Tag Archives: Labour Party

Poll Toppers at the 2009 Local (City and County Council) Elections

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 30th January 2014 In the lead up to, and in the immediate aftermath of, the 2011 General Election, I produced a post reviewing the poll toppers in each of the different constituencies at the 2007 General Election and … Continue reading →

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Past not an entirely different country? A look back at the 1985 Local Elections

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 22nd November 2013 With little more than half a year until the 2014 Local Elections, I thought it would be useful to look back at a previous local elections contest that took place in what may well prove … 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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Labour Party Local Area Representatives – and potential local election candidates?

Posted on July 4, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh,  First posted 4th July 2013 with updates as new details included Just like Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, the Labour Party too has its own group of Local Area Representatives – mainly unelected party members that act as representatives of the … Continue reading →

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Labour Party 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 seventh of my rolling blog posts in which I detailed 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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Matching Sitting Councillors to New Local Election Constituencies: the Munster counties

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 18th June 2013 There currently are 268 councillors in the ten local authorities (which will be reduced to seven after the 2014 local elections) located within the Munster region. The number of County Councillors in some of these … Continue reading →

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Matching Sitting Councillors to New Local Election Constituencies: Connacht-Ulster

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 18th June 2013 There currently are 223 councillors in the nine local authorities located within the Connacht-Ulster region. The number of County Councillors in some of these local authorities will increase at the next local elections but numbers … Continue reading →

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Matching Sitting Councillors to New Local Election Constituencies: the Leinster region

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Adrian Kavanagh

Adrian Kavanagh, 14th June 2013 There currently are 262 councillors in the eleven local authorities located within the Leinster region. The number of CountyCouncillors in some of these counties will increase at the next local elections but numbers in other … Continue reading →

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