County Meath was divided into 6 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).

Following the recommendations of the 2018 LEA boundary review committee, the LEAs used at the 2014 Meath County Council election were adjusted to reflect population changes revealed by the 2016 census.

[1] The boundary committee recommended that Navan be designated a borough district.

This was implemented in the initial statutory instrument, but was reversed as being contrary to Local Government Act 2001.

Sinn Féin lost 5 seats and was reduced to having representation solely in Ashbourne, Kells and Navan.