Meath (Dáil Éireann constituency)
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Meath was a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency had an electorate of 108,717 and was served by 5 Teachtaí Dála (TDs). The method of election was the Single Transferable Vote.
The constituency spanned the entire area of County Meath in Leinster, taking in Navan, Trim and Ashbourne. It also included small parts of County Kildare.[1]
The Minister for Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey was one of the most high profile TDs from the constituency. John Bruton, the former Taoiseach and former leader of Fine Gael, resigned his Dáil seat after thirty-five years service to take up a post as European Union Ambassador to Washington, D.C. in 2005. A by-election took place on March 11, 2005 to fill the vacant seat.
For the 2007 general election held on 24 May 2007, it ceased to exist, being divided into the two new 3 seat constituencies of Meath East and Meath West.
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[edit] TDs
[edit] TDs 1923–1937
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Meath 1923–1937[2] | |||||||
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
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| 4th | 1923 | Eamonn Duggan (CnaG) |
Patrick Mulvany (FP) |
David Hall (Lab) |
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| 5th | 1927 (Jun) | Matthew O'Reilly (FF) |
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| 6th | 1927 (Sep) | Arthur Matthews (CnaG) |
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| 7th | 1932 | James Kelly (FF) |
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| 8th | 1933 | Robert Davitt (CnaG) |
Matthew O'Reilly (FF) |
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| 9th | 1937 | Constituency abolished: see Meath-Westmeath | |||||
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] TDs 1948–2007
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Meath 1948–2007[2] | |||||||||||
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
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| 13th | 1948 | Michael Hilliard (FF) |
Matthew O'Reilly (FF) |
Patrick Giles (FG) |
3 seats until 1977 |
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| 14th | 1951 | ||||||||||
| 15th | 1954 | James Tully (Lab) |
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| 16th | 1957 | James Griffin (FF) |
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| 1959 by-election | Henry Johnston (FF) |
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| 17th | 1961 | James Tully (Lab) |
Denis Farrelly (FG) |
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| 18th | 1965 | ||||||||||
| 19th | 1969 | John Bruton (FG) |
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| 20th | 1973 | Brendan Crinion (FF) |
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| 21st | 1977 | Jim Fitzsimons (FF) |
4 seats 1977–1981 |
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| 22nd | 1981 | John Farrelly (FF) |
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| 23rd | 1982 (Feb) | Colm Hilliard (FF) |
Michael Lynch (FF) |
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| 24th | 1982 (Nov) | Frank McLoughlin (Lab) |
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| 25th | 1987 | Michael Lynch (FF) |
Noel Dempsey (FF) |
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| 26th | 1989 | Mary Wallace (FF) |
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| 27th | 1992[3] | Brian Fitzgerald (Lab) |
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| 28th | 1997[4] | Johnny Brady (FF) |
John Farrelly (FF) |
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| 29th | 2002[5] | Damien English (FG) |
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| 2005 by-election[6] | Shane McEntee (FG) |
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| 30th | 2007 | Constituency abolished: see Meath East and Meath West | |||||||||
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] 2005 by-election
The by-election of 2005 was won by Fine Gael's candidate, Shane McEntee (see: Meath by-election, 2005).
| Meath by-election, 2005 | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Fine Gael | Shane McEntee | 16,964 | 1 | 8 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Shane Cassells | 16,117 | ||||
| Sinn Féin | Joe Reilly | 6,087 | ||||
| Labour Party | Dominic Hannigan | 5,567 | ||||
| Progressive Democrats | Sirena Campbell | 2,679 | ||||
| Green Party | Fergal O'Byrne | 1,590 | ||||
| Independent | Liam Ó Gogáin | 702 | ||||
[edit] 2002 general election
| 2002 General Election: Meath | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | 1st Pref | % | Seat | Count | |
| Fianna Fáil | Noel Dempsey | 11,534 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Fine Gael | John Bruton | 7,617 | 2 | 8 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Mary Wallace | 8,759 | 3 | 9 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Johnny Brady | 8,493 | 4 | 9 | ||
| Fine Gael | Damien English | 7,617 | 5 | 9 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Joe Reilly | 6,042 | ||||
| Fine Gael | John V. Farrelly | 3,877 | ||||
| Independent | Brian Fitzgerald | 3,722 | ||||
| Labour Party | Peter Ward | 2,727 | ||||
| Green Party | Fergal O'Byrne | 2,337 | ||||
| Independent | Tom Kelly | 1,373 | ||||
| Independent | Pat O'Brien | 1,199 | ||||
| Independent | Jane Colwell | 263 | ||||
| Christian Solidarity | Michael Redmond | 180 | ||||
[edit] References
- ^ The Irish Statute Book
- ^ a b Walker, Brian M, ed (1992). Parliamentary election results in Ireland, 1918-92. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 0 901714 96 8.
- ^ "General election 1992: Meath". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1992&cons=178. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
- ^ "General election 1997: Meath". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1997&cons=178. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
- ^ "General election 2002: Meath". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2002&cons=178. Retrieved 19 February 2007.
- ^ "Meath by-election 2005". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2002B&cons=178&ref=123. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
[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
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