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

Candidates currently holding elected office

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 13th February 2011 The following list details the number of candidates in different constituencies who currently already hold an elected office. Note that the councillors numbers here includes candidates who are county/city councillors and town councillors.

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Independents who previously ran for other political parties

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 13th February 2011 44 of the independent/small party candidates who are running in the 2011 General Election previous ran in electoral contests for other political parties, including 12 who previoiusly ran for the Labour Party, 11 who previously ran … Continue reading →

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Geography and voting trends: Galway East constituency

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 3rd February 2011 Voting patterns are geographical patterns – as shown is this example from the Galway East constituency.

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First time (Dail election) candidate details

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 11th February 2011 This post contains details on all of the candidates who will be contesting their first ever Dail (general) election in 2011. This list will include candidates who may have previously contested in local, European, Assembly and … Continue reading →

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Retired/Retiring TDs

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

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

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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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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