Adrian Kavanagh, Originally posted on 2nd September 2024

In a similar vein to earlier posts relating to the 2020 General Election, 2016 General Election and 2011 General Election candidates, this page seeks to list the names, and party affiliations, of all the candidates for the 2024/2025 General Election whose ages fall in the 21-35 years age category. (Candidates whose ages fall in the 18-30 years age category will be denoted by a * – all the other candidates listed here fall into the 31-35 year age category, apart from those cases where it is not clear whether the candidates falls into the 21-30 or 31-35 age categories.)

Please note that this is/will probably be an incomplete list due to difficulties in getting age-related information. Given the difficulties involved in getting age details for some candidates, the likelihood is that I will miss out on some names that should be included here, but I will do my best to ensure this list is as accurate as possible.

If you note any glaring absences (and especially if you are one of the candidates that should be listed below, or else are incorrectly listed below), then please feel free to comment below, or to Tweet me at @AdrianKavanagh or email me at adrian.p.kavanagh@mu.ie instead.

From the get-go, this list does/will not include candidates who might run or who are highly likely to run, but this list just includes party candidates who had been officially selected to run at conventions or independent candidates who have publicly declared their intention to contest the upcoming general election. I will also try not to add candidates onto this list until I am (pretty) sure that their age details are correct.

At present (Updated: 14th November 2024), I can currently account for fifty four candidates in the 21-35 age category (8.9% of the total number of general election candidates listed so far). Twenty one (40.7%) of the candidates in this group are female and thirty three (59.3%) of the candidates in this group are male. Seventeen of these candidates are in the 21-30 age category (2.8% of the total number of candidates).

A slightly higher proportion of all female candidates (9.4%) currently fall into the 21-35 age category than the proportion/percentage of all male candidates (8.6%) that do.

Political parties, to date, have selected 49 candidates (10.9% of the total number of political party candidates selected to date), who are in the 21-35 year-old age category.

In terms of political parties/groupings, out of the candidates listed below:

• 11 are People Before Profit-Solidarity candidates – 26.8% of the total number of People Before Profit-Solidarity candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
• 6 are Sinn Féin candidates – 8.5% of the total number of Sinn Fein candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
• 5 are Social Democrat candidates – 19.2% of the total number of Social Democrats candidates (listed on the website) , as of this point in time.
• 5 are Aontú candidates – 11.9% of the total number of Aontú candidates (listed on the website) , as of this point in time.
• 5 are Fianna Fáil candidates – 6.0% of the total number of Fianna Fail candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
• 5 are Independent candidate – 4.9% of the total number of Independents 4 Change candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
• 4 are Fine Gael candidates – 5.0% of the total number of Fine Gael candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
• 4 are Labour Party candidates – 12.5% of the total number of Labour Party candidates (listed on the website) , as of this point in time.
• 4 are Green Party candidate – 9.3% of the total number of Green Party candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
• 1 is a Rabharta candidate – 100.0% of the total number of Rabharta candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
• 1 is an Independents 4 Change candidate – 50.0% of the total number of Independents 4 Change candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
• 1 is a Party For Animal Welfare candidate – 33.3% of the total number of Party For Animal Welfare candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
• 1 is a National Party candidate – 11.1% of the total number of National Party candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.
• 1 is an Irish Freedom Party candidate – 6.7% of the total number of Irish Freedom Party candidates (listed on the website), as of this point in time.

Please note that all candidates in the 21-30 age category (that I am aware of, of course) are denoted by an * in the table above.

I will, of course, continue to update this page when new candidate selections/declarations are added in, or when I get age details relating to other younger candidates, who need to be added to this page.