- Mayo (Dáil Éireann constituency)
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Mayo Dáil Éireann
Parliamentary constituency
Mayo shown within IrelandCreated 1997 Seats 5 TDs Dara Calleary (FF)
Enda Kenny (FG)
Michelle Mulherin (FG)
John O'Mahony (FG)
Michael Ring (FG)County/City council County Mayo EP constituency North-West Mayo is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects five deputies (Teachtaí Dála, commonly known as TDs). The method of election is the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).
Contents
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 spans the entire area of County Mayo.[1] This area 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.
The Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009 defines the constituency as:
- "The county of Mayo."
TDs
Teachtaí Dála (TDs) for Mayo 1997– Key to partiesDáil Election Deputy
(Party)Deputy
(Party)Deputy
(Party)Deputy
(Party)Deputy
(Party)28th 1997[2] Michael Ring
(FG)Jim Higgins
(FG)Enda Kenny
(FG)Beverley Flynn
(FF)Tom Moffatt
(FF)29th 2002[3] Jerry Cowley
(Ind)John Carty
(FF)30th 2007[4] John O'Mahony
(FG)Beverley Flynn[5]
(Ind)Dara Calleary
(FF)31st 2011[6] Michelle Mulherin
(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
2011 general election
2011 general election: Mayo[6] Party Candidate % 1st Pref Count 1 Count 2 Count 3 Count 4 Count 5 Count 6 Count 7 Count 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 Party 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 Party 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[4] Party Candidate % 1st Pref Count 1 Count 2 Count 3 Count 4 Count 5 Count 6 Count 7 Count 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 Party Harry Barrett 1.2 831 896 917 Green Party 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[3] Party Candidate % 1st Pref Count 1 Count 2 Count 3 Count 4 Count 5 Count 6 Count 7 Count 8 Count 9 Count 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 Party 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[2] 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 Party 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%) 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
- ^ "Electoral (Amendment) Act 2009: Schedule". Irish Statute Book database. http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2009/en/act/pub/0004/sched.html. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
- ^ a b "General election 1997: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=1997&cons=172. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
- ^ a b "General election 2002: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2002&cons=172. Retrieved 13 February 2009.
- ^ a b "General election 2007: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2007&cons=172. 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. http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0403/flynnb.html. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
- ^ a b "General election 2011: Mayo". ElectionsIreland.org. http://www.electionsireland.org/result.cfm?election=2011&cons=172. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
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