Local Elections Candidates

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael candidates win all but two of the local authority’s 18 seats

Verona Murphy’s Wexford Independent Alliance makes a splash and has five councillors elected

Sinn Féin and Independents make gains with first preference haul of Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran a talking point

Aontú and Labour will be pleased with their performances while right-wing National Party wins first seat

Labour adds two seats and Greens lose two as Sinn Féin manages to regain a presence on the local authority

Fianna Fáil loses vote share and seats after councillors at centre of refugee accommodation row secure election as Independent candidates

Fianna Fáil takes 19 seats to be largest party with Independent Ireland claiming four seats in maiden campaign

Sinn Féin councillor says ‘I think our strategy was wrong’ after its 21 candidates secured only five of 40 seats

Independent Ireland takes two seats in Adare-Rathkeale as Fine Gael retains status as local authority’s largest party

Independents perform strongly but high number of candidates potentially costs Sinn Féin extra seats

Labour picks up two seats while Independent Ireland’s Ken O’Flynn gets the biggest vote in the city

Fianna Fáil takes 11 seats and Fine Gael takes seven while Sinn Féin fails to gain

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael return six councillors each as Sinn Féin bucks national trend to gain two seats

Retirements of several veteran councillors does not stop Fine Gael from holding on to nine seats in home county of Taoiseach

Fine Gael emerges as largest party while Green Party manages to defy predictions about substantial seat losses

Fianna Fáil wins largest number of seats as Labour tastes success in the county for the first time in a decade

Local election results: Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Independent candidates have filled the vast majority of seats

Fine Gael emerges as largest party on local authority

Fianna Fáil wins half the local authority’s 28 seats including four of the seven available in Ennis

Sinn Féin bucks national and gains seats at expense of Fianna Fáil and an Independent

Labour and Fianna Fáil gain seats, Fine Gael loses two and the ’Lowry Team’ retains five on 40-seat local authority

Fianna Fáil held its six seats and is now largest party on council, with Independents and Sinn Féin benefitting from Fine Gael losses

Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Independent candidates have filled the vast majority of the seats declared so far