Category Archives: Local Elections 2014

Fianna Fail candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh; First posted 2nd July 2013 with updates as and when new Fianna Fail candidate nominations were announced. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections and are not specifically/usually links to candidate webpages. This post will … Continue reading →

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Fine Gael candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 1st July 2013 with updates made as new candidate nominations announced up until close of nominations on May 3rd 2014. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections and are not specifically links … Continue reading →

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Sinn Fein candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 1st July 2013 with updates as new candidate nominations announced. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections and are not specifically links to candidate webpages. The second of my rolling blog posts in … Continue reading →

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Green Party candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh First posted 1st July 2013 with updates as new candidate nominations announced. Any links in this post are to online announcements of candidate selections and are not specifically links to candidate webpages. The first of my rolling blog posts … Continue reading →

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Fine Gael’s Local Area Representatives – and potential local election candidates?

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 1st July 2013 Just like Fianna Fail, Fine Gael has its own group of Local Area Representatives – mainly unelected party members that act as representatives of the party in their local area with such areas usually coinciding … 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 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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Some thoughts on “Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report 2013”

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 30th May 2013 Thursday 30th May 2013 saw the publication of the Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report 2013, which outlines the constituency boundaries for next year’s local elections (May 2014).  The committee faced a very difficult task, in fairness, given … Continue reading →

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