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Tag Archives: women
Female candidacies and support levels at by-election contests, 1980-2013
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
Gender Quota legislation: Challenges and opportunities
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
Constituency Commission Report 2012 – An Overview
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
Female candidacies and success levels in 2009′s local electoral contests
Adrian Kavanagh, 2nd February 2012 Given the day that’s in it, many will be considering the effect of gender quotas and whether increased levels of female candidates will necessarily translate into a higher level of female representatives. I would argue … Continue reading
Posted in Candidates, Election data, Gender, local elections
Tagged 2009, Constituency size, women
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Female candidacies and support levels at by-election contests, 1982-2010
There has been exactly two hundred candidacies across the 23 different by-election contests that took place over the past three decades (between 1982 and 2010), although this number does take account of candidates (such as Jim Tallon who has to … Continue reading
Gender and Voting Patterns in the 2011 General Election
By Claire McGing, IRCHSS scholar, Dept of Geography, NUI Maynooth Women comprised just 15 per cent of women candidates in the 2011 general elections, but how did those that ran fare in comparison to their male colleagues in terms of voting patterns?
Is there a ‘gender gap’ in Irish voting behaviour? Looking at GE 2011
Does gender impact on voting behaviour in the Republic of Ireland? Although historically Fianna Fáil was the most popular party with women voters (the female vote may have been crucial to their success in 1977 in particular), research on more … Continue reading
Anything but unusual: the use of Gender Quotas in the EU states
By Claire McGing, John and Pat Hume and Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences scholar, Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth Under planned new legislation, political parties will have to implement a gender quota for future general election … Continue reading
Gender, Candidate Selection and Constituency Size in the 2011 General Election
By Claire McGing, John and Pat Hume scholar and Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) scholar, Dept of Geography, NUI Maynooth Research suggests that the larger the constituency size (often called the ‘district magnitude’), the better … Continue reading
Seanad 2011 results – Labour panel
Adrian Kavanagh, 28th April 2011 Fine Gael 5 seats, Fianna Fail 3 seats, Labour Party 2 seats, Sinn Fein 1 seat Elected: Fidelma Healy-Eames FG, Maire Moloney LB, David Cullinane SF, Tony Mulcahy FG, Cait Keane FG, Terry Brennan FG, Daragh O’Brien FF, Terry Leyden … Continue reading
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