2014 European Parliament election in Ireland
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The 2014 European Parliament election in Ireland was the Irish component of the 2014 European Parliament election and was held on Friday, 23 May 2014, on the same day as the 2014 local elections and two by-elections (Dublin West and Longford–Westmeath).[2] The election was conducted under the single transferable vote. Counting of the votes began on Sunday, 25 May[3] and continued until Tuesday, 27 May.
National and regional summaries
In contrast to a poor local election result, Fine Gael retained 4 seats, remaining the largest Irish party at a European level. Despite winning the largest number of first preference votes, Fianna Fáil lost 2 seats - a result of poor candidate selection and a reduction in the number of seats. The Labour Party, bearing the brunt of voter anger with the Coalition government, suffered a meltdown, losing all three of its seats, including its seat in Dublin which it had held since 1989. The Socialist Party also lost its sole seat. The big winners were Sinn Féin and Independents who won three seats each.
In Dublin, Lynn Boylan of Sinn Féin topped the poll and a tight four-way battle for the remaining two seats ensued between Brian Hayes of Fine Gael, ex-Labour MEP turned independent Nessa Childers, Fianna Fáil's Mary Fitzpatrick and the Green Party's Eamon Ryan. Hayes and Childers won with Hayes ahead of Ryan at the final count by a margin of 1,200 votes.
In South, both Brian Crowley of Fianna Fáil and Seán Kelly of Fine Gael were re-elected while first time candidate Liadh Ní Riada of Sinn Féin won a seat. The last seat was taken by Fine Gael Senator Deirdre Clune ahead of her party colleague Simon Harris.
In the new Midlands–North-West constituency, independent TD Luke 'Ming' Flanagan topped the poll while Mairead McGuinness of Fine Gael and Sinn Féin's Matt Carthy took the next two seats. Fianna Fáil's two-candidate strategy in the constituency backfired, with sitting MEP Pat the Cope Gallagher narrowly losing to independent Marian Harkin. For the first time, Ireland's delegation to the European Parliament had more women than men.
Constituency changes
The Constituency Commission made changes to the constituencies of Ireland so as to reduce the total number of MEPs from 12 to 11, due to the accession of Croatia to the European Union.[4]
The North-West and East constituencies were abolished. A new 4-seat constituency called Midlands-North-West was created. It comprises all the area of the previous North-West constituency, with the exception of County Clare which was moved to the South constituency; as well as the north Leinster part of the East constituency.[5]
The South constituency was increased in size by the addition of counties Carlow, Clare, Kilkenny, Wexford and Wicklow.[5] and the number of seats increased from 3 to 4.
There were no changes to the Dublin constituency.
Results
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Post-Poll Alliance
EPP | S&D | ECR | ALDE | GUE/NGL | G-EFA | EFDD | NI | ![]() Total |
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4 (FG) | 1 (Childers) | 1 (FF/Crowley) | 1 (Harkin) | 3 (SF) 1 (Flanagan) |
11 |
Voting details
Constituency | Electorate | Turnout | Spoilt | Valid Poll | Quota | Seats | Candidates |
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Dublin | 820,668 | 358,943 | 6,368 | 352,575 | 88,144 | 3 | 12 |
Midlands–North-West | 1,202,997 | 663,703 | 17,258 | 646,445 | 129,290 | 4 | 14 |
South | 1,221,683 | 679,296 | 21,798 | 657,498 | 131,500 | 4 | 15 |
Total | 3,245,348 | 1,701,942 | 45,424 | 1,656,518 | — | 11 | 31 |
Opinion polls
Candidate polling
Dublin
Date | Polling agency | Sample size | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color; width:80px;"|Boylan (SF) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; width:80px;"| Hayes (FG) | Childers (Ind) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; width:80px;"| Fitzpatrick (FF) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width:80px;"|Costello (Lab) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width:80px;"| Ryan (GP) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:People Before Profit Alliance/meta/color; width:80px;"|Smith (PBPA) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Socialist Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width:80px;"| Murphy (SP) | Tallon (Ind) | Darcy (DDI) | Whitehead (DDI) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Fís Nua/meta/color; width:80px;"| Wise (FN) |
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26–28 April | MillwardBrown/Sunday Independent[6] | 500 | 20% | 15% | 19% | 13% | 12% | 11% | 5% | 4% | – | 1% | – | – |
1–2 May | RedC/Sunday Business Post[7] | 500 | 15% | 18% | 10% | 13% | 13% | 12% | 9% | 7% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 0% |
13–14 May | MillwardBrown/Sunday Independent[6] | 500 | 23% | 22% | 13% | 11% | 10% | 7% | 6% | 7% | – | 1% | – | – |
3–15 May | Behaviour & Attitudes/Sunday Times[8] | 500 | 19% | 16% | 11% | 12% | 7% | 11% | 10% | 9% | 3% | 0% | 1% | 1% |
23 May | Behaviour & Attitudes/RTÉ Exit Poll[8] | 1000 | 24% | 14% | 11% | 12% | 8% | 14% | 6% | 7% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 0% |
Midlands–North-West
Date | Polling agency | Sample size | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color; width:80px;"|Carthy (SF) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; width:80px;"|Byrne (FF) | Flanagan (Ind) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; width:80px;"| Gallagher (FF) | Harkin (Ind) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; width:80px;"| Higgins J. (FG) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; width:80px;"| McGuinness (FG) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width:80px;"|Higgins L. (Lab) | Mullen (Ind) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width:80px;"| Dearey (GP) | Fitzsimons (Ind) | Gilroy (DDI) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Fís Nua/meta/color; width:80px;"|Nic Fhearra (FN) | Fay (Ind) |
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26–28 April | MillwardBrown/Sunday Independent[6] | 500 | 17% | 16% | 12% | 9% | 12% | 11% | 11% | 4% | 3% | 2% | 3% | 1% | – | – |
1–2 May | RedC/Sunday Business Post[7] | 500 | 14% | 8% | 14% | 9% | 16% | 10% | 16% | 5% | 6% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | – |
13–14 May | MillwardBrown/Irish Independent[9] | 500 | 19% | 9% | 15% | 10% | 12% | 6% | 13% | 5% | 5% | 3% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
3–15 May | Behaviour & Attitudes/Sunday Times[10] | 500 | 14% | 9% | 17% | 8% | 12% | 7% | 21% | 5% | 5% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
23 May | Behaviour & Attitudes/RTÉ Exit Poll[8] | 1000 | 13% | 10% | 20% | 11% | 11% | 7% | 16% | 4% | 4% | 2% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 1% |
South
Date | Polling agency | Sample size | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; width:80px;"| Crowley (FF) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color; width:80px;"|Ní Riada (SF) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; width:80px;"| Kelly (FG) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; width:80px;"| Clune (FG) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color; width:80px;"| Harris (FG) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width:80px;"| Prendergast (Lab) | O'Flynn (Ind) | Godsil (Ind) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color; width:80px;"| Hartley (FF) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color; width:80px;"| O'Sullivan (GP) | Van De Ven (DDI) | ! class="unsortable" style="background:Template:Fís Nua/meta/color; width:80px;"| O'Riordan (FN) | Cahill (Ind) | Heaney (CD) |
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26–28 April | MillwardBrown/Sunday Independent[6] | 500 | 36% | 15% | 12% | 12% | 7% | 4% | 7% | 3% | 2% | 1% | 1% | – | 0% | 0% |
1–2 May | RedC/Sunday Business Post[7] | 500 | 28% | 14% | 18% | 8% | 7% | 9% | 4% | 3% | 3% | 6% | 1% | 0% | – | – |
13–14 May | MillwardBrown/Irish Independent[9] | 500 | 32% | 16% | 15% | 10% | 9% | 6% | 4% | 2% | 2% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
3–15 May | Behaviour & Attitudes/Sunday Times[10] | 500 | 35% | 14% | 17% | 10% | 8% | 5% | 2% | 2% | 1% | 3% | 1% | 0% | 2% | 1% |
23 May | Behaviour & Attitudes/RTÉ Exit Poll[8] | 1000 | 26% | 17% | 12% | 9% | 7% | 5% | 5% | 1% | 5% | 5% | 1% | 1% | 3% | 1% |
Party polling
The figures are for first-preference votes, as STV is a ranked voting system.
Dublin
Date | Source | Polling agency | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color"|Fine Gael | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color"|Labour | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color"|Fianna Fáil | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color"|Sinn Féin | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Socialist Party (Ireland)/meta/color"|Socialist | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color"|Green | class=unsortable style="background:Template:People Before Profit Alliance/meta/color"|[[People Before Profit Alliance|Template:People Before Profit Alliance/meta/abbrev]] | Others |
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28 April 2014 | Sunday Independent[11] | MillwardBrown | 15% | 12% | 13% | 20% | 4% | 11% | 5% | 20% |
2 May 2014 | Sunday Business Post[12] | RedC | 18% | 13% | 13% | 15% | 7% | 12% | 9% | 14% |
14 May 2014 | Sunday Independent[13] | MillwardBrown | 22% | 10% | 11% | 23% | 7% | 7% | 6% | 14% |
14 May 2014 | The Sunday Times[14] | Behaviour & Attitudes | 16% | 7% | 12% | 19% | 9% | 11% | 10% | 16% |
Midlands–North-West
Date | Source | Polling agency | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color"|Fine Gael | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color"|Labour | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color"|Fianna Fáil | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color"|Sinn Féin | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color"|Green | Others |
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28 April 2014 | Sunday Independent[15] | MillwardBrown | 22% | 4% | 25% | 17% | 2% | 30% |
2 May 2014 | Sunday Business Post[12] | RedC | 26% | 5% | 17% | 14% | 2% | 36% |
14 May 2014 | Sunday Independent[15] | MillwardBrown | 19% | 5% | 19% | 19% | 3% | 34% |
14 May 2014 | The Sunday Times[14] | Behaviour & Attitudes | 28% | 5% | 17% | 14% | 4% | 35% |
South
Date | Source | Polling agency | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Fine Gael/meta/color"|Fine Gael | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color"|Labour | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Fianna Fáil/meta/color"|Fianna Fáil | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Sinn Féin/meta/color"|Sinn Féin | class=unsortable style="background:Template:Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color"|Green | Others |
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28 April 2014 | Sunday Independent[15] | MillwardBrown | 30% | 4% | 39% | 15% | 1% | 11% |
2 May 2014 | Sunday Business Post[12] | RedC | 33% | 9% | 31% | 14% | 6% | 8% |
14 May 2014 | Sunday Independent[15][16] | MillwardBrown | 34% | 6% | 34% | 16% | 4% | 6% |
14 May 2014 | The Sunday Times[14] | Behaviour & Attitudes | 35% | 5% | 36% | 14% | 3% | 8% |
See also
Notes
- ^ Note that parties (other than independents) are initially ordered by number of seats won, followed by number of first preference votes [nb 1] if number of seats won is the same. Here Fine Gael and Sinn Féin are shown ahead of Fianna Fáil, who got more first preference votes, but won fewer seats.
- ^ Popular vote means First preference votes. [nb 1]
References
- ^ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/elections2014-results/en/country-results-ie-2014.html
- ^ "Local and European elections to be held on 23 May". RTÉ. 22 January 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
- ^ "Voter turnout of close to 50% reported in some areas". RTÉ News. 23 May 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
- ^ "New Irish MEP constituencies announced". RTÉ News. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ^ a b "Report on European Parliament Constituencies 2013" (PDF). Constituency Commission. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ^ a b c d http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hayes-faces-defeat-in-european-elections-poll-shows-30221043.html Cite error: The named reference "independent.ie" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b c http://www.aertv.ie/live/eu-elections-sunday-business-post-red-c-poll-results/
- ^ a b c d Sunday Times/Behaviour & Attitudes European Elections Behaviour & Attitudes, May 2014. Cite error: The named reference "banda" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b Fionnan Sheehan; Niall O'Connor (17 May 2014). "Flanagan on Course to Win Seat as Martin faces Key Test". Irish Independent.
- ^ a b "Poll suggests SF & Independents' support has increased". RTÉ News. 17 May 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
- ^ "Hayes faces defeat in European elections, poll shows". Irish Independent. 27 April 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
- ^ a b c http://www.aertv.ie/live/eu-elections-sunday-business-post-red-c-poll-results
- ^ http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/exclusive-poll-shows-sf-and-fg-to-top-euro-elections-in-dublin-30282458.html
- ^ a b c http://www.banda.ie/
- ^ a b c d "SF on course for Euro election victories but FG's Kelly faces defeat". Irish Independent. 26 April 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2014. Cite error: The named reference "sind260414" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/elections/opinion-polls/flanagan-on-course-to-win-seat-as-martin-faces-key-test-30281382.html