Monthly Archives: December 2010

Green Party candidate selections

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh – updated on 9th February 2011 Like Fianna Fail the Green Party were slow in formally ratifying candidates to contest the next general election in the different constituencies. In the 2007 contest the Green Party contested all 43 constituencies and … Continue reading →

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Gender and candidate selection at the 2011 General Election

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh – updated on 11th May 2011 Constituency level figures on candidate selection by gender for the 2011 General Election.

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Independents, United Left Alliance and Other Small Parties

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh – updated on 13th February 2011 With close of nominations now past, this is what I take to be the list of all independent and smaller party candidates;

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Fianna Fail candidate selections

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh – updated on 4th February 2011 Fianna Fail were definitely slower in getting their general election candidates into the field than Fine Gael and especially Labour, but now have all their constituency convention selections completed with 75 candidates in the field, … Continue reading →

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Sinn Fein candidate selections

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh – updated on 7th February 2011 I found it more difficult to access as much reliable candidate selection information from the Sinn Fein website as I was able to do from the Fine Gael/Labour websites, but this is list of my current … Continue reading →

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Labour candidate selections

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh – updated on 27th January 2011 The list of officially selected Labour candidates, to the best of my knowledge are as follows (list will be updated with news of further selections):

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The Bigger the Better: Female Candidates and Constituency Size in the 2007 General Election

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Claire McGing

Claire McGing, Dept of Geography, NUI Maynooth (Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Scholar) Some international scholars have suggested that large constituency sizes (the number of seats in a constituency is often called the ‘district magnitude’) … Continue reading →

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