Local Elections 2014 page links for City and County Council websites

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 28th April 2014

This short post aims to list all the official Local Elections 2014 pages across the webpages of the different City and County Councils. As well as listing details on aspects of the elections process (including Notice of Poll details, as well as polling schemes and electoral area maps in some cases), these pages may also be used (in some cases) to report election count details as the counts progress on the weekend of 24-25 May 2014. I would also assume (although everyone know what “assume did to you and me”) that official candidate nomination details will be published on, or linked from, these pages after the official close of nominations at 12pm on May 3rd 2014. If not, I will try to compensate by offering links from local media sources in those counties, if these exist. Continue reading →

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Confirmed candidates for the Longford-Westmeath and Dublin West by-elections

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 24th April 2014

With these contests taking place on the same day as the Local and European elections of May 23rd, this post lists the names of the candidates who will be contesting the Longford-Westmeath and Dublin West by-elections on this page, following the official close of nominations at 12.00pm on May 10th. Continue reading →

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By-election winners and losers, 1980-2013

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 24th April 2014

Reviewing the past three decades of by-election results shows that government parties have tended to fare poorly in by-election contests (although the last two by-elections have been won by government parties), but does certain parties or groupings tend to do especially well/poorly in these? A review of by-election winners since 1980 shows that:

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Successful candidates at the 2009 Local Elections who went on to become members of Oireachtas Eireann

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 24th April 2014 

A high level of successful candidates at the 2009 City and County Council elections went on to be successful at national elections subsequently. This post outlines the candidates who subsequently went on to become members of the Oireachtas at the general elections of 2011 (or subsequent by-elections) and the party and geographical trends relating to these. Continue reading →

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Whither Gerrymandering?

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 23rd March 2014 

Further controversy arose in relations to the new local election boundaries arose at this weekend’s Fianna Fail Ard Fheis, when party leader, Micheal Martin, was alleged to have likened the terms of reference set for the Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee as “the biggest example of gerrymandering or manipulation of electoral areas in 35 years”. Looking at his actual address, it can be seen that Micheal Martin did not actually use the phrase “gerrymandering” in his actual speech, although he did use the actual term in speaking with reporters and the speech itself does refer to the terms of reference for the committee as amounting to the most serious effort to manipulate electoral boundaries since the introduction of independent boundary committees in the wake of the “Tullymander” and the 1977 General Election. Continue reading →

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Nomination Process for 2014 Local Elections candidates

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 19th March 2014

If you are a (potential) candidate for the 2014 Local Elections, you will find that all details on how to formally be nominated as a local elections candidate will be provided by your local City/County Council. So the relevant webpage(s) provided on the website of the local City/County Council should be the first stop for all potential/interested local election candidates.  Continue reading →

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Sitting County/City Councillors who lost out at 2014 Local Elections selection conventions

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh 4th February 2014

This post will attempt to list all of the City/County Councillors who lost out in local election selection conventions for their respective parties (including those who were subsequently added to the candidate list by their party headquarters after these convention votes). Continue reading →

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Poll Toppers at the 2009 Local (City and County Council) Elections

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 30th January 2014

In the lead up to, and in the immediate aftermath of, the 2011 General Election, I produced a post reviewing the poll toppers in each of the different constituencies at the 2007 General Election and their subsequent fate at the 2011 contest. This found that over half of the TDs who had topped the poll in their constituencies in 2007 subsequently were not holding seats after the 2011 contest: ten of these TDs opted to retire from politics ahead of the general election while a further twelve of these poll-topping TDs lost their seats at this contest.

Figure 1: The fates of the 2007 General Election poll toppers at the 2011 General Election.

Could a similar fate lie in store for those City or County Councillors who topped the poll in their electoral areas at the 2009 City and County Council elections? Continue reading →

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People Before Profit Alliance candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 28th January 2014 with further updates as new candidate nominations announced 

An updated version from the series of my rolling blog posts on local election candidate selections, in which I detail the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political parties and groupings and/or candidate declarations (as in the case of the non-party grouping). The rule of thumb here is that I will add party candidates in most cases only after they have been officially selected to run for the party  at a selection convention or by some other means of candidate selection.

The post will focus on the candidate selections for the People Before Profit Alliance, now that the level of candidate selections engaged in by this groupings has warranted that this is now allocated a separate post. Continue reading →

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Anti Austerity Alliance candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, First posted 28th January 2014 with further updates as new candidate nominations are announced 

An updated version of  my rolling blog posts, in which I detail the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political parties and grouping and/or candidate declarations (as in the case of the non-party grouping). The rule of thumb here is that I will add party candidates in most cases only after they have been officially selected to run for the party  at a selection convention or by some other means of candidate selection.

The post will focus on the candidate selections for the Anti Austerity Alliance grouping, given that the level of candidate selections engaged in by this grouping has now warranted it being allocated a separate post.  This grouping was formally established as a party on 20th February 2014. While most of the candidates in this grouping would appear likely to be first-time candidates, it does also include a number of more experienced candidates, including a number of incumbents (mainly associated (at present) with the Socialist Party). It involves members of the Campaign Against Home & Water Taxes and the Campaign Against Property Taxes and Austerity groupings, while the more experienced members of the alliance would be members of the Socialist Party. The latter group involves four City/County Councillors and two Town/Borough Councillors.  Continue reading →

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