Tag Archives: general election candidates

Votes won by Female candidates in 2011 General Election

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 8th March 2011 For the day that’s in it – this post ranks constituencies based on the share of the vote won by female candidates in the 2011 General Election. Even though there was no noticeable urban-rural divide … Continue reading →

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Geography and voting trends: Galway East constituency

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 3rd February 2011 Voting patterns are geographical patterns – as shown is this example from the Galway East constituency.

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First time (Dail election) candidate details

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

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 … Continue reading →

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2011 General Election candidates aged 21-35

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

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 … Continue reading →

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Green Party candidate selections

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Adrian Kavanagh

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 … Continue reading →

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Gender and candidate selection at the 2011 General Election

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh – updated on 11th May 2011 Constituency level figures on candidate selection by gender for the 2011 General Election.

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Independents, United Left Alliance and Other Small Parties

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Adrian Kavanagh

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;

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Fianna Fail candidate selections

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Adrian Kavanagh

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, … Continue reading →

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Sinn Fein candidate selections

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Adrian Kavanagh

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 … Continue reading →

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Labour candidate selections

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Adrian Kavanagh

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):

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