Tag Archives: Independents

How low can you go? The worst performing candidates at the 2009 Local Elections

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 22nd November 2013 In a contest there has to be winners. And there has to be losers. Some election candidates can win big. Others can lose…badly. As the 2011 General Election results showed, for every Shane Ross or … Continue reading →

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Predicting 2014 Local Election seat numbers on the basis of national opinion polls employing a constituency-level analysis

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 23 July 2013  This post will attempt to ascertain what different political parties/groupings’ seat levels might be following next year’s City and County Council elections on the basis of national support figures associated with recent opinion polls, along … Continue reading →

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Non Party/Independent candidates for the 2014 Local Elections

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh,  First posted 2nd July 2013 with updates as new candidate nominations announced  The fifth of my rolling blog posts in which I details the latest information as to candidate selections relating to the different political parties and grouping and/or … Continue reading →

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Blood in the Water?: How patterns of local representation match up with new local election boundaries – an overview

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 25th June 2013 The previous series of posts have reviewed in details how the new local election boundaries, as drawn up in the 2013 Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report, relate to the home bases of the current array … Continue reading →

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How do Borough and Town Councillors bases match up with new local election constituencies?

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 24 June 2013 The previous series of posts have looked at how the homes bases of sitting County and City match up against the new local election constituency boundaries, with this analysis finding that there are some local … Continue reading →

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Commentary on campaign expenditure data for the 2011 Presidential Election

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 15th February 2011 The Standards in Public Office Commission made its report on donations and election expenses disclosed to it by the seven presidential election candidates on 14th February 2012. This report found that, in total, €304,570.75 in … Continue reading →

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Irish General Election 2011 Facts and Figures’ Golden Goose Awards 2011: The Winners

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 1 January 2012 The basis for judgement here is not simply the weight of votes won by a party or candidate, but the extent of improvement relative to a previous contest, the level of local competition from opposing … Continue reading →

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Irish General Election 2011 Facts and Figures’ Golden Goose Awards 2011: The Nominations

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 19 December 2011 OK, for better or worse here is the list of the nominees for the Irish General Election 2011 Facts and Figures’ Golden Goose Awards. There is without doubt going to be some glaring omissions here, but … Continue reading →

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Retired/Retiring TDs

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Adrian Kavanagh

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 … 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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