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Author Archives: Adrian Kavanagh
“Time to go?”: Mixed messages across recent opinion polls, but Fine Gael still holds strong. Constituency-level analysis of the Irish Times-Ipsos MRBI (16th October) poll and other Autumn 2018 polls
Adrian Kavanagh, 16th October 2018 As the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2017 was officially passed into law just before Christmas 2017, the new Constituency Commission electoral boundaries are now used as the basis for the analysis. The translation of … Continue reading
Non Party/Independent candidates for the 2019 Local Elections
Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 9th October 2018, with updates to follow as I become aware of new candidate declarations. This is the latest in my series of rolling blog posts, in which I detail the latest information as to candidate selections … Continue reading
Does Size Matter? Reviewing the”Report on European Parliament Constituencies 2018″
Adrian Kavanagh, 24th September 2018 A new boundary report was published today by the Constituency Commission, outlining the new European Parliament election constituency boundaries that will be in place at the next European elections in May 2019. BREXIT and the … Continue reading
Posted in Election boundaries, Election data, European Elections
Tagged 2019, boundaries
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TDs (32nd Dáil Éireann) who will not be contesting the next general election
Adrian Kavanagh, 10th August 2018 Following on similar posts that were completed ahead of the 2011 General Election and the 2016 General Election, this post will list all of the Dail deputies who have retired/stepped down during the lifetime of … Continue reading
Posted in Candidates, Election data, General Election, Retirements
Tagged Fine Gael, Labour Party, Retired TDs, Sinn Fein
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Social Democrat candidates for the 2019 Local Elections
Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 20th July 2018, with updates as new candidate nominations announced. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections – there will be no specific links to candidate webpages. The fourth of my … Continue reading
The Younger Ones: General Election 2020 candidates aged between 21 and 35
Adrian Kavanagh, Originally posted on 20th July 2018 In a similar vein to earlier posts relating to the 2016 General Election and 2011 General Election candidates and a similar post relating to younger candidates contesting the 2014 City and County Council elections, … Continue reading
Posted in Candidates, General Election, Young candidates
Tagged general election candidates, Young candidates
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Solidarity candidates for the 2019 Local Elections
Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 10th July 2018 – initially as a joint post involving candidates for both Solidarity and People Before Profit, but these have now been separated across different pages – with updates as new candidate nominations announced. Any links in this … Continue reading
Sinn Féin candidates for the 2019 Local Elections
Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 6th July 2018 with updates as new candidate nominations announced. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections – there will be no specific links to candidate webpages. The second of my series of … Continue reading
Labour Party candidates for the 2019 Local Elections
Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 2nd July 2018 with updates as new candidate nominations announced The first of a series rolling blog posts in which I will detail the latest information as to candidate selections for the 20109 Local Elections, relating to … Continue reading
Geographical perspectives on the May 2018 referendum contest
Adrian Kavanagh, 29th May 2018 With a national turnout rate of 64.1% – just 1.0% lower than the national turnout level for the 2016 General Election – the Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy (Repeal of 8th Amendment) referendum was passed with 66.4% … Continue reading
Posted in Election data, Electoral Geography (voting maps), Referendum elections
Tagged 2018, Geography
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Irish Elections: Geography, Facts and Analyses 