- Source: 2024 Sligo County Council election
An election to all 18 seats on Sligo County Council was held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections. County Sligo is divided into 3 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Retiring incumbents
The following councillors are not seeking re-election:
Results by party
= Analysis of Election
=Fianna Fáil supplanted Fine Gael as the largest party in Sligo by gaining a seat at their expense in each of the Ballymote-Tubbercurry and the Sligo-Drumcliff LEAs. The party did lose a seat, however, in Sligo-Strandhill with the retirement of long-serving Rosaleen O'Grady to the Labour Party who regained a presence on the Council after an absence of 10 years.
Results by local electoral area
^ *: Outgoing councillor elected in 2019.
^ †: Outgoing councillor coopted subsequent to the 2019 election.
= Ballymote–Tubbercurry
== Sligo–Drumcliff
== Sligo–Strandhill
=References
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