Category Archives: Candidates

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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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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Party vote levels at by-elections, 1980-2011

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, March 6th 2013 Since January 1st 1980, twenty-four Dail by-elections have been held in the Republic of Ireland involving two hundred candidates who have won a combined total of 816,989 votes in these. Fianna Fail has been the … Continue reading →

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Commentary on campaign expenditure data for the 2011 Presidential Election

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 15th February 2011 The Standards in Public Office Commission made its report on donations and election expenses disclosed to it by the seven presidential election candidates on 14th February 2012. This report found that, in total, €304,570.75 in … Continue reading →

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Female candidacies and success levels in 2009’s local electoral contests

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 2nd February 2012 Given the day that’s in it, many will be considering the effect of gender quotas and whether increased levels of female candidates will necessarily translate into a higher level of female representatives. I would argue … Continue reading →

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Irish General Election 2011 Facts and Figures’ Golden Goose Awards 2011: The Winners

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 1 January 2012 The basis for judgement here is not simply the weight of votes won by a party or candidate, but the extent of improvement relative to a previous contest, the level of local competition from opposing … Continue reading →

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