Category Archives: Connacht-Ulster

Labouring in Vain? The Labour Party’s performance at the May 23rd elections

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 3rd June 2014  The 1985 Local Elections saw a Labour Party – which was part of a coalition government with Fine Gael – fare poorly, with its national share of the vote dropping to just over seven percent … Continue reading →

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Turnout or Turned Off? A Geographical Review of Voter Turnout patterns at the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 3rd June 2014  The elections of May 23rd 2014 saw the second lowest turnout levels for local election contests in the history of the state – with only the turnout levels at the 1999 contests being lower. This marked … Continue reading →

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Blood in the Water?: How patterns of local representation match up with new local election boundaries – an overview

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 25th June 2013 The previous series of posts have reviewed in details how the new local election boundaries, as drawn up in the 2013 Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report, relate to the home bases of the current array … Continue reading →

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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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