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2004 Waterford City Council election

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2004 Waterford City Council election

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All 15 seats on Waterford City Council
  First party Second party Third party
 
Party Fine Gael Labour Sinn Féin
Seats won 4 3 2
Seat change +1 +1 +2

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Party Workers' Party Fianna Fáil Independent
Seats won 2 1 3
Seat change -1 -3 +1

  Seventh party
 
Party Progressive Democrats
Seats won 0
Seat change -1

Map showing the area of Waterford City Council

Council control after election

TBD

An election to Waterford City Council took place on 11 June 2004 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 15 councillors were elected from three 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).

Results by party

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Party Seats ± First Pref. votes FPv% ±%
Fine Gael 4 +1 3,235 18.52
Labour 3 +1 2,660 15.23
Sinn Féin 2 +2 2,366 13.55
Workers' Party 2 -1 1,774 10.16
Fianna Fáil 1 -3 2,435 13.94
Independent 3 +1 3,702 21.19
Progressive Democrats 0 -1 516 2.95
Totals 15 0 17,467 100.00

Results by local electoral area

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Waterford No.1

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Waterford No.1 - 4 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6
Fine Gael Hilary Quinlan* 20.82 923          
Labour Pat Hayes* 19.69 873 884 896      
Sinn Féin Joe Kelly 14.89 660 663 674 699 765 817
Workers' Party Davy Walsh* 11.28 500 504 511 576 640 759
Fianna Fáil Sean Dower* 9.90 439 442 503 530 589 688
Independent Pat Power 7.58 336 340 351 387 464  
Independent Oli Dempsey 7.08 314 316 331 367    
Fine Gael Dick Hayden 5.64 250 258 264      
Fianna Fáil Maurice Walsh 3.11 138 139        
Electorate: 7,534   Valid: 4,433 (58.84%)   Spoilt: 145   Quota: 887   Turnout: 4,578 (60.76%)  

Waterford No.2

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Waterford No.2 - 5 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Independent Davy Daniels* 23.10 1,620              
Labour Jack Walsh 10.49 736 778 810 835 892 1,047 1,218  
Independent Mary Roche* 9.53 668 752 803 866 976 1,139 1,319  
Fine Gael Jim D'Arcy 8.61 604 646 673 702 787 869 921 950
Sinn Féin Frank Walsh 8.51 597 616 629 656 708 764    
Fine Gael Tom Cunningham* 8.40 589 651 733 782 902 959 1,008 1,033
Green Brendan McCann 7.53 528 561 590 614 651      
Fine Gael Jacqueline Kelly 6.72 471 513 549 601        
Fianna Fáil Stephanie Keating 6.16 432 469 500          
Fianna Fáil Michael Ivory* 6.02 422 467 518 697 743 774 830 856
Progressive Democrats Oliver Clery* 4.93 346 391            
Electorate: 11,949   Valid: 7,013 (58.69%)   Spoilt: 108   Quota: 1,169   Turnout: 7,121 (59.59%)  

Waterford No.3

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Waterford No.3 - 6 seats
Party Candidate FPv% Count
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Workers' Party John Halligan* 18.65 1,123                  
Sinn Féin David Cullinane 18.42 1,109                  
Labour Seamus Ryan* 17.46 1,051                  
Fianna Fáil Tom Murphy* 11.97 721 756 788 812 818 864        
Independent Laurence (Cha) O'Neill* 9.58 577 609 654 709 718 756 788 875    
Fine Gael Mary O'Halloran* 6.61 398 411 426 454 461 488 499 541 545 617
Fianna Fáil Chuck O'Connell 4.70 283 294 308 321 323 342 353      
Green Catherine Kinsella 3.31 199 220 252 274 291 314 381 423 429 508
Independent Jim Boland 3.11 187 212 248 260 277 280        
Progressive Democrats Padraig O Griofa 2.82 170 178 185 195 196          
Workers' Party Billy McCarthy* 2.51 151 255 293 312 327 340 388 420 424  
Socialist Workers Roy Hassey 0.86 52 65 94 101            
Electorate: 10,649   Valid: 6,021 (56.54%)   Spoilt: 139   Quota: 861   Turnout: 6,160 (57.85%)  
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