Offaly (Dáil constituency)
| Offaly | |
|---|---|
| Dáil Éireann Parliamentary constituency | |
| Future constituency | |
| Created | 2016 |
| Seats | 3 |
| TDs | |
| County council | Offaly County Council Tipperary County Council |
| EP constituency | Midlands–North-West |
Offaly 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 3 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 Offaly 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 new constituency incorporates all of County Offaly from the existing Laois–Offaly constituency, and twenty four electoral divisions from Tipperary North.
The 2013 Act defines the constituency as:[3]
- "The county of Offaly;
- and in the county of North Tipperary the electoral divisions of:
- Aglishcloghane, Ballingarry, Ballylusky, Borrisokane, Carrig, Cloghjordan, Cloghprior, Clohaskin, Finnoe, Graigue, Kilbarron, Lorrha East, Lorrha West, Mertonhall, Rathcabban, Redwood, Riverstown, Terryglass, Uskane, in the former Rural District of Borrisokane;
- Ardcrony, Ballygibbon, Ballymackey, Knigh, Monsea, in the former Rural District of Nenagh.
TDs
| Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Offaly 2016– | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Key to parties
| |||||||
| Dáil | Election | Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) |
Deputy (Party) | |||
| 32nd | 2016[4] | Barry Cowen (FF) |
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (FG) |
Carol Nolan (SF) | |||
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 | ||||
| Fianna Fáil | Barry Cowen | 28.1 | 12,366 | |||||||
| Fine Gael | Marcella Corcoran Kennedy | 15.5 | 6,838 | 6,919 | 7,270 | 7,798 | 9,484 | 11,313 | ||
| Sinn Féin | Carol Nolan | 10.9 | 4,804 | 4,882 | 5,459 | 6,295 | 7,195 | 8,785 | 8,890 | |
| Fianna Fáil | Eddie Fitzpatrick | 7.7 | 3,394 | 4,297 | 4,578 | 6,147 | 7,141 | 8,521 | 8,720 | |
| Renua | John Leahy | 10.4 | 4,596 | 4,759 | 5,319 | 5,833 | 6,588 | |||
| Independent | Joe Hannigan | 11.8 | 5,188 | 5,226 | 5,536 | 5,816 | ||||
| Independent | John Foley | 9.5 | 4,200 | 4,241 | 4,536 | |||||
| Irish Democratic | Ken Smollen | 2.2 | 971 | 999 | ||||||
| Independent | Teresa Ryan Feehan | 1.4 | 603 | 616 | ||||||
| Independent | Kate Bopp | 1.2 | 549 | 554 | ||||||
| Green | Christopher Fettes | 1.2 | 525 | 532 | ||||||
| Electorate: 65,636 Valid: 44,034 Spoilt: 411 Quota: 11,009 Turnout: 67.7 | ||||||||||
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 – Waterford – Tipperary – Laois – Offaly – Kildare 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.
- ^ a b "General election 2016: Offaly". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 23 February 2016.