Category Archives: Gender

Matching Sitting Councillors to New Local Election Constituencies: the Munster counties

Posted on June 18, 2013 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 18th June 2013 There currently are 268 councillors in the ten local authorities (which will be reduced to seven after the 2014 local elections) located within the Munster region. The number of County Councillors in some of these … Continue reading →

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Matching Sitting Councillors to New Local Election Constituencies: Connacht-Ulster

Posted on June 18, 2013 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 18th June 2013 There currently are 223 councillors in the nine local authorities located within the Connacht-Ulster region. The number of County Councillors in some of these local authorities will increase at the next local elections but numbers … Continue reading →

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Matching Sitting Councillors to New Local Election Constituencies: the Leinster region

Posted on June 14, 2013 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 14th June 2013 There currently are 262 councillors in the eleven local authorities located within the Leinster region. The number of CountyCouncillors in some of these counties will increase at the next local elections but numbers in other … Continue reading →

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Matching Sitting Councillors to New Local Election Constituencies: Dublin

Posted on June 14, 2013 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 14th June 2013 The previous post offered a general overview of the 130 sitting councillors in the Dublin region, but this post will look at these in greater detail and attempt to match these councillors to the local … Continue reading →

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Councillor Numbers in Dublin; Parties, Co-options and Gender

Posted on June 13, 2013 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 13 June 2013 There currently are 130 councillors in the four different local authorities covering the Dublin region, with Dublin City (52 councillors) being the largest of these followed by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown (28), South Dublin (26) and Fingal … Continue reading →

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Potential Fianna Fail Local Elections 2014 candidates? Fianna Fail Local Area Representatives

Posted on June 13, 2013 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 13th June 2013 With less than twelve months to go until next year’s local elections and following the recent publication of the Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report 2013, this post marks the first attempt to tease out what … Continue reading →

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Female candidacies and support levels at by-election contests, 1980-2013

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Adrian Kavanagh, March 6th 2013 – updated March 28th 2013 228 candidates have contested the 26 different by-election contests that took place over the past three decades (between 1980 and 2011), although this number does take account of candidates (such … Continue reading →

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Gender Quota legislation: Challenges and opportunities

Posted on July 19, 2012 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 19th July 2012 The passing of gender quota legislation in the Dail today, linking the state funding of political parties to a requirement that female candidates will account for at least 30% of those parties’ total number of … Continue reading →

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Constituency Commission Report 2012 – An Overview

Posted on June 22, 2012 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 22nd June 2012 The lead up to the next general election began with a vengeance yesterday with the publication of the Constituency Commission report, recommending new constituency boundaries for the next European and Dáil elections. The main driver … Continue reading →

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Commentary on submissions to the 2012 Constituency Commission

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 20th February 2012 Some months after the publication of provisional population by area figures by the Central Statistics Office for the 2011 Census, a new Constituency Commission was set in place to begin the process of redrawing European … Continue reading →

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