Tag Archives: Fine Gael

Their Day Has Come – Sinn Fein’s surge: Constituency-level analysis of the Sunday Independent-Millward Brown opinion poll (2nd November 2014)

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 2nd November 2014  The new Sunday Independent-Millward Brown poll (2nd November 2014), published on the day after large numbers of people take to the streets in protest against water charges, sees Sinn Fein move ahead of Fine Gael. Sinn Fein … Continue reading →

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Independents Day again: Constituency-level analysis of the Sunday Business Post-Red C opinion poll (26th October 2014)

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 25th October 2014  The latest Sunday Business Post-Red C poll (26th October 2014) suggests that the recent Budget has not amounted to any serious political gains for the government parties, a trend mirrored in the very similar support trends published … Continue reading →

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Candidates for the 2016 General Election (by constituency)

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh – First posted on 22nd October 2014 – this post will be updated as and when new candidates are selected/declared  As confirmed on the morning of February 3rd 2016, the next general election will take place on Friday 26th … Continue reading →

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Mixed fortunes for the Opposition parties! Constituency-level analysis of the Irish Times-Ispos MRBI opinion poll (9th October 2014)

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 9th October 2014  The results of the latest in the series of The Irish Times-Ispos MRBI polls was published today and this has been largely in line with those of the preceding Red C and Millward Brown polls, but this obviously does convey … Continue reading →

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TDs (31st Dáil Éireann) who will not be contesting the next general election

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 22nd September 2014 Following on a similar post that was completed ahead of the 2011 General Election, this post will list all of the Dail deputies who have retired/stepped down during the lifetime of the current Dail or who … Continue reading →

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Mixed fortunes for the government parties: Constituency-level analysis of the Sunday Independent-Millward Brown opinion poll (21st September 2014)

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 20th September 2014  Following last week’s Red C poll, the latest in the series of Millward Brown polls has brought mixed fortunes for the government parties. Labour sees a two percentage point increase in the party’s poll levels and Fine Gael … Continue reading →

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Good news for Fine Gael and Sinn Fein: Constituency-level analysis of the Sunday Business Post-Red C poll (14th September 2014)

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 13th September 2014 (still being updated!) The latest in the series of Red C polls has brought good news especially for Fine Gael and Sinn Fein. While Labour sees a one percentage point increase in the party’s poll levels, this … Continue reading →

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Fine Gael’s Top Ten Problem/Promising Constituencies ahead of the next General Election

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

With little more than a year (at most!) to go until the next general election and with the candidate selection convention process likely to commence in the coming months, I am going to start of a series of posts where … Continue reading →

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“When the hurly-burly’s done…”: Constituency-level analyses of the post-Local and European elections opinion polls

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 12th June 2014 (with subsequent updates) The local and European elections brought a (probably quite welcome!) respite to the spate of opinion polls that had appeared in the run up to the May 23rd electoral contests, but June … Continue reading →

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Love’s Labour Not Entirely Lost?: Constituency-level analysis of the Sunday Times-Behaviour & Attitudes poll (17th August 2014)

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 16th August 2014  The latest in the series of Behaviour & Attitudes polls has brought good news for the Labour Party after a long period of dismal results in previous such opinion polls. The Sunday Times-Behaviour & Attitudes poll of August 16th 2014, … Continue reading →

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