Category Archives: Constituency information

Fianna Fail’s target constituencies for the next general election

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 31st May 2011 Fianna Fail’s poor election performance has lead some commentators to speculate that the party may be out of power for a considerable period of time, but a study of individual constituency results suggests that significant … Continue reading →

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Gender, Candidate Selection and Constituency Size in the 2011 General Election

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Claire McGing

By Claire McGing, John and Pat Hume scholar and Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) scholar, Dept of Geography, NUI Maynooth Research suggests that the larger the constituency size (often called the ‘district magnitude’), the better … Continue reading →

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146-seat Dail boundary configuration means very few breaches of county boundaries

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 17 May 2011 One of the main aims set down for the Constituency Commission is for the committee to avoid, if practicable breaching county boundaries when drawing up new/revising Dail constituency boundaries (with the exception of local authority … Continue reading →

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Arise Sligo-North Leitrim! A Geography of Seanad Election 2011 results

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh 3rd May 2011 So the final contests of the general elections of 2011 have now come to an end and we can now review the results of the Seanad Election 2011 vocational panel contests. 120 candidates contested these … Continue reading →

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Swings and round-up-the-counts: Constituency marginality in 2011 General Election

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 10th March 2011 While not involving the raft of close contests that marked General Election 2002, there were still sufficient close calls and marathon counts to whet the appetite in this year’s election, with the following table ranking constituencies in … Continue reading →

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Votes won by Female candidates in 2011 General Election

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 8th March 2011 For the day that’s in it – this post ranks constituencies based on the share of the vote won by female candidates in the 2011 General Election. Even though there was no noticeable urban-rural divide … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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