Adrian Kavanagh, 11th February 2011
This post contains details on all of the candidates who will be contesting their first ever Dail (general) election in 2011. This list will include candidates who may have previously contested in local, European, Assembly and Westminister elections, but will not include candidates who may have previously contested in Dail by-elections. Continue reading
Adrian Kavanagh, 30th January 2010
Linking in with 6th January’s Irish Times article by Mary Minihan, this is the list of TDs elected in 2007, who retired during the lifetime of the current Dail or who will be retiring at the next general election. Continue reading
Adrian Kavanagh, 26th February 2011
This blog will list the names, and party affiliations, of all the formally declared candidates whose ages fall in the 21-35 years age category – candidates whose ages fall in the 21-30 years category will be denoted by a * Please note that this is probably an incomplete list, in part due to fact that party selections are still ongoing but also due to difficulties in accessing age information. If you note any glaring absences, please feel free to comment! Continue reading
Adrian Kavanagh – updated on 9th February 2011
Like Fianna Fail the Green Party were slow in formally ratifying candidates to contest the next general election in the different constituencies. In the 2007 contest the Green Party contested all 43 constituencies and ran two candidates in Dublin North but appeared likely to be running fewer candidates in the upcoming contest, however a host of late selections meant that the party now have selected candidates in most of the constituencies, with just three constituencies at present left without Green Party candidates. Update: It has now been confirmed that the Green Party will contest every constituency.
Adrian Kavanagh – updated on 11th May 2011 Constituency level figures on candidate selection by gender for the 2011 General Election. Continue reading
Adrian Kavanagh – updated on 13th February 2011
With close of nominations now past, this is what I take to be the list of all independent and smaller party candidates;
Adrian Kavanagh – updated on 4th February 2011
Fianna Fail were definitely slower in getting their general election candidates into the field than Fine Gael and especially Labour, but now have all their constituency convention selections completed with 75 candidates in the field, down on the 106 FF candidates that contested General Election 2007. Continue reading
Adrian Kavanagh – updated on 7th February 2011
I found it more difficult to access as much reliable candidate selection information from the Sinn Fein website as I was able to do from the Fine Gael/Labour websites, but this is list of my current knowledge of officially selected Sinn Fein candidates and it seems this could be the final list. This list includes 41 candidates, competing in 38 different constituencies – same number of candidates as in 2007 General Election and two fewer constituencies being contested. Continue reading
Adrian Kavanagh – updated on 27th January 2011
The list of officially selected Labour candidates, to the best of my knowledge are as follows (list will be updated with news of further selections): Continue reading
Claire McGing, Dept of Geography, NUI Maynooth (Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Scholar)
Some international scholars have suggested that large constituency sizes (the number of seats in a constituency is often called the ‘district magnitude’) are better for women candidates and female representation levels in parliament and local government. Continue reading
