Tag Archives: Labour Party

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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Commentary on campaign expenditure data for the 2011 Presidential Election

Posted on February 15, 2012 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 15th February 2011 The Standards in Public Office Commission made its report on donations and election expenses disclosed to it by the seven presidential election candidates on 14th February 2012. This report found that, in total, €304,570.75 in … Continue reading →

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Irish General Election 2011 Facts and Figures’ Golden Goose Awards 2011: The Winners

Posted on January 1, 2012 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 1 January 2012 The basis for judgement here is not simply the weight of votes won by a party or candidate, but the extent of improvement relative to a previous contest, the level of local competition from opposing … Continue reading →

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Irish General Election 2011 Facts and Figures’ Golden Goose Awards 2011: The Nominations

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 19 December 2011 OK, for better or worse here is the list of the nominees for the Irish General Election 2011 Facts and Figures’ Golden Goose Awards. There is without doubt going to be some glaring omissions here, but … Continue reading →

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Labour’s target constituencies for the next general election

Posted on June 1, 2011 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 1st June 2011 The Labour Party made significant gains in the February 2011 election, almost doubling their share of the vote nationally and increasing their number of Dail seats from 20 to 37. Due mainly to the party’s … Continue reading →

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Retired/Retiring TDs

Posted on January 6, 2011 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 30th January 2010 Linking in with 6th January’s Irish Times article by Mary Minihan, this is the list of TDs elected in 2007, who retired during the lifetime of the current Dail or who will be retiring at the … Continue reading →

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2011 General Election candidates aged 21-35

Posted on January 3, 2011 by

Adrian Kavanagh, 26th February 2011 This blog will list the names, and party affiliations, of all the formally declared candidates whose ages fall in the 21-35 years age category – candidates whose ages fall in the 21-30 years category will be … Continue reading →

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