Category Archives: Election data

Perspectives on the Dublin West constituency

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

On October 27th a by-election will take place in the Dublin West to fill the seat vacated following the death of Brian Lenihan TD. 13 candidates will be contesting this election, based on the official candidate information provided by the … Continue reading →

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Female candidacies and support levels at by-election contests, 1982-2010

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

There has been exactly two hundred candidacies across the 23 different by-election contests that took place over the past three decades (between 1982 and 2010), although this number does take account of candidates (such as Jim Tallon who has to … Continue reading →

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By-elections: Bad for government parties’ health?

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

With the Dublin West by-election scheduled to take place on the same day as the Presidential Election, this is a good time to review statistics for voting patterns in recent by-election contests. This post, reviewing such patterns in the 23 … Continue reading →

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Gender and Voting Patterns in the 2011 General Election

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Claire McGing

By Claire McGing, IRCHSS scholar, Dept of Geography, NUI Maynooth  Women comprised just 15 per cent of women candidates in the 2011 general elections, but how did those that ran fare in comparison to their male colleagues in terms of voting patterns?

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Commentary on election boundary implications of Census 2011 figures – 158 seat Dail context

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Following on from the previous post, this post will consider what might happen our current constituency configurations if a 158 seat tally was agreed on and in light of the provisional population levels:

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Is there a ‘gender gap’ in Irish voting behaviour? Looking at GE 2011

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Claire McGing

Does gender impact on voting behaviour in the Republic of Ireland? Although historically Fianna Fáil was the most popular party with women voters (the female vote may have been crucial to their success in 1977 in particular), research on more … Continue reading →

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Labour’s target constituencies for the next general election

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 1st June 2011 The Labour Party made significant gains in the February 2011 election, almost doubling their share of the vote nationally and increasing their number of Dail seats from 20 to 37. Due mainly to the party’s … Continue reading →

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Fine Gael’s target constituencies for the next general election

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 1st June 2011 Following on the previous posts, which looked at marginal constituencies that could be targets for Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein gains at the next general election, I will now progress from the main opposition parties to … Continue reading →

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Sinn Fein’s target constituencies for the next general election

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 31st May 2011 Sinn Fein emerged from General Election 2011 with the strongest ever performance in a Dail general election in the party’s history, or at least since the early 1920s, winning 10% of the vote and 14 seats in Dail … Continue reading →

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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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