Author Archives: Adrian Kavanagh

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About Adrian Kavanagh

Lecturer at the Maynooth University Department of Geography. Email: adrian.p.kavanagh@mu.ie

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

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

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

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

Adrian Kavanagh, 14th June 2013 (with updates added in light of co-options, retirements and other changes to personnel here.) The previous post offered a general overview of the 130 sitting councillors in the Dublin region, but this post will look … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

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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Fianna Fail Local Area Representatives and the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 13th June 2013 – with updates as convention/candidate selection process proceeded (see the bottom of the post). Final update posted on 16th June 2014.  69 members of the Fianna Fail Local Area Representatives group contested the 2014 Local … Continue reading →

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Some thoughts on “Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report 2013”

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 30th May 2013 Thursday 30th May 2013 saw the publication of the Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report 2013, which outlines the constituency boundaries for next year’s local elections (May 2014).  The committee faced a very difficult task, in fairness, given … Continue reading →

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Voter turnout levels in Dail by-elections 1994-2011

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 22nd March 2013 Voter turnout levels in general elections in the Republic of Ireland, as in most other democracies tend to be higher than those in other types of elections, such as referendum elections, presidential elections and local … Continue reading →

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New European Parliament constituency boundary revision?

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 12th/13th March 2013 With Croatia about to become the newest member of the European Union in the coming months and with this state likely to be assigned 11/12 seats in the next European Parliament, theEuropean Union has voted … Continue reading →

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Losing the battle but winning the war?: General Election success for by-election losers (and by-election success for general election runners-up)

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, March 6th 2013 What do Tomas MacGiolla, Dick Roche, Joe Higgins, Brian Hayes and Paul Gogarty all have in common? All of these candidates lost in by-election contests – MacGiolla (Dublin West 1982), Roche (Wicklow 1995), Higgins (Dublin West 1996), Hayes (Dublin … 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

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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