 6 | 12 | 9,615 | 66.5% | 907 |
Each of the local electoral areas elects 3 to 7 councillors by single transferable vote: voters number the candidates in order, a candidate who reaches the quota is elected, and spare votes and those of the lowest candidate pass to the next preference. A councillor who leaves is replaced by co-option, usually from the same party, so the names can change without an election.
Councillors: same source as Who’s in charge, above.
Of the 18 councillors on Leitrim County Council, women hold 4
Everyone elected to Leitrim County Council across its 3 local electoral areas in June 2024, by party: how many are women and how many sat on the council before.
| Party | Seats | Women | Re-elected | First preferences |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fianna Fáil | 6 | 1 | 5 | 30% |
| Independent | 5 | 0 | 2 | 26.6% |
| Sinn Féin | 4 | 1 | 3 | 21.6% |
| Fine Gael | 3 | 2 | 2 | 17.4% |
4 of the 18 councillors are women, 22%; across all 31 councils the share is 26%. 12 sat on the council before the election and 6 are new to it.
Every member of Leitrim County Council
| Councillor | Party | Area | Returning or new |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paddy O'Rourke | Fianna Fáil | Ballinamore | Re-elected |
| Enda McGloin | Fine Gael | Ballinamore | Re-elected |
| Brendan Barry | Sinn Féin | Ballinamore | Re-elected |
| Ita Reynolds Flynn | Fine Gael | Ballinamore | Re-elected |
| Gary Prior | Fianna Fáil | Ballinamore | Re-elected |
| Roisin Kenny | Sinn Féin | Ballinamore | Re-elected |
| Sean McGowan | Fianna Fáil | Carrick-on-Shannon | Re-elected |
| Enda Stenson | Independent | Carrick-on-Shannon | Re-elected |
| Maeve Reynolds | Fine Gael | Carrick-on-Shannon | New |
| Des Guckian | Independent | Carrick-on-Shannon | Re-elected |
| Paddy Farrell | Fianna Fáil | Carrick-on-Shannon | New |
| Cormac Flynn | Sinn Féin | Carrick-on-Shannon | New |
| James Gilmartin | Independent | Manorhamilton | New |
| Mary Bohan | Fianna Fáil | Manorhamilton | Re-elected |
| Padraig Fallon | Sinn Féin | Manorhamilton | Re-elected |
| Justin Warnock | Fianna Fáil | Manorhamilton | Re-elected |
| Felim Gurn | Independent | Manorhamilton | New |
| Eddie Mitchell | Independent | Manorhamilton | New |
The council: same source as Who’s in charge, above.
First preferences in Ballinamore, June 2024
Each candidate’s first-preference votes; the tick is the quota of 944. Elected candidates are in bold.
First-preference share by party in Ballinamore
The tick is the party’s share across all of Ireland.
6,660 of 10,152 registered voters turned out, 65.6%: the 3rd-highest of 166 local electoral areas (all of them: 49.4%). With 6,604 valid votes and 6 seats the quota was 944; the count ran to 8 rounds. Paddy O'Rourke (Fianna Fáil) and Enda McGloin (Fine Gael) reached the quota on first preferences alone, and transfers decided the other 4. Roisin Kenny (Sinn Féin) was 7th on first preferences and elected on transfers, ahead of Joanne Curnan (Sinn Féin), 6th on first preferences. The last seat went to Roisin Kenny (Sinn Féin) with 742 votes at the final count, 47 ahead of Joanne Curnan (Sinn Féin), who had 695.
Every candidate, count by count (8 counts)
| Candidate | Party | First preferences | Result | Votes at the end |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roisin Kenny | Sinn Féin | 485 | Elected at the last count, below the quota | 742 |
| Ita Reynolds Flynn | Fine Gael | 725 | Elected at count 7, on the quota | 961 |
| Gary Prior | Fianna Fáil | 586 | Elected at count 7, on the quota | 944 |
| Brendan Barry | Sinn Féin | 861 | Elected at count 5, on the quota | 944 |
| Paddy O'Rourke | Fianna Fáil | 1,434 | Elected at count 1, on the quota | 944 |
| Enda McGloin | Fine Gael | 1,033 | Elected at count 1, on the quota | 944 |
| Karina Charles Lynch | Independent Ireland | 103 | Excluded at count 4 | – |
| George Heslin | Independent | 54 | Excluded at count 4 | – |
| Adam O'Ceallaigh | Green Party | 329 | Excluded at count 5 | – |
| Sean Wynne | Independent | 432 | Excluded at count 7 | – |
| Joanne Curnan | Sinn Féin | 562 | Not elected, standing at the last count | 695 |
How Carrigallen voted: same source as Who’s in charge, above.
Who stood, and who was elected, June 2024
Every candidate for Leitrim County Council, by party: the light bar is candidates, the solid bar those elected.
Share of candidates elected, all of Ireland
Parties with 10 or more candidates across the 31 councils.
35 candidates stood for 18 seats on Leitrim County Council in June 2024, 1.9 for each seat. Turnout across the council was 65%, the 1st-highest of 31 councils. Fianna Fáil elected 6 of its 7 candidates. 13 of the 35 candidates were women (37%; 31% across the country), and 10 stood without a party. Across all 31 councils, 2,172 candidates stood for 949 seats, 2.3 for each.
Turnout in all 31 councils
Local elections: same source as Who’s in charge, above.
Carrigallen is in Sligo-Leitrim
4 TDs elected to the Dáil by single transferable vote on 29 November 2024, the whole constituency’s count.
Fianna Fáil
oireachtas.ie ↗Fine Gael · Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
oireachtas.ie ↗Independent · Minister of State at the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
oireachtas.ie ↗Sinn Féin
oireachtas.ie ↗TDs as the Oireachtas lists them today, with any office they hold; a by-election or a change of party shows here, the 2024 count below does not change.
First preferences in Sligo-Leitrim, November 2024
Each party’s share of first preferences in Sligo-Leitrim
Turnout was 61%, 57,316 of 94,040 registered voters: the 15th-highest of 43 Dáil constituencies (all of them: 59.7%). The quota was 11,381: 56,900 valid votes for 4 seats, counted over 13 rounds. Nobody reached the quota on first preferences, so every seat was filled on transfers. Marian Harkin (Independent), 7th on first preferences, won a seat on transfers, overtaking Michael Clarke (Independent Ireland), who was 3rd. The last seat went to Marian Harkin (Independent) with 10,168 votes at the final count, 881 ahead of Michael Clarke (Independent Ireland), who had 9,287.
Every candidate, count by count (13 counts)
| Candidate | Party | First preferences | Result | Votes at the end |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eamon Scanlon | Fianna Fáil | 5,913 | Elected at the last count, below the quota | 10,285 |
| Marian Harkin | Independent | 4,347 | Elected at the last count, below the quota | 10,168 |
| Martin Kenny | Sinn Féin | 7,764 | Elected at count 12, on the quota | 11,381 |
| Frank Feighan | Fine Gael | 8,980 | Elected at count 11, on the quota | 12,241 |
| Molly Candon | Party for Animal Welfare | 423 | Excluded at count 2 | – |
| Caroline Corcoran | Independent Ireland | 69 | Excluded at count 2 | – |
| Diarmuiid Macconville | Independent | 64 | Excluded at count 2 | – |
| Bláithín Gallagher | Green Party | 725 | Excluded at count 3 | – |
| Michael Kelly | Irish Freedom Party | 770 | Excluded at count 4 | – |
| Des Guckian | Independent | 887 | Excluded at count 5 | – |
| Graham Monaghan | Aontú | 1,112 | Excluded at count 6 | – |
| Gino O'Boyle | People Before Profit–Solidarity | 1,657 | Excluded at count 7 | – |
| Nessa Cosgrove | Labour Party | 2,086 | Excluded at count 8 | – |
| Marie Casserly | Independent | 2,419 | Excluded at count 9 | – |
| Paddy O'Rourke | Fianna Fáil | 4,066 | Excluded at count 10 | – |
| Edel McSHARRY | Fianna Fáil | 4,466 | Excluded at count 11 | – |
| Chris MacMANUS | Sinn Féin | 5,173 | Excluded at count 12 | – |
| Michael Clarke | Independent Ireland | 5,979 | Not elected, standing at the last count | 9,287 |
Dáil Éireann: same source as Who’s in charge, above.
Leitrim County Council plans to spend €1,820 per resident in 2026
What its 2026 revenue budget pays for, service by service, and where the money comes from.
By service, per resident, 2026
What pays for it, 2026
Shares of what funds the 2026 budget; the tick is all 31 councils together.
Leaving out the HAP programme, that is the 3rd-highest of the 31 councils per resident; across all of them it is €1,551. The budget is up 7% on 2025, when it was €60.1M.
Commercial rates on businesses pay for 13% of the budget. Its annual rate on valuation is 0.2686, the 3rd-highest of the 31 councils that rate on revalued property. The Local Property Tax brings in another 17%.
Budget per resident, all 31 councils (without the HAP programme)
Show the services as a table, 2025 and 2026
| Service | 2026 | Per resident | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Housing and building | €13.2M | €376 | €12.7M | 4% |
| Roads and transport | €19.3M | €549 | €18.2M | 6% |
| Water services | €2.7M | €77 | €3.2M | -16% |
| Planning and development | €11.3M | €321 | €9.8M | 15% |
| Environment and fire | €8.1M | €231 | €6.8M | 19% |
| Libraries, parks and amenities | €4.7M | €135 | €4.6M | 4% |
| Agriculture, education, health and welfare | €427K | €12 | €498K | -14% |
| Other services | €4.3M | €121 | €4.2M | 0% |
Budgets: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Local Authority Annual Budgets 2025 and 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), revenue account before inter-authority contributions are netted; residents: CSO Census 2022 (CC BY 4.0).
Leitrim County Council has 18 councillors, one for every 1,960 residents
Residents per councillor on each of the 31 councils.
Leitrim County Council has 18 councillors for 35,199 residents: about 1,960 each, the 1st-lowest of 31 councils. The range runs from 9,410 residents per councillor on Dublin City to 1,960 on Leitrim County.
Residents per councillor, all 31 councils
Seats: local elections 2024 (Department of Housing, CC BY-SA 4.0); residents: CSO Census 2022 (CC BY 4.0).
Having a say in how Carrigallen is run
Check, register or update your address online; the register closes 15 days before a poll (Sundays and holidays aside).
checktheregister.ie ↗Potholes, broken lights, dumping and graffiti, sent to the council.
FixYourStreet.ie ↗Council and municipal district meetings are open to the public, with agendas and minutes online.
leitrim.ie ↗Anyone may make a submission within five weeks of an application, for a fee of €20.
leitrim.ie ↗Each TD’s contact details are on the Oireachtas members page.
oireachtas.ie ↗The Electoral Commission’s guidance for candidates and how to be nominated.
electoralcommission.ie ↗What this data can and can’t tell you
- Single transferable vote. Voters number candidates in order. The quota is the valid votes divided by one more than the seats, plus one. A candidate over the quota is elected and their surplus passes on; when nobody is over it, the lowest is excluded and their votes pass on, until the seats are filled. The last seats can go to candidates below the quota once too few are left to fill them. First preferences show where support started, not who won.
- Which area. A town is placed in its council, local electoral area and Dáil constituency by where its residents live (Census 2022 Small Areas); an area holding 5% or more of them is listed too. Areas reach beyond the town, so their results are the whole area’s.
- Turnout. Votes cast, spoilt ones included, as a share of the register. Registers carry people who have moved or died, so every turnout reads low by a few points; compare areas, not the figure on its own.
- A close last seat. Shown only when the last candidate elected and the one left standing were both in the final count; the gap is between their votes then. Margins are not shown as headlines unless they are among the closest.
- Not on this page. Audited accounts and debt are published only as PDF statements, so they aren’t on this page. Votes before 2024 aren’t compared: the local electoral areas were redrawn for the 2024 local elections and the Dáil constituencies in 2023, so earlier results don’t cover the same ground. Who chairs each council and who runs it as chief executive aren’t in any open national list; each council names them on its website.
Questions about how Carrigallen is run
Which council runs Carrigallen?
Carrigallen is run by Leitrim County Council, its only council: Ireland has one tier of local government.
How many councillors does Carrigallen have?
The Ballinamore local electoral area elects 6 councillors: Paddy O'Rourke (Fianna Fáil), Enda McGloin (Fine Gael), Brendan Barry (Sinn Féin), Ita Reynolds Flynn (Fine Gael), Gary Prior (Fianna Fáil), Roisin Kenny (Sinn Féin).
Which party has the most seats on Leitrim County Council?
No party has a majority. As elected, Fianna Fáil 6 · Independent 5 · Sinn Féin 4 · Fine Gael 3 of 18 seats; a majority needs 10.
Who are Carrigallen’s TDs?
Sligo-Leitrim elects 4 TDs: Eamon Scanlon (Fianna Fáil), Frankie Feighan (Fine Gael), Marian Harkin (Independent) and Martin Kenny (Sinn Féin).
What was the turnout in Carrigallen?
In Ballinamore, 65.6% of registered voters turned out in June 2024 (Ireland: 49.4%). In Sligo-Leitrim, 61% in November 2024 (59.7%).
When are the next elections in Carrigallen?
Local elections are held every five years, so the next are due in 2029, in May or June. A general election must be held within five years of the last one (November 2024), sooner if the Dáil is dissolved.
What does Leitrim County spend?
Leitrim County Council plans to spend €64.1M on day-to-day services in 2026, the most of it on roads and transport.
Sources: Local and general election results 2024: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY-SA 4.0); areas matched to towns by TownRatings from Tailte Éireann boundaries and CSO Census 2022 Small Areas (CC BY 4.0). · TDs: Houses of the Oireachtas Open Data (Oireachtas PSI Licence, CC BY 4.0). · Boundaries: Tailte Éireann (CC BY 4.0); population: CSO Census 2022 (CC BY 4.0).. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).