Tag Archives: 2007

The Fate of Fine Gael’s Unsuccessful 2002 General Election candidates

Adrian Kavanagh, 4th September 2013 In a previous post, as a means of teasing out potential Fianna Fail 2014 Local Elections candidates, I listed the unsuccessful Fianna Fail candidates at the last (2011) general election and noted that there had … Continue reading

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The Bigger the Better: Female Candidates and Constituency Size in the 2007 General Election

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’) … Continue reading

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