Category Archives: Gender

Female candidates contesting the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 30th October 2013 – post updated as and when new female candidates are added/female candidates withdraw 314 female candidates contested the 2009 City and County Council elections, accounting for 17.2% of the total number of candidates. For the 2014 … Continue reading →

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European Election candidates: An overview

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 25th September 2014 Now that the new European Election constituency boundaries have been decided on, in this post, I will be detailing the names of the candidates for next year’s European Elections contests, by constituency. As new candidates … Continue reading →

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My Priorities for Electoral and Political Reform in Ireland

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

As the adriankavanaghelections.org website nears its 100,000th hit, I have decided to mark the occasion with a post detailing what would be the issues that I would most like to see being prioritised in relation to the areas of electoral … Continue reading →

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Potential Fianna Fail Local Elections 2014 candidates? TDs who lost seats at 2011 General Election and other unsuccessful general election candidates

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, initially posted on 2nd July 2013 With less than eleven months to go until next year’s local elections, the preparations for these have been significantly ramped up following the recent publication of the Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report … Continue reading →

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Female representation levels on City/County Councils and Borough/Town Councils in Ireland

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 26th June 2013 The aim of last year’s gender quota legislation is to increase female electoral participation levels in the Republic of Ireland relative to the current low levels observed at both the national and local levels. This … 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: the Munster counties

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 18th June 2013 There currently are 268 councillors in the ten local authorities (which will be reduced to seven after the 2014 local elections) located within the Munster region. The number of County Councillors in some of these … 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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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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