Category Archives: Gender

Councillor Numbers in Dublin; Parties, Co-options and Gender

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 13 June 2013 There currently are 130 councillors in the four different local authorities covering the Dublin region, with Dublin City (52 councillors) being the largest of these followed by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown (28), South Dublin (26) and Fingal … Continue reading →

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Fianna Fail Local Area Representatives and the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 13th June 2013 – with updates as convention/candidate selection process proceeded (see the bottom of the post). Final update posted on 16th June 2014.  69 members of the Fianna Fail Local Area Representatives group contested the 2014 Local … Continue reading →

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Female candidacies and support levels at by-election contests, 1980-2013

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, March 6th 2013 – updated March 28th 2013 228 candidates have contested the 26 different by-election contests that took place over the past three decades (between 1980 and 2011), although this number does take account of candidates (such … Continue reading →

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Gender Quota legislation: Challenges and opportunities

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Adrian Kavanagh

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 →

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Constituency Commission Report 2012 – An Overview

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Adrian Kavanagh

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 →

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Commentary on submissions to the 2012 Constituency Commission

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 20th February 2012 Some months after the publication of provisional population by area figures by the Central Statistics Office for the 2011 Census, a new Constituency Commission was set in place to begin the process of redrawing European … Continue reading →

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Female candidacies and success levels in 2009’s local electoral contests

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 2nd February 2012 Given the day that’s in it, many will be considering the effect of gender quotas and whether increased levels of female candidates will necessarily translate into a higher level of female representatives. I would argue … 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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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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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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