Election Name: | 2004 Westmeath County Council election |
Country: | Ireland |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | yes |
Previous Election: | 1999 Westmeath County Council election |
Previous Year: | 1999 |
Next Election: | 2009 Westmeath County Council election |
Next Year: | 2009 |
Seats For Election: | All 23 seats on Westmeath County Council |
Election Date: | 11 June 2004 |
Party1: | Fianna Fáil |
Seats1: | 9 |
Seat Change1: | -3 |
Party2: | Fine Gael |
Seats2: | 8 |
Seat Change2: | +2 |
Party3: | Labour Party (Ireland) |
Seats3: | 6 |
Seat Change3: | +1 |
Map Size: | 300px |
Council control | |
Posttitle: | Council control after election |
An election to Westmeath County Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 23 councillors were elected from five local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Party | valign=top | Seats | valign=top | ± | valign=top | First Pref. votes | valign=top | FPv% | valign=top | ±% |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
9 | align=right | -3 | 11,782 | 34.00 | ||||||
8 | +2 | 11,294 | 32.60 | |||||||
6 | +1 | 8,736 | 25.22 | |||||||
0 | 0 | 1,757 | 5.07 | |||||||
0 | 0 | 381 | 1.01 | |||||||
Totals | align=right | 23 | 0 | align=right | 34,643 | 100.00 | — |