Tipperary County Council plans one of the biggest budgets per resident of any council

A party needs 21 of the 40 seats to outvote the rest. None has that: Independent is largest with 14. None of the 31 councils has a single-party majority. Fianna Fáil is second with 10 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).

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1. 1

   The Clonmel local electoral areaClonmel · 6 members
   Michael MurphyPat EnglishSiobhán AmbroseJohn FitzgeraldRichie MolloyNiall P Dennehy
2. 2

   Tipperary County Council40 councillors from 8 local electoral areas
   Independent 14 · Fianna Fáil 10 · Fine Gael 10 · Labour Party 3 · Sinn Féin 2 · Workers and Unemployed Action 1
3. 3

   Dáil ÉireannTipperary South · 3 members
   Mattie McGrathMichael MurphySeamus Healy

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).

Lisronagh’s councillors, one by one

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 Tipperary County Council’s 8 local electoral areas

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.

12 of the 40 councillors are women, 30%; across all 31 councils the share is 26%. 32 sat on the council before the election and 8 are new to it.

The council: same source as Who’s in charge, above.

Turnout was 49.9%, 9,837 of 19,734 registered voters: the 89th-highest of 166 local electoral areas (all of them: 49.4%). The quota was 1,390: 9,727 valid votes for 6 seats, counted over 10 rounds. Michael Murphy (Fine Gael), Pat English (Workers and Unemployed Action) and Siobhán Ambrose (Fianna Fáil) reached the quota on first preferences alone, and transfers decided the other 3. The last seat went to Niall P Dennehy (Independent) with 1,291 votes at the final count, 459 ahead of Dean McGrath (Sinn Féin), who had 832.

How Lisronagh voted: same source as Who’s in charge, above.

70 candidates stood for 40 seats on Tipperary County Council in June 2024, 1.8 for each seat. Turnout across the council was 54.8%, the 9th-highest of 31 councils. Independent elected 14 of its 21 candidates. 22 of the 70 candidates were women (31%; 31% across the country), and 21 stood without a party. Across all 31 councils, 2,172 candidates stood for 949 seats, 2.3 for each.

Local elections: same source as Who’s in charge, above.

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 Tipperary South, November 2024

Turnout was 60.6%, 41,363 of 68,247 registered voters: the 17th-highest of 43 Dáil constituencies (all of them: 59.7%). With 41,079 valid votes and 3 seats the quota was 10,270; the count ran to 6 rounds. Nobody reached the quota on first preferences, so every seat was filled on transfers. Seamus Healy (Independent), 5th on first preferences, won a seat on transfers, overtaking Imelda Golsboro (Fianna Fáil), who was 3rd. Seamus Healy (Independent) took the last seat with 9,601 votes at the final count, 1,753 more than Imelda Golsboro (Fianna Fáil), on 7,848.

Dáil Éireann: same source as Who’s in charge, above.

Leaving out the HAP programme, that is the 5th-highest of the 31 councils per resident; across all of them it is €1,551. The budget is up 10% on 2025, when it was €248.8M.

Commercial rates on businesses pay for 15% of the budget. Its annual rate on valuation is 0.2232, the 5th-highest of the 31 councils that rate on revalued property. The Local Property Tax brings in another 11%.

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).

Tipperary County Council has 40 councillors for 167,895 residents: about 4,200 each, the 8th-lowest of 31 councils. The range runs from 9,410 residents per councillor on Dublin City to 1,960 on Leitrim County.

Seats: local elections 2024 (Department of Housing, CC BY-SA 4.0); residents: CSO Census 2022 (CC BY 4.0).