Dublin Bay South (Dáil constituency)
| Dublin Bay South | |
|---|---|
| Dáil Éireann Parliamentary constituency | |
| Future constituency | |
| Created | 2016 |
| Seats | 4 |
| TDs |
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| City council | Dublin City Council |
| EP constituency | Dublin |
Dublin Bay South is a parliamentary constituency which will be represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas, from the 2016 general election. The constituency will elect 4 deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
History and boundaries
The Constituency Commission proposed in its 2012 report that at the next general election a new constituency called Dublin Bay South be created.[1] The report proposed changes to the constituencies of Ireland so as to reduce the total number of TDs from 166 to 158.[2]
It was established by the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013.[3] The constituency incorporates the entirety of the former Dublin South–East constituency. Territory from Dublin South–Central, centred on Terenure and Harold's Cross, was added to the new constituency. The constituency was named Dublin Bay South for "reasons of symmetry", with the Dublin Bay North constituency.[4]
The 2013 Act defines the constituency as:[3]
- "In the city of Dublin the electoral divisions of:
- Kimmage C, Mansion House A, Mansion House B, Pembroke East A, Pembroke East B, Pembroke East C, Pembroke East D, Pembroke East E, Pembroke West A, Pembroke West B, Pembroke West C, Rathfarnham, Rathmines East A, Rathmines East B, Rathmines East C, Rathmines East D, Rathmines West A, Rathmines West B, Rathmines West C, Rathmines West D, Rathmines West E, Rathmines West F, Royal Exchange A, Royal Exchange B, St. Kevin’s, South Dock, Terenure A, Terenure B, Terenure C, Terenure D, Wood Quay A, Wood Quay B."
TDs
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin Bay South 2016– | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
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| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | ||||
| 32nd | 2016[5] | Eamon Ryan (GP) |
Eoghan Murphy (FG) |
Jim O'Callaghan (FF) |
Kate O'Connell (FG) | ||||
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.
Elections
2016 general election
| Party | Candidate | FPv% | Count | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Green | Eamon Ryan | 11.4 | 4,529 | 4,631 | 4,929 | 5,277 | 6,605 | 7,560 | 8,788 | ||
| Fine Gael | Eoghan Murphy | 16.5 | 6,567 | 6,595 | 6,661 | 6,693 | 6,873 | 7,860 | 8,023 | ||
| Fianna Fáil | Jim O'Callaghan | 11.5 | 4,575 | 4,596 | 4,674 | 4,744 | 4,949 | 5,989 | 6,678 | 6,921 | |
| Fine Gael | Kate O'Connell | 13.6 | 5,399 | 5,416 | 5,483 | 5,527 | 5,773 | 6,324 | 6,446 | 6,547 | |
| Labour | Kevin Humphreys | 10.6 | 4,205 | 4,227 | 4,378 | 4,480 | 4,992 | 5,391 | 5,973 | 6,221 | |
| Sinn Féin | Chris Andrews | 9.5 | 3,774 | 3,796 | 3,957 | 4,511 | 4,888 | 5,197 | |||
| Renua | Lucinda Creighton | 10.7 | 4,229 | 4,252 | 4,385 | 4,545 | 4,820 | ||||
| Social Democrats | Glenna Lynch | 6.7 | 2,652 | 2,694 | 2,949 | 3,527 | |||||
| AAA–PBP | Annette Mooney | 4.4 | 1,728 | 1,819 | 2,149 | ||||||
| Independent | Mannix Flynn | 3.8 | 1,525 | 1,648 | |||||||
| Independent | Alan MacStiofain | 0.6 | 235 | ||||||||
| Independent | Eoin Tierney | 0.4 | 151 | ||||||||
| Independent | William DJ Gorman | 0.2 | 97 | ||||||||
| Independent | John Keigher | 0.1 | 37 | ||||||||
| Electorate: 73,066 Valid: 39,703 Spoilt: 313 (0.8%) Quota: 7,941 Turnout: 40,016 (54.8%) | |||||||||||
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
References
- ^ "Constituency Commission Report 2012 – Dublin area" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ^ "Constituency Commission Report 2012 – Introduction and summary of recommendation" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ^ a b "Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
- ^ "Commission urges constituency boundary changes and reduction in TDs". RTÉ News. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ^ a b "General election 2016: Dublin Bay South". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 February 2016.