Dublin Mid West (Dáil Éireann constituency)
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| Dublin Mid West Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Constituency |
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| Dublin Mid West shown within County Dublin | |
| Created | 2002 |
| TDs | 4 |
| Counties | South Dublin |
| EP constituency | Dublin |
Dublin Mid West is a parliamentary constituency in County Dublin, Ireland. It is represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas and elects four deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known in English as TDs), using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representation (PR-STV).
Dublin Mid West came into existence at the 2002 general election, composed of parts of the Dublin South West and Dublin West constituencies. It contains the areas of Clondalkin, Lucan, Rathcoole and Saggart. The constituency review of 2004 recommended that the town of Palmerstown was incorporated into Dublin Mid-West (having been in Dublin West), and this was implemented in the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2005.[1] The constituency currently elects 4 TDs, having gained an extra seat at the 2007 general election.
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[edit] Boundaries
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[edit] TDs
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
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| 29th | 2002[2] | John Curran (FF) |
Mary Harney (PD) |
Paul Gogarty (GP) |
3 seats 2002–2007 |
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| 30th | 2007[3] | Joanna Tuffy (Lab) |
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Note: The columns in this table are used only for presentational purposes, and no significance should be attached to the order of columns. For details of the order in which seats were won at each election, see the detailed results of that election.
[edit] Elections
[edit] 2007 general election
| 2007 General Election: Dublin Mid West[3] | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Fianna Fáil | *John Curran | 8,650 | 23.20 | 1 | 1 | |
| Progressive Democrats | *Mary Harney | 4,663 | 12.5 | 2 | 6 | |
| Labour Party | Joanna Tuffy | 4,075 | 10.9 | 3 | 6 | |
| Green Party | *Paul Gogarty | 4,043 | 10.8 | 4 | 6 | |
| Fine Gael | Frances Fitzgerald | 4,480 | 12 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Luke Moriarty | 3,671 | 9.8 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Joanne Spain | 3,462 | 9.3 | |||
| Independent | Derek Keating | 2,701 | 7.2 | |||
| People Before Profit | Gino Kenny | 1058 | 2.8 | |||
| Workers' Party | Mick Finnegan | 366 | 1 | |||
| Independent | Jim McHale | 170 | 0.5 | |||
| Electorate: 61,347 Valid: 37,339 Spoilt: 319 Quota: 7,468 Turnout: 61.39% | ||||||
*Denotes outgoing TD
[edit] 2002 general election
| 2002 General Election: Dublin Mid West[2] | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Fianna Fáil | John Curran | 5,904 | 20.75 | 1 | 9 | |
| Progressive Democrats | Mary Harney | 5,706 | 20.05 | 2 | 9 | |
| Green Party | Paul Gogarty | 3,508 | 12.33 | 3 | 10 | |
| Labour Party | Joanna Tuffy | 2,563 | 9.01 | |||
| Fianna Fáil | Des Kelly | 3,218 | 11.31 | |||
| Fine Gael | Austin Currie | 2,008 | 7.06 | |||
| Sinn Féin | Tony Flannery | 1,855 | 6.52 | |||
| Fine Gael | Therese Ridge | 1,268 | 4.46 | |||
| Independent | David Green | 1,078 | 3.79 | |||
| Independent | Colm McGrath | 487 | 1.71 | |||
| Workers' Party | Andrew McGuinness | 393 | 1.38 | |||
| Independent | Michael O'Mara | 361 | 1.27 | |||
| Christian Solidarity | Colm Callanan | 107 | 0.38 | |||
| Electorate: 55,184 Valid: 28,456 Spoilt: 237 Quota: 7,115 Turnout: 52.00% | ||||||
[edit] References
- ^ "Electoral (Amendment) Act, 2005: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2005/en/act/pub/0016/sched.html#sched. Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ^ a b "General election 2002, Dublin Mid West". electionsireland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2002&cons=95. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
- ^ a b "General election 2007, Dublin Mid West". electionsireland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2007&cons=95. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
[edit] See also
- Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland
- Politics of the Republic of Ireland
- List of political parties in the Republic of Ireland
- List of Irish by-elections
- Elections in the Republic of Ireland
[edit] External links
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