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Category Archives: Constituency Commission
Gender Quota legislation: Challenges and opportunities
Adrian Kavanagh, 19th July 2012 The passing of gender quota legislation in the Dail today, linking the state funding of political parties to a requirement that female candidates will account for at least 30% of those parties’ total number of … Continue reading
Estimating 2011 General Election seats levels using new Constituency Commission 2012 election boundaries
Adrian Kavanagh, 6th July 2012 Last month’s Constituency Commission report and the decision to reduce the number of Dail seats by 8 will have a profound impact on the result of, and the number of seats won by different parties at, the … Continue reading
Posted in Constituency Commission, Election boundaries, Election data, Tally figures
Tagged boundaries, Cork North Central, Donegal, Dublin Bay North, Dublin Central, Dublin North West, Dublin Rathdown, Dublin South Central, Dun Laoghaire, Galway East, Kerry, Kildare South, Laois, Offaly, Tipperary
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Political impacts of the 2012 Constituency Commission report: 2011 General Election party support estimates and changing political landscapes in the new constituency areas
Adrian Kavanagh, 25th June 2012 The creation of new election boundaries for the next general election, associated with the reduction in the number of Dail seat numbers by eight, in the 2012 Constituency Commission report has fundamentally altered the rules … Continue reading
Posted in Constituency Commission, Constituency information, Election boundaries, Election data, Tally figures
Tagged 2012, boundaries, Cavan-Monaghan, Constituency size, Cork North Central, Cork North West, Cork South Central, Donegal, Dublin Bay North, Dublin Bay South, Dublin Central, Dublin Fingal, Dublin North West, Dublin Rathdown, Dublin South Central, Dublin South West, Dublin West, Dun Laoghaire, Galway East, Galway West, Kerry, Kildare North, Kildare South, Laois, Limerick, Limerick City, Mayo, Offaly, Roscommon-Galway, Sligo-Leitrim, Tipperary, Waterford
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Constituency Commission Report 2012 – An Overview
Adrian Kavanagh, 22nd June 2012 The lead up to the next general election began with a vengeance yesterday with the publication of the Constituency Commission report, recommending new constituency boundaries for the next European and Dáil elections. The main driver … Continue reading
Some initial comments on 2012 Constituency Commision report
Adrian Kavanagh, 21st June 2012 The 2012 Constituency Commission report was published today and the level of changes in it are very dramatic and belie the generally conservative approach taken by the Commission in the previous two reports. There are … Continue reading
New general election boundaries with a 158-seat Dail Eireann: the likely scenarios
Adrian Kavanagh, 25th May 2012 Following on the publication of final/definitive population statistics for Census 2011 on March 29th, the Constituency Commission has been completing the task of drawing up a new general (and European) election boundary report. They have … Continue reading
Census 2011, general election constituencies and county boundaries
The focus of many submissions to Constituency Commissions has to do with concerns over existing, or potential, breaches of county boundaries in respect to the creation/changing of Dail constituency boundaries. This post here reviews the potential scenarios involving the different … Continue reading
Shape of new general election boundaries if the Constituency Commission opt for a 156-seat Dail (updated based on definitive Census 2011 figures)
Adrian Kavanagh, 30th March 2012 A new Constituency Commission report on election boundaries (for general and European elections) is likely to be published in the coming weeks after the publication of final/definitive population statistics for Census 2011 by the Central … Continue reading
Shape of new general election boundaries if the Constituency Commission opt for a 158-seat Dail (updated based on definitive Census 2011 figures)
Adrian Kavanagh, 29th March 2012 A new Constituency Commission report on election boundaries (for general and European elections) is likely to be published in the coming weeks after the final/definitive population statistics for Census 2011 were published today. This posts … Continue reading
Shape of new general election boundaries if the Constituency Commission opt for a 154-seat Dail (updated based on definitive Census 2011 figures)
Adrian Kavanagh, 29th March 2012 A new Constituency Commission report on election boundaries (for general and European elections) is likely to be published in the next few weeks following the publication today by the Central Statistics Office of definitive population … Continue reading