Dublin Mid-West (Dáil constituency)

Dublin Mid–West
Dublin Mid–West
Dáil Éireann; Parliamentary constituency
Current constituency
Created	2002
Seats	3 (2002–2007); 4 (2007–)
TDs	Frances Fitzgerald (FG); Eoin Ó Broin (SF); Gino Kenny (AAA-PBP); John Curran (FF);
County council	South Dublin County Council
EP constituency	Dublin

Dublin Mid–West is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 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 was created for 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.^[1] 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.^[2] The constituency elected 3 TDs in 2002, and gained a fourth seat at the 2007 general election.

The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 defines the constituency as:^[3]

"In the county of South Dublin the electoral divisions of:

Clondalkin-Cappaghmore, Clondalkin-Dunawley, Clondalkin-Moorfield, Clondalkin-Rowlagh, Clondalkin Village, Lucan-Esker, Lucan Heights, Lucan-St. Helens, Newcastle, Palmerston Village, Palmerston West, Rathcoole, Saggart;

and that part of the electoral division of Clondalkin-Monastery situated west of a line drawn along the M50 Western Parkway."

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Dublin Mid–West 2002–{{{refs}}}
Key to parties AAA–PBP = AAA–PBP FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael GP = Green Lab = Labour PDs = Progressive Democrats SF = Sinn Féin
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
29th	2002^[4]		John Curran (FF)		Mary Harney (PDs)		Paul Gogarty (GP)	3 seats 2002–2007
30th	2007^[5]		John Curran (FF)		Mary Harney (PDs)		Paul Gogarty (GP)		Joanna Tuffy (Lab)
31st	2011^[6]		Frances Fitzgerald (FG)		Robert Dowds (Lab)		Derek Keating (FG)		Joanna Tuffy (Lab)
32nd	2016^[7]		Frances Fitzgerald (FG)		Eoin Ó Broin (SF)		John Curran (FF)		Gino Kenny (AAA–PBP)

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

2016 general election: Dublin Mid–West^[7]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
	Sinn Féin	Eoin Ó Broin	22.7	9,782
	Fine Gael	Frances Fitzgerald	20.9	9,028
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran	16.2	6,971	7,054	7,109	7,114	7,145	7,180	7,218	7,274	7,383	7,685	8,287	9,497
	AAA–PBP	Gino Kenny	10.7	4,629	5,257	5,270	5,321	5,331	5,397	5,474	5,791	6,331	6,542	7,498	7,911
	Social Democrats	Anne-Marie McNally	6.1	2,633	2,730	2,747	2,766	2,773	2,804	2,867	3,048	3,235	3,679	4,460	5,320
	Fine Gael	Derek Keating	5.4	2,337	2,356	2,549	2,559	2,603	2,636	2,653	2,696	2,725	3,640	4,179
	Independent	Paul Gogarty	5.9	2,522	2,593	2,623	2,646	2,658	2,700	2,741	2,863	3,164	3,505
	Labour	Joanna Tuffy	5.0	2,146	2,175	2,252	2,259	2,311	2,342	2,355	2,475	2,515
	Independent	Francis Timmons	2.5	1,085	1,195	1,200	1,210	1,214	1,233	1,318	1,422
	Workers' Party of Ireland	Lorraine Hennessey	1.2	502	553	555	568	570	584	613
	Green	Tom Kivlehan	0.9	388	405	410	413	417	430	443
	Independent	Clare Leonard	0.8	358	383	379	398	403	422
	Independent	Patrick Akpoveta	0.7	288	307	311	318	343
	Independent	Haroon Khan	0.6	268	272	273	275
	Direct Democracy	Christopher Healy	0.4	167	179	180
Electorate: 69,388 Valid: 43,104 Spoilt: 446 (1.0%) Quota: 8,621 Turnout: 43,550 (62.8%)

2011 general election

2011 general election: Dublin Mid–West^[6]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Labour	Joanna Tuffy	17.5	7,495	7,513	7,533	7,553	7,633	7,827	8,948
	Fine Gael	Frances Fitzgerald	17.0	7,281	7,285	7,303	7,323	7,424	7,493	7,903	9,213
	Labour	Robert Dowds	13.2	5,643	5,645	5,661	5,695	5,734	5,870	6,519	7,934	8,112
	Fine Gael	Derek Keating	13.9	5,933	5,938	5,945	5,964	5,992	6,072	6,503	7,244	7,703
	Sinn Féin	Eoin Ó Broin	11.8	5,060	5,066	5,088	5,117	5,164	5,399	6,628	7,120	7,151
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran	11.8	5,043	5,047	5,068	5,095	5,130	5,193	5,513
	People Before Profit	Gino Kenny^[8]	5.8	2,471	2,481	2,513	2,536	2,597	3,059
	Green	Paul Gogarty	3.5	1,484	1,490	1,498	1,509	1,534	1,605
	Workers' Party of Ireland	Mick Finnegan	1.6	694	700	712	722	735
	Socialist Party	Robert Connolly^[9]	1.5	622	624	634	637	649
	Independent	Michael Ryan	0.9	375	397	429	514
	Independent	Jim McHale	0.6	255	269	319
	Independent	Colm McGrath	0.6	253	264
	Independent	Niall Smith	0.3	113
Electorate: 64,880 Valid: 42,722 Spoilt: 471 (1.1%) Quota: 8,545 Turnout: 43,193 (66.6%)

2007 general election

2007 general election: Dublin Mid–West^[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran	23.2	8,650
	Green	Paul Gogarty	10.8	4,043	4,123	4,393	5,557	6,700	7,920
	Progressive Democrats	Mary Harney	12.5	4,663	4,956	5,066	5,454	5,668	7,786
	Labour	Joanna Tuffy	10.9	4,075	4,145	4,440	4,895	6,004	6,672
	Fine Gael	Frances Fitzgerald	12.0	4,480	4,532	4,680	4,975	5,344	5,664
	Fianna Fáil	Luke Moriarty	9.8	3,671	4,200	4,333	4,666	5,185
	Sinn Féin	Joanne Spain	9.3	3,462	3,529	3,970	4,138
	Independent	Derek Keating	7.2	2,701	2,729	2,907
	People Before Profit	Gino Kenny	2.8	1,058	1,099
	Workers' Party of Ireland	Mick Finnegan	1.0	366	378
	Independent	Jim McHale	0.5	170	180
Electorate: 61,347 Valid: 37,339 Spoilt: 319 (0.9%) Quota: 7,468 Turnout: 37,658 (61.4%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Dublin Mid–West^[4]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Fianna Fáil	John Curran	20.7	5,904	5,928	5,979	6,112	6,292	6,508	6,909	7,086	9,350
	Progressive Democrats	Mary Harney	20.0	5,706	5,719	5,732	5,812	5,953	6,196	6,348	6,924	7,524
	Green	Paul Gogarty	12.3	3,508	3,523	3,541	3,627	3,870	3,947	4,594	5,260	5,645	6,345
	Labour	Joanna Tuffy	9.0	2,563	2,566	2,602	2,744	2,891	3,199	3,594	4,495	4,808	5,371
	Fianna Fáil	Des Kelly	11.3	3,218	3,232	3,237	3,290	3,381	3,434	3,625	3,737
	Fine Gael	Austin Currie	7.1	2,008	2,017	2,023	2,051	2,100	2,573	2,687
	Sinn Féin	Tony Flannery	6.5	1,855	1,861	1,912	2,031	2,244	2,326
	Fine Gael	Therese Ridge	4.5	1,268	1,271	1,314	1,419	1,536
	Independent	David Green	3.8	1,078	1,092	1,170	1,313
	Independent	Colm McGrath	1.7	487	488	521
	Workers' Party of Ireland	Andrew McGuinness	1.4	393	393	407
	Independent	Michael O'Mara	1.3	361	362
	Christian Solidarity	Colm Callanan	0.4	107
Electorate: 55,184 Valid: 28,456 Spoilt: 237 (0.8%) Quota: 7,115 Turnout: 28,693 (52.0%)

References

^ "Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
^ "Electoral (Amendment) Act, 2005: Schedule". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
^ "Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
^ ^a ^b "General election 2002: Dublin Mid–West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
^ ^a ^b "General election 2007: Dublin Mid–West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
^ ^a ^b "General election 2011: Dublin Mid–West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
^ ^a ^b "General election 2016: Mid–West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
^ Kenny campaigned as a member of the United Left Alliance.
^ Connolly campaigned as a member of the United Left Alliance.

External links

Oireachtas Members Database

[ea-2009-1] "Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 29 September 2010.

[ea-2005-2] "Electoral (Amendment) Act, 2005: Schedule". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 5 March 2009.

[ea-2013-3] "Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 4 February 2016.

[ei-dublinmw-2002-4] "General election 2002: Dublin Mid–West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 10 February 2009.

[ei-dublinmw-2007-5] "General election 2007: Dublin Mid–West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 10 February 2009.

[ei-dublinmw-2011-6] "General election 2011: Dublin Mid–West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 2 March 2011.

[ei-dublinmw-2016-7] "General election 2016: Mid–West". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 20 February 2016.

[8] Kenny campaigned as a member of the United Left Alliance.

[9] Connolly campaigned as a member of the United Left Alliance.

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