Non-Party/Independent candidates for the 2024 County and City Council Elections

Posted on February 21, 2024 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh,  First posted 21st February 2024, with updates to follow as I become aware of new candidate declarations. 

This is the latest in my series of rolling blog posts, in which I detail the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political parties and grouping and/or candidate declarations (as in the case of the non-party grouping) ahead of the 2019 City and County Council elections. This post will focus on non-party/independent candidates. Back in June 2019, the non-party/independents grouping accounted for one hundred and ninety four City/County Councillors, following on a very successful set of election contests for non-party candidates at the 2014 and 2019 Local Elections. Due to various defections to the non-party ranks from different political parties over the following months and years, the number of Independent/Non-Party City/County Councillors (as of 21st February 2024) has climbed to two hundred and four, according to my best estimates.

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“For those not about to rock, we salute you”: County and City Councillors who will be stepping down at the 2024 Local Elections

Posted on February 20, 2024 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 20th February 2024

This post lists all of the City/County Councillors who will be retiring at the 2024 Local Elections – as opposed to the version of this post for 2014 elections, it will not list the names of Councillors who retired/stood down at an earlier date (and who had by that stage been replaced by a co-option from their party or grouping) as this information is covered in another post.

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People Before Profit and Solidarity candidates for the 2024 City and County Council Elections

Posted on November 7, 2023 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 7th November 2023 – with updates as new candidate nominations announced, or as soon as I become aware of these. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections – there will be no specific links to candidate web pages.

The seventh of my series of rolling blog posts, looking to the 2024 County and City Council elections, in which I detail the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political parties and groupings and/or candidate declarations (as in the case of the non-party grouping). The rule of thumb here is that I will add party candidates in most cases only after they have been officially selected to run for the party  at a selection convention or by some other means of candidate selection. I try my best to find information about local election candidate selection conventions, but in some cases this information is hard to find and occasionally it can be some time after a convention takes place before I find this information and hence am in a position to update this page accordingly.

The post will focus on the candidate selections for Solidarity and People Before Profit.

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Labour Party candidates for the 2024 County and City Council Elections

Posted on August 2, 2023 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 2nd August 2023, with updates as new candidate nominations are announced 

The sixth of a series rolling blog posts in which I will detail the latest information as to candidate selections for the 2024 Local Elections, relating to the different political parties and grouping and/or candidate declarations (as in the case of the non-party grouping). The rule of thumb here will be that I add party candidates only after they have been officially selected to run for the party at a selection convention, or by some other means of candidate selection (e.g. added by party headquarters).

The post focuses on the Labour Party candidate selections. 

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Green Party/Comhaontas Glas candidates for the 2024 County and City Council Elections

Posted on July 27, 2023 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 27th July 2023, with updates as new candidate nominations announced. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections – there will be no specific links to candidate web pages.

The sixth of my series of rolling blog posts, in which I detail the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political parties and grouping and/or candidate declarations (as in the case of the non-party grouping). The rule of thumb here is that I will add party candidates in most cases only after they have been officially selected to run for the party at a selection convention or by some other means of candidate selection, although there may at times be errors on my part (so please do let me know if you see any). I try my best to find information about local election candidate selection conventions, but in some cases this information is hard to find and occasionally it can be some time after a convention takes place before I find this information and hence am in a position to update this page accordingly.

The post will focus on Green Party candidate selections ahead of the 2024 City and County Council elections. 

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Aontú candidates for the 2024 County and City Council Elections

Posted on July 27, 2023 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 27th July 2023, with updates as new candidate selections are announced. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections – there will be no specific links to candidate webpages.

The fifth of my series of rolling blog posts, in which I detail the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political parties and grouping and/or candidate declarations (as in the case of the non-party grouping). The rule of thumb here is that I will generally seek to add party candidates only after they have been officially selected to run for the party at a selection convention or by some other means of candidate selection (e.g., added to the candidate list by party headquarters). I try my best to find information about local election candidate selection conventions, but in some cases this information is hard to find and occasionally it can be some time after a convention takes place before I find this information and hence am in a position to update this page accordingly.

The post will focus on the candidate selections for Aontú.

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Social Democrats candidates for the 2024 County and City Council Elections

Posted on July 27, 2023 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 27th July 2023, with updates as new candidate selections are announced. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections – there will be no specific links to candidate webpages.

The fourth of my series of rolling blog posts, in which I detail the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political parties and grouping and/or candidate declarations (as in the case of the non-party grouping). The rule of thumb here is that I will generally seek to add party candidates only after they have been officially selected to run for the party at a selection convention or by some other means of candidate selection (e.g., added to the candidate list by party headquarters). I try my best to find information about local election candidate selection conventions, but in some cases this information is hard to find and occasionally it can be some time after a convention takes place before I find this information and hence am in a position to update this page accordingly.

The post will focus on the candidate selections for the Social Democrats.

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Sinn Féin candidates for the 2024 County and City Council Elections

Posted on July 27, 2023 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 27th July 2023 with updates as new candidate nominations announced. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections – there will be no specific links to candidate webpages.

The third of my series of rolling blog posts in which I detail the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political parties and groupings, and/or candidate declarations (as in the case of the non-party grouping), ahead of the 2024 Local Elections. The rule of thumb here is that I will aim to add party candidates only after they have been officially selected to run for the party at a selection convention, or by some other means of candidate selection (such as additions by party headquarters). This post will focus on the Sinn Féin candidate selections.

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Female candidates contesting the 2024 County and City Council Elections

Posted on July 12, 2023 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 12th July 2023 – post updated as and when I become aware of female candidate selections (or declarations in the case of non-party candidates), or when a female candidates withdraw. Latest post update – 21st May 2024.

314 female candidates contested the 2009 City and County Council elections, accounting for 17.2% of the total number of candidates. 440 female candidates contested the 2014 City and County Council elections, accounting for 21.6% of the total number of candidates contesting those elections. 561 female candidates contested the 2019 City and County Council elections, accounting for 28.4% of the total number of candidates.

For the 2024 County and City Council elections, given that the gender quota target will increase to 40% at the next general election, the expectation might be that even more female candidates will be contesting these City and County Council election contests. 

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Fine Gael candidates for the 2024 County and City Council Elections

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 4th July 2023, with updates as I become aware of candidate selections, or candidates being added to party tickets by party headquarters, Any links in this post are to online media announcements of candidate selections – for the purposes of consistency/due to time pressures, I will not be offering specific links to candidate webpages.

The second in a series of rolling blog posts relating to candidate selections/declarations for Local Elections 2024, in which I detail the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political parties and grouping and/or candidate declarations (as in the case of the non-party grouping). The rule of thumb here is that I will add party candidates in most cases only after they have been officially selected to run for the party at a selection convention, or by some other means of candidate selection. I try my best to find information about local election candidate selection conventions, but in many cases this information is very hard to find and occasionally it can be some time after a convention takes place before I find this information and hence am in a position to update this page accordingly.

The post will focus on Fine Gael candidate selections ahead of the 2024 City and County Council elections. 

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