Mayo (Dáil constituency)

Mayo
Mayo
Dáil Éireann; Parliamentary constituency
	Location of Mayo within Ireland
Current constituency
Created	1997
Seats	5 (1997–2016); 4 (2016–)
TDs	Enda Kenny (FG); Michael Ring (FG); Dara Calleary (FF); Lisa Chambers (FF);
County council	Mayo County Council
EP constituency	Midlands–North-West

Mayo 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 by combining the former constituencies of Mayo East and Mayo West, and used for the first time at the 1997 general election. It spanned the entire area of County Mayo.^[1] since creation until a small portion of the county around Ballinrobe was removed and added to Galway West before the 2016 General election.^[2]

The constituency includes Castlebar, Westport and Ballina. Mayo is the largest Dáil constituency in Ireland by area.

At the 2011 general election, this was the constituency of Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, who subsequently became Taoiseach. Fine Gael won four out of five seats in Mayo at that election. This was the first time in the modern era that any party won four seats in a Dáil Éireann constituency; the last such time was in the era of six- and seven-seat constituencies. It was the first time that any party won four seats in any five-seat Dáíl Éireann constituency. At the 2002 general election Fine Gael suffered its worst electoral performance ever, losing 23 seats nationally, a figure larger than expected and with its overall vote down 5%. Kenny himself came close to losing his seat and even went so far as to prepare a concession speech. In the end he won the third seat in the five-seat constituency.

The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013 defines the current constituency as:^[2]

"The county of Mayo, except the part thereof which is comprised in the constituency of Galway West."

TDs

Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Mayo 1997–
Key to parties FF = Fianna Fáil FG = Fine Gael Ind = Independent
Dáil	Election	Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)		Deputy (Party)
28th	1997^[3]		Enda Kenny (FG)		Michael Ring (FG)		Beverley Flynn (FF)		Tom Moffatt (FF)		Jim Higgins (FG)
29th	2002^[4]						Beverley Flynn (FF)		John Carty (FF)		Jerry Cowley (Ind)
30th	2007^[5]						Beverley Flynn^[6] (Ind)		Dara Calleary (FF)		John O'Mahony (FG)
31st	2011^[7]						Michelle Mulherin (FG)				John O'Mahony (FG)
32nd	2016^[8]						Lisa Chambers (FF)			4 seats from 2016

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: Mayo^[8]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Fine Gael	Enda Kenny	20.9	13,318
	Fine Gael	Michael Ring	17.7	11,275	11,533	11,534	11,545	11,558	11,567	11,613	12,034	13,149
	Fianna Fáil	Dara Calleary	14.8	9,402	9,417	9,419	9,432	9,441	9,450	9,495	9,933	10,425	12,150
	Fianna Fáil	Lisa Chambers	12.9	8,231	8,265	8,266	8,280	8,296	8,307	8,354	8,718	9,503	11,686
	Fine Gael	Michelle Mulherin	12.3	7,841	8,084	8,088	8,094	8,123	8,131	8,182	8,496	8,900	9,593
	Sinn Féin	Rose Conway Walsh	10.1	6,414	6,423	6,423	6,445	6,453	6,485	6,548	7,022	7,853
	Independent	Jerry Cowley	5.5	3,479	3,495	3,504	3,513	3,523	3,553	3,668	4,375
	Renua	Michael Farrington	2.5	1,574	1,579	1,582	1,590	1,600	1,608	1,659
	Green	Margaret Sheehan	1	629	631	632	636	651	665	680
	AAA–PBP	Tom Moran	0.9	576	577	582	587	597	626	664
	Independent	George O'Malley	0.4	262	263	263	276	284	301
	Independent	Peter Jordan	0.3	176	176	181	189	192	197
	Independent	Stephen Manning	0.2	157	158	159	166	174
	Independent	Mohammad Kamal Uddin	0.2	144	146	149	150
	Independent	Gerry O'Boyle	0.2	126	127	130
	Independent	Seán Forkin	0.1	42	42
Electorate: 92,958 Valid: 63,646 Spoilt: 600 Quota: 12,730 Turnout: 69.1%

2011 general election

2011 general election: Mayo^[7]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	Enda Kenny	23.6	17,472
	Fine Gael	Michael Ring	17.8	13,180
	Fine Gael	Michelle Mulherin	11.9	8,851	10,814	11,110	11,434	11,577	11,672	12,162	13,303
	Fianna Fáil	Dara Calleary	11.6	8,577	8,745	8,775	8,969	9,063	11,602	12,222	12,997
	Fine Gael	John O'Mahony	11.7	8,667	10,290	10,511	10,688	10,864	11,004	11,340	12,111
	Independent	Michael Kilcoyne	5.4	3,996	4,641	4,715	4,947	5,128	5,462	6,137	7,379
	Labour	Jerry Cowley	4.9	3,644	3,955	4,037	4,294	4,529	4,714	5,899
	Sinn Féin	Rose Conway-Walsh	3.6	2,660	2,752	2,813	2,939	4,367	4,527
	Fianna Fáil	Lisa Chambers	4.5	3,343	3,464	3,491	3,552	3,619
	Sinn Féin	Thérèse Ruane	2.9	2,142	2,260	2,277	2,438
	New Vision	Martin Daly	1.2	893	919	926
	Green	John Carey	0.4	266	280	282
	Independent	Dermot McDonnell	0.3	216	237	238
	Independent	Loretta Clarke	0.3	218	226	228
	Independent	Seán Forkin		29	31	31
Electorate: 99,504 Valid: 74,154 Spoilt: 641 (0.9%) Quota: 12,360 Turnout: 74,795 (75.2%)

2007 general election

2007 general election: Mayo^[5]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Fine Gael	Enda Kenny	20.6	14,717
	Fine Gael	Michael Ring	16.0	11,412	12,441
	Fine Gael	John O'Mahony	9.6	6,869	7,544	7,759	8,003	8,717	8,855	9,587	13,736
	Fianna Fáil	Dara Calleary	10.1	7,225	7,248	7,251	7,438	7,699	8,803	9,345	11,269
	Independent	Beverley Flynn	9.5	6,779	7,131	7,212	7,387	8,043	9,322	10,684	11,250
	Fianna Fáil	John Carty	8.2	5,889	5,926	5,937	5,991	6,519	7,825	8,214	8,303
	Fine Gael	Michelle Mulherin	7.6	5,428	5,877	6,016	6,416	6,681	6,763	7,644
	Independent	Jerry Cowley	4.8	3,407	3,487	3,529	3,910	4,784	5,342
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Chambers	6.1	4,345	4,386	4,406	4,499	4,705
	Sinn Féin	Gerry Murray	5.1	3,608	3,660	3,668	3,845
	Labour	Harry Barrett	1.2	831	896	917
	Green	Peter Enright	0.8	580	594	597
	Progressive Democrats	Tommy Cooke	0.4	296	298	298
Electorate: 98,696 Valid: 71,386 Spoilt: 700 (1.0%) Quota: 11,898 Turnout: 72,086 (73.0%)

2002 general election

2002 general election: Mayo^[4]
Party		Candidate	FPv%	Count
Party		Candidate	FPv%	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Independent	Jerry Cowley	13.7	8,709	9,213	9,808	10,573	11,128
	Fine Gael	Michael Ring	15.6	9,880	10,045	10,384	10,576	10,907
	Fine Gael	Enda Kenny	9.2	5,834	5,954	6,045	6,142	6,478	6,576	6,707	7,307	11,922
	Fianna Fáil	John Carty	10.2	6,457	6,512	6,555	6,756	6,817	6,822	6,824	8,284	9,531	10,157
	Fianna Fáil	Beverley Flynn	10.5	6,661	6,741	6,886	7,123	7,167	7,178	7,187	9,517	9,749	9,910
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Moffatt	10.3	6,536	6,749	6,892	7,084	7,521	7,661	7,697	8,625	8,878	9,187
	Fine Gael	Jim Higgins	9.2	5,858	5,971	6,035	6,155	6,833	6,998	7,100	7,220
	Fianna Fáil	Frank Chambers	9.0	5,726	5,792	6,045	6,266	6,307	6,315	6,319
	Fine Gael	Ernie Caffrey	3.6	2,290	2,419	2,486	2,558
	Sinn Féin	Vincent Wood	3.3	2,085	2,181	2,274
	Independent	Michael Holmes	2.8	1,754	1,873
	Progressive Democrats	Billy Heffron	1.5	919
	Green	Ann Crowley	1.1	669
	Independent	Thomas King	0.2	102
Electorate: 94,854 Valid: 63,480 Spoilt: 790 (1.2%) Quota: 10,581 Turnout: 64,270 (67.8%)

1997 general election

1997 general election: Mayo^[3]
Party		Candidate	1st Pref	%	Seat	Count
	Fine Gael	Michael Ring	10,066	16.3	1	3
	Fine Gael	Jim Higgins	6,945	11.2	2	7
	Fianna Fáil	Beverley Flynn	8,353	13.5	3	7
	Fine Gael	Enda Kenny	8,568	13.9	4	7
	Fianna Fáil	Tom Moffatt	5,735	9.3	5	8
	Fianna Fáil	Séamus Hughes	6,791	11.0
	Fianna Fáil	P. J. Morley	5,692	9.2
	Fine Gael	Ernie Caffrey	4,579	7.4
	Independent	Richard Finn	1,683	2.7
	Independent	Gerry Ginty	1,656	2.7
	Green	Ann Crowley	938	1.5
	National Party	Ciaran Sherry	733	1.2
	Independent	Cormac Cullen	119	0.2
Electorate: 87,719 Valid: 61,858 Spoilt: 614 (1.0%) Quota: 10,310 Turnout: 62,472 (71.2%)

References

^ "Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
^ ^a ^b "General election 1997: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
^ ^a ^b "General election 2002: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
^ ^a ^b "General election 2007: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
^ Beverley Flynn was elected in 2007 as an independent candidate, was readmitted to the Fianna Fáil party in 2008. "Beverly Flynn readmitted to FF". RTÉ News. 3 April 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
^ ^a ^b "General election 2011: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
^ ^a ^b "General election 2016: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 February 2016.

External links

Oireachtas Members Database

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

[ea-2013-2] "Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2013: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. Retrieved 4 February 2016.

[ei-mayo-1997-3] "General election 1997: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 13 February 2009.

[ei-mayo-2002-4] "General election 2002: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 13 February 2009.

[ei-mayo-2007-5] "General election 2007: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 13 February 2009.

[FlynnFF-6] Beverley Flynn was elected in 2007 as an independent candidate, was readmitted to the Fianna Fáil party in 2008. "Beverly Flynn readmitted to FF". RTÉ News. 3 April 2008. Retrieved 17 February 2009.

[ei-mayo-2011-7] "General election 2011: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 4 March 2011.

[ei-mayo-2016-8] "General election 2016: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 22 February 2016.

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