Category Archives: Local Elections 2014

Retiring County/City Councillors at/ahead of the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh 14th January 2014 This post lists all of the City/County Councillors who are retiring at the May 23rd local elections, or who have indeed retired at an earlier date (and who have by this stage been replaced by a … Continue reading →

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New Irish (Non-Irish/UK nationals) candidates contesting the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on January 2, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 2nd January 2014 This post will attempt to list all of the “New Irish”/Non-Irish/UK nationals candidates who have been officially selected to contest this year’s local elections, or else have declared their intentions to contest these elections as … Continue reading →

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Local Election candidate selections overview

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Figure 1: Total number of candidates selected by county/local authority area as of 31st January 2014. Not surprisingly, the higher number of candidates are associated with the more urban counties and/or the larger counties. But, as Figure 1 shows, there … Continue reading →

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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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The Younger Ones: Local Elections 2014 candidates aged between 18 and 35

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 29th October 2013 In a similar vein to an earlier post relating to 2011 General Election candidates, this page seeks to list the names, and party affiliations, of all the local elections candidates whose ages fall in the 18-35 years age … Continue reading →

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Predicting 2014 Local Election seat numbers on the basis of national opinion polls employing a constituency-level analysis

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 23 July 2013  This post will attempt to ascertain what different political parties/groupings’ seat levels might be following next year’s City and County Council elections on the basis of national support figures associated with recent opinion polls, along … Continue reading →

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2014 Local Elections candidates for the “Other” political parties/groupings

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 15th July 2013 with updates as new candidate nominations announced  The post focuses on the candidate selections for the different parties and groupings that were not running a sufficiently large enough number of candidates to warrant a separate … Continue reading →

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Labour Party Local Area Representatives – and potential local election candidates?

Posted on July 4, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh,  First posted 4th July 2013 with updates as new details included Just like Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, the Labour Party too has its own group of Local Area Representatives – mainly unelected party members that act as representatives of the … Continue reading →

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Labour Party candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 2nd July 2013 with updates as new candidate nominations announced  The seventh of my rolling blog posts in which I detailed the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political parties and grouping and/or … Continue reading →

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Non Party/Independent candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh,  First posted 2nd July 2013 with updates as new candidate nominations announced  The fifth of my rolling blog posts in which I details the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political parties and grouping and/or … Continue reading →

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